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Lecture on 27th of April

2007-04-24T10:22:00.000+01:00

This weeks lecture is on Web architecture. Here are some good resources:

Short introductions:

Berners Lee, T., 1998, Principles of design, World Wide Web Consortium, Available online: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Berners Lee, T., 2002, Web Architecture from 50,000 feet, World Wide Web Consortium, Available online: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Roy T. Fielding and Richard N. Taylor. Principled design of a modern web architecture, In Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland, June 2000, pp. 407-416. Available online: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/webarch_icse2000.pdf [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Further reading:

Jacobs, I., Walsh, N., 2004, Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1, World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, Available online: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Fielding, R. T., Taylor, R. N., 2002, Principled design of a modern web architecture, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2, 2, pp. 115-150, Available online: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/documents/2002-REST-TOIT.pdf [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Reading Review - revised spec

2007-03-21T09:53:00.000Z

At last I've got round to correcting a few typos in the draft spec and expanding in the Assessment criteria.

Here is the final spec

Scrum video and more on Agile

2007-03-09T15:37:00.000Z

Video of Ken Schwaber. The daddy of Scrum.

The Agile Manifesto.

Project Management references

2007-03-09T12:23:00.000Z

Here are the references we will be using in class today. I'm bringing print outs of some, but others work better online because of their graphics and click through image maps. I suggest using a mixture of both.

The exercise for today will be to split up these materials and read through them. Then we will have a discussion on what the similarities and differences are in these approaches. I will be providing a handout which will help you focus on relevant questions.

PRINCE 2, what it is and its structure.
http://www.prince2.com/p2structure.html
http://www.prince2.com/whatisp2.html

Scrum introduction. Great diagrams.
http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/Scrum/Scrum.html

eXtreme Programming
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index.html
Map or flow chart for XP
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/map/project.html

Lecture on J2EE Architecture

2007-03-01T14:33:00.000Z

This week we will be looking at the J2EE architecture for web applications. See the Overview chapter in the Sun Tutorial @ http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc

Further reading - see
http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/J2EEOverview_speakernoted.pdf

Also see video
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/talks/videos/RickSaletta/interview.tss?bandwidth=dsl

Lecture on Preparing questions for Development and Maintenence

2007-02-23T18:32:00.000Z

Here is a PDF handout of the slides for the lecture today. They're on UWEonline so it might prompt you for a login. I hope that works. Let me know if it doesn't.

In the lecture we went through and discussed and created a set of questions that could be asked. Here is a selection of them. I provided some structure to begin with and then the guys took over and mostly did it on their own. We're using the Diffily book chapter headings as a framework to think about this and a reference for you to go back to.

Lecture on Development

2007-02-16T18:43:00.000Z

You can download the PPT of the lecture from UWEonline. It might prompt you to login. I've tried it and it works. Let me know if it doesn't.

No show for anyone

2007-02-14T10:04:00.000Z

No one turned up for the second maintenance lecture on Friday 9th. We'll see if we can fit some of that material into the coming lectures. It is important stuff and worth covering.

Lectures on Development

2007-02-14T09:57:00.000Z

16 + 23 Feb

This week we're going to be moving on to the Development chapter in the Diffily book. Could you all make sure you read this.

Whilst reading could you think about how your type of website would be built. If you had to build a site in the category you originally researched how would you go about it? What would the risks and issues around this?

Coursework 2

2007-01-25T14:02:00.000Z

We have had a bit of a rethink about coursework 2 and would like to propose the following task - to be formalised by next week.

Each student will choose one of a selection of web sites internal to UWE such as

The CEMS external web - Alex
The FBEWeb - no takers
StudentsOnline - Malik
Student Portal - Daniel
Centre for Students Affairs - Denis
Students Union - Dariuz
The task will be to investigate the way the site is maintained, constructed and governed in the light of the approach to web site management in Diffily and elsewhere , to carry out a SWOT analysis of the site and make a couple of recommendations for change.

