WEEK 12

Week 12 entails information about social and ethical issues.
The lecture slides begin with a warning about the risk of identity theft over social internet sites.

They are problems because the internet has open protocols, no enforceable standards, anyone can publish, no control on bias or unethical information and there are a broad range of people in the world who offer broad opinions. Other problems of the internet include intellectual property, copyright, plagiarism and freedom of speech.

Security measures are normally put in place to prevent identity theft over the internet such as as:
* probe attack
* virus contamination
* SPAM
* spy wear

The problem with security is the internet has multiple computers to transmit data and interception can occur at anytime.
the following slides offer valuable ways to protect your computer from various viruses and problems.

WORKSHOP

In our tutorial today we were given the task to look up the site http://www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm and select all information sheets and chose five information sheets that will be relevant to me.
The information sheets that I chose were Artwork and copy right, Churches and copy right, Education institution and copy right, Internet and copy right, Names titles and slogan copy right.

Artwork and copy right information sheet:

The purpose of this sheet was to draw a summary that summarizes the purpose of copy rights.

The site is for people who use other people's work art. The website is good because it is up to date giving significant information to its audience.Some of the key points that the author points out are the following:

* There is no registration of copy right in Australia
* Art works are automatically protected once they are created
* Copy right does not protect ideas into styles or techniques
* Creators of art works have moral rights, even if they don't own copy right.

This article is an crucial use for all those that are occupied in art and would like to know more about the laws concerning artwork.

For all art work the copy right organization of Australia only relates to work that has not been copied from someone or something else, and from material form that is from which they could be re copied.

Some of the things that are not protected are ideas and styles. The copy right institution only protects particular work not the ideas information, styles and techniques used in creating the works.

Churches and copy right:

The purpose of this article is to also outline the laws that apply to the protection of songs, Cd's and performance.

Key points to consider:

* You need permission to perform or play copyright music and lyrics outside worship service
* Most cases you will need permission from copy right owner and the performer.
*Unless copyright has expired you may need permission to photocopy music or tunes or service sheets

Education Insitutions:

Its important for schools, universities and colleges to know about the law regarding copy right.

The key points to consider are the following:

* Material on the internet might be protected as may emails for you can't copy word by word
* You may download websites that allow you to that have permission on the page to do so.

What does the copy right protect?

* Literacy work such as novels, journals, articles, essays designs maps and plans,
musical work, dramatic work and computer programs
* Normal title and slogans:

The purpose to give general introductory info about copy right.

Overall it is important to have copy ritght protection so that no one steals your work.

Task 2

This task inquires students to go to the APRA site http://www.apra.com.au/music-users/online_mobile/online_mobile.asp and explain what you need to know about music and web.

This site enlightens viewers about the downloading online music on the web and licenses for music copyright by APRA and AMCOS. The download online music means that the people can download music free from the website. Free music means that artist don't get paid and they are getting robbed from their work. People who want to get music, mobile phone ringtones and online radio should have licenses from APRA. Tis license provides all rights of the publishing artist and songwriter protected. Therefore all user of that website can easily access and download the music, caller tone and some digital programs as well.

Task 3 asks students to write a plan on how to protect themselves from attacks on their privacy and security. It should also cover the threats of viruses, Trojans and how they can protect their personal information.

Privacy and security is important. That is why we have to defend our PC's from worms, viruses and Trojans. In order to do this we can do the following:

* Be Careful Where You Download (Bradley, 2003)
* Read Before You Click (Bradley, 2003)
* Virus scanning (Bradley, 2003)
* Do not open attachments by anyone you don't recognise
* Having anti viruses programs

The following points relates to how we can protect ourselves:

* Physical security
*Firewalls
*Network security
*Password protection
*Never give out your personal details

Reading One:

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/eff_privacy_top_12.html

This website deals with the avoidance characteristic of internet attrackers. It summarises numerous different ways we can protect ourselves by doing simple minuscule tasks. The following 4 dot points explains how to defend ourselves.

* Not Revealing Personal Information
* Turning On Cookie Notices
* Do not reply to spammers
* Be conscious of web security.

