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.

WEEK 5

Week fives entailed the standard quiz. the quiz for this week was about search engines.
Helen discussed the three basic categories of information on the web and these are

* the visible web - public web page, intexed search engines
* the free Invisible web- articles of info
* Paid data bases that libraries suscribe to for example scholary journals.

the following slide describes the two search tools. Search tools fall in to two main categories Search engines and Directories.

Helen Elucidated search engines more and gave us the definition of Search engines which is a web base application that crawls the internet cheating indices of websites, usually from the textual information contained on them. sites are usually indexed according to keywords. sites such a Google and Yahoo.
there are various problems with search engines, they return such a large amount of results to user query, for a searcher to go through all of them is virtyally impossible. Another problem with search engines is the lack of referencing or quality filtering. this means that some of the results listed may not contain relevent infomation.

Helen including search engine interaction lecture slides 16-20 it provides information on keyword searching which will result in a more efficient outcome of information provided. there a two types of queries which are keyword and phrase, the difference is that Keyword search generally uses singualar important words to supply the appropriate information. Phrase search engines is typing a whole sentence becoming more specific, this often provides less results.

Tutorial

Task 1

For this task to have been completed, I had to visit http://www.monash.com/spidap.html website in order to work on search engines and directories. I had to find out four strategies that will help me present a good search engine in my learning log. Below are the four strategies:-

1) It’s essential to purify your search; this means you have to break down your search topic into something more detailed. This can be done by using Boolean operators. These operators are reasonable terms such as “and”, “or”, “not”.

2) Generally when we search something on the website, we get heaps load of page results. However the results are positioned according to how closely they relate to the topic. In my opinion, I have come across that most search engines do not provide relevant information on the topic I work on. Therefore in order to get the best results, I might have to change the keywords I use for my investigation.

3) Search engines intended to choose keywords, when you are searching for a particular topic. Examples of common keywords include: “or”, “and”, “is”, “a” etc.There is also the concept-based searching, this occurs when the system attempts to decide what you exactly mean.

4) There is also the concept-based searching, this occurs when the system attempts to decide what you exactly mean.Task 2For the second task, I had to complete this online Internet quiz on the website http://www.siteseen.co.uk/questions/historytrivia/. I knew some of the answers, though I had to research the other ones in order to get the correct answer.

WEEK FIVE READINGS

Reading OneRobert Harris: "Web Search Strategies" http://www.virtualsalt.com/howlook.htmThe content on this website is quite similar to the other website I have visited in my earlier workshop, "Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips". In this web page it also contains information such as:· Using Boolean operators· keyword/phrase search

However this has few more extra tips compare to the ""Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search tips"website .

This includes:

1) Using several search tools

2) Guessing a location

3) Read the search tips of help information at each search engine

Reading Two

" The History of the Internet (Chapter 4 - Search Engines)" http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap4.htm

The website is based on the history of the Internet. Its set up very well, as it's divided into sub topics, so its easy for the viewer to view a topic quicker. The site states the writer, Richard T. Griffiths who is known to be from the Leiden University. It establishes that the writer, Richard T. Griffiths has a very good knowledge, because the information seems to be very true. The page has been last renewed on the 11th of October, in the year 2002. This is not that old, therefore the information can still be used. I would personally like to use this web site, as it provides great information on the history of Internet and about different types of search engines, databases and library catalogues.

Reading Three

"Search Engine Optimization for Companies"

The site contains no author/writer. This website is quite different compare to other ones. I think you can start up your own website if you desire to. You can send them several keyword phrases that you might want to search on a search engine. However there are other things that are available on this website.

These include:-
* Link popularity
* Measuring your Progress

* Setting your benchmark

From my point of view, I would not recommend this website to anyone, this is because i do not feel as it provides any great help.

WEEK 4

Before every lecture actually begins , Helen gives a quiz to ponder on. Usually the weekly quiz is about what this weeks lecture would be about. For this week it was who invented the internet.



Week 4 entailed the following:

•Internet vs. Web



•Historical perspective of the Web



•Defining the WWW



•Web Protocols



•Web Browsers/Interface



It notified me on how to search in more detail and how to use advanced search and new search engines. It also informed us on what (.org), (.net), and (.co.uk) they each stand for. It also furthered our knowledge of abbreviations.





















I visited the ABC website, and listened to a pod cast of the Triple J network radio. Podcasting is a great technology that only now seems to be being used to its full. Podcasting for university students could be extremely helpful because podcasts unlike any other multimedia file types can be automatically downloaded to someone’s computer or even MP3 compatible mobile phones. This means that students can listen to audio lectures, or helpful information saved as podcast at a later more convenient time.