Coursework specification HTML Word

Term 2 schedule

2007-01-25T13:30:00.000Z

week no	Date	Topics	Lecturer
13	26th Jan	Student presentations of technical Challenges, Term term structure, the BOOK, Coursework2	CW
14	2 Feb	Diffily Chapter 2 - Maintenance - introduction	DD
15	9 Feb	Student-led discussion of Maintenance Activities	DD
16	16th Feb	Diffily Chapter 3 - Constuction	DD
17	23rd Feb	Diffily Chapter 3 - Constuction	DD
18	2 March	Architecture	MB
19	9 March	Diffily Chapter 4 -Governance + project management	DD
20	16 March	Slack	CW
21	23 March	Student presentations of Coursework 2	students
25	20 april	Slack	CW
26	27th April	Architecture	MB
27	4th May	Revision

New student wiki

2007-01-22T16:05:00.000Z

We have had to move the wiki to an new location. I have transferred your pages from last term (with the exception of files - upload is missing just now - I will get it fixed.). This wiki can be used by any student - you use your existing CEMS username and password.

the wiki url is www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/studentwiki

I've set up a page for the next set of pages on challenges.

Technical Challenges

2006-12-18T11:32:00.000Z

As part of your next assignment for this course, you are to prepare another wiki page and a poster on a selected technical topic. After our brainstorming session, we arrived at the following subjects and allocation.

Alex - Accessibility, Mobility and Browser Compatibility
Nigel- Bandwidth, Load Balancing (and performace generally)
Malik - Architecture, Deep Linking, Reuse and APIs
Dariuz - Security, Authentication, Access Control, Secure Payment
Daniel - Data storage
Denis - Web Services

The first session next term 25th January will be devoted to these presentations.

A formal specification for the second coursework will be posted later, but this work will account for 20%.

The Website Manager's Handbook

2006-12-18T10:58:00.000Z

The course text for the second term of this module is 'The Website Manager's Handbook' by Shane Diffily. In preparation for this, I suggest that you familiarise yourselves with the overall structure of the book and its contents and read two sections in Chapter 3 Website Development - Step 2 Website Content and Step 3 Website Design. These cover material which should be familiar to you from other modules, for example Software Technologies for the Web and the Internet Group Project as well this module.

Over the course of the next term, you will be expected to read the whole book, so any reading you do now will be beneficial.

This is a good place to make use of your blog to record what you have read and your own views on this material. Remember that the evalaution of this blog forms part of your overall assessment.

Site Type reviews

2006-12-08T11:12:00.000Z

In this session, each student presented their analysis of one type of website and their comparison of two example sites of that type.

The wiki pages for this work are:

* Alex - Video Sites
* Daniel -Government Sites
* Dariuz - Mapping Sites
* Malik - Shopping sites
* Nigel - Social Networks (pending)

Reading for 1 December 2006 - Search Engine Optimization

2006-12-01T11:28:00.000Z

Reading for the class today on search engine optimization

Captology videos

2006-12-01T11:23:00.000Z

B J Fogg at Stanford writes:

My Stanford students have created short videos (averaging 2 minutes) that show how Web 2.0 services persuade people and change their behaviors. The videos are interesting -- and sometimes funny. I'm inviting you to help evaluate some of these videos before December 4th. You can rate one video or twenty. The choice is yours. The videos with the highest rating will be featured in the Captology Film Festival on December 7th at Stanford. You're invited to join us at that event. For more info, see http://tinyurl.com/yap7fe .
To watch and rate the videos, go to:
http://captology.tv/reviewvideos

Have a look - they are very interesting

Coursework 1 formal spec

2006-12-01T08:51:00.000Z

Here is the formal specification for this coursework

CEMS wiki

2006-11-27T18:10:00.000Z

A page has been created on the CEMS wiki ready for your entries. You must login to create a page.

Shazam

2006-11-24T17:40:00.000Z

Shazam is one of the few sites which makes my jaw drop. We've got used to instant responses to searches on Google but somehow, the ability to recognise any one of 3.2 million tracks from a noisy 20 second sample seems amazing. This is what Shazam does: when you hear a track you don't recognise, dial 2580 on your mobile; when Shazam answers, direct your phone to the sound source; Shazam hangs up after 20 seconds and about 30 seconds later it will text you back with the name of the Album and track [and take 50p from your account!]

