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Activity 1001[2]: My second literature source evaluation

December 7, 2007

The article I have chosen is Tseng, B.L. Tatemura, J and Wu, Y. (2006) - Tomographic Clustering: To Visualize Blog Communities as Mountain Views. NEC Labrotories America
Available on-line at http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/2005/tseng.pdf
These three young Japanese males talk about how blogs are a fast growing internet social network. Though, however fast these internet social networks are growing they still tend [...]

Session 1001(1): My first literature and source evaluation

December 7, 2007

The article I have chosen is Foust, R.Y. (2007)- Techno- Klutz Meets the Blogs. Library Media Connection 2007, Pages 56- 58.
Available on-line at http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=102&sid=3d2401e8-4394-4016-b22a-d7a3a8f1018e%40sessionmgr108.
The blog is written by a lady who is technologically challenged and finds it extremely difficult to use the computer in general. She has no idea what the Internet is and what [...]

Activity 901 (3): My Third Literature Source Evaluation

November 30, 2007

In my third and final Literatue Source Evaluation  i will consider how web publishing technologies such as blogs might be useful in helping my friends, family and the general public
Strengths and Weaknessess

Blogs are set to be useful because anywhere at anytime you can right notes in chornological order and it will come up to you [...]

Activity 901 (1): My first literature source evaluation

November 30, 2007

In the first one i will consider how web publishing technologies such as facebook, myspace, friendster, twitter and hi5 might be useful in helping learners in general not focusing on one specific age group.
Strengths and Weaknesses

Facebook, Friendster, Myspace etc can be useful because it allows people to share personal things about themselves.
They allow the world to connect [...]

Activity 802: Publishing using Blog (WIKI)

November 23, 2007

Some Aspects of using a Wiki:

Wiki’s are free
Wiki’s allocate you with a certain amount of space to publish information over the WWW.
Setting up is easy
Due to this allocated space, a limited amount of information can be published.
Other people can comment on your wiki website as can you on their’s.
Wiki’s are simple to access, edit and publish [...]

Activity 801: Publishing Using a Web Site (You Tube)

November 23, 2007

Some Aspects of You Tube:

Shares information using Video Clips to anyone in the world
Different categories to choose from such as Videos, Live TV Channels and Community Clips
Information ranges from music videos, tv clips, football vidoes etc
Allows people who have signed up to add their own clips to the site
Privacy settings are available and thus some [...]

Activity 704: Publishing using a social web site (Facebook)

November 16, 2007

Facebook is a website in which people from all over the world are using to chat with friends and family. It’s basically a social utility. Over the next couple of sentences I will be mentioning the Advantages and Disadvantages of using Facebook.
 Advantages:
- It allows people from different parts of the world to remain in touch [...]

Activity 303: Designing CSS using NVU

October 12, 2007

NVU is a simple and easy way to design websites and webpages. This is the software we have used today in class to design a simple webpage. It’s a simple and fast way to design websites. Another reason it’s good is because you don’t have to spend much time using the actualy HTML part of [...]

Activity 302: Learning about CSS

October 12, 2007

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Styles define many different things in particular how to display HTML elements. Styles are also usually stored in style sheets. You can then add styles to HTML 4.0 to solve the main problem. External style sheets can usually save you a lot of work in the future. Usually, external [...]

Activity 301: Advantages and Disadvantages of CSS

October 12, 2007

Advantages:
- Styles define how to display HTML Elements
- CSS gives you the opportunity to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your own webpage.
- Styles sheets define HOW HTML elements are to be displayed, just like the font tag and the color attribute in HTML 3.2.
- Style sheets allow style information to be specified in many [...]