Week 12 Social And Ethical Issues 23 May 2008

Lecture

In today's lecture we discussed the social and ethical issues that arise when we use the Internet. the first part of the lecture discussed the issues dealing with copyright, plagiarism and intellectual property. The lecture discusses why there are problems when using the Internet these include;

Intellectual Property
Copyright
Plagiarism
Security etc



There are a lot of smart people using the Internet alot,here is also no control on what is put on the net. The second part of the lecture discussed privacy, security and freedom of speech and problems facing people concerning each. Another area talked about was how to protect yourself from potentially harmful influences these included installing a firewall, antivirus software and being weary of what information you release the lecture ended with a quiz.






Tutorial

Task1) www.copyright.org.au.

1) Anyone that wishes to use material that is under copyright cannot unless they seek and receive permission from the author or artist of suggested material.
2) Copyright does not protect an idea, information, concepts or styles of a person that is supposingly unique.
3) Also protects artistics works, dramatic works, musical works, films, sound recordings, broadcasts.
4)Most things on the net are copyrighted - this does not make them free. as students, we think the material on the net is free to use, but it is actually under copyright and you are breaking the law if you try to do this.
5) Copyright protects Textual material - for example journals, books, websites, articles.

Task2)


This site asks questions music downloaders and users may need or want to know. There is a information from who holds the copyright to music to what can the authorities do if one is caught with illegal music.

This website would be really useful because it contains information with a lot of depth and has a broad coverage of the topic, covering each and every aspect.


Task3)
Look at the below mentioned sites and write down in your logs what you can do to protect your personal information from being attacked by viruses, hackers and Trojans.?

http://netsecurity.about.com/
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virus6.htm


Above website I looked at it and it briefly explains how to look after your computer from different viruses. A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without agreement or knowledge of the user.
Trojan is mainly a malicious program accompanied by spy ware which you get through email attachment, a messenger program or from an Internet download. Trojans at times take off as a free program you would like. Once you accept the Trojan into your computer, it will perform a basic installation of itself.
Computers can be protected from viruses by making sure to install antivirus software.
To protect your computer from Trojans, you should never download or install any program from any person or web site you don't trust. You should also have your working system running updated with antivirus software and firewall so that you can have less chance of getting this Trojan into your system. You can use a tool like Ad-Aware to scan your system for known spy ware if you think you may have something.







To protect yourself from hackers.

1. Change the system ID- use a better password
2. Stop identifier broadcaster, don't shut to the world you have wireless-it’s an invite for hackers.
3. Install Antivirus software
4. Restrict unnecessary traffic
5. Change the default administrator password.





Readings

Reading1) 12 ways to protect your online privacy

This site is about how to protect your on-line privacy. it suggests 12 points which are
1) Do not expose personal information .
2) Turn on cookie notices in your Web browser, or use cookie management software.
3) Keep a spotless e-mail address.
4) Don't expose personal details to strangers or friends.
5) Beware sites that offer some sort of reward or prize in exchange for your contact information or other personal details.
6) Realize you may be monitored at work, avoid sending highly personal e-mail to mailing lists, and keep open files on your home computer
7) Do not reply to spammer's for any cause.
8) Be aware of Web security.
9) Be aware of home computer security.
10) Look at privacy policies and stop.
11) Remember that you decide what information about yourself to expose when, why,and to whom.
12) Use Peer 2 Peer (P2P) software with caution


Reading2)Electronic monitoring

It encloses information on types of check, privacy and legal issues, optional policies and privacy resources. Under each heading there are several links so that the reader can explore and find more in depth information. The aim of this website is to help everyday internet users gain knowledge about privacy and monitoring issues regarding the internet.



Reading 3) Inelectual property

This webpage contains information on what the most appropriate system are to protect ones intellectual property and what should be protected. There is information about trademarks and copyrights as well as the protection of computer software and domain names.

Week Eleven: Building Knowledge 16 May 2008

Lecture

The lecture this week was about data, information and knowledge. the characteristics of data is that it is a factual, non-judgemental, has no meaning and value. the characteristics of information is that it is a rational, has meaning but uncertain value. while knowledge has the characteristic of being very valuable, subjective, experiential and can be judged.



