Week 10 Blog

Lecture Summary:

Information Management

A major problem faced by individuals is a way to manage their information, in an effecient way, and organise it logically.

Types of information formatting:
Atom Based, Books, Journals, Reports

• Pros – we can see it, easy to conceal, easy to protect, hard to modify, difficult to copy


• Cons – Bulky, Costly, Difficult to edit, and redistribute

Bit Based, digital reproductions, electronic content

• Pros – flexible, cheap, easy to use an edit, easy to mass produce


• Cons – Privacy, authenticity, unsolicited broadcast

The Changed face of goods and services – internet banking, email, mp3 players

The changing face of goods and services – TV, music, shopping

Principles for organising your computer

Tips on how to search and categorise your information

Workshop Write Up:

Complete the tutorial on http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html regarding how to make a favourites list

Use the information to create your own favourites list

Read Negropontes famous “Being Digital” article http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm and write a 150 word summary on the information covered and its relevance

Negroponte’s opinion was that over time the events or actions within the real world, will eventually become digitalised so that things are all available on demand when a particular user requests them, without delays of manufacturing, and delivery, or purchasing of books, or media etc. Atom based media has been designed to be relatively in expensive and available to those who request it, a disadvantage in the case of a book, is often if a book is popular or substantially old, that text will not be in stock and will have to be reprinted which costs more money an requires more time.

Bit based media which is based on digital or electronic formats of particular items, has been developed as an effective means of distribution of a particular piece of information globally in the most reliable way possible. In the example of a book, in online format it always there an available to anyone, located anywhere in the world. The negative is this type of information is easily modifiable, and can often be inappropriately used by those who view it.

Summary of Readings:

Grazing the Net

Information on the raising young individuals to think and explore, and make meaning of the information they discover on the internet.

How to develop students as infotectives, and enhance their ability to distinguish reputable information from non peer reviewed sites

Teaching them effective methods of information recovery, and effective searching tips to retrieve reputable and relevant information to their desired topic

Tips on how to manage information, and how to assess its quality