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.