Week 9 - Communications

Lecture:

In today's lecture we learned about different ways of internet communication. For exampls emails, msn and podcasts. We watched a view videos from youtube about spam and emails. Helen also told us how our personal information can stay safe in emails. The lecture was very interesting because I didn't know about podcasts before the lecture.


Tutorial:

In the tutorial my group and I spent most of our time completing the framework for the group assigment. The rest of the time I completed the workshop for this week. The workshop tasks were actually quite fun and easy to complete.



Workshop:

I visited the website www.google.com and I clicked on the GROUPS tab and entered the term cars. The groups that I found were discussion boards about peoples opinions and the discussion boards varied a lot. For example a particular group had a forum about how cars cause pollution. Another group had a discussion board about the latest cars. This shows the different types of groups there are. This shows that I would have to search a bit more specifically.

I have gone through some of the messages and realised how each person had a different opinion. There are people voicing out their opinions in the discussions but there are also people disagreeing and arguing their point of view. It is interesting how many different opinions there were.


I used the podcast http://audio.search.yahoo.com/audio to search up the topic of cars. There were different audios on this topic. I think that podcasts can be useful to university students because lecturers can record the lecture on a microphone and onto the Ipod and then post it on a podcast. This means that any online students will be able to listen to the lecture online.

Week Nine: Reading 1 (URL) - Guide to using Email
The two articles, ">Email Do's and Don'ts - Ways to make your messages more efficient and effective:and Essential Email Etiquette - Avoid common pitfalls when composing your messages contain information about the main points of Email Etiquitte and how to improve your emails and messages.

>Week Nine: Reading 2 (URL) - The Problem with Spam
This article contains useful and interesting information about spam and how it can be avoided. There is information about spam in Australia. There is also information about the organization which is the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email,Australia.

Week 8 - Using Powerpoint

Lecture:

Today's lecture covered the topic of Powerpoint and how to use it. I haven't used powerpoint for a few years and found that I had forgotten the main components of using it. Today's lecture was very beneficial. We also learnt how to give a good presentation and the key points on giving a good Powerpoint presentation.

Tutorial:
In today's tutorial the work consisted using Powerpoint and giving a good presentation. In today's tutorial I also worked with my group on our group task and we managed to complete most of our assigment which was a major relief. Hope also checked our blogs to see who was up to date and who wasn't. I was up to date with my blog.

Workshop:

Top Five Strategies on Delivering an excellent Powerpoint Presentation:

1. Speak with a load and clear voice

2. Keep your slides simple

3. Rehearse and know your stuff

4. Correct Spelling

5. Eye contact

My Powerpoint Presentation on How to give a low Impact Presentation:












Resource:

The document which was a guide to help me attempt today's workshop helped me a lot. The information in the document helped me work through my slides. I wasn't sure how to add an animation effect but it was very clear once I read the document provided.

Week 7 - Using Endnote

Lecture:

Today's lecture was based on using Endnote. Endnote is a database that can be used as a Reference Manager and a Bibliography Maker. I wasn't familiar with Endnote before the lecture and I learned a lot about it through the lecture notes. End note seemed a bit complicated to use but it also seemed very interesting. The lecture had a lot of useful information about endnote and it also had print screens to demonstrate how to use Endnote.

Tutorial:

In today's tutorial I completed a range of different tasks all relating to Endnote. I had trouble using Endnote at first, but after practicing I finally managed to understand how to use Endnote. In today's tutorial I learned a lot about using Endnote and Hope's help contributed to the understanding of completing the tasks.

Workshop:

References:

This is a message posted to an electronic mailing list that I have referenced:

Jermins, K. (2005). Ursi: Ursi Commissions. Message posted to ref links electronic mailing list, archived at http://www.ips.gov.au/pipermail/ursi-commissiong/2007/000072.html

This is a website that I referenced:

Euthanasia is a Major Problem in the Netherlands (Euthanasia.com) [.2008.] Retrieved March, 2008, from Google: http://www.euthanasia.com/index.html

This is Journal article that I referenced:

Lewis, P. U.S. (2007). The Empirical Slippery Slope from Voluntary to Non Voluntary. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 35, 95 – 212. Retrieved
March 24, 2008 from ProQuest database.

This is an online Magazine article I have referenced:

Cosmo’s Record-Breaking Bikini Bash. (2008, January 6). [Cosmopilitan Magazine], 7-9.


This is an online Newspaper article that I have referenced:

Petrol to rise beyond $1.50: economist. (2008, April 13). The West Australian, p. 7.




Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista:



This is the first exercise we completed using Endnote. It was basically a practice for using Endnote and we had to use specific sites and books given to us to complete the task. This was an introduction exercise to using Endnote.

Cite While you Write



This is some notes from the websites and books I was given to reference using Endnote. I also used Endnote to cite the notes. It was interesting to see how useful Endnote was.



This is a print screen of the excersise we were asked to complete. It was called cite while you write. It involved using Endnote for in-text referencing. I managed to complete the task and was proud that I finally understood how to use Endnote.

Resources: Endnote

This document was a guide to using Endnote. The guide did give me some direction with what I needed. The document was very helpful because I did need help with Endnote. The information in the document was very easy do understand and follow. It helped me a lot with completing the tasks required for this week.