Week 12

Week 12
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Review 5 information sheets from the Australian copyright council website (www.copyright.org.au) and record your findings.
b. Using the APRA website (http://www.apra.com.au/music-users/online_mobile/online_mobile.asp), explain what you need to know about music and the web.
c. Write a plan to protect yourself from attacks on your privacy and security. This plan should cover the threats of viruses, trojans and how you can protect your own personal information. Use the following sites for reference:
http://netsecurity.about.com/http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virus6.htmhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2100282,00.asp
3. Reading 1 Summary: ‘EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy’
4. Reading 2 Summary: ‘Ethics in Computing - Social Justice Issues: Electronic Monitoring’
5. Reading 3 Summary: ‘Brown & Michaels - Overview of Intellectual Property’

Lecture -

• Open protocols
• No enforceable standards
• Anyone can publish
• No control on bias or unethical information
• Smart users
• Dumb users

Tutorial -

Part 1.

The five information sheets that are relevant to me an an undergraduate are:

• Computer software G050
• Education institutions G048
• Internet: copyright and downloading G056
• Libraries G049
• Website: creating & publishing on the internet G057

Part 2.

Online music and the web mix together to form a free network of music that gives nothing back to the artists we download. The background music on many sites will help the traffic and pull more hits for that site. This music downloading is illegal yet most people that know their computers still seem to download the free music off music applications such as limewire.

Part 3.

My plan to protect myself from attacks on my privacy and security.

1. Avoid downloading programmes that arent trustworthy such as a downloading site that is full of files.
2. Download antivirus software to run daily scans on my computer for threats
3. Keep windows firewall and defender on at all times to enhance the security of the computer
4. Keep the internet security level to high as it will help detect these dodgy sites
5. Do not open suspicous emails

Week 11

Fri, May 23, 2008 -- Blogg Check List
Here is the list I sent as an attachment.
Week One
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
3. Screen Shots
a. Student e-mail account
b. Blackboard
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘PC Lube & Tune’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘How Stuff Works’
Week Two
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
3. Screen Shots
a. Word Activity (showing formatted paragraphs, dot leaders and inserted image)
b. Excel Activity (showing table and charts)
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Using MS Word for APA tasks’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘Graphic File Formats’
Week Three
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. 10 useful functions/ search tips from the ECU library site, giving a brief explanation of each.
b. Who do you think might use a service such as the MEDline plus website and what do you think they might get from it?
3. Screen Shots
a. Journal Article- ‘Economic impact of global warming on businesses’
b. MEDline plus interactive tutorial
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Finding what you want on the web’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips’
Week Four
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. How have the websites attempted to appear authentic?
b. Four clues that give away each site as being a spoof?
c. Before visiting www.martinlutherking.org, what did you expect to find on it based on the URL?
d. After visiting the site, what was your first impression of it?
e. After researching on Martin Luther King, what do you think of the website?
3. Reading 1 Summary- ‘A brief history of the internet’
4. Reading 2 Summary- ‘ History of the World-wide Web’
Week Five
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Using the interactive tutorial on search engine at www.monash.com/spidap.html , list four strategies that will help you to structure a good search.
b. List the strategies that you used to locate your answers and explain their effectiveness.
c. Summarize what you have learnt during this module about information found on the internet and ways to find that information using search engines.
3. Screen Shots
a. Quiz results page
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Robert Harris-Web Search Strategies’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘ The History of the Internet: (Chap 4- Search Engines)’
6. Reading 3 Summary- ‘Search Engine Optimization for Companies’
Week Six
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. List and compare strategies for evaluating information found on websites using the following webpages:
i. ICYouSeeCritical Thinking page: http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
ii. INCO 48: http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm
iii. Good, the Bad and the Ugly: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

b. Complete the "Reliving the Sixties: a Web Site Evaluation Assignment" exercise on the ICYouSee website. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think60.html. Include screen shots if need be.

