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.