Week 7- Using the WWW

Lecture

This weeks lecture we looked at the world wide web. We focused on some areas such as the Internet vs. the web, historical perspective of the web, defining the web, web protocols and web browsers/interface.

Internet Vs. The Web - When your on the web you are searching and viewing documents, pictures, sounds and video clips. The net is when your finding a computer and they connect with cables to each computer. The web connects with hyperlink texts.

Historical Perspective of the web - The web was developed and designed by Tim Berner-lee in 1989, The reason of designing the web was to have the facilitate research information.

Defining the Web- The web is a universal access point for gathering information stored on the computer with a gigantic network called the Internet.

The world wide web (also know as www) is a network of computers using TCP/IP to communicate to each other. TCP/IP stands for Transmission control protocol/ Internet protocol.

Using the web is simple with these steps to help you get the internet in your house. firstly you need a computer, followed with a modern(browser software), telephone line and those items with be the start of getting onto the the internet.

Workshop -

List 4 clues that gives each site away as a spoof-



http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/


1. The wording used such as “Haggis Myths" and "Haggii live with the monster in Loch Ness."

2. The haggis is not a real animal. More of a combined platypus and echidna.

3. The cameras are not actually cameras, just pictures of major cities such as London.

4. Peoples names such as “Toni Tope” and in the winners.

http://www.molossia.org/

1. The photos are just made for a laugh with random people standing with plastic boats that are said to be the M.S Platypus and Bandicoot.

2. “The Republic of Molossia bears no relation of any kind to the ancient Greek nation of the same name.”

3. Republic of Molossia226 Mary Lane,Dayton, NV 89403

4. An article about new M.S vessels called the “Platypus” and the “Bandicoot”

http://www.martinlutherking.org/


Looking at the domain, it looks as if the site is an organization site meaning it is probably authentic and will contain true information about Martin Luther King. I thought that I may find things such as a detailed information about his life, the move of Martin Luther King had on America, his childhood, and possibly comments by famous people about what a great person and how he changed America. The website sounds very much like it is a site dedicated to Martin Luther King, and his contributions to America.

When I went to the website, my first impressions were that the website is genuine and made to dedicate Martin Luther King. Looking further into the website I realized that it was a bogus website made as a big comic story. There were sexual remarks and comments targeting Martin Luther King and his behaviour which were false and dishonest.

Readings

This weeks readings were an insight to the development of the World-wide Web (www) and defining search engine techniques.Chronologically the development of the www.

Reading One - Search Engine watch tutorials.

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This website has many different links to articles that assist us in conducting a successful search for a particular topic. It covers all different issues and also gives helpful tips to improve and quicken your search. I found many of these articles to be very useful and informative to me as it gave me lots of options to improve my researching as well as advice on refining my search to achieve a better outcome.

Reading Two - Hitsory of the World Wide Web

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1945 The first of electronic information transfer was designed as a 'photo-electrical mechanical device'. which was able to create links between documents.
1960 The prototypes 'ONLine Systems' (NLS) was created enabling the use of email, browsing and editing. The mouse was also invented.The search engine readings ran through how to improve searching strategies and different search engines to use in regards to the information a user is trying to gain.
1980 Program was written which allowed arbitrary nodes to link together. The nodes were made up of a title, type and had a list of bidirectional typed links.
1989 The first computer back ground was produced.
1990 The first global hypertext was written the www.
1991 The www was becoming more commonly used and files were being uploaded.
1993 www was to be made available to everyone free of charge.
1994 It was decided that the Web would be introduced into homes.

Reading Three - History of the internet

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This website gives information on the history of computer and the birth of the internet. It starts by talking about the humble beginnings of different inventions, starting with steam engines and different types of them used in the early days. It then goes on to discuss the invention of computers and how they were developed. It later discusses the forming of technology and the different stages it went through during development, as well as providing us with information on how the internet was formed and different parts of the WWW. I found this website to contain a lot of useful information that was presented in an appealing way to the reader.