Week Seven
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Reference 5 different types of electronic format.
3. Screen Shots
a. ‘Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista’ (showing 3 references)
b. ‘Cite while you write Endnote Exercise’ (showing both pages)
4. Resource 1 Summary- ‘Endnote’
5. Resource 2 Summary- ‘Some additional endnote help’
Week Eight
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. List 5 strategies that will help you deliver a top-notch presentation.
3. Screen Shots
a. 6 powerpoint slides on how to give a low impact presentation. Include a title slide, introductory slide, 3 main body slides, a summary slide and graphics.
4. Resource Summary
Week Nine
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. What term did you enter and what did you find?
b. Investigate the messages posted on the topic and record your findings.
c. What are the benefits of podcasts for university students?
3. Screen Shots
a. Podcasts search results page
4. Reading Summary 1: Guide to using e-mail
5. Reading Summary 2: The problem with SPAM
Week 10
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Do you think Negroponte’s ideas are still relevant? Why? (150 words approx.)
b. What are the pros and cons of using ‘atoms’ and ‘bits’?
3. Screen Shots
a. Favorites list (showing 3 folders, each with at least 2 websites)
4. Reading 1 Summary: ‘Grazing the Net’
Week 11
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Based on your research, define data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
b. How can the understanding of the relationship between data, information and knowledge assist your university study?
c. List 5 organizations that collect information from their clients or the public. Why do they collect this information?
3. Screen Shots
a. Graphical representation of data, information, knowledge and wisdom (Using MS Word)
4. Reading 1 Summary: http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
5. Reading 2 Summary: http://otec.uoregon.edu/data-wisdom.htm

Lecture -

• Datum is a fact or proposition
• Information is a collection of facts or data that relate to each other
• Knowledge is the sum or range of what has been percieved, discovered or learned
• Data becomes information when it changes decision-making
• Information becomes knowledge when it changes business processes

Tutorial -

Data - Factual information, especially information gathered for analysis

Information - A collection of facts or data

Knowledge - The sum or range of what has been learned.

The second part to this weeks activity was to create a graphical representation of the terms Data, Information, and Knowledge.

The third part of this weeks activity was to outline briefly how understanding the relationship between data, information and knowledge can assist your university study.

The way that data, information and knowledge can assist university studies with data is where you collect and research a topic and find data then from their you have to collect the important information and from that you can make an understanding of the information which will help you gain knowledge. These will help you with assignments and exams at university.

The Last part of the tutorial activity was to make a list of at least 5 organisations that collect information from their clients or the public and think of a reason why they might collect this information.

Police - Police collect information so that they can have an understanding of what happens on the roads and so that they can fix or help minimise the problem and to keep people safe on the roads.

Banks - Banks collect information from clients so that they can give information about their bank accounts and also so that they can give updates on clients banks statements.

Financial Planner - These people collect information from clients so that they can help with their money and also give them portfolios that give them updates on their financial success.

Doctors- Doctors need to collect information from a client to find out what the symptoms they are having and what medicine the clients are allergic to. This helps them treat the patient easier and more efficiently by knowing what they have.

Employer’s - They need to collect information so they know what people they are employing and what hours they can pay you that you are going to do and so that they can call when they need you to work.

Week 10

Week 10
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Do you think Negroponte’s ideas are still relevant? Why? (150 words approx.)
b. What are the pros and cons of using ‘atoms’ and ‘bits’?
3. Screen Shots
a. Favorites list (showing 3 folders, each with at least 2 websites)
4. Reading 1 Summary: ‘Grazing the Net’

Lecture Summary -

• Atom-based (books, papers, reports etc)
• Advantage of Atom-based information is that we can see it, we can know where it is, difficult to copy
• Disadvantage of Atom-Based information is its bulky, costly, difficult to edit, difficult to distribute
• Bit-based (digital reproduction, electronic content)
• Advantage of Bit-based information is that its very flexible, very cheap, easy to edit
• Disadvantages are that its easy to copy and steal, easy to fake/alter and spam

Tutorial -

The first activity was to participate in the online tutorial on the following site which i have done and created a screen capture for below.

http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html

The second activity was to use the information from the online tutorial to set up a favourites list with 3 folders in it, each with at least 2 websites marked as favourites.

