COAP:COAP-2100/week1

Week 1

Topics Covered

• Connecting to the Internet
  • Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7/8 Features
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Browser extensions
• Searching the Internet
• Using the World Classroom
• Web 2.0 services
  • reading and managing news feeds (RSS)
  • using a webtop (Netvibes)
  • Web Widgets and using widget code

Teaching materials

Tutorials

• Creating websites with online services. This short tutorial covers various online web site creation services we will use.
• Using web widgets. A short introduction on how to use web widgets.
• Browser extensions. A list of useful Firefox extensions.

List of online web site creation services

• • http://sites.google.com/ (web site generator)
  • https://www.blogger.com/ (blogger service)
  • http://www.ning.com/ (social network creator)
  • http://netvibes.com/ (start page/webtop)

• Optional reading (background information): Social software, weblog, webtop

Classroom activities

Monday

• We shall start "playing" with various services to create web pages (Google sites and Netvibes)

Wednesday

• We shall "play" with Ning and Blogger
• We will insert widget code in one of the oneline services
• We will install some browser extensions for Firefox (if time left, else on week 2)

Homework

Homework 1 summary

Configuring a personal learning environment with a webtop or a similar environment. See the worldclassroom for details

Term project start

Topic: Configure a web2.0 application such as a webtop or a private social network (style, menus, layout and contents). In other words, homework 1 will get you started.