COAP:COAP-2100/week1

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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

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.