Summary of the lecture
Today was an indroduction to the unit and an introduction to what we will be learning throughout the semester in unit 0004. We were given information on things such as modules, assessments, what is to be expected of us in the way of referencing & plagerism; these topics would be covered in later weeks. We were also provided with a list of the materials we would be needing for the unit. We were told that there was little leniancy with due dates for assessments and we should try not to apply for extensions, which shouldent be needed if we have organised out time properly - time management is the number one reason why people fail university.
Summary of the workshop
In workshop today we were introduced to blackboard and told about the functions of blackboard. Blackboard is an ECU online interactive community where students can access to get lecture slides and recourses for tutorials. We then set up blogger.com accounts, which would be our assignments worth 50% of our semester mark; in these blogs we have to write summarys of our lectures, the workshop, any articles we've read and any work we have completed, as well as upload screen shots of our completed work from the workshops to the blog. After setting up the blogger accounts we also setup imageshack.us accounts, these will be used to host our screen shots of completed work so that we can upload them to our blogs. We then read some articles called how stuff works and PC Lube & Tune.
Summary of how stuff works
Through reading the article 'how stuff works' i have learnt that an un-educated person perception of technology is merely "computers". A computer is a highly complexed machine, it contains many diffrent parts such as memory, hard disk and modems. There are computerised components everywhere in our lives, our cars have computers, our electrical appliances have comptuers, everything has computers!
Summary of PC lube and tune
this article provides the basic ins and outs of of your computer, it explains in basic laymans terms what everything in the computer is and who discovered or made it. the website provides many diffrent links to websites on the net that can help you in more depth with your computer troubles or just general enquires.
applications i learnt how to use in workshop (click to go to the screen shots)
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links to the articles
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