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The document explains and details all the relevant information for writing a report and what they are used for. The document explains the sections that should be used for a report and guides the reader on what the content of the report should be like.

Resources for COMP6037

collection of resources to use when developing your CV and applying for a job or summer intern-ship

Notes, slides and activities which students can use/refer to when developing their CV. This is pitched at entry level students, but may be useful to students at all levels for general reference.

Powerpoint used in INFO1010 to give new undergrads an understanding of the purpose of the Careers service.

These are the materials for a course run at the University of Southampton to teach Algorithmic thinking to Information Technology in Organisation students. The course takes a lightweight approach, and is designed to be used alongside simple programming labs (for example, using Alice).

These are the materials for the Multimedia Systems course run in ECS. Multimedia Systems is taught rather differently than most courses. Although there is a lecture series, this is to support the main activity - the organisation and participation is a student conference. The coursework is to produce a short paper on a chosen topic to be presented as a paper, poster or demonstration at a course conference to be held at the end of the semester. The process of producing and reviewing the coursework and then participating in the conference has been designed to be the means by students cover the full range of material associated with Multimedia Systems.

This is the website for the Nano Research group based at the University of Southampton ECS department, and details current research topics and the people connected with these. It shows some of the current research topics undertaken at the center, and gives an outline of what can be done for post graduate courses.

The engineering subject center provides support for engineering students and staff in higher education at university. The website provides articles helping students in a large range of subjects, such as book reviews for a variety subjects, support in writing reports or essays and personal development in subject areas and university life in general.

Award winning student essay. This essay won the Student Writing Award Scheme via the HE Academy Subject Network for Information and Computer Sciences.

An introduction to the "Foundations of Web Science" module that overviews the module itself, plus the context of web science at Southampton in terms of WSRI and the new Doctoral Training Centre.

What is the user experience of hypermedia? Common hypertext structures plus Ryman's hypertext novel "253"

The first International Conference on Web Science is taking place in Athens, concurrently with this course. The material here will allow you to get familiar with the conference presentations and posters so that you can write a summary of the conference from a particular topical perspective. (Both the attached HTML summaries are currently in draft form and need to have the preview images and metadata checked.)

Different attempts to 'map' different aspects of the web. How do you impose some sort of high level understanding onto the Web Graph?

This tutorial material introduces an activity in which the students are asked to redraw Tim Berners-Lee's map of the Web to include Web Science.

A current movement for organising and disseminating the world’s research through Web technology

Brief overview for the motivation and architecture of OpenCL

These slides describe the use of a coursework wiki and the proposed information architecture to support the goals of the coursework.

An examination of how repositories add extra capabilities to web sites

Social Networking tools like Facebook yield recognisable small world phenomena, that is particular kinds of social graphs that facilitate particular kinds of interaction and information exchange.

Slides and an essay on the Web Graph, search engines and how Google calculates Page Rank

This share contains a set of slides intended to help Web Technology MSc students become acquainted with the research in IAM and so to choose a topic for their summer projects and dissertations.

This short video is designed to make you think about the safety aspects of working with lasers within laser laboratories. Postgraduates and research fellows work with many different types of lasers in a variety of different experimental conditions. These lasers are often more powerful than those used as an undergraduate and require additional safety practices. The video was demonstrated to the EUNIS 2008 conference Aarhus, Denmark, and was a finalist in the Dorup E-Learning Award.

What is a social network? How does an online community differ from a real world community? See also: Anne Hornsby, 'Surfing the net for community: a Durkheimian analysis of electronic gatherings' ch.3 in Peter Kivisto (ed.) Illuminating Social Life (3rd ed 2005). Libr ref HM51KIV. Graham Crow and Catherine Maclean, 'Community' in Geoff Payne (ed.) Social Divisions (2nd ed. 2006) HM821PAY.

A guide to writing formal technical reports for IT and CS students

Used to make students aware of the demographics of their cohort - and trends from previous years.

Looks at some of the models of learning and discusses how they apply to university students

Describes course objectives and looks at what it takes to be successful in learning at University

Powerpoint Lecture notes on Virtual Learning Environments and Managed Learning Environements

Lecture Notes on Open Hypertext

Discusses the difference between how a student might project themself in social software and on a web page. Also discusses some of the risks of on-line presence.

