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.