The importance of a data is that it must be un-biased, quantitative and representative. the importance of information must be inform and rational. must have a meaning and can be understandable. while knowledge must be clear, must have a logical conclusion and must be justified from Data and Information.



Tutorial

Data - Data or also known as Datum is information that is in the form of individual facts, statistics or items. A complex definition of data is phyiscal pieces of text on paper, bits and bytes which are stored in eletronic memory (e.g. computer HD(Hard Drive/Tower)) or facts and figures that are in the human brain.Information - is knowledge that is gained from experience, books, article, statistics, research or study.
Information - in gained through the knowledge of study.
Knowledge - is gained through means of study e.g. books, websites, journal articles, education or personal experience. For example you learn how to ride a bike through the knowledge of experience.
Wisdom - is the knowledge of what is true and right. In eduacational contexts wisdom is gained through researching data, collating information and gaining knowledge.


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References

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/data

Webopedia.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/data.html

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/information

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/knowledge

Dictionary.com. (2008). Retrieved 19 May, 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wisdom



In university is it important that you can understand and realize the link between data, information, knowledge and wisdom. The between data, information, knowledge and wisdom is that by researching you gain data, when you collect that data and combine it with your understanding it becomes information. When the data is collected it symbolise information you gain new knowledge and improve it greatly then that it was before. As all three (data, information and knowledge) are understood and completed you become wise as the wisdom of what's right and true and becomes obvious.



Organizations that collect information from their clients or public:

Financial Insitutions (Banks...)

Governments (Centrelink, Census...)

Taxation departments

Educational insitutions (Universities...)

Communications (Telsta...)

The main reason why all these organizations and many others collect information about their clients and general public is because they use this information maybe to keep their systems updated, find out or calculate tax repayments, enrolment for courses/degrees etc. Advertisements (telstra calling your home). Therefore organizations collect information for many reasons.


Readings

The readings for this week were basically two websites that explain the difference between each word. How each meaning represents a different aspects of university life and in general as well. For example when you research you end up with data, you collect that data so that there is meaning from it, when you can understand the concept of the information you gain new knowledge. When you fulfill these three steps you gain wisdom in the specific area you were researching in.

Week Ten - Information Management 9 May 2008

Lecture


The lecture topic today was about the different types of information management formats such as the atom and bit based structures.It also discusses the changed from atom based formats of information, which are physical piece of information such as books, article, results etc. To bit based formats of information, which are digital forms of information such as online books, encyclopedia's, web journals, articles etc, in today's goods and services organisations.Today's society that are bit based formats are things such as tellers to internet banking, mail to email, radio to mp3's and cds/dvds. Other examples are digital television to interactive television such as foxtel IQ, shopping to ebay and online shopping. Even though we have moved into the technological phase in society there is still a high risk in using them.


Tutorial

We were to set up a favourite list of 3 folders

I created 3 folders within my favourites. These were:
- Tutorial Webpages
- Assignment Webpages
- Reading Webpages


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We were to visit a website on Negroponte and read Negroponte Famous "Being Digital"

The last thing that was asked in todays tutorial workshop was to consider if negroponte was still relevent if it was published 13 yers ago and why?

Yes, i do agree with the ideas If i was to consider this website was published 13 years ago, I would say that Negroponte's ideas are very accurate in perhaps predicting the future of technology and what we willor are using. He also mentions the high amount of sources we use other than the internet. We do very much have our wide sources of books, newspapers and magazines and still use them today in a large quantity. He is supposing that 'bits' are more efficient then 'atoms' and that the bits of today's society will be used greatly. The CDs, videocassettes, and CD-ROMs he mentions, are in physical form and he explains that it is a great problem to move them around place to place, unlike information over the internet (bits). Therefore, looking at some of the other factors also he has included, the pros of bits outway that of atoms.






