This Module will provide an overview of communications and networking technology and practice in business, with special emphasis on the use of Internet technology. You will be introduced to theoretical and practical aspects of this subject area through lectures, workshops and self-study. As part of this module you will author and publish an internet web site. You can find out more detail by looking at the Module Descriptor

Rob Davis is your tutor for this module, based in Pandon Building. For questions and problems with the module you are encouraged to use the Blackboard discussion board. This means any answers to your questions will benefit all student - and by the way you can also answer each others questions.

Weekly Schedule

Semester One

 

Click on the week number to view the activites for that week. Note that most weeks there is also a link underneath the directed study column. Make sure you do that work before the workshop that follows it.
week week beginning summary directed study
1 24 Sept Lecture
2 1 Oct Lecture and distribution of self-study tasks
3 8 Oct Self-study tasks - to be completed by next week in preparation for workshops
4 15 Oct Writing a web pages - xhtml not html: protocols, standards, doctypes and charsets. 4
5 22 Oct UNIX - set-up accounts
What is FTP?
Publishing Pages		 5
6 29 Oct Consolidation exercises
7 5 Nov Syntax Checking 7
8 12 Nov CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) 8
9 19 Nov Block / inline elements and tables 9
10 26 Nov Images 10
11 3 Dec Frames 11
12 10 Dec Semester 1 consolidation  

 

Semester Two

 

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week week beginning summary directed study
1 28 Jan Benefits to business: EDI, e-commerce, virtual organisations, strategic issues  
2 4 Feb Network Management and user management, content management (dynamic content), users with no html knowledge altering information, information presentation and management.  
3 11 Feb Directed Study week  
4 18 Feb Forms
Server-side scripts with PHP		  
5 25 Feb Forms validation
Client-side scripts with javascript		  
6 3 Mar Scripting: some of the ins and outs of using email; some of the security issues; some workarounds to make things safer  
7 10 Mar Security (.htaccess and using php scripts)  
8 17 Mar Site Diagramming & Documentation  
9 24 Mar Module consultation  
Easter Vacation
10 21 Apr Module consultation  
11 28 Apr Module consultation  
12 5 May Module consultation
Assignment hand-in (to be confirmed)		  

 

Assessment

While informal feedback will be given throughout the year via workshop activities, the summative assessment for this module will be by an assignment. The assignment for this module will be issued during Semester 2.