week 12 Social and Ethical issues

main points in lecture

• Protecting yourself and your pc on the world-wide web.
• There are problems because of open protocols, no enforceable standards, anyone can publish, no control on bias or unethical information, a lot of smart people and a lot of dumb people.
• The problems are intellectual property, copyright, plagiarism, security, privacy and freedom of speech.

workshop

• Notices on photocopiers and other copying equipment
• Copying for research or study
• Music: use in film and multimedia
• Websites: creating and publishing on the internet
• Maps and charts
• Libraries: an introduction to copyright
• Internet: copying & downloading material
• Databases, compilations, tables and forms

I read about the case US vs. Sankas. it was about John Sankus who was a 28 year old from Philadelphia that was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison because he was involved with a group named DrinkOrDie which specialized in cracking software and distribute them over the internet. The group was targeted by 'Operation Buccaneer' which was a 15 month undercover investigation by the US Custom Service.

Week 11 Building knowledge

Main points on lecture

• Definitions: Datum: A fact or proposition, Information: A collection of facts or data that relate to each other, Knowledge: The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned



• Data Characteristics: factual, non-judgmental, non-inferential, transient, has no intrinsic “meaning” and has no intrinsic “value”.



• Information Characteristics: Summative, relational, dimensional, permanent, has meaning and uncertain.



• Knowledge characteristics: inferential, experiential, judgmental, subjective and very valuable.This is a screen capture of the data, information and knowledge triangle.

Understanding the relationship in between data, information, and knowledge can assist my university study because data exists with no meaning of itself while information is a collection of data that has meaning because of the relationships between data within the information and it becomes knowledge when the information is becoming useful. Data usually relates to the research phase in an assignment, while information is the building phase of the assignment where all the parts that you have collected are gathered together and begin to have a meaning. Knowledge becomes a main part of your assignment when you can predict or make a judgment based on the information that has been collected.

• Banks. Collects various types of information from clients in order to secure their money and keep it safe; by having their details in certain depth as a restriction of taking money out.
• Centrelink. This company collects information from their clients in order to make sure that they distribute the right amount of money for the right people.
  CIA. They round up information in order to protect US citizens and help out the US military.
• Insurance companies. They collect information to find out about the fee that they charge whether it is suitable to their policy and prices or not.
• Emailcash. They collect information as market surveys in order to find out whether some new products will sell on the Australian market or not.
  

week 10 Online Libraries & Databases

main points in lecture


• Online libraries are useful because of their convenience, breadth, currency, electronic format and you can use it any time, anywhere.



• There are many types of online libraries such as Online Text Repositories, Online Journals, Electronic books, Musical and Artworks.



• With the positives about online libraries there are also negatives about them too such as you have to pay or you cant get the information your looking for.



• Accurate referencing is vital.



• Most sites have a statement of copyright. The responsibility for copyright permission rests with you.



• Online databases are organised collection of information. This is similar to online libraries.



• Types of online databases, people searches , E-mail Directories, Genealogy Resources, Maps & Atlases , Government Information & statistics, News & Media and Portals.



• Advantages of Online Databases, Comprehensive, Current, Browsable, Searchable, 24/7 Access and Electronic Format.

• Accessible 24/7
• Easy to use and navigate. It has different search sections for internal students, researchers, academic staffs, alumni, and external students.
• Division of sections on the type of materials and information we are looking for is really well maintained.
• There are materials that are not available in the real library, such as podcasts.
• Quick search for users that want to look for a bit of rough information of the material he or she is looking for
• Fast response (internet speed)
• There are also a lot of other kind of information available such as ECU news.
• Advanced searches is available for users that want to have a deep information on a specific topic
• Help with referencing is available (through the guide that is available in .pdf format)
• If we have any troubles with it, there is a page 'ask the library' on where we can question our troubles and issues we are facing on the ECU online library.
  
  

week 9 Using search engines

eahMain points

• There are two main categories that search tools fall into and they are search engines and directories.







• A search engine is a web-based application







• There are many types of search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Alltheweb and many more.