Atom-Based Data
Pros
-hard copy.....we can see and hold it
-know where it is
-can hide it
-easily protected
-difficult to change
-hard to copy

Cons
-Bulky (eg. Text books)
-expensive
-not easily distributed

Bit-Based data
Pros
-very flexible
-cheap
-easily edited
-easily published

Cons
-easily copied and pasted
-can easily be altered by others
-SPAM


Readings

The website "Grazing the Net Raising a Generation of free Range Students" talks about the new age, where students in our society are now offer with limitless amounts of information. It also informs the readers of the many benefits that students will gain throught the use of research using the internet; such as speed, efficiency and more encouragement towards students doing work and assignment with less indecision.

Week Nine - Communications 2nd May 2008

Lecture

The communication of today can take place between individuals, in groups or within businesses. The more recent forms of communicaton exist as emails and as online internet sources. Chat rooms, instant messaging and social sites such as Myspace and Facebook are common among the young generation today. Discussion, forums and bulletin boards are also very popular, as well as podcasts. Email etiquette is a major issue because of this new technology we now have. Abbreviations and slang has taken over the English language in a very negative manner. Changing this is vital because the poor mannerisms are increasing and a loss of a job can even occur from using this language. On the other hand, the benefts of using ICT include the fact that electronic newsletters and journals can be accessed, as well as discussion boards and newsgroups. These create a social network between friends and the chance for meeting people is widely available. Overall, ICT creates a really good provider for information and comes in a range of contexts for everyone and anyone to use.

Tutorial


my task this week is to record my finding by going to http://www.google.com/ and under the group tab section, searching a topic of interest to me.

i typed the word "life".
groups discussing this topic included
1] religious
2] abortion
3] death penalty
4] life magazine

i tagged on one of the discussions groups which was under religion.

the title of this discussion was "life after death"

the discussion was on the question if there's life after death?

the group discussed the question from different religious point of view.

Muslims and christian believed their will be a day of judgement, while Buddhist and Scientology believe their aren't going to be a day of judgement.




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the second task this week at tutorial was to go www.podcast.osx.ecu.edu.au/index.html and listen some podcast and right down
"what are the potential benefits using podcast for students at university'?
1) it is a useful resource that the student can listen to over and over again until they get the point.
2) students have the opportunity to listen again to lectures if they miss it.
3) you don't need to read all lecture notes
4) you just listen and take notes .......therefore time is not wasted on looking for important points through the process of reading twenty pages.
5) it is a smarter way of learning.


ECU Library Podcasts. Explainations about what they are and how they work. They are audio files that that can either be played on an MP3 or downloaded. Podcasts can be useful for listening to some of your favourite live music, radio hosts or famous people. It can also be useful for University students because they can look up interviews that were shown on television that they can easily download onto their i-pod or computer. This can be a valuable source of information gaining knowledge for an assignment or topic of interest.



Readings

-Guide to using Email

To make sure you know exactly what you are going to write in an email is very important. This is especially if you are writing to a teacher, lecturer or a future employer because how and what you write in an email reflects back to you. Be brief in what you write but still include relevent or detailed information that the reciever will need to know. Getting to the point and asking the right people and questions is correct. Grammer and punctuation are also one of the most significant factors with writing an email, poorly written emails result in a poor reflection on yourself. A title for your email has got to be relevent to what you write about in your email, also adressing the recipient with their name and or Sir/Madam is correct. Using smiley faces and abbreviations is lowering the formality of the email. Make sure that your tone is professional and that the font and colour is chosen carefully. Last, summarise and edit your email before sending it off.

-The problem with Spam

Spam is a form of advertising has the potentional to destroy any persons email messaging. Problems with spam is that there is no limit on what is being sent so major bulk emails can flog your mailbox every day. This mail also may cost the recipient a sum of money without them actually knowing. It also costs them a lot of time and not controlling the way in which their account inbox is being used. If the spam is tried to be deleted, it most often fails because it just ignores the problem of unlimited mail.

Week 8 - Presentation Strategies 4 April 2008

Lecture:

Today was Anzac day so basically i did this at home i went throught the lecture notes and the things i have found useful for a great presentation strategies would be introduction the types of presentation would be self contained presentation,web-page, CD-ROM and Video. To speak or not to speak would be the nex thing audience will remember 10% of what they see, 25% of what they see and hear, 40% of what they see, hear and write down 60% of what they experience interactively.

