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

• Creating websites with online services. This short tutorial overs various services we will use, e.g.:
  • 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

• We shall "play" with various services to create web pages (see above)
• We will install some browser extensions for Firefox.

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.