Week Twelve 24th May - Social and Ethical Issues

Lecture
Today's lecture was about social and ethical issues. Justine first off started talking about why there problems and the characteristics of the Internet, Internet information, and Internet users. Next she went on to talk about what the problem's were and a bit about each problem. Justine then talked about how ECU sees academic misconduct and how they go about dealing with people. Then Justine talked about the problems with Internet users and a bit about the problems. She then talked about how we could protect ourselves while using the net.

Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. First thing I learnt today was about the characteristics of the Internet, Internet information, and Internet users.

2. Second thing I learnt was all the problems all three things can have.

3. Third thing I learn today was how we can protect ourselves a bit better than what we already do.

4. Fourth thing I learn about today was about the copyright laws.

5. Fifth thing I learnt about today was

Tutorial
In today's tutorial we had to go to this website http://www.copyright.org.au/ and look at all the articles and read all the ones that would be relevant to us as an undergraduate.

This is a list of the articles that I feel would be relevant to me as an undergraduate:

- Libraries: an introduction to copyright

- Maps and charts

- Videos, DVDs and films: screening in class

- TV and radio: home taping

- INTERNET: COPYING & DOWNLOADING MATERIAL

- Educational institutions: Introduction to copyright

Here is a screen shot of the website:

The second website we had to go today during the tutorial was http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ipcases.html.

Here is a list of ways how I'm going to help protect myself while using the web and using my computer.

1. I will make sure my firewall is working.

2. I will update my antivirus at least on a weekly basis.

3. Before I open up attachments I will run them through the antivirus programme.

4. Won't give out my information.

5. I will also turn off my preview on my emails.

Readings
This week there were six readings. I have just summarised what all of them are about.

In the readings this week the topics of the readings were about keeping you, and your computer, and both of your contents safe from viruses and unsafe people on the web.

One site in particular concentrated on security and all the different types of security you should have. The readings refers to guides to basic and in-depth security for your computers. The readings also covered a little bit of information about the effects of viruses. A few of the readings also talked about different programmes that can affect your computer.

Well that's it now. Won't see any next week. :)

Brittany

Week Eleven 17th May - Building Knowledge

Lecture

In today's lecture Justine talked about data, information and knowledge. She started with definitions of what they all meant then she went on to tell us about the characteristics of each one as well. Justine then talked about the importance and examples of data, information and knowledge. She then explained the relationships they all have. Then gave us some definitions on what all three words meant. Justine then went on to tell us about some strategies to use when doing assignments.

Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. The first thing I learnt today was what data and information and knowledge actually was.
2. The second thing I learnt about importance of them as well.
3. The third thing I learnt today was about some strategies to use while doing assignments.
4. The fourth thing I learnt about was how to draw thing using the programme Word.
5. The fifth thing I learnt about was



Tutorial
In today's tutorial we looked up online dictionaries and record the definitions for data, information and knowledge. The website I used was: http://www.yourdictionary.com/




Data: Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.


Information: Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction.




Knowledge: Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study.



Here is a screen shot of the website:

I also used another website to get the definitions as well. The website I used was: http://www.askoxford.com/

Data: Facts and statistics used for reference or analysis.

Information: Facts or knowledge provided or learned.

Knowledge: Information and skills acquired through experience or education.

Here is a screen shot of this website:

The next thing we had to do in the tutorial was draw a graph of the information using the drawing tool in Microsoft Word.

Here is my screen shot showing I have done this:

The relationship between data, information and knowledge can help you with your university studies by you need all three to learn properly. These three terms I feel are linked to the way we learn thing's. By first you get some data which then turns into information and then you get knowledge from the information.

The third activity we had to do in the tutorial was name 5 organisations that collect information from their clients and why they might do this.

1. Doctors: To keep your health records to make sure your not have regular symptoms to something, to know who you are, to know what medication you are on if you are on anything. These are just a few reasons they may keep your information.

2. CentreLink: To keep track of earnings and benefits paid so they know if people are receiving correct entitlements.

3. Banks: To keep track of peoples savings and loans.

4. Universities: So they know how many students go to the university and to know who is doing course and to know what year they are in when they are doing there course and to make sure they pay their money for the course.

5. Real state Agents: They would keep records of you as when you brought a house or you sold a house or if you were renting a property they would have your contact details just in case something went wrong.

Readings:

There were three reading's this week here are my summaries of each one.

1. Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom : This article shows the difference between the four terms. It also gives you the definitions of what each term means as well.

2. Information Literacy: This is a tutorial on information literacy. The lessons or tutorials were based: The Production of Knowledge, The Organisation Of Knowledge, From Thesis to Search Strategy, Fundamentals of Online searching, Using Reference Resources, Citing Your Sources, Copyright and Fair Use.

