Throughout completing this task I used Times New Roman, I had a lot of difficulty with using blogger.com as it can be unstable at times and change the formatting that I have done. I used Times New Roman and a normal font size for the first eight or nine blogs. When I started to use references in the tenth, eleventh and twelve I realized I could not use the centre text function as according to the APA referencing guide this would not be an appropriate way to reference. So the last three blogs are all aligned to the left. If I had more time I would have gone back to the first nine blogs and change them but as formatting takes a lot of time and effort as all the text and screenshots are centred. I would have used the same formatting as the last three blogs with larger fonts.
The text should be in New Times Roman throughout the blog with no other font present. The main text should be large and the sub headings for the Tasks, Lecture, Tutorial and Readings of the Week. There should be two breaks or enters between tasks, lectures, tutorials and readings. Important terms or words have Bold function added to them so that they will stand out.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Week 11
I had difficulty changing the font for this week's blog as it changes from the Times New Roman style I have been using throughout the entire blog to Arial. There should be two breaks or enters between tasks, lectures, tutorials and readings.
Task 1 – Finding Definitions for the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Terms and Rewording Them:
I browsed the website called “Knowledge Map of Information Science: Data, Information, Knowledge” which contained a compilation of different professors from around the world with their ideas on the terms: data, information and knowledge. The next seven screenshots have the professors giving different descriptions of the terms.
Information - knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.
Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
Wisdom - the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
As the task asked me to I generated my own definitions for theses terms, even though it was very difficult in doing so, they included:
Data – is small or single pieces of information in the form of statistics or writing.
Information – is a group of data which can include wording and numbering.
Knowledge – is the amount of information absorbed which can be used to explain in writing or speech.
Wisdom – is also the amount of information absorbed but the more information and knowledge that a person has means that they have more experience about a topic.
Task 2 – Alternative Way to Show These Terms in Graphical Representation:
I had a look at the lecture slides and some examples of ways to represent graphical material on the internet and used this model:
It shows data becomes information, information to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. A person cannot have wisdom about a topic if they do not have any knowledge or information on the subject. Therefore the same sort of relationship will always be present in knowledge management between the four words, as they are all required for the process.
Task 3 – Relationship between data, information and knowledge and how it can assist in university study:
Being able to use data, information and knowledge can assist in university study in a very beneficial way. As data is collected, this then becomes a group of information and finally turns into knowledge which can be used over and over again. The three points work together, as a starting point needs to be made otherwise there would be no knowledge of the subject present.
Task 4 – Organisations Which May Collect Information from a Person:
These organisations will all require a name, date of birth, where a person lives, where they come from and other information. But more specifically these are what these organisations would need to obtain:
University – to find out where to send important information to, to see whether a student is still attending a course, for passwords into the computer system, immigration information.
Teacher/Lecturer – to understand students, and create a positive relationship so that learning can take place.
Police – for criminal activity, to help the community be a safer place.
Government – to see what the public believe on a certain topic.
Employer – to find out whether someone is a good worker, where they come from, to see if it worth hiring the person, to create a relationship with the employee to make a positive work environment.
Bank – so that an account can be created and kept for you, certain information is required from you such as passwords.
Gym – to find out who you are as a person so a relationship can be made between people in the gym, to find out where to withdraw money for payments.
Lawyer – to gain knowledge of the case and defend the client.
Psychologist/Psychiatrist – to have a stronger understanding of a client so that the correct methods can be used to help them
Doctor – to help create a record with information about you as a person, what medicine can be used when a patient become sick or drugs that may help.
Mechanic – to find out what model your vehicle is so correct materials can be purchased if there are any faults.
Sony – find out which products are being sold and which aren’t, to find out what the general public want in a product.
Record Companies –find out if a band would sell a record, how many can or will be sold.
Reference List:
Data [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Data
Information [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Information
Knowledge [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Knowledge
Wisdom [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wisdom
Lecture:
Week 11 focused on three terms which were data, information and knowledge. But before moving into the presentation a pop quiz took place which contained six questions:
1. What is a Boolean search?
2. What strategies can you use to give a great presentation?
3. What criteria can be used for evaluation of websites?
4. What are the advantages of atom based information?
5. What was the original purpose of the internet?
6. What are the 5 top things you have learned about the use of technology at university in this unit?
This lecturer spoke a lot about different types of data and went on to talk about bit and atom based types of text.
