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.