UPC 0004 Accessing and Organising Knowledge
Lecture Summary
To become an organised and efficient student you should become familiar with the ECU website. You should become well acquainted with getting to know how to access Unit Materials, Blackboard, E-mail, library services and timetable changes. The main focus of the course will be learning how to search for information using technology and completing an essay or report at university standards. There are only three hours a week spent in contact time but it is advised that for every 1 hours spent in class two hours are spent studying or revising notes. By completion of this course the student should be able to use a wide range of sources to complete an assignment, essay or report at university level, have greater communication skills with peers and have greater confidence with their work.
There are three tasks to be completed in this unit before they are able to pass the course. For every day from the due date it is late, their is a 5% penalty. If the assignment is not handed in after one week of being due the final mark for that task is zero.
For students to pass this course it is expected that they turn up for 80% of the lectures. The tutorials are not compulsory but students gain a lot more than if the read it of a screen. Students must check blackboard and their E-mail regularly for updates about room changes or due dates.
Remember that when you learn new information about technology it seems difficult at the beginning, but the more practice you have the better you get, and the more successful at it you become.
Workshop Entry
Get to know how to work SIMO so that you can access timetables. room changes, send and receive e-mails and use the ECU website.
Reading One
The first reading showed me how to create screen shots and then place them on my blog. It had step by step instructions that also included screen shots.
Reading Two
This reading discussed how to create a blog. Just like reading one it has step by instructions that included screen shots.
Reading Three
Week one was all about starting up and beginning the process of the weekly blog entry. The third reading showed me how to create my image shack account that i will be using each week to transfer my screen shots onto my blog.
Reading Four
The PC Lube and Tube is a computer website that educates those on computers and its hardware. The articles are supplies from independent hypertext that can be read on the Internet.
You are able to read articles such as:
An Introduction to PC Hardware
Exception handling in Java and c#
The graphic user interface
Computers, Video files, and HDTV
Technical Perspective on the Microsoft Antitrust case
Character Encoding and Web Standards
And much more...
Reading Five
Computers are the most commonly used technology and is used all around the world.All computers contain a microprocessor(MP). An MP is a silicon chip that contains a Central Processing Unit (CPA)
There are seven major components to a computer. Which are :
1. Mother Board- Also known as the 'Heart' of the computer. Everything connects to the mother board.
2. Central Processing Unit (CPA) -The "Brain". Everything that is done on a computer is overseen by the CPA.
3. RAM (Random access memory) Storage of data. The more RAM the more speed
4. Video Card- Translates image and data in a way displayed to the monitor screen.
5. Power supply-Supplies the power that the computer needs.
6. Hard Disc- Holds information from programs and documents saved to the hard drive in large capacities.
7. Optical Drive- Reads and writes CD's and DVD's
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