Lecture Summary:
- Communication can be between individuals, individuals and organisations, within a business or between a business and an external organisation.
- Communication takes place within NETWORKS. Some examples of these networks include of chain, circle, wheel and all-channel network.
- There are four main types of communication - Synchronous, Asynchronous, "place" dependent and "place" independent.
- ICT use examples include of mobile telephones , ipods, E-mail and Multi-media communications.
- Podcasts - A Podcast is a pre-recorded audio program (can include images ) that's posted to a website and is made available for download so people can listen to them on personal computers or mobile devices for example ipod.
This week in our tutorial, we learnt how to access the different communications management systems. This included of the ECU web enrolment, email and learning management systems.
We learnt how to access the ECU email and manipulate around it to create folders in our mailbox. We created a folder for each of our units and requested a friend to send us an email that we can move to our folder.
To access the ECU email, the following steps need to be taken:
- go to http://www.ecu.edu.au/
-click on the link that says "current students"
-below is an image that illustrates where to click.
www.ImageShack.us" />Having done so, the next page will open up with the following screen:
www.ImageShack.us" />The next step is to fill in your login details and below is the page which you should be having done the above steps:
www.ImageShack.us" />After you have logged in, the following page will display your mailbox and folders.
To create a folder in your mailbox, click on the folder link on the left. This will lead to another page where you will be required to name a folder and ADD it. Below is an illustration of this:
www.ImageShack.us" />You can now name your folder and add it to your mailbox folders.
In our second task, we were required to visit the Google website and enter a search term on any topic of our interest. The purpose of this activity was to show us the usefulness of bulletin boards. Bulletin boards can be of great help when looking for quick information and advance knowledge on a specific topic that other people might have researched on before. It is like a discussion forum.
For this taks, I went to Google and entered the term "cricket" in the groups tab. From the several results I found the bulletin board below:
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www.ImageShack.us" />In this bulletin board, several users associated in the group discuss players forthcoming matches around the world. Bulletin boards as I have mentioned before, can be useful in finding quick information to have a quick start to researching.
Readings:
There were three readings in this week's folder, the first of which comes from the website below:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page6175.cfm
www.ImageShack.us" />In this reading, the major points covered all relate to the "DO's and DONT's" of emailing.
Below are some key points that are addressed in the reading that can be very helpful for new email users.
- Make sure the email is for the right purpose - the email is used as a correct communication tool for the specific job
- Get to the point right away
- When asking a question, always be sure to ASK the question.
- Always clarify on who should respond back to your email should the need be and
- Always provide context to frame your message.
These were some of the main points addressed to the readers in the artcile from the first reading.
The second reading comes from the website below:
http://www.caube.org.au/problem.htm
www.ImageShack.us" />This reading basically discusses the main issues related to SPAMS. Also known as UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL (UBE), they are common forms of marketing tools used by many which are cost-less to the sender, but costly to the recipients.
The article outlines that the major concerns regarding SPAMS include of:
- Because its free for the sender, it costs the recipients the money, time, and destroys the value of the email.
- SPAMS also deny you as a user of email the choice of how your electronic mailbox can be used.
The safest way to beat the SPAM crisis, is to have the Government impose a legislation that can ban the practice of transmitting UBEs.
These were the readings from this weeks folder.
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