My first favourites folder was named email and i had three webites within this folder (Yahoo, Hotmail and ECU Student Email) as the screen capture below shows.

The Second favourites folder was named Homework and contained another three websites which were ecu library, imageshack and the blogger website.

My last favourites folder contained ECU websites such as blackboard,the home page and students centre and was named University.

The next activity was to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online which is found at http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm .

The next activity was to review in your own opinion if the ideas from the site are still relevant and why.

The article called the DNA of information showed me that there are atoms and bits with both having pros and cons . I will be providing pros and cons about both atoms and bits via the infromation from the site.

The pros of atoms is that it gets delivered to you so all you have to do is open the mail or package so it is easy access. When given a package it tends to be better quality if you can get it from bits because it would have been manufactured. The cons of atoms are that they can get lost, delivered to the wrong address. It also takes longer to get to the person it is for and you have to send it weeks or days depending on were it was going so it gets their on time or on the right day.

The pros of bits are you can send it to a person easier they will receive it quicker. When you send a letter it want get lost they will receive it. When sending bits they don’t have to go through customs so it will always get they’re soon and wont get delayed. The cons about bits are you have to always have a computer with Internet. With computers and Internets they can get viruses, people can hack into them to reveal your personal details.

This information is still relevant in some aspects such as the pros and cons of both based information but not in the fact that many antivirus programmes are no free to download and provide us wit a sense of security on our computers with less risks of being hacked.

Week 9

Week Nine
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. What term did you enter and what did you find?
b. Investigate the messages posted on the topic and record your findings.
c. What are the benefits of podcasts for university students?
3. Screen Shots
a. Podcasts search results page
4. Reading Summary 1: Guide to using e-mail
5. Reading Summary 2: The problem with SPAM

Lecture -

Comunication is very different compared to twenty years ago because of Information Comunication Technology

Communication takes place within networks

Ipods, mp3,mobiles (3g),laptops, email etc

Its difficult to convey feelings,be informal, and send the wrong signal in an email

Tutorial -

Group Tabs On Google-

I searched Soccer under the groups tab and found groups such as rec.sport.soccer and alt.sports.soccer.everton.

The message posted on the rec.sport.soccer group was about the Real Madrid - Barcelona game that was recently played. The winners Real Madrid (4-1) were considered to have walked all over barcelona and ended their hopes of winning some pride. Real madrid was helped by this victory to win the league title.

The message posted on the alt.sports.soccer.everton group was about the Everton football club awards ceremony. The titles of young player of the year,player of the year,fan of the year and the people's club award.

Podcasts-

The advantage of having podcasts for university students is that they can learn how to use the library facilities and audio tours of the campus library so you know where to go when you want to find something for your studies. The information that you will be looking for will be broader and more accessible to you then if you dont know how to use the library.

Reading Summary 1- Email has both negatives and positives when being used to communicate with other users. The positives are that its quick and easy, the negatives are that you cant express feelings. When using email sites, makes sure to always get to the point straight away, when asking a question ask it properly, specify who should respond and one message one topic.

Reading Summary 2 - The UBE (Spam) sender doesnt recieve much benefit by sending out all the spam, mainly sending millions of emails for the price of one. The no costs to the sender part of this method means that unlimited spam is over the net and will always be. The recipient of the spam will be charged whether you realise it or not and not the sender.

