Lecture:
Week nine lecture was combined with the week eight one because of ANZAC day, the lecture was all about communications and how Information and Communication Technology has changed the way people can communicate not only within offices but around the world.
-Their is all sorts of different people that need to communicate:
-For example it can be between individuals
-between individuals and organisations
- within a business
- between a business and an external organisation
We also had some examples of ICT - things such as Mobile telephone (3G network), Video and tele-conferencing, ipods, mp3, lap-tops, Electronic Mail (e-mail), Multi-media communications.
We also skimmed on ICT programs such as msn messenger, discussion boards and forums as well as Internet relay chat and podcasts.
Even the blogs we are creating are forms of ICT and another major one is the e-mail. With people receiving more then 60 emails a day, its by far one of the largest forms of communication in companies an business’ today.
We also looked at the benefits and drawbacks of ICT and how they effect certain people and companies.
To sum it all up there is a large range of communications available to university students today. They have the potential to provide: Great sources of information, communication tools to suit many purposes and a variety of contexts.
Tutorial:
Visiting Google and finding a topic that interests me, i had to investigate the messages posted on the bulletins and record what i found in my blog:
I entered "soccer" in the search term under groups and the groups that i found were
- rec.sport.soccer
- alt.obituaries
- alt.games.video.sony-playstation2
- ne.general
- Society's Child
After viewing some of the messages and bulletin boards i found out that most of these topics revolve around the sports popularity and its effect on society. They also point out how soccer is the most popular sport in the world and how you need to use your brain and not just your body. One of the sites actually compares soccer to footy and explains how much better it is.
Benefits for University students in relation to podcasts:
Podcasts could be real life savers for uni students as it can save them a very long drive or even missing a lecture. For example if a student lives very far away and the only thing they have at uni that day is a lecture, it saves them time and petrol because they can just watch it online. Also if a student can't make it to uni that day because of some other reason then they can again just watch it on the podcast.
Reading Summary:
This weeks reading was all about spam mail. It pretty much explained how useless spam mail is and what it is. SPAM is other wise known as electronic junk. The website provided information about spamming uses and functions, also giving us detailed descriptions about the types and uses.
http://www.caube.org.au/problem.htm
The other two reading were
1) Article: 14 Email Do's and Don'ts - Ways to make your messages more efficient and effective: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page6175.cfm
2) Article: Essential Email Etiquette - Avoid common pitfalls when composing your messages: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page4815.cfm
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