Blog for week 9

Summary of lecture:

Todays lecture is all about communication and how it has changed in the past twenty years and also how this has helped society. The introduction of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has enabled us to share resources and communicate with people on the otherside of the world. Four types of communication explained in the lecture were chat rooms, bullentin boards, MSN messenger and by e-mail.

Summary of tutorial:

In todays tutorial we invesitigated the different ways people can communicate through using ICT (Information and Communication Technology). We were asked to visit the google website and enter a search term, in the tab groups section, on what interests us. Then we were to record our finding on what came up and look through some of the bullentin's posted. The same was done for podcasts.



What term did you enter and what did you find?

I entered "AFL Football" in the search bar for groups. Search results came back as people advertising jobs for AFL writers, the orgin of AFL and general information about why these people play AFL. Many of the bullentins posted are from either passionate supporters of an AFL team or just people who love AFL and seem to know alot about it.



What are the benefits of podcasts for university students?

Benefits for univeristy students are that they can take a reading from the lecture with them anywhere they want and listen to it as many times as they want. This way they won't end up behind on their work if they miss a lecture and can listen to it repeatedly before an exam. AFL Football screen shot

Reading Summary 1: Guide to using e-mail

This reading teaches people using e-mails to get to the point right away instead of going on and on about something. The reading explains if typing up a quick e-mail to a co-worker be sure not to miss out any keywords because then the recipient may not know what it is you are telling them or asking them. When starting an e-mail off it is polite to adress the recipient in the correct way instead of just "hey man" or "what up homie".

Reading Summary 2: The problem with SPAM

SPAM or also known as UBE (Unsolicitated Bulk E-mail) is a way of advertising at no cost to the sender. Thus this is why so many people recieve large amounts of unwanted e-mails. One major problem with SPAM is that many people are beginning to abandon using their e-mail because of the amount of SPAM they recieve and then have to delete everyday. When recieving SPAM the user could ultimately end up recieving a virus if the e-mail has been accidently clicked on.

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