IC07720: Academic Skills Foundation 2

Information design guides


Welcome to the Information design guides website. This site has been developed to provide links to a collection of useful resources on a wide range of issues in social, environmental, historical, legal and technological fields.

The linked project blogs have been developed by the students of Academic Skills Foundation 2 (IC07720) from 2015/2016 to 2020/2021.

Projects by academic year (links to inactive blogs have been removed):

2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016

2020/2021 (Working titles: may be subject to change: links to be added. Sequence determined by seminar groups.)

A1: The effects of Covid-19 on our respective disciplines

B1: Sleep sleuths: investigating sleep since 2021

C1: Online predatory behaviours

A2: Cult television and cinema

B2: Humanity and its impact on the environment

C2: How technology can help people

A3: Smart technology

B3: Future of technology in the transport industry

C3: Drugs and crime

A4: Stock market manipulation

B4: Stereotypes within horror film

C4: Men's mental health

A5: Culture and identity

   

A6: A guide on how to use social media

   
 

D1: "Britain isn't racist" – a short look into a nationwide lie

E1: Where does our rubbish go?

F1: Project mental health 2021

D2: Holistic approaches to self-care

 

E2: How technology affects people's relationship with food

F2: Games are art

D3: LGBTQ+ and their portrayal in media

E3: Feminism in film on both sides of the camera

F3: Relationships with fashion

D4: A beginner's guide to the stock market

E4: How to set up a business

F4: How to navigate your eBook journey as a first time author

D5: The portrayal of mental health in the media

E5: E-sports

 

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2019/2020

A1: Families in rural and urban areas

B1: History of the phone

C1: Health in the digital age

D1: Planet awareness

A2: The future is feminism

B2: A creative's guide to advertising

C2: Guide to social media

D2:  Australian bush fires 2019/2020

A3: Fracking

B3: The future of technology

C3: The Second World War: a military history

D3: In business class

A4: The effects of drugs

B4: Animal rights and human compassion

C4: What can gaming do for the mind?

D4: Therapy vs. medication

A5: The impact of technology on child development

B5: Wearable tech

C5: A comparison between streaming services in the UK

D5: AI through the ages

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2018/2019

E-Sports

YouTube Guide

Graphic Design (Photoshop, Lightroom, GIMP and Microsoft Paint)

Streaming TV

Games Development for Beginners

Website Design Guide

Guide to Video Game Purchasing Platforms

Online Security in Instagram

Video Game Purchasing Platforms

Online Gambling

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2017/2018

Amazone

Google

Cyber Security

Video streaming

VOIP vs. Internet Protocols

Discord

Spotify

Twitch

Steam

 

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2016/2017

Introduction to Programming

An Idiots Guide to AI and Robotics

Humble Bundle Guide

Spotify Tutorials

Guide to Robotics and AI: Just a Simple Guide

Sploder - A User Guide

How to Code Academy

How to Master Scan

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2015/2016

Steam

Dream in code

YouTube

Blackboard

Pinterest

 

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Project Development Team: Students of IC07720, John Morgan jpm@aber.ac.uk, Jo Eastlake jme13@aber.ac.uk, Maggie Day mnd@aber.ac.uk ||| Site design and maintenance, John Morgan, using Dreamweaver CC. Most recent update 17th February 2021 ||| http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm

The information and links provided on this and pages following http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ic07720/infoguide.htm is part of a series of student projects for module IC07720: Academic Skills Foundation 2. This is not published under the responsibility of Aberystwyth University. Any opinions expressed on these pages or in externally linked pages are not be taken as those of Aberystwyth University and responsibility for content and opinions in these pages and externally linked pages lies with the authors of those pages.