Reading Summary 1



http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/


The website mentioned above is an online challenge from Scotland to spot a certain animal taking the main subject of the website, haggis. There is an opportunity to win great prizes if you can spot a haggis on one of the live webcams. There are a few reasons however that people may doubt it's authenticity. For starters, Haggis is actually a consumable and Scottish dish, NOT an animal. However, if people are unaware of this, the website also gives off the following hints that it is not what it seems:



There are no contact details for this particular challenge.


It comes under a subdomain, which indicates that this person has simply signed up under the name of the main website scotsman.com; it could be anybody.


Some of the hyperlinks on this website are inactive. Including information regarding the first prize.


Reading Summary 2


http://www.molossia.org/


The website molossia.org features information about a country that is made to appear realistic. The Republic of Molossia and this website have the ability to fool someone, however it is clear to understand that the country is non-existant, and therefore the website is fictional by noticing the following:


Lack of contact details


Current time in Molossia is incorrect for the region it is located


The layout of the website seems unprofessional


When the keyword Molossia is searched elsewhere, there is little information relevant to prove
that the country is indeed real. (Google search finds limited results).


Reading Summary 3


Martin Luther King


Martin Luther King was an influential individual in America a few decades ago. He was an activist to create peace between Black and White Americans. When I see the website url:


http://www.martinlutherking.org/


I immediately think of the Martin Luther King and then I notice the DNS reads .org, so I would imagine that it is an organisation in memory of MLK, and possibly a peace organisation. Upon opening the website, my first impressions are that it is a website dedicated to his memory and that it is an examination of his life and it references material which concerns him. In reading through the articles on this website, it is clear to notice that MLK was an influential individual in American history, however this website is a false and misleading representation of his life, and short time before his death. It seeks to uncover falsities and negative occurances that have no solid evidence to prove that they actually occurred. However, having already had previous knowledge regarding this figure of American history the website proves to be an interesting one in increasing my knowledge through the huge database of texts, but does little to swing my opinion on MLK because of the emphasis placed on his apparent bad behaviour.



Reading Summary 4


A Brief History of the Internet -


http://www.isoc.org/

The reading mentioned above points out how the internet has evolved over the years in operation. It is a lengthy document, covering professional research which has been conducted by the authors. As readers, we can learn a large amount of information from the text, as it covers important dot points regarding the history of the internet.


Reading Summary 5


http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html - A comprehensive history of the internet...


The website provided is from a university in Europe which covers a comprehensive examination of the internet and many aspects about it. In comparison to the previous article it is a large expansion of knowledge that can benefit readers who are searching for information. Internet, Search engines, email and www are all closely analysed by Richard T. Griffins, the authour, and even comes supported with images through history. Email is an interesting concept which is covered in this reading.

WEEK 3

Week three lecture discusses online libraries and databases, and also the different types of presentations you can have.

Helen also talked about visual and audio tools how to get them to help you during your presentation not just take up most of time because most people think that it makes the presentation more interesting for the audience if they have something to look at or hear.

Helen gave us some strategies to help us get the audience involved in the presentation. During the lecture and tutorial this week these are five new thing I learnt:

1. The first thing I learnt was that the audience remembers 10% of what they see, 25% of what they see and hear, 40% of what they hear, see and write down, and 60% of audience involvement.

2. Some strategies to help audience involvement.

3. Just use Microsoft Powerpoint as a backup and a summary of what you are saying.

4. I learnt about the good ways and the bad ways to give a presentation during the tutorials.

5. I also learnt about how to set up a good introduction for a presentation.

Tutorial Activities for this week:

WORKSHOP

In workshop today, we had to do some activities in order to get use to online libraries and databases on the Internet. We did some research on "Global warming" .

I used Proquest for this search. I thought this would give me some good journals, essays or articles. Below is a picture of the article regarding 'Global warming'.

We were then asked to write down 10 tips to help us search for articles on specific topics.

1) There are search operators such as: - And, Or, Not, Near or Within etc. This makes the search much better as it narrows down the search results.

2) The search statement describes your search and includes the main keywords and operators.

3) It would to be good idea to start your search with the most precise terms. If you think your topic needs more information than just use broader terms.

4) Take advantage of thesaurus. This helps you to classify related keywords.

5) It is useful to note that the journal title is often in a field labeled JN or SO.

6) Select the details that are important and is related to your assignment.

7) Truncation is used to shorten by or as if by cutting off. This saves time and is much better.

8) There are two useful options to watch out for:-- Buttons or icons to return you to the results or marked list- Arrows which direct you to the next step. These will also help to save time in order to your search to appear quicker.

9) Be aware, you must always record if you are using someone else’s work. This is important as you would need to reference it in your reports or assignments.

10) Choose databases that covers your topic the best, once this is completed, you are ready to begin your search.

