Thursday, March 22, 2007


DRAFT LEARNING PROPOSAL:

NAME: RANJEET ELKUNCHWAR (Rj)

STUDENT NO: 10497321 (Msc ADV COMP)


PERSONAL LEARNING NEEDS:

  • SWOT:
    1. STRENGTHS: CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL THINKING, RESEARCH, TIME MANAGEMENT, CONCURRENT STUDIES
    1. WEAKNESSES: PROGRAMMING ABILITIES
    1. OPPORTUNITES: LEARNING CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND LANGUAGES (BOTH BRIEFLY AND IN DEPTH)
    1. THREATS: TIME CONSTRAINTS, FULL TIME STUDIES

  • LEARNING NEEDS IN DMT:
  • LEARNING CUTTING EDGE WEB TECHNOLOGIES ( HTML,XHTML, CSS, PHP &JAVA SCRIPT-ing) IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL.

  • APPLY THESE INTO THE FINAL PROJECT.
  • LEARN IN DEPTH ABOUT THE WEB BASED ENVIRONMENT.


LEARNING PLAN:

  • OBJECTIVES:

  • GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP AND JAVA SCRIPT
  • GAIN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE USE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES

  • STRATEGIES:
  • UNDERSTAND BASIC CONCEPTS OF EACH TECHNOLOGY

  • DEVELOP/DISCOVER AN INTEREST IN ONE OR MORE
  • EXPLORE THEM FURTHER

    • USING THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES TO HELP REALISE THE STATED OBJECTIVES:

  • STUDY MATERIAL (LECTURE NOTES AND COURSE DOCUMENTS)

  • RECOMMENDED REFERENCES (BOTH HARD COPY AND ONLINE)
  • REPUTED ONLINE SOURCES ( E.G W3C )

  • ONLINE TUTORIALS
  • OTHER RESOURCES: SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, BOOKS AND ONLINE RESOURCES

PROPOSED PROJECT:

AT A VERY BROAD LEVEL, I PLAN TO CREATE A PORTAL SIMILAR TO ORKUT (www.orkut.com) OR HI5 (www.hi5.com). THESE ARE POPULAR PEER/SOCIAL NETWORK PORTALS. I ENVISAGE TO CREATE A SIMILAR NETWORK WITH MINIMAL ATTRIBUTES AS THESE NETWORKS USE. I SHALL SPLIT THE PROJECT INTO THREE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT

PHASE ONE:

I SHALL CREATE A BASIC WORKING MODEL WHICH SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING ATTRIBUTES

  1. PROFILE (I SHOULD HAVE A PROFILE WHICH CAN BE VIEWED BY THE USERS ON THE NETWORK)
  2. THE USERS SHALL HAVE TO LOGIN AND BE REGISTERED TO BE A PART OF THE NETWORK.
  3. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO INVITE USERS TO JOIN/ADD A CONTACT.

PHASE TWO:

ACHIEVING A HIGHER LEVEL DESIGN OF PHASE ONE. ADDING EXTRA FEATURES AS

  1. PROFILE: MY NAME, SEX, D.O.B AND EMAIL ADDRESS OR A SPECTRUM OF OTHER DETAILS.
  2. OPTIONS TO APPROVE/REJECT OR DELETE A USER.
  3. OPTIONS FOR THE USERS TO UNREGISTER.
  4. PROFILE VIEWS ETC

PHASE THREE:

ADDITIONAL FEATURES (TIME PERMITTING) TO ADD OTHER BLOGS I RUN, A PHOTO ALBUM, RSS FEEDS ETC.


SCHEDULE:

  • GAIN BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF ALL TECHNOLOGIES

  • EXPLORE THEM FURTHER IN DETAIL
  • SET SMALL AND ACHIEVABLE GOALS AND TARGETS

  • BRING THE WHOLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE TOGETHER IN THE FINAL PROJECT

REFERENCES:


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