Week 6- EndNote Libraries

Lecture-
The lecture introduced and discussed the university tool EndNote. EndNote is a program that helps sort out your referencing and distinguish a journal reference to a conference reference. Endnote is also know as reference manager and bibliography maker. A positive about EndNote is that it is integrated into MS Word. The reason the university encourages students to use EndNote is so that they can keep a track of a growing number of references. EndNote is able to reference in a number of styles and types of referencing. The main key points we learnt from the lecture was that don't except to 'get it' the first time you try EndNote, but to play around with it and get use to it over a period of time. Begin to use EndNote as a standalone application- this way you can keep a track of your references. Always back up (save) your library, not just on your desktop, but use a USB thumb drive or other forms of saving work. The use of EndNote will help simplify and customise your references instead of a bunch of cluttered mixed up references.



Workshop-
In the workshop we were asked to get straight into our workshop week six task. The task was to open up EndNote and follow the instructions to how to place some references in EndNote correctly. We were asked to copy 8 different references into EndNote and reference them according to the style or type that they were. We were asked to change the formatting to the ECU's Standard which was APA 5th. We were asked to refer to ECU referencing guide booklet to identify what each style of reference was. A reference with a volume and issue number were usually a journal or magazine article. Most of the references consisted of journal and magazine articles. We were heavily instructed to back up our referencing work on the thumb drive. This workshop really equips you with the tools on how to reference and back up your work properly.



Workshop task -

Week 5- Information Management

Lecture
Week 5 lecture was all about how to manage the information you gather in a easy and quick way. We can use the computer as a way of processing information in the ways of data, pictures and web pages. There are two types of formatted information which can be used. The first one is atom-based which is books, papers, reports, etc. The pros to using atom-based information is the fact that you can see it and you know where it is. It is also difficult to change and copy which helps in the area of copyright and plagiarism. The cons to atom-based info is the bulkiness and costly prices of gathering atom-based information. Its also hard to edit and difficult to copy.

The second form of information is bit-based which is digital reproductions and electronic content. The pros to using bit-based info is that it is very flexible and very cheap. Easy to edit and mass produce. The cons to it is the privacy and the authenticity.

Some good changes from atom to bit is email, the internet, music(mp3) and TV (foxtel IQ).

In summary 5 good ways of organsing and retrieving information are to have file extensions, folders/directories, creat metadata, search function (OS) and search engines.




Worskhop
Part A. In the week 5 workshop class we were told to get straight into our workshop tasks. The first task was to read this PDF text file www.inette.com/aibtinette/favouritesl.html about creating favourites on your internet webpage. We then were asked to step up a favourites list that has 3 folders in it, each with atleast two websites marked as favoutires. Here are screenshots of the three favouite folders.

Part B. We were asked to write a short review about the pros and con's of atoms and bits using the information given. http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm.

The balance of Pros and Con's with Atom and bit-based information.
There is an abundant amount of pros and cons to both atoms and bit-based information which can be discussed and debated forever. As each year goes past the demand for more atom- based info to convert into bit-based info is outstandingly huge. This leads to there being many more pros about bit-based information and more cons about atom-based information. An example of this is the use email (being a bit-based info source) over the atom-based info of writing a letter. The fact that with a atom you can actually see it and feel it is a pro in itself, will always have that over bit info. With the worry of copyright and plagiarism atom-based info is much harder to copy or change info of your work.
On the other hand bit-based info is so much more flexible with it being cheaper and usually quicker. The use of bit-based info can enable you to mass produce and broadcast information. An example that could be used is a book, which is an item of information(atom-based) that is light-weight and easy look through. On the other side actually getting the book in your hands includes shipping and inventory. With that in mind a book will also at some stage go out of print, while digital books will always be on the internet or webpage.
The balance between atoms and bit-based information and their pros and cons are close. Although i can see in the near distance future, atoms will be a thing of the past in some areas of information e.g. book libiries just being online.