End of Course Assessment - Site Map

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'.
Internal link:" Netiquette, or the social conventions of computer conferencing" prepared by Gary Alexander for use on various Open University courses. (Revised September 2000)

	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.
Internal link:" Netiquette, or the social conventions of computer conferencing" prepared by Gary Alexander for use on various Open University courses. (Revised September 2000)

	Exercise from Module 2: Module Two - Introduction - Exercise 1 : Creating an HTML study journal.
Internal link: Module 2 - Exercise 1: Creating an HTML Study Journal using Study Guide 5

	Exercise from Module 3: Module Three - Segment 5 - Exercise 6: Analysing Vannevar Bush’s vision.
External link: "As we May Think" by Dr. Vannevar Bush. Internal link: Module 3 - Exercise 6: Analysing Vannevar Bush's Vision.

	TMA Reflection: I have selected TMA03 from Module 2 for which I scored 94%. My subject was "Douglas Engelbart - A Man ahead of his Time".
Internal link: A Concept Map Internal link: A timeline Internal link: Tutor feedback for TMA03

	Module 1 reflection: This is my reflection on Module 1 covering sections on basic computer use, computing with confidence and an introduction to Web skills.
Internal link: Exercises 26 and 27 Creating a web page first using hand-coding in a word processor and then an HTML editor.

	Module 2 reflection: 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.
Internal link: Exercise 6 - Metaphors - how to analyse metaphors (descriptive terms that are not literal).

	Module 3 reflection: 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.
External link: Review from SimonSays.com "Where Wizards stay up Late" by Hafner and Lyon Internal link: Module Three - Exercise 4 - Exploring the RFC Archive. Finding and using a primary source.

Part Two:-

Significant Technology from Module 2:
I have chosen Ethernet as my significant technology from Module 2

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

External links
Image of Tim Berners-Lee courtesy of the University of Strathclyde Homepages of Staff and Students.
http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cias19/teaching/images/berners-lee.jpg
Diagram from Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN. March 1989, May 1990
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
The World Wide Web Consortium Home Page http://www.w3.org/
CERN Home Page http://welcome.cern.ch/welcome/gateway.html
Screenshot of Tim Berners-Lee's original Browser http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/tims_editor
Network Working Group RFC: 2068. January 1997 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt
Network Working Group RFC: 1630. June 1994 Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1630.txt

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