Week Five, Information Management, 28th August 2007

Lecture

The lecture this week consisted of Information Management. The lecture explained two types of information format :

• Atom Based
• Bit Based

These two type of information has many types of Pros and Cons, as the lecture explained the atom based information is information such as books, encyclopedia etc, and bit based is information such as a website. The lecture also explained how to manage these types of information for easy access and use.

Workshop

The workshop activity consist of two parts. The first part being organizing our favourite websites in folders the example of my favourite websites organized can seen below.

Tutorial Activity Task 1 -

The second task is to write a 250 word log that explains the pros and cons of atom based and bit based information.

The article states that atom based info and bit based info are the types of information commonly seen today and most people have problems managing both information. The article states that atom based information has many pros and cons such as :

Pros

• Atoms are worth money
• Can be seen such as CD, Cassettes etc.
• Can delivered and carried

Cons

• Worth money on shipping
• Most probable will be held by customs
• Can be out of print

Also the pros and cons of bit based information :

Pros

• Priceless
• Easily shipped by means of Internet
• Can't be caught by Customs

Cons

• Can be copied
• Not worth money
• Doesn't have the quality of printed books

These pros and cons are the basis of choosing the best possible type of information for you. Having these it is easy to distinguish which sort of information should be kept at atom or which should be kept as based this is probably the best way to determine how to manage your information.

Article of DNA of Information -

Week Four, Communications, 21st August 2007

Lecture

The lecture this week consisted of introducing the concept of ICT-Information Communication Technology. The lecture emphasise mostly on what sort of ICT communication are out there that are available to students.


Workshop

The workshop activity consisted in going to Google and researching a topic that interest me and reading messages and bulletin boards under the groups tab in Google. The second part was to listen to about two podcast that interest me.


Google Groups Research -


Some potential benefits of a podcast is listening to information such as lectures, speeches or conferences. This is useful for students as they can download the information and place in devices such as MP3's of ipod's. This information can used for assignments and as a reference. Another great way of having a podcast is the way you can gain information on the go while your working out or travelling. These are probably some of the benefits of a podcast.


Podcast -

I think this workshop activity was interesting I never used the Group Tab of Google to obtain information from different people. The podcast was also interesting as i never used podcast before and never listen to one before.

Week Three, Presentation Strategies, 14th August 2007

Lecture

The lecture consisted of how to present Presentations more effectively that will help the audience engage the presentation. It included the make up of a presentation which included a basic Introduction, Main body and Conclusion and also what sort of aspects that needs to be included to make them attention getting. The lecture also another Microsoft application known as Powerpoint. It is said that using Powerpoint will help in presenting a presentation but not all the time. Powerpoint is used for it's slides for easy presenting in order and also for grabbing attention with features such as background, sound effects and pictures.


Workshop

The workshop activity was to make a Powerpoint slide of a topic that interest me. This is shown below.





Title Page -

Introduction Page -

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Conclusion -


This workshop activity was also good in helping me refresh my Powerpoint skills.

Week Two, Office Applications, 7th August 2007

Lecture

The lecture for week two consisted of using basic applications in the computer this included:

• Windows Explorer
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Internet Explorer
• Outlook/Outlook Express
• Adobe Acrobat Reader

Each applications was explained briefly and why they are used in University, these applications are said to be the most used applications by students in University. Also a demonstration of how to access the ECU library web page was also shown. During the tutorial the activity involve using both Microsoft Word and Excel.

Workshop

The tutorial for the Microsoft Word consisted in completing various task that involves using basic functions of Microsoft Word. The end production of the task is shown below.

First page-

Second page-

The Microsoft Excel exercises consisted of doing a timetable of my daily week activities. This timetable then was converted to a pie graph using the average hours of my activities and a graph showing my social activity. This task can be seen below:

This workshop activity I think was a good way to refresh my skills in Microsoft Word and Excel as for I am very knowledgeable in using these two Microsoft applications. So I thought this was a good way to refresh my skills.