Reading Two:

http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/social/workplace/monitoring/

This site discusses how to protect ourselves on the internet when it comes to privacy. It tries to suggest the ideas of privacy settings and monitoring. The followinfg 3 are the ideas they present in this website:

* Monitoring In The workplace
* Right to privacy in the workplace
* Technological Surveillance in the Workplace

Reading Three:

http://www.bpmlegal.com/overview.html

The content on this website discusses about the following links.

* Intellectual Property Overview
* Patents
* Trademarks
* Copyrights

This site helps you protect your work or ideas, mainly because what you create is your academic belongings. You have to be specific about the type of work you are registrating for. The major

cause is because every different type of work is secluded in a different way.

WEEK 11

Week 11 is an over view of data, information and knowledge. The usual quiz is offered in the first slide then information on the topic is offered.

In todays lecture we looked at data information and knowledge.
In our lecture today we were given definitions these were:

Datum: A fact or proposition

Information: A collection of facts and data that relates to one another

Knowledge: The sum of range of what was been perceived, discovered or learned

The characteristics of Data Knowledge and Information are:

Data: Factual, non judgemental, non inferential, has no meaning has no intrinsic.."meaning"

Information: Summitive, relational, dimensional, permanent, has meaning, uncertain value

Knowledge: Inferential, experimental, judgemental, subjective, very valuable

Overall our lecture defined each of these words down.We were given definitions and examples of the words above.

WORKSHOP

In our tutorial today we had to look up definitions on the web for the following words.

Data, information, knowledge and wisdom.

I looked up Google and looked for definitions. I found the exercise quite fun because it was easy.

Data:

* A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"

Information:

* A message received and understood
* A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"
* Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the receiver

Knowledge:

* Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief and wisdom.
Is built up from interaction with the world, and is organised and stored in each individuals mind

Wisdom:

* Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
* Wisdom is the ability, developed through experience, insight and reflection, to discern truth and exercise good judgment.

The understanding of these four thoughts assist students in their university studies and work because they all relate and need one another. For example you need information to be able to expand knowledge and knowledge leads to wisdom. As a student you gain a lot of understanding and knowledge from reasearching, studying, reviewing lecture notes or practicing questions. You then apply all this knowledge and understanding in your every day life.
For example when you are doing your work, you first gain information after getting the right information, this leads you with knowing what you will be talking about. Later on in life you will look back and come to know that you have a great wisdom because you have done you information intake and know exactly what you are on about and that is having wisdom. Data and information are both alike and link with one another because data and information is having a bunch of facts, wisdom and knowledge is when you apply them to your own life.

The five organisations that collect information from their clients or the public include:
* Facebook·
* Ebay·
* Optus·
* Channel 7 news·
* Telstra clients.

The other task asked students to use the lecture slides and search the web for alternative ways to represent these terms. Use the drawing toolbar in MS Word to create a graphical representation of these terms. The following graph shown was provided for students to view during the lecture.

Reading One:

http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

The article found on this web site is about the four terms that we looked at during our lecture and tutorial. The article provided definitions in more detail.

It talks about
:· Definition of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom·
Relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom

This website is trustworthy since there is an author’s name . The site also provides the viewers with writer’s contact detail, so if anyone who wishes to get in touch with the writer could write to him/her. Therefore the content is not a spoof. It was copywrited in 2004, which is four years ago, therefore the information can still be used and is appropriate. References are also included at the end of the page, this is for readers to get further information on a certain topic.

Reading Two:

http://otec.uoregon.edu/data-wisdom.htm

This website provides interactive easy to follow tutorials on the term knowledge. These tutorials leak information on topics such as:

* The production of Knowledge
* The organization of Knowledge

The website has pre-tests, lessons, quizzes and assignments. It is another form of education and it is produced to assist students at Spring Hill College. Though anyone else can visit this site as its great and educational. It was last updated on the 29th of July 2002. Its still not bad, because the information is still important and reliable.

WEEK 10

Week 10 is based on information management. It begins with a standard quiz to engage the audience. The topic of information management is then introduced.

