Week 10- Managing Information

Lecture:
In the Lecture today we watched a video on knowledge information on the web. The tutorial slides contained information about atom based information and bit based information. There were also quite a few diagrams of different ways that you can manage your information. The lecture today was very interesting.

Tutorial
In today's tutorial I worked through the workshop very rapidly and managed to finish it. I found the tutorial very interesting because I didn't know how to set up my favourites list in the web browser. I learnt a lot from today's tutorial.


Workshop:

Task 1:


This is a print screen of a favourites list that I have set up, containing three folders, each with two websites marked as favourites.

Task 4: Nicholas Negroponte - Being Digital

There are of course pros and cons when it comes to using "atoms" and "bits". Each one equally contains pros and cons. Even though our economy is becoming more digital most of our information is delivered to us in the forms of atoms.As technology changes bit based information is becoming more popular as it is becoming faster and easier than using atom based. Large businesses prefer using bits rather than atoms because bits are easily transferred where as atoms are not. An great example of this is sending a package like a CD-Rom or other physical materials via a cargo company such as FedEx. This is atom based and very easy to use but on the downside there can be delays in the shipment because of transport problems. Using the bit based format it is easier to send the information through the Internet and email. This information will be received automatically without problems. Some major companies still rely on the atom based format to continue their work such as making sweaters and take away food. It would take a long time to fully convert this core business into a bit based format business.Between the two different formats there are many pros and cons, and each are used with these advantages and disadvantages.

Week Ten: Reading 1 (URL) - Grazing the Net

The essay explores the theory of raising young people to think, explore and make meaning for themselves. The essay explores ideas of Students as Infotectives, Issues of Reliability and Adequacy, Creating the Wired Classroom and the Wired School, Preparing Students for Internet Competencies and Raising a Generation of Free Range Students. Each heading relates to the topic of raising young people to think, explore and make meaning for themselves of the information that is on the Internet.

Week Ten Reading 2/Video - BBC Program Clicks - On knowledge managment and the Web

The Video questions the idea of the reliability of the Internet. Specific websites and Wikipedias are inspected. The video demonstrates how managing information on the Internet can question the idea of the sources we think are reliable, but in fact are not.Click talked to the creator of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and investigated whether any of the information available on the web is actually worth consuming.The video suprised me quite a lot because in conclusion most of the information on the Internet does appear unreliable because there is no regulations as to what is allowed to be posted.