Week 8

Week Eight
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. List 5 strategies that will help you deliver a top-notch presentation.
3. Screen Shots
a. 6 powerpoint slides on how to give a low impact presentation. Include a title slide, introductory slide, 3 main body slides, a summary slide and graphics.
4. Resource Summary

Lecture Notes-

• The information issued in the powerpoint should be interesting and not be boring to the class who are reading it.
• Generate energy
• Make the audience believe in what you are saying
• Get the audience interactive with the topic, ask them questions, give them a quiz

Top Notch Presentation Strategies -

1. Have manners and introduce yourself: hi and bye
2. Have a clear ending aka "thank you"
3. Repetition helps the audience remember some of your presentation
4. Transition from slide to slide to be catchy for the audience to remember
5. Be enthusiastic and interested in your topic

Powerpoint Tutorial Activity-

Week 7

Week Seven
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Reference 5 different types of electronic format.
3. Screen Shots
a. ‘Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista’ (showing 3 references)
b. ‘Cite while you write Endnote Exercise’ (showing both pages)
4. Resource 1 Summary- ‘Endnote’
5. Resource 2 Summary- ‘Some additional endnote help’

Lecture -

Endnote is a database that can be used as a reference manager

We reference to distinguish our ideas from others

Endnote keeps trakc of a high number of references so thats why we use it

Endnote handles a variety of types of references

Easy access to references from different assignments


Tutorial -

• Endnote is used by university students
• It is the best form of referencing on a computer
• Continuing the group assignments
• Programming stages of endnote are important

5 Examples of Electronic References:

Webpage:
P-platers put on right road. Retrieved April 10, 2008, From The Age Education: http://www.education.theage.com.au/pagedetail.asp?intpageid=1718&strsection=students&intsectionid=0

Report - Electronic Version:
Firth, V. (2008). NSW Community Mental Health Strategy: From Prevention and Early Intervention to Recovery 2007-2012 Summary. Retrieved May 1, 2008, from
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/2008/chmh_summary.html

Online encyclopedia:
Perth. (n.d.) Retrieved April 21, 2008, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%2C_Western_Australia

Daily newspaper article, electronic version:
Mickelburough, P. (2008, April 22). Corby friend 'smuggled drugs'. Herald Sun. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23734510-2,00.html

Journal Article:

Miola, R. (2008, May). Shakespeare's Religion. Retrieved May 10, 2008, from http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.ecu.edu.au/pqdweb?index=3&did=1468525971&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1211341092&clientId=7582

Exercise for Vista-

Cite While You Write Exercise-

Readings-

ECU Referencing Guide: The ECU Referencing guide is a benefitial booklet to help students with referencing and includes ways on how to reference, why we need to reference. This guide has helped me through many probelsm with referencing and supplies various high order referencing to help out with your reference list.

Guide To Endnote: Gives a formal guide to how endnote works, what it is and how to use it which is a very good guide for the people who don't know how to use the programme or are using it for the first time.

Endnote Technical Support Services: Gives a wide range of add ons to the endnote programme such as patches, more import filters, more output styles and many additional links for help for any situation as guides,tip sheets and information pages.

Week 6

Week Six
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. List and compare strategies for evaluating information found on websites using the following webpages:
i. ICYouSeeCritical Thinking page: http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
ii. INCO 48: http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm
iii. Good, the Bad and the Ugly: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

b. Complete the "Reliving the Sixties: a Web Site Evaluation Assignment" exercise on the ICYouSee website. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think60.html. Include screen shots if need be.


Lecture-

Anyone can put up a web page

Web pages can be about anything

There is no control of who publishes on the world wide web

No control of what they publish on the www

no control of why its published on the www

Strategies for evaluating information on websites:

Accuracy-

• Does it represent the topic well
• Is there a balanced viewpoint or bias

Objectivity

• Is the website changing your personal opinion in any way

Currency

• When is it updated
• When was it last updated
• Is the information relevant to the topic

Authority

• Is the author reliable
• What is the authors background (qualifications)
• Any mistakes such as spelling errors, grammar and punctuation

Coverage

• Coverage is about the information (if it has relevance to your research, if it is basic or detailed and is the language appropriate).
  

A trip back to the sixties-

Accuracy:
This website's information has no supporting texts and no references which shows a lack of authenticity. The text has no spelling mistakes, and is well written (in the articles), however, the text is written in a persuasive way, which means that the information may be written from a viewpoint which shows bias, not from facts.

