Week One in Accessing Knowledge!

Friday 29/02/2008.

Lecture Overview:
Today was the day we commenced our Accessing and Knowledge Lecture, and Lab classes. A brief summary of what went about within these classes is stated below:

• We started the day off with our Lecture class which was taken by Dr.Helen Cripps.



• The lecture involved: giving us the course introduction, providing information on life at university, learning outcomes, course structure, assessments and communication with lecturers and tutors for unit UPC0004, and other students.



• We were informed that is it essential that we attended all lectures and lab classes.



• There are 3 assessment tasks for this course, all these tasks must meet the required pass mark in order to complete the course.



• There are 6 modules in this course.



• We are currently working on Module One, which involves; Using Computers. Basic computing skills are required for achievement in this course, but as the course progresses new skills will be acquired.

Tutorial Activities:
In our Lab class this week we learnt how to do the following:

• Searched through the ECU website.



• Logged in to MyECU blackboard, then clicked the Accessing Knowledge link and looked through the course outline, structure and assesment tasks.



• Browsed through SIMO.



• Browsed and used our ECU student website.



• Set up my own blog (weblog) to complete assessment one at http://www.blogger.com/



• Registered at imageshack and set up my own image storage account. (http://www.imageshack.us/) to help me with assessment one.



• Created a screenshot using imagshack.

How to set up your own blog account.

• Go to http://www.blogger.com/ and click on create your own blog.



• Complete all the necessary details in the Create an account webpage and click continue when all filled in.



• You then have to Name your blog after it has been accepted and select a URL for your blog, then click continue.



• If your blog title and URL have been accepted then you can Choose a Template. Click continue once you have found a template you like.



• Once the system has created and confirmed your blog click on Start Posting.



• To post comment you simply click on the hyberlink 'New Post' then when you have finished writing your post click 'Publish Post'



• Click on View Blog and there will be your blog with the week one entry.

Image Shack evidence.

This is a print screen of imageshack http://www.imageshack.us/ and blogger http://www.blogger.com/

Reading Summary:

PC Lube and Tune: PC lube and tube is a service and is a convenience store in business since February 1994. The site covers the following information:

• An introduction to PC hardware
• Exception handling in java and c#
• The graphic user interface
• Computers, videos files and HDTV
• Technical perspective on the microsoft antitrust case
• The tragedy of microsoft and java
• Character encoding and web standards
• Microsoft .Net framework
• Distributed applications and the web
• Das boot
• The storm before the COM
• Introduction to SNA, TCP/IP, and APPC
• Ethernet

How PCs Work: This website is about PCs and how they work. The article talks about the introduction to how PCs work other hyperlinks inside this article that the site talks about is PC connections, powering up, operating systems, the future of PCs, portable personal computing, lots more information and see all desktops articles. The article talks about the parts to a computer, their functions and how to use them.