Chasing EdShare

A presentation on EdShare given to the Bloodhound @University Group in Bristol in July 2010.

Using Zappers in a Common Learning Space (Windows 7)

This 8 minute video provides a step-by-step guide for tutors wishing to use zappers (Turning Point) in a Common Learning Space with Windows 7 and Office 2010.

Introduction to Professional and Legal Issues: INFO2009

slides and activities outlining the extent of the module,outline of proposed courseworks. Includes a couple of activities

Methods and Methodology: COMP6049

Slides and exercises for class on methods and methodology to web science masters. Explores inter-disciplinarity and disciplinary differences

Academic Integrity in an Ethical Context: INFO2009 Week 2

Reminder of ECS academic integrity tutorial, scenarios for small group discussion on 1) academic integrity 2) integrity in the workplace. Students are invited to draw parallels between these two aspects.

ECS Resources for INFO 2009

These slides support students in understanding how to respond to the challenge of: "I’ve been told not to use Google or Wikipedia to research my essay. What else is there?" The powerpoint guides students in how to identify high quality, up to date and relevant resources on the web that they can reliably draw upon for their academic assignments. The slides were created by the subject liaison librarian who supports the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the UNiversity of Southampton, Fiona Nichols.

Careers Destinations - Introducting help for ECS Students

Lecture notes from Diana Fitch

Full text library resources 2010-11

Finding journal articles from full text sources such as IEEEXplore, ACM and LNCS (Lecture Noters in Computer Science)

Algorithmic Complexity and Computability

High-level introduction for web science students, rather than for computer science students.

Networking

Lecture notes and readings on networking: the telegraph, the internet and the OSI model.

Data - From Bits to Databases

Slides based on Brookshear, augmented with a lot of simple material to encourage the students to understand binary numbers!

Black Boxes and Abstraction or A quick run through how computers work

How we get from transistors through to logic gates to ALUs and memory to the stored program and the fetch execute cycle through to machine code and high level languages. Inspired by Tanenbaum's approach in "Structured Computer Organozation"

Overview of the Southampton Learning Environment and EdShare

Created to inform the university on current progress on building the SLE and to encourage more use of EdShare

Hypertext Pioneers

A chronological account of the development of hypertext, from Paul Otlet to 1990.