End of Course Assessment - Lois Ann Morris PI: T8318286


Name: Lois Ann Morris PI: T8318286

This website was produced as my End of Course Assessment (ECA) for the Open University Course "T171 - You, Your Computer and the Net" February 2001 presentation. Its purpose is to demonstrate aspects of the three modules studied together with examples of work, an overall review of the course, and personal reflections on my learning experience. Web Site Map * * * Please note that links leading to the Open University's T171 website will no longer be live and will return an error if clicked.* * *

PART ONE

Conference contribution Discussion, with example of an email exchange in our Tutor Group, illustrating aspects of effective computer conferencing and application of 'netiquette'.

Group working Discussion, with example of an email exchange in our Tutor Group, at the end of a groupworking exercise, reviewing its advantages and disadvantages.

Module 2 exercise Module Two - Introduction - Exercise 1 : Creating an HTML study journal.

Module 3 exercise Module Three - Segment 5 - Exercise 6: Analysing Vannevar Bush’s vision.

Reflection

TMA I have selected TMA03 from Module 2 for which I scored 94%. My subject was "Douglas Engelbart - A Man ahead of his Time".

Module 1 This is my reflection on Module 1 covering sections on basic computer use, computing with confidence and an introduction to Web skills.

Module 2 This is my reflection on Module 2 covering sections on computer architecture, Intel, Microsoft, Xerox PARC, IBM and the PC, IBM clones, Apple and the MAC, Windows and OS/2.

Module 3 This is my reflection on Module 3 covering sections on the history and development of the ARPANET, visionaries (Bush, Engelbart, Nelson and Atkinson), creation of the Internet and growth of the World Wide Web, UNIX, Usenet and Open Source Software.

PART TWO

Module 2       I have chosen Ethernet as my significant technology from Module 2

Module 3      I have chosen the World Wide Web as my significant technology from Module 3

Discussion section - similarities and differences between Ethernet and the World Wide Web
                               and their possible development in the future.