The first week of the course was about getting a sense of what sort of work we'd be doing for the next 12-13 weeks & trying not to panic at the scale of that work. Even the number of pre-installed desktop icons on the college's PCs seemed daunting - I hadn't heard of many of the applications they represented, never mind knowing how to use them. But the introductory talks were reassuring, the speakers gave the impression of knowing their stuff & of being confident in helping us to figure it all out. During induction day, a very interesting talk by Ian Lucey of Lucey Technology encouraged us to keep a strong focus throughout the course on the business opportunities our new skills could open up for us. Other advice - keep up to speed with developments through the techpress (not everyone's going to create & sell an Instagram, but there's no harm in knowing how it was done). Some contradictory advice came later in relation to web browsers, with the college's IT department advising us to use Internet Explorer on the campus computers, while the same browser was later described in a lecture as a "steaming pile of ..."!
Newly-bookmarked sites (on Firefox) during this week included Evernote, w3c.org, 24ways.org, Siliconrepublic, & TechCrunch.
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