Week One - Intoduction to UPC 0004

Lecture-

Today's lecture introduced us to using computers at university. We went through the course outline and were given a breif overview of the course ahead.

Tutorial-

Today's tute was an introduction to the unit. We went through the general outline of the course and what is expected of us through out the semester.

Gary then showed us how got log onto black board. Blackboard is our student based Internet site where we can access all of our uni information and student web mail.

Here is a screen print of my ecu blackboard home page. In red i have circled the hyperlink to this courses information.

After we learnt how to set up blackboard we then went into our student emails. To familiarise us with this application Gary asked us to email 5 other students within our class. This also made us interact and get to know a few of the other students. I thought this was a positive activity as it made us relax and talk to our other class mates.

Above is a screen shot of what our ecu email looks like.

Gary then showed us how to print a screen. To do this you press the 'print screen' button on the top right hand side of the keyboard. Then you have to open up paint and paste it in there. We use paint so that we can edit the screen print however we want. We then saved it on our desktop for later use.

above is a screen print of the paint workshop used to edit our screen prints.

Next in this tute we set up our online blogs. The website we used is http://www.blogger.com/. Our blog will be used as a weekly journal of what occurs in each class and lecture. This website is fairly easy to use and we can conveniently make new weekly posts.

Above is a screen print of my own blog.

This tutorial was and introduction to our assessment and allowed us to familiarise ourselves with the computers we will be using all semester.

Reading One-

This reading introduces us to all of the different things on the internet. From languages to file types it makes us aware of the many things that are on the internet.

Reading Two-

This reading intorduces us to how the internet works. The site explains how things work and how our computers operate. This website introduces the importance of security and protections when using the internet.