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.




By Qalib

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.