Overview of early work on Spatial and Temporal hypermeida

Looks at what Web 2.0 is, - people, business and technology and questions whether this is simply a continuation of Web 1.0

A perspective on Hypertext Research futures

This is self playing Powerpoint with sound, which was made by researchers in Learning Technology, in 2001, suggesting what the life of a student in 2006 might look like. It is interesting to see how far we have come (or not come) in the time since.

a pdf and word format document which level 1 students can use as an examplar or template for their CV. Also includes links to example CVs and sites which help of creating CVs

Discusses the services that the Careers service provides for ECS students - and some that ECS provides too. The importance of developing a CV over time.

A workshop session which looks at skills from an employers perspective. Slides plus link to Graduate Recruiters Association. Used in first small group class of info1010 - covers ground rules, career destinations, typical earnings,types of jobs and skills evaluation. Slides are reference for interactive discussions

Slides and activity sheets to accompany a set of practical workshop activities which help participants identify some of their individual skills, as the basis for a future coursework to produce a CV

How to Reference and Cite

Understanding what is meant by plagiarism. How to ensure that you are not accused of plagiarism or cheating. How to properly reference material you copy.

A brief look at the post-industrial, network society, freed from manual labour and liberated from place.

A discussion about Actor Network Theory

A sociologist's description of the Web as a socially constructed/discovered/encountered piece of technology.

Poster for Info 2009 Coursework 2

Reference List for Info 2009 Coursework 2

checklist for fast track review of student project by ECS ethics committee

Form to be completed and discussed with your tutor for submission to the ethics committee as appropriate

Lecture slides, handouts for tutorials, exam papers, and numerical examples for a third year course on Control System Design.

Reading group on diverse topics of interest for the Information: Signals, Images, Systems (ISIS) Research Group of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Lecture slides and notes for a PhD level course on linear algebra for electrical engineers and computer scientists. This course is given in in the framework of the School of Electronics and Computer Science Mathematics Training Courses https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/pg_maths/ (ECS password required)

Social Networking explained by an economic model of cost and benefit.

Considers systems of linear equations, steepest ascent optimisation and Monte Carlo simulation.

Considers various basic features of Matlab

Considers function handles, matrix manipulation, 3D plots and programming

Notes on AM, DSBSC, QAM, BPSK, 4QAM, 8PSK, 16QAM

This presentation explains how we move from a problem definition to an algorithmic solution using simple tools like noun verb analysis. It also looks at how we might judge the quality of a solution through coupling, cohesion and generalisation.

These slides describe how control structures (if/else and loops) are used within algorithms. It includes a description of conditionals (>, ==, etc.) and logic (AND, OR, etc).

These are the introduction slides for the Multimedia Systems Course in ECS. They introduce the unusual structure of the course (it is run as a student conference), and explains the shape and purpose of an academic conference.

This is a presentation given to 3rd year Project students on our BSc degree programmes to help them project manage their 3rd year dissertations. It covers three practical methods. Fact: Skills Audits to help make projects realistic. Failure: Risk Assessment to help with contingency planning. Fiction: Gantt Charts to help with managing time and effort.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we look at how to do the research behind an academic paper, finding sources of information and planning your reading. We also look at plagiarism, and see a number of different ways in which you can reference and include the work of others.

This is a presentation introducing students to algorithmic concepts such as sequencing, pseudocode and modularity. It includes a class exercise to define the algorithm to make a cup of tea.

This presentation gives a high level introduction to modelling in software engineering. It looks in detail at how to model behaviour, in particular using UML Activity Diagrams.

This is a presentation introducing students to the idea of Algorithms. It is intended for students who are technical, but are not Computer Science students. The presentation covers definitions, characteristics, complexity and some simple examples.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we explain the academic review process, look at the structure of a review, and give some examples of positive and negative reviews.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. The presentation explains how students should write a proposal for the course, and gives them examples of topics and types of paper that they might want to think about.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we explain how to interpret reviews, find underlying problems, and make changes that will address them.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we look at how to write and structure an academic paper, including how to include references to academic work.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. In this presentation we look at the different ways that you can participate in an academic conference: Paper, poster and demo, and give some advice on each.

