MSc Web Science: Week 0

FPSE Faculty Welcome 2013/Tim O'Riordan ©2013/CC BY 2.0 UK

Monday, 23 September

Faculty Welcome

• Electronics and Computer Science (Prof Neil White - Head of ECS) - "we're research-focused"
• The Optical Research Centre (Prof Rob Eason - Deputy Head of ORC) - "we're dedicated to Photonics", "there's going to be an Internet 'capacity crunch' in 2020"
• Jumpstart 2013  (Joyce Lewis) - "I will contact you by email"
• Health and Safety  (Mike Bartlett) - "the Mountbatten Building burned down in 2005 - and they're still talking about it"
• Jumpstart Challenge (Trishia Poplawska) - "an opportunity to get to know each other"

Tuesday, 24 September

MSc Welcome

• Prof Kees De Groot, Prog Director
• Practice past exams (available on sussed)
• Use mentors.

• Andy 'Biscuits' Newton
• STACS (Student Teaching & Computing Support)
• x24494 59/3207
• Free software/hardware loans
• Help with coursework, programming help, coding support, projects
• They want to be given complicated programming questions
• Free virtual machines for projects
• "Learn Linux"
• See: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk

• Academic Integrity
• Mark Zwolinski,  Deputy Head ECS Education
• 2 students were ejected for plagiarism in 2012/13
• See: www.academicintegrity.soton.ac.uk

• Faculty student office team
• B59 reception.
• fpse-student@soton.ac.uk, X22909

• Eric Cooke, ECS Senior Tutors
• email stutor (ask at zepler reception)
• 12 modules, 6 per semester = 120 credits
• pass mark 40%, must average 50% to progress to dissertation

• Fiona Nichols, Library
• see: library.soton.ac.uk
• subject guide>ecs>info skills>taught msc> 
• 10 October - searching for pg’s
• ECS books are on level 3 Hartley
• Delphis - single search incls. journal articles

MSc Web Science Welcome

• Met: Dr Sepi Chakaveh (ex Fraunhofer Society - "reading data files changes the arrangement of bits in the file") and Manuel León, a  researcher who is starting first year of PhD exploring the use and reception of MOOCs by academics.
• Ice breaker:
  Circle - toss ball of string around and give name, subject and 'fun fact' about yourself (my fun fact: I have no 'fun facts' - then immediately thought of several).
• Team building:
  - Support a tennis ball as close to the ceiling as possible using items measuring no more than 30cms.
  - What extra curricula activities can WS do?

  

  Team 4 ideas
• Les Carr: Don't have to attend all lectures (these will be pointed out); Claire Wyatt is the fount of all knowledge; "Conferences are work - not 'holidays'"
• Not all WS MSc's are on Facebook

Thursday, 26 September

Registration

Introduction to Digital Literacies Champions

• Lisa Harris
• Voluntary but some paid project work
• Curation of archive for uni events
• Media creation competition - winner goes to Digital Media Europe 2014
• 'Literacies’ viewed from marketing/business perspective. Reputation?
• It should be more about reputation building - so use rss feeds, google scholar updates, scoop.it, twitter, facebook, linkedin, wordpress blog (week notes), google apps (video not.es, rss, screen capture). Think of it as building a portfolio...
• Mozilla is collaborating with the world to develop an open badge ecosystem that makes it possible to recognize skills, literacies, and interests across the web. 
• Looking for project ideas that DCs can help with.
• Volunteers to revamp website.
• Meeting: 30 September. Practicalities of being a DC - with Fiona Harvey.
• Workshop: 2 October. Use phones to create video - with Simon Morice.
• Creative Digifest: 19 November at Grand Harbour Hotel