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Blogs

The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Readers are able to comment on blog entries. Blogs can also used for educational purposes. These include amongst others developing students’ reflective journals, sharing course-related resources and peer review of assignments.

Wikis

A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. Its real power lies in the fact that groups can work collaboratively on the content of the site. Secondly, a wiki keeps track of the history of a document as it is revised.. Each time a person makes changes to a wiki page, that revision of the content becomes the current version, and an older version is stored. Wikis can be used for educational purposes. Students can create simple websites, engage in collaborative writing projects or group projects. Writing, revising and submiting as assignments all occur in the same place. Wikis also enable feedback to students from lecturer or peers on draft assignments.

LearnOnline

These are online self-training courses that are available to all students and staff at UCT. There are training courses mainly for computer skills (Microsoft Office programmes and other applications such as Adobe Photoshop), but also on some other useful aspects of academic life such as presentation skills and time management.  The courses can be accessed from inside Vula.

How to access the LearnOnline courses:  Login to Vula: http://vula.uct.ac.za, go to My Workspace, open LearnOnline from the menu on the left side, then click on the course of your choice to access it.

TurnItIn

TurnItIn is an online plagiarism detection system which compares submitted reports to a copy of the publicly accessible Internet, some proprietary databases and journals as well as work already submitted to TurnItIn already. For each report submitted an Originality Report is created in which any text found to be unoriginal are underlined, colour-coded and linked to the original source.

Computer Literacy

CET provides training, resources, assessment services, co-ordination and support to promote effective computer literacy for all students at UCT. Our services include Computer Literacy Skills Assessments, Self-Training Courses / Downloadable Manuals and Adhoc Postgrad Support.