Purpose:
This websites purpose was not neccessarily for academic reason, but was more for social and entertainment purposes. The website could also have a slight commercial purpose, as the website advertised/promoted quite a large number of books. The website had alot of chat and discussion forums, which indicates that the information is not academic.

Authorship:
This website was a link from another website which was designed for 'hippies' and anti-war enthusiasts. This shows that the content may be bias, therefore, not all the information will be true.

Detail and Design:
The website has a 'hippy' colour scheme, with bright colours and has a reasonably organised layout, with the links and toolbar neat. The website has easy to read font. The website does not have a particlually professional design, with the bright colours and the background.

Overall worth:
The website 'A Trip To The Sixties', is not recomended for academic use, as the website is not for academic purposes, more for entertainment and pursuasive purposes. The content of this website is not factual but is howeve from opinions.


Sixties Project-

Accuracy:
This 'Sixties Project' website's information was [retty accurate, as the site had references, which were correct, and were written in correct format. The website, though, was last updated in 1999, which should have been more recent, the website is based on the sixties, and this may not affect the information.

Purpose:
The purpose of this website seemed academic at first glance. The website said on the homepage that the website was designed for students, which indicates an academic purpose. The text was written in an informative tone, which shows that the information is factual and not bias.

Authorship:
The website was good at providing information on the author, which shows that the author is reliable. The website also had an address of the author and their name on the homepage, which is an major thumbs up as a reliable source.

Detail and design:
This website was reasonably proffesional in the layout and design. The pages were easy to navigate through, and the menu toolbar was organised and worked well.The website had colourful writing on the toolbar, but still looked neat. The text and information was organised so it looked neat but the layout was plain and simple which showed that they didnt go to much trouble making the site.

Overall Worth:
This website, 'Sixties Project', is a reliable website, which is appropriate for academic use. The website has a sufficent amount of reference, and is designed for academic purposes (to inform).

Week 5

Week Five
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Using the interactive tutorial on search engine at www.monash.com/spidap.html , list four strategies that will help you to structure a good search.
b. List the strategies that you used to locate your answers and explain their effectiveness.
c. Summarize what you have learnt during this module about information found on the internet and ways to find that information using search engines.
3. Screen Shots
a. Quiz results page
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Robert Harris-Web Search Strategies’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘ The History of the Internet: (Chap 4- Search Engines)’
6. Reading 3 Summary- ‘Search Engine Optimization for Companies’

Lecture Notes-

• A search engine is a web-based application that crawls the internet usually from the textural information contained on them.


• Probelms with search engines are that they arent very specific in finding what you want and usually come up with alot of hits.


• Directories are human- edited wheres search engines work algorithmically


• U.S Search Engine Rankings, September 2007

Of the 9.4 billion searches performed:

Google - 57%

Yahoo- 23.7%

Microsoft- 10.3%

Ask- 4.7%

Time Warner Including AOL- 4.5%

Tutorial Summary -

• Activities to use search engines and getting the best out of them
• Divert from the problems by using the strategies
  

Four Strategies For Searching That Will Help You Find What You Want:

1. Use inverted Commas Around Your Search eg. "Tiger"


2. Be specific when searching eg. EPL instead of english league


3. Use the boolean search style eg. Jaguar - car instead of jaguar not car


4. Use advanced search functions to narrow the info down

Results

Summary on what i learnt-

I learnt to use the inverted commas and key phrases for all of the questions which helped me out for all of them so it was very effective. I have learnt that the information given on the net through google and wikipedia isnt reliable enough for univeristy and that when searching for something i need to break it down and use the various strategies to find what i want.

Internet Search Tips and Strategies By Robert Harris -

Displays categories of information on the web such as the free visible web, the free invisible web and the paid databases over the web. Also informs the viewer about search tool types such as search engines and directories with the differences between the two. The site provides a vast strategy to fnding what you want on search engines and the ifnroamtion that goes into searching the net.

