Pauline's Homepage

This Section of our site was initially set up to just support Pauline's Open University Teaching. It is now being changed to be more general.

Pauline's Open University Material

Lower down this page are her Presentations and Exercises and a Resource Centre useful to Students and Tutors.

• General guidance, best practice and Application support in OU Software Installation and Use
  • Guidance on Preparation of TMAs for Electronic Marking for Students - Essential reading before submitting e-TMAs
  • Guidance on Electronic Marking of TMAs for Tutors - Useful reading before marking e-TMAs even though it needs some updates for new Form Handler which implements some of our tips.
  • Guide to FirstClass - including Offline use with "Personal" .
• Technical Articles which have been added to Peter's existing series of Technical "Howto" articles.
• Background Information about our Home Computing System and our Experiences with a small Laptop which allows us access to the same Communications while travelling on our Narrowboat Corinna.
• Resumes: Pauline's Open University Lecturing and Consultancy Experience and her Resume.

A few years of earlier presentations can also be viewed online - they are then archived in a compressed form for downloading and offline viewing (as Powerpoint ActiveX Animations).

Exercise material can usually be viewed online or, where specified, is a Zipped Word 97 document to download (right click link and Save Target As), unzip and view/print in the Word 97 viewer provided on course CDs

• M206 Samples from discontinued course
  • Tutorial 7 2001 Answers (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 11^th September 2001
  • Tutorial 7 2001 Exercises (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 11^th September 2001
  • Tutorial 6 2001 Exercises with Answers (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 24^th July 2001
  • Tutorial 6 2001 Presentation - uploaded 23^rd July 2001
  • Tutorial 6 2001 Notes (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 23^rd July 2001
  • Tutorial 6 2001 Exercises (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 23^rd July 2001
  • Day School 2001 "Block 5" Hints/Answers to the Exercises (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 9^th July 2001
  • Tutorial 5 2001 Exercises and Answers (Zip Files to download and print) - uploaded 9^th July 2001-->
  • Day School 2001 "Block V" (Presentation) - uploaded 7^th July 2001
  • Day School 2001 "Block V" Notes (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 7^th July 2001
  • Day School 2001 "Block V" Exercises (Zip File to download and print) - uploaded 7^th July 2001
  • Block IV 2001 Summary (Presentation) - uploaded 20^th May 2001
  • Tutorial 4 2001 Exercises (Questions and Hints) - uploaded 20^th May 2001
  • Tutorial 3 2001 Exercises (Questions and Answers) - uploaded 24^th April 2001
  • Tutorial 3 2001 Exercises (Questions only) - uploaded 23^rd April 2001 -->
  • An exercise to help understand Super and Self (Zip File to download and print) - updated 15^th April 2002
  • Tutorial 2 2002 Exercises Questions and Answers (Zip File to download and print) - updated 15^th April 2002
  • Blocks I - III Summary Presentation 2002 - uploaded 20^thDecember 2002.

• T843 Discontinued Course - material kept available for information and those retaking examinations
  • Examination Questions for revision (Zip File to download and print) - updated 1^st October 2000
  • Tutorial - Blocks 8, 9 and 10 (Presentation) - updated 30^th September 2000
  • Tutorial - Blocks 6 and 7 (Presentation) - updated 12^thAugust 2000
  • Blocks 3, 4 and 5 (Presentation) and SSM Exercise (Zip File to download and print) - made available with Rich Pictures and TMA Dates Corrected on 1^st August 2000
  • Blocks 1 and 2 (Presentation) and Case Study - made available on 27^th May 2000
• Archives
  • Archives of Previous Presentations in a compressed form for downloading and offline viewing
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  Resource Centre

  M206

  • Guidance on Preparation of TMAs for Electronic Marking - Essential reading before submitting e-TMAs
  • Guidance on Electronic Marking of TMAs for Tutors Notes based on three years of electronic marking.
  • Smalltalk Book list - in print on 23^rd May 1998
  • Internet Resource List - sites, newsgroups etc. of possible interest for M206.
  • Dolphin Smalltalk 98 - our initial review of a powerful free Smalltalk development system.
  • How to add Learning Books - including an example on Inheritance, Self and Super.
  • Publishing PowerPoint Presentations on the Web - mainly for Tutors

  B823

  • Requirements for Online Conferencing - our views with some suggestions for enhancements to the early versions of Lyceum to improve it's utility

  General

  • Guide to FirstClass - including Offline use with "Personal" .
  • Using NetMeeting for Tutoring - an initial assessment of possibilities
  • Publishing PowerPoint Presentations on the Web
    • Using Microsoft Power Point ActiveX Presentations
  • How to save money on the Internet - Tips and hints to speed up access and minimise time online (parts now out of date, others still very relevant!).
  • Update Modems with Flash Memory - speed up access by upgrading your modem to the latest standards
  • Virus Checkers - Configuration and Testing - including validation of correct operation/detection using the EICAR standard test virus.
  • Internet Security - How to make sure you are protected against Hacking

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