This lecture helps you to:
 Structure your presentation correctly
 Prepare for the presentation
 Use audio/visual tools to enhance your presentation
 Include strategies for audience involvement






Tutorial:

We were to visit the website that was asked and to make a "Top Five" list of strategies to help us deliver a top-notch presentation and also to look over the lectures notes


5 strategies to creating a well presented presentation:

1. Relating to the audience - Identify with the audience by figuring out what they read and what their general interests are (think about age and what knowledge they have already).
2. Practise - Learn and know your material that you are about to present. If you know it, you will enjoy presenting and therefore so will your audience.
3. Pace the talk and be organised - Do not speak fast, calm down and have a well organised presentation that doesn't need to be rushed through.
4. Visual Aids - This will help the audience in staying alert and not becoming too bored in watching you. It also provides information in a differant form that guides the viewer into seeing it in another perspective.
5. Flow of Ideas - Identify the topic/argument you are going to be discussing and keep to it. Let your ideas flow and work one after another so differant concepts do not arise and confuse the viewer.

Week 7 Using Endnote- 11 April

Lecture:

The lecture discussed about Citations, References and Bibliographies, citing or quoting references is when you refer in your text to material written or produced by others.
We were to know how end note works; Endnote is a flat-file database. The reason we use a endnote is to Keeps track of a growing number of references and Handles a variety of types of references.

Tutorial:

In tutorial we were to look at the workshop activity and were to do the activity on how to endnote. We followed the steps and did an endnote on a website. The lecture has summarised what endnote was but as soon as we did the activity in class i now know how to do the easy way to endnote.

Reference 5 different types of electronic format

Web page -
Technical specifications (iPhone). [n.d.] Retrieved November, 2007, from Apple: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Article only in an Internet Journal-
Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimise health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html

eBook-
Wilkinson, R., & Marmot, M. (Eds.). (2003). Social determinants of health: The solid facts (2nd ed.). Retrieved December 2, 2007, from http://www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf

Email-
Office of Research and Development. (1995). ARC large grant guidelines. Email December 2, 1995, from t.lampard@cowan.edu.au/Get ARCLG95







Readings
The first reading about Endnote was helpful. we were showed around the website and how to use certain things if we needed help with endnote.
The second Endnote reading is very detailed and helpful. The reading is more like a website, with extra links to find information for help and support.
The second Endnote reading had a lot of links to different information sites so that people who work with Endnote a lot can upgrade their information and skills.
Because the lecture only focused on one program, there weren't many readings. These are the main points i attained throughout the readings.

Week Six - Evaluation & Authentication -4th April 2008

Lecturer:


Dr Helen Cripps went through the context of wordl wide web
• Open protocols
• Open architecture


The context of the world –wide web, who publishes on the WWW that relates to autorship, authority and authenticity why publish on the WWW that relates to bias, accuracy and trustworthiness what is published on the WWW.

We went through if the Websites is trustworthy,what are you measuring? example the content, visual feel, navigation and ease-of-use.

When evaluating IQ on the WWW anyone can publish anything on the WebIt's often hard to determine a web page's authorship Even if a page is signed, qualifications aren't usually given sponsorship isn't usually indicated .



Tutorial:

in tut we had to look at a website

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

in my own words i was asked to briefly describe these stategies;


The question i asked myself was "why do i need the net" and would i be able to use reference books that are specific to the topic,than wasting hours to find the appropriate material. The second thing is don't believe every thing that you found on the web. any person can publish what ever they can. therefore its best to try to validate the authors argument by looking for links or references. The third thing is to have some knowledge about the author. what lead him to have this opinion. Lasty its good to try to ask your self the purpose of the site,why was this site created? knowing the answer to that question will give you some ideas about the content of the site.Its good to View the details given on the website, how well are they written.

The second part of the activity there is two website and i choosed to look at The good , The bad, and the ugly http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html.
This site explains how to evaluate a web-site. the discussion made by the author is based on the Authority, Rationality, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency and its Coverage.


