OK so I recently listened to the second weeks lecture of WEB101 - What is the Internet? I suppose what I have learnt here is that we use the terms internet, world wide web and cyberspace rather loosely without much consideration to their actual meaning. While not overly interesting it is quite important when we come to our assignments and assessments for the unit.
On another note though it was said that the Internet is 40 years old! This was surprising but also a statement that as it was presented I disagreed with. I found no real differentiation between the Internet and a Network.
If anyone out there is reading this and are (or not) part of the Curtin Uni's WEB101 I'd be interested to hear your thoughts or any readings you can point me to on this matter.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Reflections - Wk1
I have been working on Intranets for around 5 years now. Being ambitious I have realised that sometimes formal qualifications speak louder than actions. So I decided to give uni another try.
What was I thinking? Working full time plus being a mother of 2, how do I think I am going to cope??? Let's hope my husband is ready for my committment.
But here I am giving it a go. I don't really expect anyone to read this but it will be interesting to see who does (if anyone like I said).
So each week I will come and post my "reflections" of learning as part of an ongoing assignment for my first unit of studies.
This week we had to check out a site called namechk.com and see if we could establish a single username against a selected 7 of the 72 social networking sites listed - pretty boring. But what did surprise me is how many of these sites there are and the number of people using them. Even though I work with websites I work with internal websites for a company so I only really knew of the sites you hear a lot about, you know, Twitter, Facebook, uTube and the likes.
I was surprised to see so many blogging type sites out there. Now as you may have already guessed this was one of the sites we had to check a username against and register with. So here I am using it as my place to reflect on my weekly learnings.
I really only thought that I would use these kind of sites when they directly impact on my work, for example I use LinkedIN a lot. But I will soon find out if these kind of sites can have the same devestating effect as Facebook where you can literally get sucked into a vortext of virtual social interactions. I have never really been into any of these sites before but now that I have to explore them for my intellectual growth it will be interesting to see if my behaviour continues to be predictive.
I have already had an influx of Friends requests through Facebook - generally I would reject facebook stalkers but now I am not sure which ones are genuine through my online study group and which are not!
And if anyone does read this, and you happen to be from OWA - Curtin WEB101 I invite you to share your thoughts. I will guess some of you will think me quite cynical and that's OK because I think that too. Let's see if we can prove me wrong :-)
What was I thinking? Working full time plus being a mother of 2, how do I think I am going to cope??? Let's hope my husband is ready for my committment.
But here I am giving it a go. I don't really expect anyone to read this but it will be interesting to see who does (if anyone like I said).
So each week I will come and post my "reflections" of learning as part of an ongoing assignment for my first unit of studies.
This week we had to check out a site called namechk.com and see if we could establish a single username against a selected 7 of the 72 social networking sites listed - pretty boring. But what did surprise me is how many of these sites there are and the number of people using them. Even though I work with websites I work with internal websites for a company so I only really knew of the sites you hear a lot about, you know, Twitter, Facebook, uTube and the likes.
I was surprised to see so many blogging type sites out there. Now as you may have already guessed this was one of the sites we had to check a username against and register with. So here I am using it as my place to reflect on my weekly learnings.
I really only thought that I would use these kind of sites when they directly impact on my work, for example I use LinkedIN a lot. But I will soon find out if these kind of sites can have the same devestating effect as Facebook where you can literally get sucked into a vortext of virtual social interactions. I have never really been into any of these sites before but now that I have to explore them for my intellectual growth it will be interesting to see if my behaviour continues to be predictive.
I have already had an influx of Friends requests through Facebook - generally I would reject facebook stalkers but now I am not sure which ones are genuine through my online study group and which are not!
And if anyone does read this, and you happen to be from OWA - Curtin WEB101 I invite you to share your thoughts. I will guess some of you will think me quite cynical and that's OK because I think that too. Let's see if we can prove me wrong :-)
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