Tutorial:
This week's tutorial was about completing the workshop and what needed to be included in our blogs up to Week 11. The class then set to work out our weekly tasks.
Readings of the Week:
Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro and Anthony Mills describes knowledge management in two ways. The five different sections that the brain can be divided into include: data, information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
Task 1 – Finding Definitions for the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Terms and Rewording Them:
I browsed the website called “Knowledge Map of Information Science: Data, Information, Knowledge” which contained a compilation of different professors from around the world with their ideas on the terms: data, information and knowledge. The next seven screenshots have the professors giving different descriptions of the terms.
I looked these four definitions up on Dictionary.com and came up with the following:
Data - individual facts, statistics, or items of information.
Information - knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.
Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
Wisdom - the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
As the task asked me to I generated my own definitions for theses terms, even though it was very difficult in doing so, they included:
Data – is small or single pieces of information in the form of statistics or writing.
Information – is a group of data which can include wording and numbering.
Knowledge – is the amount of information absorbed which can be used to explain in writing or speech.
Wisdom – is also the amount of information absorbed but the more information and knowledge that a person has means that they have more experience about a topic.
Task 2 – Alternative Way to Show These Terms in Graphical Representation:
I had a look at the lecture slides and some examples of ways to represent graphical material on the internet and used this model:
It shows data becomes information, information to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. A person cannot have wisdom about a topic if they do not have any knowledge or information on the subject. Therefore the same sort of relationship will always be present in knowledge management between the four words, as they are all required for the process.
Task 3 – Relationship between data, information and knowledge and how it can assist in university study:
Being able to use data, information and knowledge can assist in university study in a very beneficial way. As data is collected, this then becomes a group of information and finally turns into knowledge which can be used over and over again. The three points work together, as a starting point needs to be made otherwise there would be no knowledge of the subject present.
Task 4 – Organisations Which May Collect Information from a Person:
These organisations will all require a name, date of birth, where a person lives, where they come from and other information. But more specifically these are what these organisations would need to obtain:
University – to find out where to send important information to, to see whether a student is still attending a course, for passwords into the computer system, immigration information.
Teacher/Lecturer – to understand students, and create a positive relationship so that learning can take place.
Police – for criminal activity, to help the community be a safer place.
Government – to see what the public believe on a certain topic.
Employer – to find out whether someone is a good worker, where they come from, to see if it worth hiring the person, to create a relationship with the employee to make a positive work environment.
Bank – so that an account can be created and kept for you, certain information is required from you such as passwords.
Gym – to find out who you are as a person so a relationship can be made between people in the gym, to find out where to withdraw money for payments.
Lawyer – to gain knowledge of the case and defend the client.
Psychologist/Psychiatrist – to have a stronger understanding of a client so that the correct methods can be used to help them
Doctor – to help create a record with information about you as a person, what medicine can be used when a patient become sick or drugs that may help.
Mechanic – to find out what model your vehicle is so correct materials can be purchased if there are any faults.
Sony – find out which products are being sold and which aren’t, to find out what the general public want in a product.
Record Companies –find out if a band would sell a record, how many can or will be sold.
Reference List:
Data [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Data
Information [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Information
Knowledge [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Knowledge
Wisdom [2008]. Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wisdom
Lecture:
Week 11 focused on three terms which were data, information and knowledge. But before moving into the presentation a pop quiz took place which contained six questions:
1. What is a Boolean search?
2. What strategies can you use to give a great presentation?
3. What criteria can be used for evaluation of websites?
4. What are the advantages of atom based information?
5. What was the original purpose of the internet?
6. What are the 5 top things you have learned about the use of technology at university in this unit?
This lecturer spoke a lot about different types of data and went on to talk about bit and atom based types of text.
Tutorial:
This week's tutorial was about completing the workshop and what needed to be included in our blogs up to Week 11. The class then set to work out our weekly tasks.
Readings of the Week:
Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro and Anthony Mills describes knowledge management in two ways. The five different sections that the brain can be divided into include: data, information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
The first way, is quite a complex explanation given to these words trying to tell the reader about knowledge management.
Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Oregon Technology in Education Council explains with several points the four terms; data, knowledge and wisdom.
