Today's lecture outlined our unit (accessing knowledge) discussing learning outcomes, course structure and assessment content. Our lecturer Justine Freeman also discussed our responsibilities as an ECU student and what will be expected of us. We were given a brief discussion on what our tutorials would entail and how they would assist us in our course.
Workshop Summary
Our tasks were to become familiar with SIMO and our emailing system as well as blackboard. I was already familiar with SIMO as I had gone through it at home. This is where I downloaded my course information and timetable. From Blackboard I can search for lecture and tutorial notes as well as any other course information. I did not realise how essential it would be to the course and have since discovered that it is an efficient and simple system to use.
Our next task was to set up our own personal blog account; my URL is michellephan.blogspot.com. Another task was to set up a screen capture and become familiar with how to use this application. A screen capture is capturing an image off your screen and saving it into a designated file. I set up an account with imageshack.us in order to do a screen capture, which could be viewed by others on the web. There was a step by step guide on blackboard which was very useful and easy to follow.
Evidence of a screen capture for week one activity, using imageshack.us and blogger.com
Summary of the Readings
This weeks task had two readings. The first reading gave an explanation about general PCs. I learnt some interesting facts. The first fact being that the brand name on a PC is not necessarily related to the company, which makes the parts or the brain, for example the motherboard, of the computer. It is actually the name of the company which puts the PC together and produces the final product in order to be sent to retailers. The second fact is that a computer has eight basic parts therefore anyone with the correct knowledge and materials could easily put a PC together. The rest of the readings briefly discussed PC brands and software, such as windows and HTML, the difference between a computer and a TV monitor and other information which I found a little hard to understand (due to my lack of knowledge in computers).
The second reading called How stuff works was very interesting. Again it was hard to understand because there were so many unfamiliar words and information. The reading was a basic breakdown and guide on which equipment make up a PC and how each peice works to create the final product.