Here are a couple of tracks to play to it if you can't think of your own:

and some links to papers and presentations on the technology behind Shazam:

Avery Wang, "The Shazam Music Recognition Service", Comm. ACM Vol49 no8 August 2006
Avery Wang, Presentation, ISMIR 2003
Digital Music News - articles on Shazam

Google technology

2006-11-21T14:38:00.000Z

Google

Google on wikipedia
People

Larry Page

Sergey Brin

At Berkeley video

Craig Silverstein

Questions to Craig Silverstein

Services

Main
Lab
Search
Mapping

GoogleEarth ("100+ terabytes")

Integration

Technology

Search
Server farms
Clusters

Paper

Load balancing

Cooling
Custom Hardware
Custom Software
Failover
Data storage

Google File System (GFS)

paper

BigTable

paper

summary by Andrew Hitchcock

Blogs

Coursework 1 - topics

2006-11-17T17:51:00.000Z

Topics selected by group members

Alex - Video sites
Daniel - Corporate
Dariuz - Mapping sites
Dennis - Auction sites
Malik - Shopping sites
Nigel - Social Networks

Video on Web 2.0

2006-11-11T09:39:00.000Z

We did not get time and could not get the audio visual systems to work in class, but this video is short - around ten minutes - and its really interesting. Watch it.

Week 7

2006-11-07T18:31:00.000Z

Please read this paper by Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0 for Friday when we will discuss it.

I've prepared an agenda for the session.

I've also prepared some slides on digital identifiers.

I'm also going to hand out some more reading for next week.

Coursework 1 - Draft

2006-11-07T18:08:00.000Z

Coursework 1 - Draft

Due date 7th December 2006
Overall Weighting 25%

Subject
Each student is to select a specific type of web site which is to be agreed with the tutor. For this assignment, the type of a web site is based on the main purpose of the site. For example, here are some typically web site types with some prime examples.

Shopping e.g. Amazon
Auction : E-Bay
Personal Multimedia : Flickr, YouTube
Corporate information : BBC
Travel Planning : TravelLine
Mapping : Google Maps

We will exclude blogging, wikis, social bookmarks, podcasts and RSS readers since these have already been explored in the first presentation. Each student will choose a different web site type and there will be an attempt to get a spread of type of application types.

Research Questions
Students are required to research the site type, using one well know example site and one lesser known example

The following questions are indicative of the areas of interest but not exhaustive:

How did this type of site start? What was the first? What is the most successful now? How has this type of site evolved? What are the typical funding models?
Who are the customers? Are there common stylistic features in the user interface? What additional facilities do sites of this type typically support?
What technology is used to support this kind of site? What is the architecture? What are the specific challenges of this type of site and how are they handled?

Deliverables

A wikipedia-style wiki entry of around 2000 words, with diagrams and links as appropriate. The aim of the entry is to provide an in-depth study of the site type, its use, development and construction. The entry is aimed at an audience of second year students with a general understanding of basic web architecture. Links should be provided to resources, such as Wikipedia, whose quality the student has assessed where additional supporting material is required. The entry is to be provided in both paper and as an entry in the CEMS wikipedia. This wiki will be used as a resource for other students.(80 %)
A 10 minute presentation and discussion to the group on the key issues faced by the developers of this site. (20%)

Web tools

2006-11-03T20:24:00.000Z

In the tutorial, various tools for checking and evaluating web applications were mentioned. Here are some relevant resources:

Hosts and IP addresses

Site and Page data

IP address - IPChicken
PageRank
HTTP Request and Response - Web-sniffer
Lynx text only browser
SEO tools

Validators and checkers

XHTML

Accessibility

Watchfire

XMLine

Test Suites

XQuery

Understanding the Browser

2006-11-03T06:52:00.000Z

The Browser is a core component in a web application. Every web application for users has this component, but its uniquely not under the control of the web developer. Understanding the capabilities of the different Browsers and how to configure them is a core skill.

We will explore the browser territory by looking at 3 widely available browsers IE6, Firefox and Opera.

Exercise
In pairs, select a pair of browsers. Work together through the complete set of browser controls, identifying similarities and differences. Then look at a set of web pages and note any differences in the way each browser handles the page. Report back on your findings.

Resources

Firefox

IE6

IE7 (not available in CEMS)

Opera

ITMB lecture Nov 7th 16.45 - 18.00 in 1N5

2006-11-02T21:49:00.000Z

The third lecture in this sequence is to be given by Amanda Chessell of IBM. Mandy is the joint holder of some 15 patents and active in the professional community.

"Mandy Chessell, FREng CEng FBCS has worked for IBM since 1987. She is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), Master Inventor and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Currently, she is the chief architect for IBM's Enterprise Master Data Solutions."

