Lecture
This weeks lecture was about searching and finding quality information on the World-wide- web. Justine told us about what information quality is and a bit about it. After that she talked about Information quality context: The World wide web and when she was talking about this topic she also talked about open protocols, open architecture and also about how no-one has control on the web. Then Justine went to tell us about a little bit of History of the World wide web. Evaluating information on the World wide web was the next topic that Justine went on to talk about. She told us about some principles to consider when evaluating information from the web. Justine also told us about some suggested criteria that other people have come up with and then talked about Beck's suggested criteria a bit more in-depth.
Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. First thing I learnt this week was about the history of the web.
2. The second thing I learnt was about the how important it is to check out website and make sure the creditable. and how to evaluate them to make sure.
3. The third thing I learnt today was how to evaluate or have some idea about evaluating website to make sure there OK to use.
4. I learnt some way's of being able to evaluate a website.
5. Last thing I learnt today was how there are many different ways as to evaluating a website.
Tutorial
Today in the tutorial we were asked to look at some different websites and write about them in our blogs.
The first website I went to was http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html.
On this website they had 6 strategies to help help evaluate websites to make sure that they we OK and reliable. The first one is Authority - which implies that you need to check the author of the website and make sure that they a reliable person who you can trust what they have written. Second one is Accuracy - which is there enough support on the website to make it so it is accurate. Third one is Objectivity - which means does the author have both sides of the argument not just one side and not showing the other. Fourth one is Currency - this means is the information on this page current or resent or has it been updated. Fifth one is Coverage - this means does the website have the topic that you are researching in, is the information usable. The sixth one is Value - which is was the page worth while going to, was it informative?.
Then we were asked to evaluate a couple of website from this web address: http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think60.html.
First website: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/index.html
Accuracy: I feel that this website has enough information to be accurate and has enough to back it self up.
Authorship: The author seems quite reliable as it is written by a University.
Purpose: This website does have a purpose of informing people about the sixties and what happened during that time period.
Detail and Design: The design and detail is very simple and quite plain. Though it is easy to find your way around the website which is good. The website seems like it is just a little to simple and plain even which the bright rainbow colours.
Overall Worth: The worth of this website I feel is very good. Has quite a bit of information on it and it is informative like a website should be.
Second website: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/
Accuracy: I don't feel that this website has enough support information to make it accurate don't really trust it. It hasn't been updated since 1999 so the information is quite correct to now.
Authorship: It doesn't say who the author of the website is though it does have contact details for to get in contact with them just doesn't say there name. Wouldn't really trust the site because of this.
Purpose: This site has a purpose of to inform people about the sixties and other things.
Detail and Design: Very plain and simple again it lacks something. It is easy to get around the page and get back etc.
Overall Worth: The worth of this website is good but it doesn't really grab your interests. It doesn't have very much information about the sixties, its more stories, poetry, and resources.
Readings
All the readings this week are quite similar on what they are trying to get across to the reader. They all have ways of how to evaluate a website. All the ways vary from each other but there all about the same principles.
That's all for this week. See next week for more.
Brittany
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Week Seven 19th April - Using WWW
Lecture
This week's lecture's was about the World Wide Web.
In today's lecture Justine told us all about the World Wide Web and that this is one part and the Internet is the whole thing. The World Wide Web is in the Internet. The web is a space of where you can put information. Also the web wouldn't be there without the Net. World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. His reasoning was "to facilitate sharing research information". Justine also talked about domain name system's and all the different types. Also about the protocols and what they were. Justine informed us of the tools needed to be able to get on the Web. Web browsers were another topic that was spoken about today. Justine explained to us about the interfaces of web pages and how they can help do things. She also gave us some short cuts using the keyboard to do different tasks.
Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. I learnt when and why the World Wide Web was developed.
