Blackboard Learn

Video showing a rough and ready BB learn demo from WSA module with Panopto recording too

ELEC6021 Research Methods: Report Writing

Slides and Handouts for this part of the module

Sustaining Success additional task summary

In addition to handing in the portfolio your are requested to submit one further piece of evidence of your engagement with the course. You can choose from a selection of activities, all of which are relevant to the broader objectives of the module. This document provides a summary list of those activities and links to the more detailed resources. You can find a quick link to all those resources at http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/12372/

Introductory lecture and activities (MSc)

Use across a series of lectures to introduce the module, focus on the topic of interdisciplinarity and get to know the group. Includes link to mendeley group

focus lecture and activities link to videos & posters (Yr2)

Use across a series of lectures to introduce the module, focus on the topic of interdisciplinarity and get to know the group. Contains links to videos to watch

Work less, teach better and get better feedback: why we tried innovative teaching methods

Speaker: Patrick McSweeney Organiser: Time: 15/10/2014 11:00-11:45 Location: B32/3077 Abstract Having started at Southampton in 2005 I have seen quite a few changes to the way courses are taught and studied. I will reflect on some of the interesting changes I have observed and suggest their causes. As a practical example I will talk about codestrom, a peer feedback tool for learning programming. We have found that this teaching method has improved the student experience and reduced the work load for the module team. Together we will discuss how this and other recent developments can enable other teaching innovations which benefit staff as well as students. Hopefully the new class of PhD students will be able to contribute from the point of view of having recently been undergraduate students here and else where.

What can Flickr photographs tell us about the world?

In their second year, our undergraduate web scientists undertake a group project module (WEBS2002, led by Jonathon Hare & co-taught by Su White) in which they get to apply what they learnt in the first year to a practical web-science problem, and also learn about team-working. For the project this semester, the students were provided with a large dataset of geolocated images and associated metadata collected from the Flickr website. Using this data, they were tasked with exploring what this data could tell us about the world. In this seminar the two groups will present the outcomes of their work. Team Alpha (Ellie Hamilton, Clayton Jones & Alok Acharya) will present their work on "The relationship between Group Photos, Social Integration and Suicide". This work aims to explore whether levels of social integration (which Durkheim posited as a factor in "Egoistic Suicide" rates) can be predicted by measuring the proportion of photos of groups of people to photos of individuals within a geographical region. Team Bravo (Agnieszka Grzesiuk-Szolucha, Thomas Leese & Ammaar Tawil) will present their work on "Sentiment Analysis on Flickr Photo Tags to Classify a Photo as Positive or Negative, In Order to Determine the Happiness of a Country or Region". This work explores whether estimates of sentiment made by applying SentiWordNet to Flickr tags correlate with indices of world happiness and socio-economic well-being.

CHEM1012 Surveys 1 & 2 raw data

Student response to fully-flipped chemistry module