2016 Semester 1 Professional Skills: February 2016

Tasks

Respond to these tasks by writing any answers or code into your own blog. Please number your responses so they can be found.

1. Start your blog in Blogger. Write a sentence about yourself, with a graphic that represents you, say, a photo or something that you like. Remember the address of your blog. This is where all the feedback on tasks will be given.

2. Write a MS Word assignment called My Four Most Favorite Sites. Write about 50 words about each site and say why you like it. Include a screen shot of each site. Make the layout nice and put it in the Moodle drop-box by the closing date.

3. Checkout the Classroom Protocols PowerPoint in our Moodle site. Write about three aspects of the protocols that you consider are the most important. Three sentences are enough but you can do more. Add a picture.

4. Put a link in your blog to the w3schools HTML site with a screen shot.

5. What does HTML stand for. Paste in a few lines of HTML.

6. Define Tag, Element and Attribute. Give examples if you can.

7. What does this do: <p> Hello world! </p>

8. Copy this in to Notepad or TextWrangler and run it through a browser.

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
</html>

Where does the text "My First Page" appear?

9. Same as 8 but this time, change the text to your name. Put your full HTML program into your blog.

10. Go to this page( http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp) and run the example called "HTML document" from the HTML basic section. Run their example, think about the tags then alter their script in some interesting way. eg. include your name in the script somewhere. Run your new script and copy the HTML into your blog with a suitable comment.

11. Same as 10, but this time run the HTML headings script.

12. Same as 10, but this time run the HTML paragraphs script.

13. Start your talk on an interesting tag by picking one that appeals to you and preparing a two (or more) page PowerPoint. Put your name and tag onto the Wiki in Moodle.

14. Do an Internet search on at least two HTML Editors. Take a screen shot of each editor and write a comment on what people say about it and what you think too.

15. Write a simple script that includes the following tags : underline, italics and bold.

16. Write an HTML script that uses all the header tags <h1>, <h2>, ..., <h6>.

16a. Go to the attributes page and run the examples down the bottom of the page. Make small changes to the examples like in task 10 above for each example.

17. Check out the post in this blog called: "And the best browser is..". Read over the results. A bit surprising to some people. Do you think this is a fair assessment? Does it include all the features important to web users？Did it change your opinion of your most-used browser? Write some sentences that respond to the previous questions in your blog.

17a. Check out the HTML Styles page from the w3 schools site and do each of the examples at the bottom of he page. Make small changes to each example and write a comment in your HTML file about what you have changed. Put all the commented, changed versions in your blog.

18. Subscript. Write a script that contains the <sub> tag. Also include the chemical formula for ammonium phosphate (look it up) , with all the subscripts in the right place.

19. There is no question 19. It has been deleted.

20. Write 100 words about yourself, your educational history, family life, pets and hobbies. Say what you want to do after you get your CIT. Use at least 8 formatting tags like bold and italics. Put HTML script into your blog but test it works first in a browser.

21. In a Word document write 200 words about yourself, your educational history, family life, pets and hobbies. Say what you want to do after you get your CIT. Make sure all the spelling and grammar are correct. Print it out and show your lecturer. Write in your blog a summary of the comments your lecturer made.

22. Have a go at each of the exercises near the bottom of this page then put the answers into your blog making a small changes.

23. Pick three animal pictures that you like from the web. Arrange them in a post in your blog. Give them appropriate captions.

24. Write a script that includes three graphics about one of the recent Malaysian Airlines plane crashes as well as 100 words about what's happened. These can be copies so long as you say where they come from. Two links to other web sites are required too.

25. Complete the first assignment on student life in Dunedin. See the PowerPoint in Moodle for details.

25.1 Do the five formatting exercise at the bottom of this page. Make the usual small changes and then save each HTML file to your blog.

25.2 Do the exercise in the bottom of the quotation page. Make the usual changes and save each HTML file to your blog with a comment about your change.

25.3 Write an HTML file that uses all the quotation and formatting tags in the above two pages. That's 16 different new tags.

26. Do the image exercises at the bottom of this page in the usual way.

27. Comments. Do the comments exercises at the bottom of this page.

27.1 Write a HTML script that will contain two links to two external www pages like w3schools.

27.2 Write a script that changes the default colours of a link to a Wikipedia page.

28. Write a HTML script that has three lines of text. There will also be three links that when clicked will jump to the first, second or third line. The fourth link should be at the bottom and when clicked will jump to the top of the page.

29. Have a go at each of the exercises near the bottom of this page then put the answers into your blog making a small changes like you did in 19 above.

30. Use an image of a kiwi as a link to the wikipedia page on kiwis.

31. Add to the kiwi page above a paste from giphy that will, in a simple iframe, show an animation of your choice.

32) Find a good picture of the solar system with all the planets and make your own image map so that clicking on a planet gives a close-up of each planet with its name. Code in blog.

33) Same as 32 but this time your click should take you to the appropriate Wikipedia page. Code in blog.

34) Use a picture of the Otago Polytechnic campus to output a little message or go to a relevant website when you click on three different buildings.

35) Take the quackit example and change the area around the person to be a circle around his head. Put the code with comments into your blog.

36. Tables. Check out the w3 Schools page on HTML tables. Run any three examples on the page then make some interesting changes (words, colours, borders, fonts etc.) and make sure the scripts work. Then copy these scripts into your blog with a comment about what you've changed. Just small changes are OK.

37. Look at this movie site on some popular movies of 2012. Make a table out of the top five giving the ranking and the number of stars this site awards each movie. Can you also copy out some of the graphics and put them on your page too?

38. Lists : Do the exercise on the bottom of this page. Do the exercises and make sure you understand all the list elements. Make some small changes and display the changed HTML in your blog with a comment about what you've changed.

39. Check out this page of lists. Find a list that interests you and make a web page that includes a table with at least 5 rows and two columns with headings and a caption on the table. Add at least two graphics.

40. Go back to the page of lists mentioned above and create an ordered list from it with 4 items.

40.1 Blocks and divs. Do the exercises at the end of this page. Make the usual small changes and put into your blog.

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Tasks

Tasks

Welcome

Welcome to our class, CT422 Professional Skills, first semester 2016. Here you'll learn skills that will give you an extra edge in IT.

Keep an eye on this blog and do the tasks in the tasks page. Do the answers to any questions, or written code in your own blog. Please put the answer number in your post.

So your first task is to create a blog in Blogger. When you have done this remember you blog address so it can be pasted into our wiki in Moodle.