week 7 EndNote

LECTURES:

Today Helen talked to us about endnote the magical referencing data base.

EndNote is a tool that you can use to make feferencing easier. You can be intergrated into mircrosoft to be used as a bibliography manager and as an standalone program as a reference manager.

We then learn't how to access endnote through our library and download it to our hard drive.

EndNote being such a short program to talk about left me little to write about.

WORKSHOP:

Activity 1:

1. Gal, B. (2007). "THE NEW ARAB CONVERSATION." Columbia Journalism Review 45(5): 17.
2. Couper-Johnston , R. (2000). "El Nino." Hodder and Stoughton: 32.
3. Brain, M. (2008). "How Blogs Work ", from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm.
   
4. Read, M. B. (1991). Chopper 1 From the Inside, Floradale Press.
5. Simkin, M. (2008, 25/03/2008). "USA - Death on Trial." from http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2201092.htm.

This is a screen shot of activity 2:

This is a screen shot of activity 3:

Readings:

This week’s resource is on endnote technical support and services. This site has links to frequently asked questions; the answer to your question could be in that link. It has software to download to upgrade your endnote, it has information on compatibility and system requirements, and guide and tip sheets to read.

Week 6 Evaluating and Authentication

Lecture:

Today in the lec we learn't about evaluating and authentication of web pages.

We were asked to ask some true or false questions on web pages and if there monitered and who controls them.

We aslo were showed a little diagram of how the host computers in the USA have gone from 4 in 1969 to over 2000 in 1984.We then went on to learn that sites arn't crated equal and that information in one site can be completly different in another.

We were then shown a couple slides on evaluating IQ on www and some quick tips on a URL. We then learn't about scanning the perimeter of the page and if we can tell who wrote it, credentials for subject matter like a abouts link, if the information is recent or not and if we couldn't find any of these look at the URL for info.

when looking at a site we must think to ourselves does it all add up; like does the information make sence or is it a load of lies .

Workshop:

exercise 1:

This page was pretty helpful with it tips on how to evaluate a web page. when looking at web page look at the author, ahve you heard of him and does what he say'snd argue's hold up with up to date information. Is the web page current, if not the information could be write but only for its time.Try and see if the page was worth visiting and if you got a anything from it.

exercise 2:

When visiting the http://www.taftcollege.edu/ site it didn't give me much more information just tips on the domain types and what the meanings of them are.

when doing the reliving the sixties web page i found it pretty cool. I opened the student rights movement page, some there pictures on that were pretty bloody when the students and the police clashed injuring students. It has a picture of a bank that was bombed by students protesting the vietam war and it also said that there were more bombing sites accross america.

I opened a second page in the site on the illicit drugs used in the 60's. Some of these drugs include marijuana, LSD and hallucinogens. These drugs have taken some of our greatest rock stars such as Jimmi Hendrix. Lsd was only outlawed in 1966 because it was unknown to the police and politions.

exercise 3:

After visiting these site i actually found them useful .The first page had the author on

the bottom of the page along with the dated it was released. It had useful information on it and i found i could trust it.

The second site i found was the same, it was full of useful info and had the author and dates on the page. the sixties page looked cool, the background was set back in the sixties and gave that allusion, the pictures were current for the time they were taken, the detail photos of the student went through and gave back to government.