COAP:COAP-2100/week1
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Week 1
Topics Covered
- Using the World Classroom (if needed)
- Using Web 2.0 services to create web sites and web contents
Teaching materials
- Tutorials
- Creating websites with online services. This short tutorial covers various online web site creation services we will use.
- (1) Content management services
- http://webs.com/ (web site generator, recommended for content-oriented web sites)
- https://www.blogger.com/ (blogger service, good blogging service)
- http://sites.google.com/ (web site generator, alternative to webs.com)
- (2) Social networking creation services
- http://www.mixxt.org/ (recommended)
- http://www.spruz.com/
- http://www.socialgo.com/
- http://www.ning.com/ (commercial only)
Optional reading (background information): weblog
Classroom activities
- Monday
- We shall start exploring a content creation service
- Wednesday
- Create an account with Google (if don't already own one, e.g. a g-mail address):
- http://google.com/accounts
- Make sure to remember your login (gmail address) and password
- We shall explore Google sites and Blogger as well as a social networking creating service like mixxt.org
Homework
Homework 1 summary
Objective: Create a web site with one of the visited online services (blogger, google sites, webs, mixxt, etc.)
Requirements:
- The web site must have a clear objective (of your choice). A user should "feel" its identity.
- The site must be available to the public (so that other students and myself can have a look at it). Of course, you also can create private pages within the same environment.
- You should explicitly state the website's purpose in some place, preferably in an about page.
- The website must include some minimal contents. However, except for the messages about its purpose, you don't need to create the contents by yourself. E.g. You could add various web widgets or other similar constructs that pull in data from other sources or use copyright-free materials. It is up to to you to decide how many pages you need. E.g. for a content-oriented website one single Goggle sites page or one single blog entry is not enough. If you create a social networking website, it is more important to get "the tools right" than adding contents.
Submission:
- Deadline: Wednesday, week 2 before the start of class. Unjustified late submission will get you a lesser grade (see the syllabus)
- Procedure: Connect to the world classroom, click on "Homework 1 upload" and simply type the URL in the "Submission" form. Then hit the "submit" button.
Remarks:
- You may use your real identity or not. That's up to you. All I need is a URL I can connect to.
- Grading criteria: see the homework submission form
- This exercise can evolve into a term project (but must not).
Teaching materials:
- 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 (but see the week 2 program, using widgets is just an option at this stage).
- Please consult the help of the service you are interested in. These tools are made for non-technical people and you can figure out yourself how to use them ....
Term project start
See Term project. Homework 1 already can get you started.