2. I learnt about the domain systems.
3. I also learnt about some more short cuts on the keyboard that I wasn't already currently aware of.
4. I learnt don't trust all websites because of face value even if it is totally believable.
5. I also learn about web browsers today.
Tutorial
In the tutorial today we looked up websites and looked at how authentic they were. The first to websites I looked at were; http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ and http://www.molossia.org/ and answered some questions on them.
Here are the answer's to the them:
1a) Both websites have made an effort to make it look like they are a official website not just a fake website.
1. They over do it by trying to make it sounds so legit that it seems fake.
2. One is a organisational website and the other commercial which says that it could be a official website but then anyone can start up a website and it would be more believable if it had .gov or .edu as then it would be a government site or an education site then it would be more believable.
3. One of the website news section is not really the serious a bit silly really that's another sign of not a serious website.
4. They both talk about things that don't exist.
The second website I looked at was www.martinlutherking.org and did the questions required with this website.
Here are my answers:
2a) Racism, bias information, one sided arguments, and things to do with an organisation.
b) Yes it does it has .org on the end of the website address so that would mean it would be an organisational website.
3. My first impressions of the website were, in a way doesn't seem as bad as what I thought and even still some of the things that the articles titles say and descriptions don't seem right.
4. What I think about the website after reading the articles is that who ever wrote the website was rather against Martin Luther King and wanted to expose him as a bad person in more ways then just one. The website isn't very educational and who ever wrote it seems like they are trying to target people who don't know very much about him and are trying to make him out to be a violent person and a fake.
Readings
Reading 1: This reading was about search engine tutorials. It had a lot of websites you could go to on it to get some help on how to research. The websites were in different categories as to website thought the website and there are other website that aren't with this website. The website also has articles from 2004 and 2003 and 2002.
Reading 2: In this reading there is a time line starting from 1945 and finishes 1995. The time line is about the history of the world wide web. It tells us about how it first started and and it came around. The time lines tells us all the developments the world wide web had and it also states the people who had things to do with what was done to get it up and running. This website would be quite good if you ever had to do an assignment on the world wide web.
Reading 3: This reading is about the Internet it also has the history of the Internet on the website. The website has 5 chapter you can read about some of the history of what inventions are (first chapter), then how the Internet came about (second chapter), then how e-mail came about and the history of e-mail(third chapter), chapter four was about search engines and a bit of history on them and how they work and how to get he best information, and chapter five was about basic net data.
That's all for this week. See next week for more.
Brittany
This week's lecture's was about the World Wide Web.
In today's lecture Justine told us all about the World Wide Web and that this is one part and the Internet is the whole thing. The World Wide Web is in the Internet. The web is a space of where you can put information. Also the web wouldn't be there without the Net. World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. His reasoning was "to facilitate sharing research information". Justine also talked about domain name system's and all the different types. Also about the protocols and what they were. Justine informed us of the tools needed to be able to get on the Web. Web browsers were another topic that was spoken about today. Justine explained to us about the interfaces of web pages and how they can help do things. She also gave us some short cuts using the keyboard to do different tasks.
Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. I learnt when and why the World Wide Web was developed.
2. I learnt about the domain systems.
3. I also learnt about some more short cuts on the keyboard that I wasn't already currently aware of.
4. I learnt don't trust all websites because of face value even if it is totally believable.
5. I also learn about web browsers today.
Tutorial
In the tutorial today we looked up websites and looked at how authentic they were. The first to websites I looked at were; http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ and http://www.molossia.org/ and answered some questions on them.
Here are the answer's to the them:
1a) Both websites have made an effort to make it look like they are a official website not just a fake website.
1. They over do it by trying to make it sounds so legit that it seems fake.
2. One is a organisational website and the other commercial which says that it could be a official website but then anyone can start up a website and it would be more believable if it had .gov or .edu as then it would be a government site or an education site then it would be more believable.
3. One of the website news section is not really the serious a bit silly really that's another sign of not a serious website.
4. They both talk about things that don't exist.
The second website I looked at was www.martinlutherking.org and did the questions required with this website.
