Useful and interesting components within the week 10 lecture slides was atom based and bit information formats and pros and cons, principles for orgainsing bits and principles for oranising XP.
Atom based information format is such things as books, papers and reports. The main advantages of atom based information format are:
- Exists in space we can see it
- We can know where it is
- Easy to protect
- Difficult to change/ copy
Disadvantages - Bulky E.g. The Encyclopedia Britannica
- Costly – Resource Implications
- Difficult to edit and distribute
Bit based information format is such things as electronic content and digital reproductions. The main advantages of bit based information format are - Very Flexible – easily move between formats
- Very Cheap – Resource Implications much less
- Easy to Edit
- Easy to mass produce and broadcast
Disadvantages - Privacy easy to copy and steal
- Authenticity – easy to fake and alter and edit information
- Large unsolicited broadcast – likely to get SPAM
Priciples for orgainsing some bits are saved under the following common file extensions. .doc , .docx (Word), .ppt (PowerPoint), .zip (Windows ZIP file), .xls (Excel spreadsheet), .mpg (movie file), .jpg (Jpeg Jay-Peg Image file), .gif ((CompuServe Image file) and .mdb (Access database file)
There is a certain process to be followed in order to store information bits on Windows XP operating system. In any of Windows programs listed above go
Click file
Go to properties
Fill in appropriate fields with metadata
Click to see preview as this will appear on the thumbnail of your document.
By dong this process of “metadata” you will be able to find documents easily when using the Windows find files function.
Tutorial
In the tutorial week 10 our group assignment was due. My group we collaborated all our information together during tutorial class, filled in an assessment cover sheet and handed the assignment into our tutorial teacher Gary. Gary told us to then to read what is to be completed for workshop 10 on information management. After we had read through what was to be done in the workshop Gary gave us three choices to either continue doing the current workshop, leave the tutorial class or provide feedback on how our Blogs. Myself, I chose to stay back and get my blogs checked for feedback. It was important to for Gary to give feedback on our blogs as the due date for our entire workshop Blogs would be in a couple of weeks and constitutes to 40% of our total marks.
Workshop 10 – Information Management
The first task is to complete the following tutorial using the URL http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html on bookmarks and favourites.
The second task is then to use this information retained by the tutorial to set up a favourites list that has three folders in it, with at least two websites marked as favourites. Once we had completed the internet explorer favourites list we then had to produce a screen capture of this favourites list.
The third task was to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online found on the internet site http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm.
While reading also Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" we were told to take extra consideration on the first part about “DNA information”.
The first reading of Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" DNA information talks about how our economy is moving towards being bit based information formats.
- The archive talks about the bit based information convenience to atom based information format by talking about the FedEx example. How samples in atom based formats of CDs, CD – ROMS, got stuck in customs, in the hotel on the internet on the other hand bit information was able to be transferred over the internet from all parts of the world quicker.
- Major disadvantage documented in the archive of atom based information format is that textbooks 45% of the cost is inventory, shipping, and returns. Worse, a book can go out of print. Bit based information will never go out of print, they will always be there.
- Into the future other media will become digitally driven by the combined forces of convenience, economic imperative, and deregulation.
Still Relevant?
- The information though written thirteen years I think it is relevant to what has become of the digital revolution today. Today almost everyone uses the internet for all purposes such as downloading, buying groceries, social profile, education and research the internet today has unlimited uses and the article had predicted.
- The pros and cons in the archive show relevance to today of how bit information format will become more popular and common to utilise then atom based information format. Such things as the convenience factor of bit based information to atom based information.
- Bit based information all you need to access it is a desktop and an active internet connection. Compared to atom based information you need to look for the material such as a CD, or book, less convenient and more time dedicated to finding the appropriate information material.
Without the bit based information format such as the internet today many things have been made more convenient and I can only see bit based information becoming more efficient and effective in the future.
Readings
The first reading of week 10 is online internet essay article on Grazing The Net http://www.fno.org/text/grazing.html. The essay written by Jackie Mckenzie talks about the current generation of students navigating for information via electronic resources making important decisions on what is worth and unworthy information. The topics covered in the essay article include students as infotectives, issues of reliability and accuracy, the question is the answer, great models for new research, great models for new school research, creating the wired classroom and the wired school and preparing students for cyberspace. The first topic student infotectives talks about turning students into beings able to solve a number of information puzzles, gain a combination of inference skills and new technologies. The second topic is about issue of reliability and accuracy is teaching students that information databases are more reliable than the search engines “free internet”. The third topic the question is the answer is for students to plan questions and look for the answers on the web. The fourth topic great models for the new school research talks about using reliable sources and finding ways to limit and specify information relevant to topic and/or questions. The fifth topic creating the wired classroom and the wired school talks about changing our classes to becoming purposeful and meaningful, becoming a more engaged classroom. The last topic preparing students for cyberspace talks about the many skills required to be successful in cyberspace studies.
The second reading of ECU is an online BBC news video click on knowledge and information web management. The video news report talks about the information quality of the web. Everybody in this day have become authors over the internet, raising issues and enforcing opinions on such sites as Blogger or Wikipedia and information must be determined by public to consider how reliable it is. The main focus is on the report on information reliability on the web focusing on wikipedia. The presenter Spencer meets with the creator of wikipedia Jimmy Whales. Jimmy Whales addresses how Wikipedia should be considered an encyclopedia. Spencer and Jimmy talk about Wikipedia is updated by regular people without degrees or qualification etc, therefore it is not as reliable compared to real information portals such as Britannica. Spencer and Jimmy Whales talk about his plans to create a Wikia search engine. Search engine where keyword search results are related to websites by the people not computer programs. The news 2nd minor report focuses backing up your computer as computers are always vulnerable to viruses and spyware in this day and age. For backup small amounts of data can be stored on CDs, moderate to large information can be stored on DVDs and large information backup can be stored on external hard drives. There is also online over the internet storage which you pay a monthly fee to store data.
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