Toolbox index
Final list of Toolbox activity submissions
Here is an updated list of students and the activities submitted . Please check carefully. If you have completed fewer than 8 activities you should have received an email from me informing you that... [Jan 9, 2010]
How many Toolbox activities have you done? (UPDATED)
Happy New Year! Here is an updated document of all the completed activities we have received up until midnight last night. I am sorry that the last summary had a few missing items. This was due to... [Jan 4, 2010]
Other trends to explore (Toolbox Activity 10)
Here are 4 more subjects for you to think about: * Cloud computing * Semantic web * Crowdsourcing * Augmented reality The deadline for both parts of this activity (and any remaining activities... [Dec 8, 2009]
Mobile social mashups and the future (lecture 10 - the last one)
This is the last session of the module and I want to look back over the last 10 weeks and forward to the future. This is a highly experimental module; a journey that most of you have followed all the... [Dec 5, 2009]
Planning and building a mashup: Toolbox Activity 9
This activity is about Mashups; web based software systems that build on data and services from other software systems. This activity counts in exactly the same way as the others; 5% for each part... [Dec 1, 2009]
Mashups (Toolbox lecture 9)
In today's lecture we'll look at Mashups: tools, data and services that you can build on to create software systems, prototypes and experiments. We'll be using a tool called Pipes from Yahoo! and this... [Dec 1, 2009]
Feeds and analytics (feedback on activity 8)
Recent activities have been a bit harder (deliberately) and fewer students are completing them but those that did generally experimented well and discovered new useful ideas for their sites and for... [Dec 1, 2009]
Deadlines for Toolbox Activites
I have spoken to a number of you who have started late and also to the course team and we have decided to set the following FINAL deadlines for all activities: 7th January 2010. This should give you... [Nov 30, 2009]
Exploring RSS & promotion and analytics (toolbox activity 8)
It’s time to get your site some traffic! You need to promote your site manually by submitting it to search engines, linking it from posts and forums and automatically using an RSS feed. Manual submission... [Nov 25, 2009]
Is mobile important? (Toolbox lecture 8)
URGENT: The lecture was cancelled because of Student Union AGM - I have recorded the lecture and posted the video as normal. See you next week It appears from the last activity that this topic is of... [Nov 23, 2009]
Toolbox Activity 7: Exploring the mobile web
This activity is in a new area, mobile, and I hope you will find it interesting. I have deliverately made the activity a bit more open ended so that those of you have found the previous activities too... [Nov 17, 2009]
Doing business online (Toolbox lecture 7)
In today's lecture I will build on activity 6 and explore some parts of ecommerce and making money online. I will describe why ecommerce is important, introduce some of the tools that you can try and... [Nov 16, 2009]
Learning basic web design or at least how to understand themes (Toolbox Lecture 6)
Learning to build websites means learning lots of different elements and I have chosen WordPress because it gets you a long way very quickly. To go further however you need to start to understand the... [Nov 12, 2009]
Questions raised by Toolbox Activity 5
Why did so many people switch from MySpace to FaceBook? Web audiences are very susceptible to better services and tell their friends and colleagues about them. MySpace had become a bit old and ugly... [Nov 10, 2009]
Toolbox Activity 6: spending & making money online
In this week’s activity I want students to begin to explore the world of eCommerce and if they want, to add some commerce features to their blogs. This is a big subject and we will only scratch the... [Nov 10, 2009]
Exploring Facebook & Twitter: Toolbox Activity 5
UPDATED 3.15pm: Feedback links added! In the activity I want you to compare the two social networking sites FaceBook and Twitter. Most of you are already a member of FaceBook so it should be familiar... [Oct 30, 2009]
Feedback on Toolbox Activity 4 about FTP, Images and Video
A slightly smaller number of people completed this week’s activity. If you have fallen behind then can use Enhancement Week (next week) to catch up and then we can start building more on our WordPress... [Oct 27, 2009]
Computing is going social (Toolbox lecture 5)
This session will introduce social computing including social networking, crowdsourcing and open source and ask you to think about how this will affect your future as an IT professional. Here are the... [Oct 26, 2009]
Taking control of your website (Toolbox Activity 4)
Deadline: Monday 26th October, midnight Very impressed that so many of you are keeping up with all of the activities so far and for those who have fallen a little behind, don’t worry, we will provide... [Oct 19, 2009]
Owning and operating a web site (Toolbox Lecture 4)
Most of you have now launched own site (in the past couple of activities). This lecture will consider what a site is for and what you will need to think about when planning it's future. Reasons for... [Oct 19, 2009]
