Week 11

Lecture;
In todays lecture we learnt how to organize the received knowledge, sometimes we have far too much information which is often irelevant and not required, so we must have good methods of how to sort through this. We went over the different options and why they are necessary.

Dictionary Definitions

Data - facts or figures to be processed; evidence, records, statistics, etc. from which conclusions can be inferred; information

Knowledge - An awareness of factual information. Includes actual knowledge (positive or definite), personal knowledge (based on one’s own observation), and constructive knowledge (based on other circumstances).

Information - something told; news; intelligence; word

Wisdom - the quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.; good judgment; sagacity

My definitions;

Data - data is information that is real and proven, it is information you can relie on. Data can include things such as statistics, records, facts, figures and evidence. Things that are genuine and not made up.

Knowledge - Knowledge can be either personal, contractual or actual. They are all from different sources but usually knowledge should be genuine like data.

Information - Information is something you can learn, find or hear from a person or own instinct.

Wisdom - Wisdom is how wise a person is or can be. Or the wisdom of a certain source or thing.

Week 10

Lecture;
In today's lecture we went over; Information management, sometimes with lack of management, we are given information about using computer processing power to manage information, we can receive vast quantities of information it's how we sort through this and gain constructive information. Organising skills, using text, documents, images, web pages, bookmark, presentations, assignments, citations and references.


Activities;
The Pros & Cons of Using Atoms & Bits
The author goes on about the future use of bit and atoms saying how a digital world is an inevitable future. Pros of Atoms & Bits is that it gives you the ability to download products you purchase from the Internet, also goes on how atoms are not caught in customs so how we would be free to gain access to anything without consequence this in some retrospective is a bad thing, we would have access to anything we want in seconds. Cons of Atoms & Bits the ability to take anything we want without the threat of consequences. The ideas expressed by the author are fantastic and sound some what unbelievable but are the really what we would want in as our future.

Week 9

Lecture;
In today's lecture we discussed Email.
Email has passed the telephone as the preferred means of communication, Email works effectively as it is free, its ubiquitous, its asynchronous, you can infact communicate with people all over the world day and night. The Internet - Email, Skype and MSN have taken over Phone conversations. They are much cheaper and more efficient.

Week 8

Lecture;
Oral presentations are not the most popular of types to perform in front of numerous people. Usually a university study would much prefer to write some other form of assessment up like an essay, report or portfolio and then submit to a teacher. But fact is, we have to do them. So for those people who are more keen on the written assessments and for others who need improvement, here are some tips for your presentation.
Apart from discussion on your topic you should always include: compelling data, support your data with proof, visual evidence or facts, emotional connection - so show your audience you are passionate about this and back your facts up, if not the audience will loose all connection with your presentation, generate energy - using more levels, moving around and even pointing or facial expressions, more proof that supports your facts and arguments.
As written assessments normally format, you should also use the structure of, Introduction, Body paragraph and Conclusion. This will help you keep everything in order too because if not it's not very easy to follow for the audience. Never read off your PowerPoint, you should always have memorised parts so you can allow yourself to make eye contact with your audience 50% of the time.
Covering all these steps will assure you a well prepared PowerPoint/electronic presentation, But except for all this you should also prepare palm cards (optional), practise your speech, pace your talking, preparation with technical items.