This presentation is for students on the 3rd year ECS Multimedia course where students run their own conference, and submit and review papers. This presentation introduces them to the topic of Multimedia Systems, and explains a number of key areas of the subject.

In 'Privacy and Politics', Kieron O'Hara discusses the relation of the political philosophy of privacy to technical aspects in Web development. Despite a vigorous debate, the concept remains ambiguous, and a series of types of privacy is defined: epistemological, spatial, ideological, decisional and economic. Each of these has a different meaning in the online environment, and will be defended by different measures. The question of whether privacy is a right is raised, and generational differences in attitude discussed, alongside the issue of whether privacy should be protected in advance, via a consent model, or retrospectively via increased transparency and accountability. Finally, reasons both theoretical and practical for ranking privacy below other values (such as security, efficiency or benefits for the wider community) are discussed.

methodologies, methods, and… Theory Ontology Epistemology Positivism; interpretivism, constructionism, critical approaches

Sociology of the Internet and the Sociology of the Web

It is received wisdom that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web; but there is a lot more technology and historical context that plays a part.

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future plans involve extension of Scitable to other fields within the life sciences, as well as to other audiences. Scitable brings together a library of scientific overviews with a worldwide community of scientists, researchers, teachers and students. Nature Education is a new division of Nature Publishing Group devoted to facilitating high quality, innovative, accessible science education in all countries of the world.

Professor Nigel Shadbolt describes the emergence of Web Science Research Initiative and discusses the themes and topics that contribute to an understanding of Web Science.

In what ways does the web change the ways we interact with government and change the ways we engage in politics?

Experimental and comparative methods in the social sciences

Class exercise to analyse qualitative data mediated on use of a set of transcripts, augmented by videos from web site. Discussion is around not only how the data is codes, interview bias, dimensions of analysis. Designed as an introduction.

Slides which take students through the interview process, mediated through the presentation of published papers which use interview data

An introduction for students intending to design and conduct a survey. This is the prelude to a practical group activity.

Short note and link on data visualisation for students at all levels

This document provides example feedback which has been generated following the marking of a class set of portfolios. It is used as a part of the Routes to Success Module, specifically on the section titled Sustaining Success. Students can read the feedback prior to completing the portfolio to alert them to the possible shortfalls which may occur when they undertake this type of task. The feedback is introduced in the context that the task of completing the portfolio is a developmental one, and that students can expect to learn and improve their performance for this type of task as they develop and refine their skills.

A simple description of the required components of the annotated bibliography coursework

specification of resource, poster and individual commentary which make up the poster group assignment

example of questions covering legal topics

"Rob, Vikki, Shireen, Muzz and Delia have been randomly selected to work together to develop a presentation entitled 'The barriers to learning'. It's not an easy ride. The following 10 episodes show the journey, from their first meeting through to their impressions of the presentation and working together". Produced by the LearnHigher CETL Three areas covered by the site as follows Listening and Interpersonal Skills - the University of Leeds Oral Presentations - Brunel University Group Work - Bradford University

indicative list of topic areas for professional, legal and ethical issues modules clustered into broad themes. Document is to be consulted in conjunction with other slides and notes for the module.

Lecture Slides on the topic of report writing which incorporate a few in class activities. These slides deal with IEEE format referencing.Also briefly discusses academic integrity.

collection of resources to help students understand what employers want links to a GRA document "Graduate Careers of the 21st Century"

Find out about the ways that people contribute to teams, and the importance of the roles in teambuilding

Looks at the different ways we write for different audiences.

In this video, taken in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Su White interviews Les Carr about why he asserts that there is a moral duty for teachers who create educational content to put that content in the public domain, rather than hoarding it in their institution.

Has a mixture of factual information (conventions on how a report should be structured) and motivational information on improving writing and communication skills

Society is catching up with the implications of the Web; its use is not straightforward and well-understood. Web Scientists will need to be able to handle arguments about equivocal perspectives on the Web's impact.

Web Science lecture about the impact of law on the web and vice versa.

A psychologist's description of the Web as an effective channel for inducing and promoting changes of behaviour in individuals. Demonstrates an experimental system called "LifeGuide".

A set of questions to be used in class to introduce the concept of academic integrity.

group exercise in three's

Overview of Surveys and Survey Systems. Class exercise sheet, to use to think about survey design example question types from survey monkey, plus set of example survey questions