• Search engines do contain many problems such as return of too many results, limited relevance or quality filtering of results to a search query, misuse of page scoring/ ranking system, including of current “broken” links in a list of results to a query, determining how deep to “tunnel” through lower ranked pages and building enormous indices that include erroneous, irrelevant and out-dated results to user.

• Keyword Searching, this is any word on a web page.




• Refining your search.




• Relevancy Ranking




• Meta Tags

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Week 8 Evaluation and Authentication of Web Resources

Main points in lecture

• Any one with internet access can create web content.
• There is no control on what is published why its published and who publishes it.
• The web became so unruly because it was created at the right time.
• When searching information on the internet there are many factors to consider before taking it into account and using the information.
• FYI: ARPANET Dec 1969, 4 host computers Dec 1971, 23host computers Oct 1980, approx 200 host computers dec 1984, 2000+ host computers.

When researching and or evaluating a web site there are a few things to consider; make sure you are in the right place; when in doubt, doubt; consider the source; know what’s happening; look at details and distinguish web pages from pages found on the web. In addition to these factors, there are six criteria that get used commonly for evaluating a web site and they are: Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage and value. Authority: Who the author is and what their expertise is, Accuracy: is there a good reason that the information on the site is accurate and are the facts documented, Objectivity: what is the author’s point of view, what is the purpose of this site, Currency: has the site been kept up to date and when was it originally written, Coverage: does the site address the topic you are researching? Is the information basic and cursory or detailed and scholarly? Is the information substantial? And Value: was the page worth visiting? Offer anything informative, unique, or insightful? Is the site free of careless errors, Misspelled words, and poor grammer?

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html this is the first site I am going to evaluate. I believe that this site is good for the information I need about the sixties. The page was worth visiting it has been set out nicely. This web site has been made out to be very accurate on its information about the sixties. The facts are documented. This site was designed by Peggy Whitley and Written by Susan Goodwin. This site has been updated since December 2006sg. I didn’t find much on the author so we don’t know much about her. The main point in this web site is just to give information on the culture of the sixties. This web site was designed for the web.

Week 7

Main Points in Lecture

• This lecture went through Internet VS Web, Historical perspective of the Web, Defining the WWW, Web Protocols and Web Browsers/Interface.
• On the Net you find computers and connections are cables between computers where as on the Web you find documents, sounds, videos and information and the connections are hypertext links.
• The Web could not exist without the Net.
• The Web is a useful tool this is because it contains lots of good information.
• Historical Perspective

tutorial class work

• This site suggests that haggis is an animal which lives in Scotland, rather similar to a platypus.
• Haggis is the name of a traditional Scottish dish.
• The facts about the haggis are ridiculous e.g haggis fur is water proof but not shower proof.
• There are various different cameras around the cities in Scotland; suggesting that you might see this made up animal.

• This site claims that there is a very small county within the USA called Molossia we know as a fact there are no county’s within USA.
• The information is written in humour rather than trying to sound real.
• Within all the pictures of the government employee’s i.e navy/army they are all the same two people.
• The size of the county is 2.5 hectares (6.3 acres), way to small to fit in all that is suggested in the site.
  

By just looking at the address name I can tell that this site will be about Martin Luther King. I believe this site was made by a reliable organisation. When I first opened this site my first impression was that it looked authentic. When skimming through some of the titles this site still looked to be authentic. After reading some of the articles like the rap lyrics it started to fade away to be fake.

Week 6

Main points of lecture

• Referencing is important because it lets the reader know where the information came from.
• Endnote is a program that will create your bibliographies from just putting in all the relevant informatin.
• Endnote can hold a large amount of references this makes it easy when writing a reference list because you can just copy and paste them into a word document.