IBM's position on patents is an interesting topic. According to their web site, IBM for the 13th consecutive year have been awarded more patents than any other company (2,974 in 2005). It has a portfolio of some 23,000 patents from which it earnt some $1 billion from licenses on these patents - but spent $7 billion on reseach (and an estimated $10,000 onlegal fees per patent) . Some are released for general use since IBM recogises the need for open systems. However it also owns some extemely broad patents and is currently agressively pursuing Amazon Some see this as Amazon's come-upance since Amazon itself has very agressive over its one-click patent. Others see this as the exposure of the problem of software patenting generally. Taken at face value, it would appear that IBM patents apply to every E-Commerce site in the world - for example - US 7,072,849 - Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service.

Week 6

2006-11-02T21:38:00.000Z

We had two more presentations this week.

Dariuz on RSS
Denis on Folksonomy

This will be followed by a group discussion on the coursework and agreement on some core questions to be addressed in the wiki entry.

Finally a workshop on Browser capabilities.

Week 5 - Presentations

2006-11-02T21:28:00.000Z

This week the sessions were led by students:

Daniel on Podcasts
Alex on Wikis
Malik on IRC and IM
Nigel on Social Bookmarks

All presentations were entertaining and were followed by lively discussion.

Character Pronunciation

2006-10-21T08:17:00.000+01:00

Pronunciation Guide

One of the pronunciations for . (PERIOD or dot) is 'put' from Victor Borge's Phonetic Pronunciation. Now we have to pronounce all these odd characters whenever we explain what to type to help someone on the phone or when we read out some code in a lecture or tutorial. Finding this guide reminded me that different people pronounce these characters differently - I love all the different names for # especially pig-pen!

Week 4

2006-10-20T14:34:00.000+01:00

I presented a lecture showing the development of a simple calculator using PHP for server programming. slides. Several versions of the application are developed with increasing complexity, finishing with a version that can be invoked by an SMS message.

An index page for the calculator. I will add links to the code itself.

This application raises the question of where the calculation should be performed - on the server or on the client. Add your views on this issue as comments please.

I also handed a further lecture on web application architecture( slides )
which you should read through please.

ITMB Lecture 24th October 1N5 16.45 - 18.00

2006-10-20T14:22:00.000+01:00

"10 easy steps to turn a good idea into a global technology business"

A lecture by Paul Callaghan who founded www.leighton.com

Student-led Seminar

2006-10-20T14:11:00.000+01:00

Student-led Seminars will take place next week (27th October) from 3.00 to 5.00 . Deliverables will be:

Entries in you blog
A short handout on tehe subject (perhaps selected blog entries)
A 10 minute presentation followed by questions form staff and students

The data projector and podium computer are available for use.

"The Website Manager's Handbook"

2006-10-19T09:48:00.000+01:00

This a book recently written by Shane Diffily from Dublin. It covers a lot of the syllabus for this module, especially that concerned with the setup, maintenance and management of a website.

This book is self-published and printed on-demand by Lulu (www.lulu.com) in Spain for European orders. [an interesting web application in itself.] I would like to propose adopting this book as a module text. I plan to order and pay for a class set to reduced the postage cost. I need your agreement to purchase a copy. The price will be about £16. Print quality is not brillant but for a 400 page book covering a large part of this module's syllabus, I think its good value.

Errors in binary classification

2006-10-14T17:53:00.000+01:00

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." - Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)

Any classification procedure may make mistakes. In a binary classification, two kinds of errors may be distinguished. These have different terms in different disciplines but the underlyig concept is the same;

In Statistics : Type 1 /Type 2 errors or alpha and beta errors
In Testing: false positive, false negative
In Information Retrieval : Recall and Precision

In all cases the problem is to develop a test, procedure or search which will distinguish between cases where a proposition or hypothesis is true or false:

	True	False
Positive	True Positive (TP)	False Positive -Type 1 Error (FP)
Negative	False Negative : Type 2 error (FN)	True Negative (TN)

Examples of such propositions might be:

The person has malaria
The email is spam
The word is spelt correctly
The article is relevant
The accused is guilty
The traveller is a terrorist - FIA watchlist
The student is of honours quality

Various measures are used to define the quality of the procedure:

Efficiency = (FP + FN) / (TP + FP + TN + FN) = FP + FN/ All
Precision = TP/ (TP + FP) = TP / Positives
Recall = TP / (TP + FN) = TP / True

These two errors are usually in conflict - we can improve the procedure to decease the risk of False Negatives but that will probably increase the number of False Positives. For example, in screening procedures for terrorists, the aim would be to reduce the number of false negative - (terrorists getting in) but that will create many false positives (innocent travellers picked out as terrorists).