Here are my answers:
2a) Racism, bias information, one sided arguments, and things to do with an organisation.
b) Yes it does it has .org on the end of the website address so that would mean it would be an organisational website.
3. My first impressions of the website were, in a way doesn't seem as bad as what I thought and even still some of the things that the articles titles say and descriptions don't seem right.
4. What I think about the website after reading the articles is that who ever wrote the website was rather against Martin Luther King and wanted to expose him as a bad person in more ways then just one. The website isn't very educational and who ever wrote it seems like they are trying to target people who don't know very much about him and are trying to make him out to be a violent person and a fake.
Readings
Reading 1: This reading was about search engine tutorials. It had a lot of websites you could go to on it to get some help on how to research. The websites were in different categories as to website thought the website and there are other website that aren't with this website. The website also has articles from 2004 and 2003 and 2002.
Reading 2: In this reading there is a time line starting from 1945 and finishes 1995. The time line is about the history of the world wide web. It tells us about how it first started and and it came around. The time lines tells us all the developments the world wide web had and it also states the people who had things to do with what was done to get it up and running. This website would be quite good if you ever had to do an assignment on the world wide web.
Reading 3: This reading is about the Internet it also has the history of the Internet on the website. The website has 5 chapter you can read about some of the history of what inventions are (first chapter), then how the Internet came about (second chapter), then how e-mail came about and the history of e-mail(third chapter), chapter four was about search engines and a bit of history on them and how they work and how to get he best information, and chapter five was about basic net data.
That's all for this week. See next week for more.
Brittany
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
Week Six
This week's lecture was about using EndNote.
In today's lecture Justine started off by talking a little bit about referencing and bibliographies. Then she went on to talk about what is EndNote she gave a descrition and also told us that it can be used to ways. Justine then told us about how does EndNote work and its a fat-file system. She also told us that ECU uses APA5th in EndNote. She informed us that we can get the program from the library so we can put it in on our computers at home and we can also download it form the internet which she gave s aus the website to do this in. She tolds about the reason of why we should use EndNote. With this she gaves us a fair few good reasons on why we should use it. The last bit Justine talked about was don't expect to "get it" the first time you use it because it does take tim e to learn how to use EndNote properly. She also just gave us a few handy hits that would help us to start being able to use EndNote.
The five knew things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial are:
1. Firstly I learnt all about EndNote and how good it actually is and how handy it will be for me when doing references etc.
2. Seondly I learnt how to use it.
3. Thirdly I learnt learnt how to use it on its own and also how I can use it with word as well.
4. Fourthly I learnt the standard of what ECU likes us to use when using EndNote.
5. Fifthly I learnt how EndNote is quite easy to use after about the second time of using it.
In today's lecture Justine started off by talking a little bit about referencing and bibliographies. Then she went on to talk about what is EndNote she gave a descrition and also told us that it can be used to ways. Justine then told us about how does EndNote work and its a fat-file system. She also told us that ECU uses APA5th in EndNote. She informed us that we can get the program from the library so we can put it in on our computers at home and we can also download it form the internet which she gave s aus the website to do this in. She tolds about the reason of why we should use EndNote. With this she gaves us a fair few good reasons on why we should use it. The last bit Justine talked about was don't expect to "get it" the first time you use it because it does take tim e to learn how to use EndNote properly. She also just gave us a few handy hits that would help us to start being able to use EndNote.
The five knew things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial are:
1. Firstly I learnt all about EndNote and how good it actually is and how handy it will be for me when doing references etc.
2. Seondly I learnt how to use it.
3. Thirdly I learnt learnt how to use it on its own and also how I can use it with word as well.
4. Fourthly I learnt the standard of what ECU likes us to use when using EndNote.
5. Fifthly I learnt how EndNote is quite easy to use after about the second time of using it.
In the tutorial this week we had to start up and EndNote and put references from the list and reference them into EndNote.
Here is a screen shot of my EndNote refernences.
Well that's all for this week. Next week there will be more :)
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