3. Data, Information and Knowledge: This reading is about Dr Jim Mullaney showing the relationships and questions related to the terms.

That's all for this week. See next week for more.

Brittany

Week Ten 10th May - Online Libraries and Databases

Lecture
Today's lecture was about online libraries and databases. The first topic Justine talked about was why use online libraries and gave us lots of reasons as to why we should. The next topic was the types of online libraries. Justine then went on to give us some examples of online resources we could use. She then talked about limitations of online libraries and also referencing online libraries. The topic after that was copy right issues and Justine explained to us about the copy right issues with online libraries. Justine then started talking about online databases; what they were and the types of online databases there are. She then went on to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using online databases. To finish off the lecture she summarised online databases and libraries into a few points.

Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. From today I learnt what online Libraries and Databases were.

2. I learn about some different types of them and some examples of website of them as well.

3. Another thing I have learnt today is how to reference online Libraries and Databases.

4. I learnt today how to use the library website better than what I did and learnt about the functions it can do.

5. The last thing I learnt today is

Tutorial
In today's tutorial we had to go to the library website and make a list of ten useful functions.

Here is my list of ten useful functions:
1. "Information resources" - The subheadings allows you enter into lots of other functions within this function.

2. "Information for Students" - This link allows you to chose from many options on what information you need, even if it's about the library trading hours or external library services.

3. "Resources For" - Some of the subheadings are Students, Researches, Academic Staff, External/offshore Students, Community and Alumni.

4. "Services" - Some services are Multimedia Services, Document Delivery and Loans Services.

5. "ECU Reference Guide" - This link to the referencing guide allows you to access on the net the reference guide and gives information how to write an appropriate guide.

6. "Learning Assistance" - This heading also has subheadings which include Liberty: Learning to Find Information and the ECU Referencing Guide.

7. "Search the Catalogue" - This link lets you to enter either the author, title, publication details or even the lecturer and it will search the database for you.

8. "Information About" - This has the subheading ECU Library which gives students with information about the facilities at the ECU Library.

9. "Online database" - This link allows you to search journal articles on the net through the University database.

10. "Loan Services" - This link tells you everything you need to know about how to borrow from the ECU library.

The next thing we were asked to do was visit the MEDline website and look up a topic and then explain why people would use this service and what they would get out of it.

Here are my answer:

I feel people would use this service as a source of information about a condition they have or think the have. Also about what kind of drug they are using and what is in them and the effects of the drug on them if any. What they would get out the the service would be information about anything they want to know about.

Here is a screen shot of the website:

That's all for this week. See next week for more.

Brittany

Week Nine 3rd May - Using Search Engines

Lecture

Today's lecture was about using search engines. Justine talked about how search engines fall into two main categories. Which are search engines and directories. We were given some search engine examples and some of the problems with search engines. Justine also told us about some things we can click on to get similar pages etc. Justine gave us some helpful hints for us to use when trying to get information that is what we want when using search engines. To finish off the lecture this morning she finished with giving us a few tips with using search engines.

Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.

1. First thing I learnt from toady's lecture was about when you click on similar pages or cached pages etc it could help you.

2. Second thing I learnt was a few things you can do when trying to find information like using " " when looking for that phrase.

3. Third thing I learnt was how to do a good search using search engines.

4. Fourth thing I learnt this week was how doing a search a bit different can give you different information to what you actually want.

5. Fifth thing I learnt today was how annoying quizzes are when you can't find the right answer.

Tutorial

In today's tutorial we looked at two website the first website we looked at was http://www.monash.com/spidap.html and we had to work thought some exercises. Then we listed four strategies to helps us do a good search.

Here are my four strategies.

1. Search a key work of what you want the information to contain.

2. Search for a phrase or use AND or 'or' etc.

3. Use the similar pages and cached pages buttons.

4. Think about where to look. Do you want a health website or a laws website etc.

After that we had to do an online quiz which contained 20 questions.

The website is:
www.siteseen.co.uk/questions/generalknowlegdehard/

Here is my screen shot of my results page.

When doing this quiz I used Google to help find the answers. I picked out the key word in the question and I searched it. It was very affective doing this and it worked.

I also used define: (and put word in here) and searched it most times it came up with the right answer that I was looking for.

Readings

The first two readings this week had mostly the same information on them. They both had how to successfully research using search engines. The other two readings were about search engine tutorials and the history of search engines. The reading about search engine tutorials I added to my favourites here is a screen shot of this.

That's all for this week. See next week for more.

Brittany