But the second is a much simpler way of expressing with the example of ‘What is it?’ that is given, each sentence is a piece of data, together it becomes a group of information and finally with our knowledge of what the product it is we can figure it out that it is a refrigerator.
Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom by Oregon Technology in Education Council explains with several points the four terms; data, knowledge and wisdom.
Then the rest of the document is divided into three sub headings. The first, is organizing the terms into graphs and diagrams to show the relationship they have with one another. Secondly the business view and lastly the educational view on these terms.
Week 10
Task 1 – Favourites Tutorial Exercise:
I went onto the website Internet Beginners Tutorial, read and completed the instructions that were present. I clicked on the Favourites icon and added the website as required.
Task 2 – Creation of Folders and Adding Websites Exercise:
I used the information from the tutorial to crate a favourites list with three folders with two websites favourites in each. I went onto Google and typed in Tutorial in Favourites which brought up several results. I added the Step By Step Microsoft Internet Explorer Favourites Tutorial and Tutorial: Organizing Favourites in IE6 to the ‘A Tutorial in Favourites’ folder I had created in the Task 1 exercise.
I then typed in Internet Tutorials in Google and selected these links to add into a folder these were: Internet Tutorials, Internet Beginner's Guides Tutorials refdesk.com and Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL - Table of Contents, Internet Tutorial, and Internet Tutorial [English Online]. I used the ‘Add Group Tabs to Favourites’ method as it is a lot faster process than adding each one separately.
For the last folder I typed into the Google search bar Information Technology Tutorials, I added the following websites to a folder:
Information Technology (IT) Tutorials, IT Tutorials, Computer Technical Tutorials and Information: Free Computer Tutorials, Weblinks / Information Technology / Tutorials, Weblinks / Information Technology / Tutorials / Microsoft, Network Topics - Information Technology Tutorials and Information Technology Tutorials. I then used the ‘Add Tab Group to Favourites’ again under the folder name of Information Technology Favourites.
I was not happy with the small amount of favourites I had in the ‘A Tutorial in Favourites’ so I found some more links to add in the folder which were: eLouai How to Add to Favorites in HTML and Firefox Help - Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial (The Mozilla Help Site).
After adding these two websites to the Favourites, I opened all three folders to check that all the websites I had added were all in the folders.
Task 3 and 4 - Being Digital Article Reading and Review:
I then went and read the parts of the “Being Digital” which was available on the website from the Workshop task.
‘The DNA of Information’ which spoke about Bits and Atoms in communication technology is very similar to the ideas that were told to us in the lecture where a book may have advantages over the internet but there are cases where its vice versa.
Negroponte, N. Being Digital - The DNA of Information [1996]. Retrieved May 28, 2008, from Being Digital:
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/ch01c01.htm
Lecture:
This week the lecture concentrated on using technology for accessing and organising information. The questions that the class received include:
List 3 main points from the article.
Do you think the internet has its limits?
How would you define information overload?
List your technological sources of information.
What are some of the strategies you use to manage information?
Society is vulnerable when it comes to many things such as if there were no truck drivers, there would be no food and therefore the shops would be empty. If the power went out, nothing would work and if there was a problem with the internet millions of people would be affected. As most people rely on the World Wide Web. Physical matter is atom based which can be touched; it is difficult to change but can be costly to have transported. Whereas digital form is not atom based and cannot be physically touched but is cheap and fast to transfer from place to place. In the past books used to be hand written and could take days or ever months to finish, they were valuable but if they were destroyed there was no way of bringing it back unless there was another copy of it.
Tutorial:
This week’s tutorial involved our tutor showing the class how to do the first part of the task which was adding WebPages and creating folders in the Favourites section in Internet Explorer.
Readings of the Week:
Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students by Jamie MacKenzie describes the valuable source that the internet has on students for their assignments, research, etc as it is such a high in nutrient place for information. When the article first appeared in 1998, this information is still very relevant today but there is still a problem of students going off topic and not doing their work and just sitting in front of a screen all day.
The BBC website I was unable to access, the video would not load up properly. I believe that this was the video that the class watched in one lecture which contained information about Wikipedia and how it isn’t an appropriate website to reference from.
I went onto the website Internet Beginners Tutorial, read and completed the instructions that were present. I clicked on the Favourites icon and added the website as required.