The costs of these two types of errors will be seen differently by different stakeholders in a system, leading to inherent conflict in systems design.

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Week 3

2006-10-13T15:00:00.000+01:00

Review of progress on the research topics
Creating an RSS reader
The Flickr API
Google Spreadsheets as a further example of collaboration

Guru Lecture on Information Architecture

2006-10-09T11:39:00.000+01:00

On Tuesday 10th Oct from 16:45 to 18:00 in 1N5 there will be a special lecture from an IBM Information Architect. This lecture will of particular relevance to you so please make every effort to attend.

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/exist/event.xql?parent=ITMB%20GURU%20Lecture&id=1

Later:

In fact Toby was an IT Architect - a systems engineer of old - I'll post links to the slides on FOLD

Mapping the Web Application territory

2006-10-08T21:53:00.000+01:00

We discussed a few possible dimensions to use in researching the territory of web applications.

by application function - the main function of the site e.g. blog, wiki, news aggregator, auction, search engine, sales ...
by application architecture - the way the work of the application is divided between client and server - desktop (like GoogleEarth), local server based , hosted application (user-data hosted on central server), RIA (browser providing desktop-like behaviour), ....
by implementation tools used - for scripting -Javascript, PHP, Ruby, J2EE ... - for persistance - RDBMS, flat files, XML
by the recurrent problems which most applications must solve - reusing the best solutions - e.g. authentication, access control, data transformation, security, navigability, findability, scaleability ....

Skills in using a search engine

2006-10-08T21:51:00.000+01:00

Developing search skills - skill in formulating an efficient query - one which makes fewer false positives (retrieving irrelevant links) and fewer false negatives (missing relevant links)

see Errors in Discrimination

use the boolean operators - and or - ( for not)
use ~ for synonyms
use quote to search for a whole phrase
use all your languages (if only!)
dont forget about cached pages when pages not found
advanced search - e.g for file types
define: to search for term definitions

Resources

WikiBook on Search

Research tools

2006-10-08T21:26:00.000+01:00

We discussed a few of the research tools which would be useful for your individual research topic - some are obvious, a few less so:

Encyclopedia

wikipedia - nearly always a useful starting point
Howstuffworks - often good explanations of technology, spoilt by advertising

Search engine

google - you may have other prefered search engines but this is still the best for me

Search peer-reviewed papers on the web

Online academic journals are searchable and available via the library - see in particular:

the ACM Digital Library
IEEE Xplore
Springer Link

Online industry journals

Digital Web Magazine

Usage statistics from alaxa - alaxaradar is a useful mashup of alexa data showing trends
podcasts and vod casts

comparison sites - there is often a site which gathers technical data on the available software of a given kind - e.g. wikimatrix for wikis
developer sites

Developer.com

Conferences - commercial - XTech, ...
your own personal experience of use
site discussion boards and blogs
standards documents

Web Applications

2006-10-05T22:38:00.000+01:00

This week I would like to explore the issue of the different kinds of internet applications. Some key terms are

These describe the architecture of the application which is independant of the application function (to provide a wiki, a blog, an e-commerce site...)

Here is one best-of listing from 2005.

Just to start you thinking, here is a Flickr-GoogleEarth mashup which I built using XQuery. This not the best platform to choose but its fast to develop and good for prototyping at least. Try my Flickr account: 57414735@N00 . There are many ways this mashup could be improved.

Resource links

2006-10-05T20:48:00.000+01:00

From time to time both Mark and I discover web resources which we think will be useful. Rather than editing a blog entry each time, we will use the social bookmarking site del.icio.us.

Mark's link is http://del.icio.us/curlygreen/UFIEP6-20-3

Mine is http://del.icio.us/perdika/iad

Quiz answers

2006-10-03T13:22:00.000+01:00

I've annotated the quiz we looked at on Friday with some answers and pointers. Please read through this - I spotted a couple of mistakes when I went through it. In some cases the code is has been turned into working examples.

Quiz answers.