Thirdly we were to complete a website Evaluation Assignment on the Reliving the Sixties. i choosed american culture history, it talks about how to help the user gain a broad understanding and appreciation for the culture and history of the 1960s.


And lastly is to evaluate two sites using headings as follows.


Accuracy
Information provided here is highly accurate.
the reference list provided is well linked..and highly accurate in my opinion.

Authorship.
It was written by the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention. National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.

purpose.
The purpose is to give the user's information on the effect of AIDS on different ages, sex groups and issues involved with people that got AIDS such as Ethics, racial and economics.

Details & design
The details provided are many on different issues involving AIDS. It was designed very well. Extensive details are provided on this site.

Over-all worth.
The web-site is highly effective as it provides many information and is highly accurate.

(http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html)



Readings: URL

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html .
This site is a guide for teaching under-graduate on how to evaluate information found on a web-site. The author covers five points which are
Accuracy. If your page lists the author and institution that published the page and provides a way of contacting him/her and . . .
Authority. If your page lists the author credentials and its domain is preferred (.edu, .gov, .org, or .net).
Objectivity. If your page provides accurate information with limited advertising and it is objective in presenting the information..
Currency. If your page is current and updated regularly (as stated on the page) and the links (if any) are also up-to-date.
Coverage. If you can view the information properly--not limited to fees, browser technology, or software requirement

Week 5 - Using Search Engines 28 March 2008

Lecture:

Today in lecture we have covered two types of search tools. search engine and directories.Search engine which is a program that crawls the Internet creating indices of web-site. example is www.google.com and www.yahoo.com.The problem with search engine is that they return too many results with limited relevance to the the topic. Users can manipulate the ranking of the page resulting the computer to store too much indices which are irrelevant to the topic and out-dated.





Tutorial:

In class we were asked to look at this website http://www.monash.com/spidap.html and to go through the website and list four strategies that will help us stucture a good search which are;

List four strategies that will help you to structure a good search?
1) know where to look for.
Don't search a web page that's is meant for business dealing for things concerning health.
2) fine tune your keywords
Be specific to what you are looking for
; if you want to buy a car, don't type a car, be specific and type what brand you looking for
3) search in a form of a query.
type the question you have other than some of it.
4) Anticipate the answer
type some-thing that you expect to find.

The one strategy i used to find the above strategies was by reading through each page provided of the site http://www.monash.com/spidap.html and gain different ways to best structure a search. I founded effective due to the fact that i was able to gain knowledge of extra information about using search engines that i have not known even as searching for these strategies.



The next task was to look at this website http://www.siteseen.co.uk/questions/historytrivia/ on this website there was alot of weird questions that i have never came across, most of them i have gueesed it and it was pretty good it was all rite for the ones i have got it wrong it was simply i only had to go back to the question and pick any of the asnwers again till i got it right.













URL Readings:

1.The History of the Internet: Search Engines

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap4.htm
This site discusses about the history of search engines.
*Early search-engines had a spider
*built up databases either of directories or web-pages or
*built-up directories (specifically limited in ambition and range, but supposedly limited to better sites) and
*they could also rank by terms within a document.



To have a better search, the author suggest

Be specific to the question and therefore type the whole question. an example is by typing "history" you will get what every history your can get access to. But by typing "history of Somalia" you will definitely get most of the result associated with Somalia.


Therefore try to out-smart the computer by guessing what sort of answer you wish to get and feed it with the hint.


2.Web Search Strategies.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/howlook.htm.

the author discusses how to have a better Internet Search Tips and Strategies. the site also contains a description of the information found on a web-site. There are basically three categories of information on the Web.

-The Free, Visible Web. This category includes all the publicly mounted Web pages.

-The Free, Invisible Web. This category includes the contents of sites that provide their articles or information free to users.

-Paid Databases over the Web. This category includes commercial databases that libraries subscribe to, containing scholarly journals and newspapers.


