Week Four in Accessing Knowledge!

21/3/08

Overview of week fours Lecture

Week Four in Accessing Knowledge was required to be completed at home, as there was no school on good friday. The lecture slides and workshop instructions were put up on blackboard for us to complete and not fall behind.

The lecture for this week was all about the web, and the net. It explained the difference between the two, and the importance of each. Though the main focus of the lecture was 'Using the WWW'. On the Internet you would find computers, and the connections are cables between computers. Whereas on the web you would find documents and other information, and the connections are hypertext links. The web is defined as a universe of accessible information stored on computers throughout the world. The information is available through a gigantic network called the Internet. The lecture explained about the Domain Name System Conventions (for example org, com, gov, net). and we were also told about the sorts of web browsers found on the Internet and common interface shortcuts (eg. Ctrl+S=Save, Ctrl+D=Bookmark).

Tutorial activities

Activity One

1) Visited the website http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/

Four clues that gives the site away as a spoof:
1) It is a commercial website (http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/)
2) Photos are irrelevant to the so called 'Haggis Hunt'
3) The animal Haggis is fictional
4) Has alot of irrelevant links.


Above is a similar picture as the previous one, only this one I have edited in paint before inserted into Blogger. It has been edited by showing the where-abouts of the spoofs on the site.

2) Visited the website http://www.molossia.org/

Four clues that gives the site away as a spoof:
1) should be gov not org.
2)There language is English though seems to be Middle Eastern
3) Its not an actual country (found in America)
4) Too many news articles for such a small nation


Above is a similar picture as the previous one, only this one I have edited in paint before inserted into Blogger. It has been edited by showing the where-abouts of the spoofs on the site.

Activity Two

• When I enter this website I expect to see a picture of Martin Luther King, and a history and background of MartinLuther King. I also expect to see his achievements and what he has completed in his life.

Activity Three

• My first impressions when I entered this site were that I expected to read and learn about his achievements and the history of the life he lived.Though as you read the articles more in depth they became more biased, and my first impressions became further from the truth.

Activity Four

• I feel that the website has changed from my first impression that I had on it, the website told the stories from one point of view, though in saying that the writer also noted his achievements, though sounding less herotic. After researching other websites of Martin Luther King, the website http://www.martinlutherking.org/ didnt seem to acknowledge and mention his tremendious achievements as much as other websites did.
  
  

Reading Summary:

Search Engine Watch Tutorials: The page provides a guide to key material within Search Engine Watch, resources across the web and articles written about searching better.

History of the WWW: This shows a little history of the world wide web from 1945 to 1995.3)

History of the World-wide web: This reading is also about the history off the web, but is much more comprehensive than the other reading. It talks about the development of the computer more in depth.