Week 5

Main points on lecture

• Information Management
• These days we manage our work through computer programs. The ways of organising our work: text, documents, images, Webpages, bookmarks, presentations, assignments, citations and references.
• Issues with managing great quantities of files and folders make them easily obtained
• It helps to use search programs such as google desktop or the one built into windows.
• When naming files and folders make sure they are to the function and not the content.
• To make searching for your files easier; it helps to learn common file extensions and what they do.
• Resources today has changed from Atom (books,paper) to bit-based (internet, word documents)

Evidence completing tutorial

The Atom age is becoming a thing of the past though it hasn’t been cleared out for good. Almost all Atom materials are being converted into digital formats these materials include books, newspapers, reports and research. Atoms will always be here but most of the materials that can be converted will be converted. The pros and cons of a digital world against the atom world is this. Bit Based (digital world) pros: when working on an assignment it can be easily edited, sending information to other places takes only seconds, digital books will never go out of print they are always there, when making bulk mailing it saves money and paper and its practically free and assignments can be made easier with the function of copy and paste. There are also cons and they are when using Bit Based you need a computer and an internet connection most of the time. Information online isn’t always correct because anyone can post, copyright laws are broken, you must have some knowledge on digital media in order to use it. Atom pros: you can take the information anywhere you want, it can be free in some situations, in most cases the information will be fact, its reliable a can mostly found around a library. The cons can be easily damaged, its goes out of date much quicker, it’s slow to send anywhere, much harder to edit or change information, and depending on what you are wanting it can be costly.

Week 4

Main points in lecture

• Applications, Protocols and Benefits of ICT (Information Communication Technology)
• Todays communication is much different than twenty years ago because of ICT.
• Communication can be between individuals, organisations, within a business and an external organisation.
• Communication takes place within networks: chain network, Circle network, Wheel network and all channel network.
• There are four types of communication Synchronous place dependent, Synchronous place Independent, Asynchronous place dependent and Asynchronous place Independent.
• Synchronous means that all parties must be engaged in communication at the same time e.g phone call.
• Asynchronous means that the parties are not communicating at the same time.
• Place Dependent this is where all parties must be in the sme place e.g online games like counterstrike.
• Place Independent this is where parties can be anywhere in cyberspace e.g MSN Messenger AIM
• Examples of ICP use: Mobiles telephones, video and tele-conferencing, ipods, mp3, lap-tops, palm pilots, electronic mail(e-mail) and multi-media communications.
• E-mail clients: microsoft outlook and outlook express, netscape email client, www.pmail.com , www.memecode.com/scribe.php.
• Instant Message Clients: MSN Messenger, ICQ (I Seek You), AOL Instant Messenger and Trillian.
• podcasts are a type of communication
• Blogs are used to store information like a journal.

Workshop

• In my ECU E-mail I have to create a folder for each of my units. With this I have to put all my mail for the unit in this folder.
• visit www.google.com
• Go to groups in google and search a topic to my intrest. I have to say what term I entered amd what group(s) did i found.
• I must record my results in this blog.
• I have to look through a podcast site such as http://podcasts.yahoo.com/. I have to search a topic to my inetrest listen to one or two podcasts. I also have to vist this site http://podcast.osx.ecu.au/index.html.
• Explain in my blog what are the ptential benefits of podcasts for university students?

In todays world podcasts come in great use for university students this is because ipods and mp3s can hold them. most students have an ipod or mp3 and its easy to access and use to prepare for assignments.

Week 3

Main points in lecture

• There are three types of presentations and they are Self Contained Presentation, Written Presentation and Stand and Deliver.
• Visual message is not enough on its own. Audiences will remember 10% of what they see, 25% of what they hear, 40% of what they see, hear and write down and 60% of what they experience interactively.
• Structuring your presentation, most informative speeches have three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.
• As a speaker, you should aim to create a clear stucture for your speech.
• structuring your presentation.
• Introduction there are six components of an effective introduction: Attention Getters, Thesis Statement, Audience Adaption, Credibility Statement, Preview, and Transition to the body.
• Body, strategic organisation helps increase the clarity and effectiveness of your speech; Main Ideas, Organisational Patterns, Connective Devices and References to Outside Research.
• conclusion should be breif and tight, but is has a few specific tasks to accomplish: Re-assert/Reinforce the thesis, Review the Main Points and Close Effectively.
• Before giving the presentation make sure that all the equipment works like slides.
• MS power piont, use the kiss principle (keep it simple stupid)

Workshop

In this work shop we had to create a power point presentaion.

