Browsing by Author "Du Toit, Masha"

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    The internet super-user textbook
    (2011) Du Toit, Masha; Malczyk, Anna; van Belle, Jean-Paul
    Get ahead of the game by making optimal use of the internet and its tools. Become more effective, more efficient and work smarter: become an internet superuser. The Internet Super-User Textbook empowers you to make maximum use of the resources available on the internet, including the advanced use of search engines, how to research online, different ways of online communication (from online forums, instant messaging to VOIP), personal information management, online safety and security, mobile internet, social networking, and publishing your own online content. This is the textbook for the UCT Internet Super-User Course (INF100CE). It is richly illustrated and easy to follow with lots of exercises but it also covers quite a few in-depth techniques and information for those who wish to dig deeper. A must-read for any knowledge worker, student and anyone else who wants to enrich their internet life.
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    Investigating the efficacy of XML and stylesheets to render electronic courseware for multiple learning styles
    (2007) Du Toit, Masha; Suleman, Hussein
    The objective of this project was to test the efficacy of using Extensible Markup Language (XML) - in particular the DocBook 5.0b5 schema - and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) to render electronic courseware that can be dynamically re-formatted according to a student's individual learning style. The text of a typical lesson was marked up in XML according to the DocBook schema, and several XSLT stylesheets were created to transform the XML document into different versions, each according to particular learning needs. These learning needs were drawn from the Felder-Silverman learning style model. The notes had links to trigger JavaScript functions that allowed the student to reformat the notes to produce different views of the lesson.