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.