Search Engine Optimisation -

Provides a very large amount of information on how to use search engines to their full capability but only by paying. This company site "websight" allows paying members to reek the benefits of them performing a website analysis to see if your small business is ready for search engine optimization.

Week 4

Week Four
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. How have the websites attempted to appear authentic?
b. Four clues that give away each site as being a spoof?
c. Before visiting www.martinlutherking.org, what did you expect to find on it based on the URL?
d. After visiting the site, what was your first impression of it?
e. After researching on Martin Luther King, what do you think of the website?
3. Reading 1 Summary- ‘A brief history of the internet’
4. Reading 2 Summary- ‘ History of the World-wide Web’

Lecture Notes-

• On the net you find computers and connections are cables between the computers.
• On the web you find documents,sounds,videos...information and connections are hypertext links.
• The web is a universe of accessible information stored on computers throughout the world.
• Web browsers are programmes that allow users to access and explore the pages of the world wide web. (Internet explorer, mozilla firefox).
  
  
  Scotsman evaluation-

The Scotsman site has tried to appear authentic by using the template from another site and just altering it with their name.

• There are no contact details
• It comes under a subdomain, which shows that this person has just signed up under the name of the main website scotsman.com and therefore it could be anybody.
• Some of the hyperlinks on this website are inactive. Including information regarding the first prize

Molossia Evaluation -

The molossia site has tried to appear authentic in many ways. This can only be matched by the mistakes they have made and that they are not an authentic site.

• Barely any contact details
• Current time in Molossia is different to the region it is located
• The layout of the website shows that it is not really a professional website
• When the keyword Molossia is searched on search engines, there is barely any information showing to proove that the country is real. (Google search finds limited results).

Martin Luther King Evaluation-

I thought that the martin luther king site would have some interesting information about the famous man but i guess i was wrong. This site is making a joke about the man and it isnt really funny, just lame. I have found out that he didnt feel very forgiving towards the white people back then as you can assume but i did not know he would refer to them as "sick white brothers". Although the racism back then would have been soaring, MLK was an icon and a leader for the black people and i respect him for that.

Origins Of The Internet -

Discusses the first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking which was a series of memos in August 1962 written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT. Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first book on packet switching theory in 1964. The rest of the article discusses the steps that proceeded to make the ARPANET network that would eventually turn into the internet.

Histroy Of The World Wide Web -

Gives information on not only the history of the internet and computers but also search engines and databases online. The first search engine was created in 1990 by the McGill Univeristy in Montreal, Canada called ARCHIE. The site then goes on to show the evolution of search engines and databases.

Week 3

Week Three
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. 10 useful functions/ search tips from the ECU library site, giving a brief explanation of each.
b. Who do you think might use a service such as the MEDline plus website and what do you think they might get from it?
3. Screen Shots
a. Journal Article- ‘Economic impact of global warming on businesses’
b. MEDline plus interactive tutorial
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Finding what you want on the web’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips’

Lecture Notes-

Online Libraries now the library used frequently as apposed to the library which has books on the shelves.

We use online libraries instead of normal libraries as it is more convenient then to get out of the house to go to the library and also the online library journals are up to date.

Online databases are similar to online libraries as they both are up to date and imfromative.



Tutorial Summary-

Online libraries used as a better source of information then the web pages from google

University students use the online libraries as much as the library itself

10 Search Tips-

1. Use plus and minus keys. + and - will give searche outcomes that return with words that are appropriately included or excluded according to the plus and minus keys. This results in a more specific and reliable search.

2. Use quotiation marks in the search. This will produce search results that are exactly matched to what has been written in between the quotation marks.

3. Most important word comes first. If you are including several words in the search, make sure the main word is put first. This will help the search engine to bring you what you want.

4. Type in lower case. If you use capital letters in your searches, it will only return matches with capitals. Using lower case will search for both.