Individual Reading Review Blogs

2006-10-03T09:37:00.000+01:00

Alex RSS feed

Daniel RSS feed

Darius RSS feed

Denis RSS feed

Malik RSS feed

Nigel RSS feed

Terms used in the class on Friday 30th September 2006

2006-10-02T16:42:00.000+01:00

Here are some of the terms we discussed in the class on Friday - follow the links to Wikipedia to learn more. Some basic terms - everyone needs to know these:

Then here are some more advanced terms for people who already know the easy ones above:

There are entries for a lot of these terms in French as well.

Mark.

Learning Java - free resources on the web

2006-10-02T16:41:00.000+01:00

Here are some good resources to start to learn Java:

The Java Tutorials (provided by Sun)
Free version of Thinking In Java, 3rd Edition, by Bruce Eckel
Richard Baldwin's Java tutorials

Mark.

Mini-research topic

2006-09-28T23:11:00.000+01:00

The essence of many web applications is to enable communication between users. An number of different approaches have been developed and continue to be developed, each with their own styles of communication. Part of the first assignment will require you to write an individual report on one of the ways in which the web supports communication.

Each student will be allocated a different topic which they will research and then lead a short discussion on that topic.

The topics I have in mind include

- Blogs
- Wikis - Alex
- RSS feeds - Darius
- Podcasts - Daniel
- Chatroom (IRC and IM) - Malik
- Social bookmarks - Nigel
- Folksonomies - Denis

First we need to work out as a group what we would want to know about each of these technologies so that we are all working to the same agenda. we will do this in class and post the results here. We will also share ideas about how to research these topics.

Creating a Blog

2006-09-28T22:59:00.000+01:00

Your first task is to create a blog to record your reading review. This may be a public blog, or you may choose to restrict read access to just the students and tutors on this module.

Choosing a blog host or software and investigating the way blogs are used may be a mini-research topic for one of the students. However, I suggest you simply use Google's Blogger as the host for your blog, register an account and set up the blog. This first session will provide an opportunity to do this.

1. Create an account on http://www.blogger.com

2. Create a blog - you can have several blogs on the same account

3. Choose an appropriate template

4. Set the permissions you require

5. Enter some basic identification for the profile

6. Create your first entry.

Later you may want to
change the template
edit the template - you have to do this to change the menu on the side of the page

When you have created the blog, email me with the link to the blog.

Reading Review

2006-09-28T22:56:00.000+01:00

UIFEP6-20-3: Internet Application Development.
Coursework 3 - Individual Reading Review
Due date: 19th April 2007 -- DRAFT specification
Rationale
The ability to study a topic of your own choice, guided by tutors is necessary training for your career in Information Technology. This study will involve reading of various material throughout the module. Some of this will naturally be web-based material, others will be readings form text books and journals. Keeping a diary of the readings you have made, your summary of the main points of the reading and your views on them is a good and useful practice.

On this Internet Application Development module, an obvious means of keeping this diary is to use a blog. This has the added advantage of being a public area so that other students and tutors can see your work and comment on it - constructively.

Although this part of the coursework only amounts to 10% of the coursework mark (5% overall) and is not due until after Easter, you are required to work on this review throughout the year.
Specification
You are to keep an online diary of your reading and discussion about those readings in a public place such as a blog. This blog will be read during the year by your tutor to provide feedback on the range of subjects covered and the quality of your discussion of those subjects. You are also encouraged to comment on the work of your fellow students in a constructive manner.

You may use any software for this purpose. The blog will be established at the beginning of the year and a link to it made available to the students and tutors on the module. You may choose to restrict access to this group or allow public access.

The language of the blog is English. For students whose first language is not English, part of the feedback which the tutors will provide during the year will be on grammar and writing style.

Assessment
The reading review will be assessed on the range of readings discussed, the time span they cover and the quality of the discussion. However the main point of this part of the coursework is to develop a disciplined approach to reading and study. Tutors and other students will provide feedback on your writing as part of their and your learning process.

Web 2.0 Wiki

2006-09-28T20:54:00.000+01:00

This wiki has been created as a resource centre for this module.

http://cems.stikipad.com/web2

The Programme Blog

2006-09-27T15:33:00.000+01:00

The blog for the Internet Application programme is here.

Welcome

2006-09-18T08:58:00.000+01:00

This is the blog to keep students on the Internet Applications Development Module in CEMS updated with news about the module. Myself, Mark Butler and Dan Dixon are the main authors but all students registered on the module will also be authors and commenters.

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