Week 10: Information Management

Lecture summary
The lecture was about information management. The lecture also explains about atoms and bits. Atoms are things such as books, papers, reports, etc. and bits are things such as digital reproductions and electronic content.

Tutorial summary

In the tutorial we visted two websites. the first one was how to add a bookmark in your favourites and the other was about the DNA of information. He also explains about "bits" and "atoms".

Workshop Tasks

1. We visited this website

http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html

This site explains step-by-step how to bookmark a page, so you can go back to it later

2. We then had to make 3 folders and save 2 sites under each folder

For Accessing Knowledge folder

For Research & Writing folder

For Learning at uni folder

3. Then we visisted the website: "Being Digital"

http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm

Then go to "The DNA of information"

Books can go out of circulation, electronic books are alwaya available. Electronic books may become more available than ordinary books in the future. He is explaining the make up of information by using the terms "bits" and "atoms". "Atoms" as the manufacturing business and "bits" as the information deleivery business. He also talks about a more didgtal world.

Readings

Grazing the Net (http://www.fno.org/text/grazing.html)

This site is about wethere the internet is worth it and how students can evaluate the internet. Checking the relaiblility and accuracy of a site and its contents. It also provides some good points on evaluating internet sites.