A major problem many people face it to manage information in the most efficeient ways possible. we generally use computer processing power to manage information.

There are various ways to manage information such as:
text, documents, images, webpages, assignments and references

Storing information is also beniefitial for goods and services. for example: interent banking, e-mail, music, TV and shopping.

Two main ways of storing information on your computer are the atom and bit based.

WORKSHOP

We were suppose to produce standard documents and organise Internet- based references using bookmarks/favourites.

For the first part we had to visit the website http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html

The following screenshot displays the addition of a website to my favourite list. The second part of the task was to apply the information in tutorial to set up a favourite list that has 3 folders in it. Each with at least two websites marked as favourites. The screenshots are being provided below

The third task for the tutorial today was to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online, which can be found here: http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm Students were asked to pay particular attention to the first part "The DNA of Information".

“Being digital” is an article which deals with the Bits and Atoms. The article provides details and examples on what they are and their importance in the world. An example of this is “The DNA of Information” on the website that discusses about the roles of these two features in our community and offers of what they are and their value cost. It clarifies how Atoms are our resource of information, for example, atoms are objects such as newspapers, magazines and books. The article also claims that items Bits are not worth the cost of atoms. It tries to tell that atoms are not expensive items while bits are costly.

This article was written 13 years ago, though the information is still relevant and use able because the author wrote about future. So far, we have come to realise that what ever this article talked about has come noticeable. Atoms are our source of information and the bits are the parts and items that put information together. Negroponte’s idea was that in the future more bits are were going to be used in order to convey information to people. I personally think that he expected more industrialized of bits to produce the atoms and that is seen in our society more recent. For instance, we have more resources of information that allow us to communicate. We seem to use laptops and mobile phones to store our data. Our media is growing therefore we have more production of newspaper, magazines and books.

What are the Pros and Cons of using Atoms and Bits?

The pros of using Atom based:

* Exist in space
* We can know where it is
* Easily concealed
* Easy to protect

The Cons of using Atom based:

*Bulky
* Costly
* Difficulty
* Difficult to distribute
* Inflexible

The Pros of using Bit based:

* Very flexible
* Very cheap
* Easy edit
* asy to produce
* Easy to broadcast

The Cons of using Bit based:

* Easy to steal
* Easy to copy
* No privacy
* Easy to fake
* Can cause spam

WEEK TEN READINGS

Reading One

1. Grazing the net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students

“Gazing the net” is an article that discovers the possibilities of teaching children by using the Internet and computer every day. Each class practices subjects such as reading, writing and mathematics. Although the only difference is that it will be done using electronic tools such as computer. Teachers will be handed a manual which would demonstrate what the students will be doing in their classes each day. This is known to be excellent way to teach students as the activities involve problem solving questions, therefore this will allow them to learn more skills and be organized for tests such as the stat, comprehensions and mathematics questions.

WEEK 9

Todays lecture was about how communication has differed in today's society. Helen also discussed different types of application we as students use in day to day life. It was also about the applications we use to keep in contact with one another

Before every lecture begins , Helen gives us a quiz to ponder on. Usually the weeks quiz would be what the lecture would be about. for this quiz it was who invented the internet and what some abbrieviations mean for example WWW, TCP,IP, HTML and URL,

Helen discussed the difference between the internet and web eg on the net you find computers and on the web you find documents. Helen then went on to discuss browser interface and what it actually is.

The Main four different types of communication are mobile phones, ipods, electronic mail etc. Helen also discussed what different emails you can use. MSN messenger, disscussion boards and forums are aslo good uses of communicating with others. Helen also informed us about the role of ict and communications between individuals and organisations.

There is a large range of communications available to university students. They have potential to provide: great source of information, communication tools to suit many purposes and a variety of content.

Tutorial

In today's class, we had to complete 4 tasks.

For the first task, I had to visit http://www.google.com/ website in order to search a term on the “GROUPS” tab. I searched the phrase “afghan” and got quite a lot of search results. I found groups such as "soc.retirement", "alt.true-crime" and many other that I did not expect them to be in there because it did not match the word I typed in.