3. The last one was http://myecu.ecu.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_154713_1%26url%3D


it basically talks about Search engines Optimisation, they also talking about the majority of small business web sites they analyze, they use design components that are incompatible with search engine spider robots. They dot points some things that they can use as for keyword analysis, setting your benchmark, measuring your progress etc. They then explain why you should use this things is that they offer flexibility and choice based on YOUR current needs and search engine optimisation budget.

Week 4 Using WWW 21 March 2008

1Lecture:

There was no class for this day it was Good friday so i had to look over the blackboard and read through the lecture notes which i had to do it in my own time.
it briefly explains how to use World Wide Web explains the historical prespective of the website. The web is access of sounds, video,documents and other source that give information. The lecture note explains the internet was developed by Time Berners-Lee in 1989, he created the internet to make possible to share research information.


2Tutorial:

I had to do this activity at home since it was Good friday and it says that we should look at these websites;

www.haggishunt.scotsman.com
www.molossia.org
www.martinlutherking.org. the 4 clues that was noticable that i have picked up are;


A)This site http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ attempts to appear authentic if various facts of about haggis every time the site is refreshed and further involve its authenticity by having a competition supported by three professional associations, Gleneagles Hotel, MPS and The Scotsman Publications Ltd.


B) Four clues that give away each site as being a spoof?

Accuracy
Information provided here is highly accurate.
the reference list provided is well linked..and highly accurate in my opinion.


Authorship
It wont show who it was written by there for its not dat accurate but it shows when it was posted by news week magazine 1988.

purpose
The purpose is to give the user's information on MLK history, his hostrical writings, truth about king,death of the dream etc

Over-all worth.
The web-site is highly effective at some stage it wont provide as many information.





The other thing that was asked for us to do was what we expect of the web MLK and i expect a brief history of his life and when i had a look through the website Marthin Luther King there was some false information they have said and one of the other thing that was mentioned in the web was that he has slept with three woman and beating them to death i thought that was just out of line i think that wasnt the real story.







Readings

This week there were two areas for extra reading both containing information on the history of the WWW. In the first one website as follows http://www.w3.org/History.html I was able to become informed of the brief history and the developments of the worldwide web from 1945 to 1995. With the original development being a device called a Memex which had the ability to store memory, to make and follow links between documents on microfiche. Provided are a variety of links to other websites of information on how it all started.

The second reading website as follows http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html is a website designed to inform the reader of the history of the world-wide web, giving information in chapters titled, The development of the world-wide web till 1960's, from arpanet to the World-Wide Web, History of Electronic Mail, Search Engines and chapter 5 Basic Net Data.

Week 3 Using online Libraries and Database 14 March 2008-03-25

Lecture:

The lecturer Dr Helen Cripps talks the online libraries and database, she explains why use online libraries and database She talks about the disadvantages of using online libraries and database and types of online libraries and database. We were shown the examples of online resources and the limitations of online libraries and lastly the referencing online libraries and the ways of online referencing are;
• Accurate referencing is vital
• Use APA format
• Details found in ECU library publications
• Create Endnote Libraries
• In many courses, marks are deducted from assignments with incorrect referencing
• The quantity of references may also be evaluated and contribute to your mark
Basically there was allot of things that Dr Helen Cripps have covered that was good and I have gained allot of knowledge from it.






Tutorial:
In class we had Log onto and explore the ECU Library Service. Spend some time going through and we had to list 10 things and explain them in detail, and the ones i have found was;

1. Journals- This link helps students search for an article for their topic
2. MetaQuest is an access entry for library databases that can search up to 10 databases at the same time
3. Search terms- you can search what type of thing you looking for example whatever topic you want
4. Reference/ Enquires-All four ECU libraries offer a general reference desk service. For basic enquiries you can call at the Enquiries Desk, and for more in-depth reference queries call at the Reference/Information Desk.
5. Academic tip sheets- it gives informations on Academic essay, Annotated bibliography, APA Style, Blogs, journals et al. , assignments etc.

