Morning Lecture:
In the morning lecture we were informed about certain information and the course outline. We were told this unit provides a project-based approach to accessing knowledge through library and information & communications technologies.
Our main focus will be on using resources from a variety of sources to search for information on a topic and on synthesising this information to prepare a project report on a given topic.
Accessing our student email and blackboard should become our second nature so we were informed thoroughly about them too.
In the lecture we were also informed that UPC0004 revolves around 6 main modules: 1) Using computers, 2) Online Research Strategies, 3) Communications, 4) Information Management, 5) Building Knowledge, 6) Social and Ethical Issues
Also in the lecture we were informed about our responsibilities as students. We have to attend lectures, attend tutorials/workshops, complete all workshops, know the ecu plagiarism policy, check the ecu email regularly as well as checking blackboard regularly.
In the workshop with Helen Cripps we accessed our email accounts and visited our blackboard site. Here we checked our tasks and started making our blogs.
As well as making an account with the blog, i also signed up with photobucket and learned how to print screen an upload images to put on my blog (like above and below)
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Now that i have started my blog and emailed my URL to Helen i can continue adding information to the site on a weekly basis.
Week one reading summary:
1) PC lube and tune http://www.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm- is a website that supplies usable introductions, tutorials, and education on technical subjects to the large audience of computer users. The method is to supply system independent hypertext files through the Internet and World Wide Web.
With headings such as introduction to PC hardware, exceptions handling in java, the graphics user interface, technical perspective and character encoding etc..
the whole site basically introduces you to computers and how to use them efficiently.
2) How stuff works http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm- this website is more specific and contains articles wich explain
1. Introduction to How PCs Work
2. PC Connections
3. Powering Up
4. Operating System
5.The Future of PCs
6. Portable Personal Computing
and much more.
Their both similar sites containing basic information about computers and how they work, handy for people who arn't familiar with computers and are just getting started.
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