I looked up at the messages from "alt.true-crime". I read through the information on 'Afghan- killing of two foreigners' and found out that this was more like a news report on how these two foreigners dressed up as afghan man and went to Afghanistan without their visas. Other bulletins include talks on terrorism, war and history of Afghanistan.

Task 2

This task allowed students to watch and listen podcasts on a topic that interested them. They were also asked to give an explanation as what the potential benefits of podcasts are for university students.

The word I chose to research was Lupe fiasco. He is a young talented singer in America and I love his music. I searched this topic because I wanted to know more about him and his music.

Podcasts are a potential benefit to university students as it offers them easier access to lectures. This is quite helpful, as they might go through a topic that they haven't understood precisely in their lectures. Therefore this allows them to prepare for exams, tests or assignments.

READINGS WEEK 9

Reading One:

http://www.caube.org.au/problem.htm
This week's reading is based on the information provided about the impacts of spamming and the addition of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), into the public private email accounts. Advertisements that has no advance cost to the correspondent - how eye catching would an average business find that idea? This is one aspect of UBE which directs to to all the outcome which makes the UBE exclusively vicious to the medium in uses - electronic mail.

It must be constant worry that while there are plentiful issues linked with UBE, any of them has the possibility to effect the significance of electronic mail to the point of obliteration.


Reading Two

http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page4815.cfmcenter/internet/page4815.cfm

Essential Email Etiquette - Avoid common pitfalls when composing your messages

By Wenkai Tay

The following are things to consider in a well-crafted essay.

Think of an Appropriate Subject (Tay, W., 2003)

Address Recipients Properly (Tay, W., 2003)

Select an Appropriate Tone (Tay, W., 2003)

Avoid Irony and Sarcasm (Tay, W., 2003)

Edit Your Message (Tay, W., 2003)

Keep Messages Pithy (Tay, W., 2003)

Attachments (Tay, W., 2003)

Never misjudge the power of a good-crafted mail. It can be an efficient device for communication. Allow yourself to write as as much as you want in an email message. You must have a purpose and an audience to think about and always remember the importance of email custom.

WEEK 8

Week 8 was on Presentation stratagies and their importance in current society. This weeks lecture introduces the various stratagies of a presentation up until the fourth slide is respected authors point of view on presentation stratagies. This figure indicates a well formed presentation including compelling data, the presenter makes an impression congruent with that data, provides an emotional connection thats crucial for the messages success, generate engery, command respect and make the audience belive what your saying.

The Types of presentation are as follows:
1. Self contained presentation( includes web pages, CD roms and videos)
2. wriiten presentation(essay)
3, Stand and deliver (oral presentation)

Helen informed us that an audience will remember 10% of what they see, 25% of what they see and hear, 40% of what they see, hear and write down and 60% of what they experiance interactively.

The structure of a presentation should include an Introduction body and conclusion.

You must prepare in advance for your presentation. with the aid of a power point or vidieo, your speech is assured to steal attention. Always use the KISS method to insure accuracy and providing views with engament.

TUTORIAL

For today's task, I was asked to produce a "top five" list of strategies to help make a top mark presentation and also create a six slide PowerPoint presentation on their thoughts on how to provide a presentation that's not very good.

Here are the top five list of strategies that a student should include in their presentation

* Title slide
* Introductory slide
* At least 3 'Main body' slides
* Summary slide
* Graphics and 1 animation effect that develop the presentation

WEEK EIGHT READINGS

In tutorial today, the students were suppose to visit this site that was provided for students in the blackboard. After looking through the website, I found out that it offers an over view on the topic PowerPoint presentation. It talks about how to create them, how to use them effectively and also how to present them while using them. I think it's a pretty good website as it provides the readers with information based on presentation.

WEEK 7

Week 7 lecture introduced the end note as end note is a database that can be used as:
*Reference Manager
*bibliography maker
An endnote can be used two ways:
* as a standalone program
* Interegrated in to Microsoft word

And End note is a Flat- file data base system the end note works through ECU library or vista lecture slides 6-12 offer an explanation on how to open an endnote with vista.