Readings

1) "Finding what you want on the web"The information on the BBC website is trustworthy, as the author Bill Thompson is recognized. He is a general reporter on the BBC World Service Programme Go Digital. Hence, he has well known and respected person. This website was last restructured on the 2nd of January 2004, which means the information is still useful for anyone who wants to use it.There is a negative side to the Internet. That is the constant increase of information on different websites. The web content is thought to be hidden behind firewalls or subscription services. As a result, when we search on the Internet, we must investigate efficiently. This is because we won’t leave any of the interesting information out there.

2. "Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips"

Even though the web page on South Carolina USC Beaufort Library does not show an author, the website is still believed to be reliable. In my opinion, I would trust this site as I can see it’s useful and pretty good because it allows me to find great ways to search for information in search engines. This consists of the following:-

1) Using double quotation marks

2) Using truncation

3) Combining phrases with keywords

4) Using Boolean

WEEK 2

Week Two's lecture is mainly about what taskes are required to be done during university.
We were also shown some common pc tasks, such as word processing and other certain applications that go with it.

Before every actually begins Helen provides us with and an early morning quiz, which surelly brightens everyone up 8.30 on afriday morning. the quizes actually helps one to understand different concepts on how internet browsers are used and how many questions we can answer on Microsoft applications.
The questions vary every week to try and broaden our understanding and acessing our knowledge.
Helen also told us about the skills we will need for this course and the ones that we will acquire along the way during this course.

During the tutorial we had to complete two Mircrosoft exercises for word and excel.
what i learnt during this tutorial is how there are different methods to use word and excel and how not to go over board whilst using it.







WORKSHOP







In lab today, we did activities on Microsoft Word to create a document which consist of table of contents, header, footer and references. We also had to work on Excel to make tables, formula's and charts. Here are the pictures of the work I have done on both of these programs.

















































































WEEK TWO READINGS

In today’s reading, we had to work on Adobe Reader document. This was done to notify students of the several sorts of Graphic Formats. The following are the five different formats and a summary of what they are:-

1) Bitmap (.bmp):BMP is the standard Windows bitmap image format for PC's.

2) CompuServe (.gif):GIF is a compressed format (max 256 colours) that is designed to minimize file transfer time over phone lines.

3) Joint Photographic Experts Group - or Jpeg (.jpg):JPEG format is commonly used to display images on the Internet. Unlike the GIF format however, JPEG retains all the color information in an RGB image.

4) The Tagged-Image File Format (.tiff):TIFF is used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms as it can be read by both Macintosh or IBM compatible / Windows (PC's) computers.

5) PhotoShop Document (.psd ~ .psp ~ .spp):The image formats discussed previously are all flat images. That is, they have one layer of visual data. Layered image formats are formats that support more than one layer of visual data.

WEEK 1

Week Ones Lecture was a general introduction of what is required of students and how to approach the assessing knowledge unit this semester through library and information technologies.
Todays lecture was mainly focussed on how students can loctate places around the campus for example support services and the library.
he lecturer also spoke about how important it is for students to know how to activate the Ecu website for future use.
There are 6 modules and 3 assessments Including an examination, that need to be completed.
The assesment Content was expressed thoroughly where the lecture elucidated the fact that there will be a penaltie given gor late work without a medical certificate or an exceptional excuse.
Students need to pass all assessments to pass this course. Students were also told that it is ok to ask for help when required by tutors or lecturerers.
All students must attend all lectures/tutorials not only to be successful but to also have that one on one interaction with tutors.
One topic that was expressed seriously was plagairism not only does the Stuff of UPC take it seriously but its is strongly disregarded by the intire University. Tutors use a site called Turnitin to see if any students have handed in previous students work or just copied and pasted off the internet.
Tne unit accessing and organising knowledge is very useful because Pcs have becom useful tools for business, personal and leisural use.

WORKSHOP

Today in workshop, we had to work on our ECU mailing account and blackboard. Also we were suppose to start using http://www.blogger.com/ web site, on which we have to post our blogs for this unit. We also had to make an account on http://www.imageshack.com/. I signed up, although i had to wait until i receive an mail for the activation of my account, which i didnt for this moment.Below are some pictures to illustrate what i have been learning so far.

Readings

PC Lube and Tune The web page http://www.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm is a repair station and convenience store in business since Feb, 1994. The PCLT objective is to provide handy introductions, tutorials, and education on technical subjects to the large audience of computer users. This website offers no author or publishing date. The information given on this site may not be true and trustworthy as it states to be, because there is/are any author name or publishing date, to backup the information from a high resource contributor.

How stuff works

This website http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm, talks about PCs in the general sense and all the different parts that go into them. It teaches about the various mechanisms and how they work together in a basic operating session. It also shows what the future may hold for these machines. It provides articles, explanations and expert reviews on things that have to do with technology, largely with computers.