I then clicked on Favourites to make sure that I had added it successfully which I had. The next point that was asked of me was to add the website into a folder, which I did by clicking on Add Favourite and then Create in I typed in ‘Favourites Tutorial.
I went back to have a look at my favourites to make sure the folder and website had been added properly. The next step was to rename the file I just created by going through the Organize Favourites option.
I opened it and renamed the file to ‘A Tutorial in Favourites.’ I then clicked close and opened my Favourites to check that the file rename had been successful.
Task 2 – Creation of Folders and Adding Websites Exercise:
I used the information from the tutorial to crate a favourites list with three folders with two websites favourites in each. I went onto Google and typed in Tutorial in Favourites which brought up several results. I added the Step By Step Microsoft Internet Explorer Favourites Tutorial and Tutorial: Organizing Favourites in IE6 to the ‘A Tutorial in Favourites’ folder I had created in the Task 1 exercise.
I then typed in Internet Tutorials in Google and selected these links to add into a folder these were: Internet Tutorials, Internet Beginner's Guides Tutorials refdesk.com and Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL - Table of Contents, Internet Tutorial, and Internet Tutorial [English Online]. I used the ‘Add Group Tabs to Favourites’ method as it is a lot faster process than adding each one separately.
For the last folder I typed into the Google search bar Information Technology Tutorials, I added the following websites to a folder:
Information Technology (IT) Tutorials, IT Tutorials, Computer Technical Tutorials and Information: Free Computer Tutorials, Weblinks / Information Technology / Tutorials, Weblinks / Information Technology / Tutorials / Microsoft, Network Topics - Information Technology Tutorials and Information Technology Tutorials. I then used the ‘Add Tab Group to Favourites’ again under the folder name of Information Technology Favourites.
I was not happy with the small amount of favourites I had in the ‘A Tutorial in Favourites’ so I found some more links to add in the folder which were: eLouai How to Add to Favorites in HTML and Firefox Help - Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial (The Mozilla Help Site).
After adding these two websites to the Favourites, I opened all three folders to check that all the websites I had added were all in the folders. Task 3 and 4 - Being Digital Article Reading and Review:
I then went and read the parts of the “Being Digital” which was available on the website from the Workshop task.
‘The DNA of Information’ which spoke about Bits and Atoms in communication technology is very similar to the ideas that were told to us in the lecture where a book may have advantages over the internet but there are cases where its vice versa. 
The paper text may be very easy to access and be in your hand like that whereas the internet is not made like that. But a book can easily go out of print but a text on the internet will always be available. He also predicted that media would be come digital and it would happen fast. Now there is digital video, images, messages, music and much more. On’ Prime Time Is My Time” the writer claimed that in ten years time the video cassette would go out of business, in saying this he was correct to a certain degree. They still exist but the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) has taken over instead.
References:
Negroponte, N. Being Digital - The DNA of Information [1996]. Retrieved May 28, 2008, from Being Digital:
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/ch01c01.htm
Lecture:
This week the lecture concentrated on using technology for accessing and organising information. The questions that the class received include:
List 3 main points from the article.
Do you think the internet has its limits?
How would you define information overload?
List your technological sources of information.
What are some of the strategies you use to manage information?
Society is vulnerable when it comes to many things such as if there were no truck drivers, there would be no food and therefore the shops would be empty. If the power went out, nothing would work and if there was a problem with the internet millions of people would be affected. As most people rely on the World Wide Web. Physical matter is atom based which can be touched; it is difficult to change but can be costly to have transported. Whereas digital form is not atom based and cannot be physically touched but is cheap and fast to transfer from place to place. In the past books used to be hand written and could take days or ever months to finish, they were valuable but if they were destroyed there was no way of bringing it back unless there was another copy of it.
Tutorial:
This week’s tutorial involved our tutor showing the class how to do the first part of the task which was adding WebPages and creating folders in the Favourites section in Internet Explorer.
Readings of the Week:
Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students by Jamie MacKenzie describes the valuable source that the internet has on students for their assignments, research, etc as it is such a high in nutrient place for information. When the article first appeared in 1998, this information is still very relevant today but there is still a problem of students going off topic and not doing their work and just sitting in front of a screen all day.
The BBC website I was unable to access, the video would not load up properly. I believe that this was the video that the class watched in one lecture which contained information about Wikipedia and how it isn’t an appropriate website to reference from.
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