Five points to what i gained

• knowlege of working and using the tools in power point.
• How to structure a presentaion.
• The power point presentaion just highlights what is said in the speech.
• Graphs and pictures help explain whats int the presentaion.

Week 2

Main points on lecture

• PC’s are commonly used to achieve such tasks as: file handling, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, internet access, e-mails and view PDF’s.
• With these tasks that we undertake require specific knowledge and skills: General skills that apply to use most pc applications, using the appropriate application to complete the task and knowledge of how to perform specific tasks within a specific application.
• In this unit students must have knowledge on file management this includes using windows explorer have a good understanding of files & folders (directories) structure, ZIP technologies, file compression, naming conventions and windows commands.
• Word processing: The program that is used is Microsoft word, within this program students should be able to use formatting & styles, document mapping, working with templates, inserting images and inserting & formatting tables and other objects.
• Creating / editing spreadsheets this is done through Microsoft excel, students must learn how to use formatting & styles, column/row record keeping, data types (numbers, text, currency etc), formulae & functions e.g: sum, average etc, multiple records keeping and graphs & charts representation of records.
• Students must be able to create presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Internet browsing/surfing this is done through internet explorer or Netscape and Firefox.
• Sending & Receiving e-mail
• Viewing PDF’s
• Listening/ watching audio & video: windows media player, Winamp and RealPlayer.
• Viewing & editing graphic files: MS Photo editor, MSPaint and Adobe photoshop.
• Other useful tasks and applications: image file management – ACDSee and screen capture – snaglt
• For this course students will need and will acquire: word processing and presentation skills to develop well presented assignments, e-mail skills to communicate effectively wit your lecturer, tutorial leader and other students, internet/browser skills that will allow you to; use blackboard to access course material, search the world-wide web effectively, and create and manage a learning log (in the form of an on-line Blog)
• Knowledge regarding various applications and their use in specific tasks, inc; endnote (electronic management of references).
  

Main points I gained from this lecture

• Why computers are useful to help us out with simple tasks and how they are used.
• What the commonly used icons are to help us out with saving and other used functions.
  

Workshop
I have to create two tasks in this workshop MS word and MS Excel. I have to put them into photo bucket and then paste them into my Blog to prove that I can do them.

Week 1 upc0004

Main points on lecture

• Within the first few weeks all students should get familiar with the ECU website and the campus.
• The upc0004 unit is a project based course that contains accessing knowledge through library and information & communication technology. This is to aim to use recourses from a Varity of sources to research.
• After this course has finished students should be able to use ECU web enrolment, email, learning management systems, produce a range of documents of university standard using common computer applications.
• Course structure, there are six modules and they are using computers, communications, information management, research strategies, building knowledge and social & ethical issues.
• Assessments, there are 3 tasks and they are Assignment 1: learning log (40%), Assignment 2: group assignment (30%) and Exam (30%)
• Student Responsibilities, students should attend lectures, attend tutorials/workshops, complete all workshops (as part of Assessment 1), know ECU plagiarism policy, check ECU email regularly and log-on blackboard regularly.
• These days pc’s have become essential tools for business, personal productivity, and leisure.
• Required & Acquired skills: basic understanding of windows OS, knowledge and experience with MS office applications and to understand the ECU website and all the helpful recourses.
• Equipment needed, a working myECU profile, a thumb-drive, a working ECU email account and internet access from home is preferable.
  

Five main points I gained from the lecture

• A course outline.
• Student responsibility’s
• The equipment to complete the course
• How to set up a Blogger account
• How to set up a photobucket account
  

Workshop

I had to open up a Blogger account from www.blogger.com so I can make a journal of each weeks lecture. This is to my benefit so at the end of the course I have recorded in my own words each lecture. I had to open an Imageshack account from www.photobucket.com so that I can import images into my Blogger account if necessary. We learnt about screen shots. This is just getting up on screen the page/picture you want in your Blogger account and then hit the print screen button then open it in an MS program and saving it a JPG.