5. Truncation. If you want your search to be broadened, use variations in spelling. For example. Domination,Dominator etc.

6. Use a mixture of both key words and phrases. This will help you get the most specific results which are most relevant to your search needs.

7. The find command. Trying to find a word or phrase on a webpage can be difficult, but simply use the find command to take you to where you need to be.

8. Know your search engine. Find out how your search engine works and makes its matches. Failure to use + and - can most of the time cause a search engine to use its own settings.

9. Natural language - This is the easiest to use. It is used in web search tools, simply enter a full sentence and the engine will find it for you.

10. Menus - For the infrequent user of search engines. This is the easy way to find material by utilising the given menus to track the information you are looking for.

The service of interactive tutorials would be used by most people around the world as they need a wider and more broad understanding of the symptoms, prevention and causes of these conditions. This can be very helpful as it has enough information to inform the reader about if they might have the condition and what they should do instead of ignoring the symptoms.


Finding What You Want On The Web -

Bill Thompson talks about the stupidity of the search engines and its mess that you get when you type in a couple of words on google as an example. He also goes on the subject of the web being "dumb" and sais that "links dont carry meaning and until they do, we will be seeing this mess of links on search engines for a while" and that searching is just not 1 search engine but using more then 3 even to find the better information to link it in.

Bare bones search tips -

Deals with various ways of finding what you want when you use search engines such as using a + and - sign infront of words to force their inclusion. The site talks about using the link you found on the search engine and using the "find" search on the site to better enhance your findings.

Week 2

Week Two
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
3. Screen Shots
a. Word Activity (showing formatted paragraphs, dot leaders and inserted image)
b. Excel Activity (showing table and charts)
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Using MS Word for APA tasks’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘Graphic File Formats’

Lecture Notes -

We use computers for word processing, document/file handling, Presentations and emails

Using windows explorer, we can find various documents and programmes that are essential to what we need to produce.

Internet browsing world wide stats for January 2008

Internet explorer- 54.7% Firefox- 37.2% Mozilla Suite (Gecko Netscape)- 1.3% Safari - 1.9% Opera- 1.4%

Tutorial Summary -

• Many uses for computers such as work, schooling and fun
• Dont need to use the internet all the time as we can search through our windows explorer for programmes.
  
  
  
  Screen Shots - Word Activity
  
  
  

Microsoft Activity-

Today I learnt how to use the new microsoft word and excel. As the screenie's above show, i used several areas of the new word to alter the text and perform fine pieces of computing.

Below is the excel work that i produced with several indications of the extent to which excel works.

Using Microsoft Word For APA Tasks-

This document is very helpful in giving information pertaining to using the new microsoft word which has many different features from the previous version and is abit trickier to use. The new features give you the choice in changing your pages of work into what you please such as double spaced, headers and footers etc.

Graphic Formats-

The various graphic formats that can be used to save an image are all unique in which jpeg gives a smaller file size with good qualityand most images on the net are jpeg format. Bitmap format (.bmp) gives a high effect on both colour and image size when saving in the format and can be used as wallpapers mostly. CompurServe (.gif) is used to display indexed-colour- graphics and images in html documents.

Week 1

Week One
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
3. Screen Shots
a. Student e-mail account
b. Blackboard
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘PC Lube & Tune’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘How Stuff Works’


Lecture Summary-

Course is for accessing and using the ecu website and various others.

Learn to use various applications to produce university work.

Minimise the plagiarism effect by not using google and wikipedia

Working productively as a team

Blackboard

Student E-Mail

Tutorial Summary-

• Use Word, Powerpoint,Excel,Endnote
• Be able to understand the several tasks needed for university

Reading 1 Summary-

PC Lube And Tune - A site that helps with the introduction, tutorial and education of using a computer. It provides information on java handling, graphic user interface and the very important information on what the computer is about.

Reading 2 Summary-

How stuff works - A site that gives valuable information on parts of the computer and their purpose. Also gives information about the future of pc's, the operating system and pc connections.