6. Library work shop and tours-students can request for library tour to the time it is suited for them.
7. Getting started at the library- is basically is; you can get Help at The library, Contacts for Assistance, Finding Material example books, journal articles etc.
8. Library broadcast video clips-Podcasts are audio files that can be downloaded and played on your MP3 player, or through your PC. ECU library's podcasts include audio tours of each metro campus library, as well as information about using your ECU library.
9. ECU referencing guide- Gives you examples on how to reference an academic way of writing your essay, annoted bibliography etc
10 simo- where student can check their timetables, exam progress, govt. assistance, fee details, statement of account, govt. confirmation etc



On the next work that we had to look at were to go on this website www.medlineplus.gov
And to have a look through the pages and find something that would interests us and I looked at garlic (Allium sativum L.) this article here talks about Some have examined the effects of oral garlic on serum lipids the evidence the have come up with was High cholesterol, Cancer, Anti-fungal (applied to the skin), High blood pressure, Tick repellent etc.










Readings
READING 1. The reading resource "Bones" is a website formed as part of an extension from the Beaufort University Library Resources. Similarly to my top 10 tips for searching the Internet, it shows useful tips to search Internet Search engines effectively.

READING 2. Reading two is an article which features how to search the web. Written by Bill Thompson, BBC commentator for "Go Digital", he talks about needing to use the versatility of the web, and not just using the same search engines such as google for all queries. The research he does is often not in books yet, so the use of the internet is unavoiable, though he underlines that its important that if using the internet as a resource, you make sense of what you find, and that you are wary that the information that you are reading may not be credible. Bill Thompson also talks about using resources such as medline, which are accessed via th internet but arent indexed by search engines.One of the problems he underlines, is that the web is already huge and only getting larger by the minute, so it would be impossible for the search engine that you most regularly use to index and contain all the information that is available to you. Much of the information is hidden behind firewalls and is available to those only who hold subscriptions, much like the ECU website. He counters that this problem can be solved by using resources such as this is to have a wide and varied use of search engines, subscriptions and online journals.

Week 2 - Using Microsoft Word (14 March 2008)

Lecture:

Today in lecture we were asked couple of questions what microsoft application can you list, list internet browers, what new websites we have visted etc. We where run through about couple of things like how the old microsoft has changed to 2007 vista and the comon pc tasks, browser statistics


Tutorial:


Today in the tutorial we have done an excercise on using microsoft word. in that excersie we had to do several things like; Adjust the TYPEFACE,Adjust the MARGINS AND ALIGNMENT etc. While i was doin that i also had to read Using MS Word for APA Tasks that showed me some of the things on how to use it and it was quite hard because that piece of information was onli showing examples on the old microsoft word and it was kind of difficult looking up for anything on the microsoft vista but i got the hang of it.I have put up a proof of image showing my work on the bottom. i have also read the Reader of screen capture on how to do a screen capture and it was quit good information.The other thing we also had to do was to work on Microsoft Excel.


Reading

1 - Using MS Word for APA tasks

This document provided a well detailed guide on both the basic and advanced functions of Microsoft Word for when completing tasks such as essays or referencing. Each section provides step by step guides to help the reader appropriately use different functions to design a good layout for a document.


2 - Graphic File Formats

This reading provides information on the different graphic file formats and the advantages and disadvantages for when an image file is changed into this format. It also provides information on which areas the file formats would be mainly used thus providing efficiency in that area.

Week 1 Using Computers(Accessing and organising knowledge) 7 March 2008

Lecture:

Introduction of the unit the assesments .The unit has two assignments and one exam,we are expected to complete all assignments and exams, and briefly the lecturer was going through evetrything.

Tutorial

In the tutorial class we have learent how to creat a blog and also registered with imageshack. After that we had to send a url link and password to the teacher. We were then asked to read two articles and and analize it.

For the first article i have read was how pc works and what i have learent from it was firstly when you hear about technology first thing everyone thinks about is computers, but actualy everything around us have computer component for example cars, but mainly people have an idea of computer when one says technlogy. Computer has lots of different parts, Memory, hard disk, moden and etc.

The other article was Welcome to PC Lube and Tune a pc may say dell or hp on the outside bt the inside it may have different standards of components.