By using an endnote allows you to keep track of a constant growing number of refrences. it displays a variety of recognised styles of refrencing. handles a variety of types of differnces. It also is a searchable record of refernces associated with a specfic project and it can be intergrated with microsoft word.

Complete the Endnotev11 exercises

Begin to configure the endnote software for your desktop (current desktop is already configured)Start your own endnote libraryEnter the two sources given, one is a book the other is a web page, save them in your endnote library

Log onto the ProQuest 5000 International database site, and search for ‘The New Arab Conversation” within their journals, mark this item, then go to the my research tab, and click on “export citations”, save them to your databse you previously created.

Open a word document an using the cite while you write feature, copy the pieces of text you placed in the notes section into your word document, then add the appropriate in text and end text reference

Open the cite while you write exerciseInsert the appropriate citations where necessary and copy the abstracts in. Endnote should format appropriately

WEEK 6

Week six included the usual quiz. this quiz was regarding evaluation and authentication.

We can determine the quality on the WWW by what you are measuring, why the information resources exists , consider wheather the information is good enough for the purpose.
Helen disscussed the accuracy of information on the world wide web. the issues with accuracy are as follows
* anyone can publish anything on the web.
* Web resources rarely have editors or fact checkers.
* No web standards appy to ensure accuracy.
to define whether the information is accurate you must check for an editor or someone who verifies/ checks the information.

In today's lecture Currency and coverage was spoken about these are two important ways of determining authentication. to ensure the page is current you must check the dat. the coverage of the content must be indepth and of value.

The issues with Objectivity are as follows:
* Frequently the goals of the sponsor/ authors arent clearly stated.
* often the web serves as virtual " Hyde park corner", a soap box.
to determine the objectivity you must decide whether the information shows a minimum of bias, is the page designed to sway opinion and if there is any advertising on the page.

Overall to determine whether a web page is authentic you must evaluate the source and decide if it is appropriate for your purpose.

TUTORIAL

ICYouSee Critical Thinking page.

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

We had to review this website and talk about the four different strategies in our own learning log. We then had to compare what we found with “INCO 48” web site.

http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm

Well this is what i came up with, the difference that the “INCO 48” website offers a large variety of ways to evaluate a website and web sources. On the other hand, ICYouSee Critical Thinking website provides a faster and more well-organized way of evaluating and confirming websites.

These are the Ten C's that are used as a principle to evaluate web sources

1) Content

2) Credibility

3) Critical Thinking

4) Copyright

5) Citation

6) Continuity

7) Censorship

8) Connectivity

9) Comparability

10) Context

Below are the six steps provided by ICYouSee Critical Thinking page to help with the examining of web pages

1) Make sure you are in the right place.

2) When in doubt, doubt.

3) Consider the source.

4) Know what's happening.

5) Look at details.

6) Distinguish Web pages from pages found on the Web.

The ICYouSee Critical Thinking Page provides criteria commonly used, on ways to evaluates sources. i.e.: websites and web pages. The criteria provided below shows this and are the criteria most commonly used when evaluating websites.

Accuracy: Do you have good reason to believe that the information on the site is accurate? Are the facts documented?

Objectivity: What is the author's point of view? What is the purpose of the site?

Currency: When was the information on the page originally written? Has the site been kept up-to-date?

Coverage: Does this site address the topic you are researching? Is the information basic and cursory or detailed and scholarly? However complex the language might be, is the information substantial?

Value: Was the page worth visiting? Does the site offer anything informative, unique, or insightful? Is the site free of careless errors, misspelled words, and poor grammar?

Task 1

The websitehttp://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture27.html explores American history in the 1960's from the Civil War to Present. The authors seem to be very educated as they are from a very academic background. Therefore the information provided on this website

is very reliable and helpful for people who are researching this topic.

The website http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html discovers the culture and history of the 1960's. It provides the viewer with a vast amount of information on this topic. The site is authorized by Kingwood College Library.