Reflection of NET11

My reflection of through this unit I have learnt a lot of things that new for me. I learnt how to make webpage; it’s the most interesting project for me. O yes, this is my first blog as well, I’m not sure that I am yet an advanced internet user, but through this course I have developed even more for the internet. I have learnt a lot about online applications and how the internet works. Especially Web 2.0 that will be more interesting in the future. Honestly I can’t attempt at the discussion everyday, but I have read them every weekend. I just realize that isn’t easy to study while I have 5 kids that all of them still under seven, working part time and now I’m pregnant again with very bad morning sickness. Even I’ve got help from my husband but still feeling very tired. Whew….what a life. But I’m happy that I can complete the entire task.

Module 5: Information Ecologies

How might the metaphor on an ‘ecology’ impact on the way you think about, understand or use the internet?
The metaphor of an ecology impact on the way I think about is a further term for the system we look and talk about how we as a society use and adjust to computer technology to communicate, study, develop, and advance. Computers have become so embedded in the world that not to be able to use one or recognize some of the lingo associated with them disadvantages a person significantly. The sum of information and understanding you have about this technology decides your position in the society. Information ecology as expanding, constantly changing thing even they are little, primary changes can have an impact on the intact.

How are the concepts ‘information’ and communication’ understood within the framework of‘information ecology’?
Information is what its send as data in the computer; communication is when what is sent makes sense between two people.

Why don’t we talk of‘communication ecology?
In the context of information ecology, information is a larger concept than communication – we communication information, so communication is dynamic in this sense.

Module 4: Reflection

For future use, I would normally use the annotations/reviews/notes I have written on a source to transfer back to, to decide if further review was necessary.
For external users, the original ‘snapshot’ of information would best help them judge if the site was useful or of interest to them as it is extremely likely that they will have a very different requirements, agendas, opinions or world view to me. What I find interesting, they find unexciting, what I find very helpful, they may find hopeless.An ‘unbiased’ view would be most useful, where an annotation will be helpful from a peer, to assist research and evaluation if most of the annotations of a source were very unhelpful, this would likely support me to go on to other sources.

Module 4: Evaluating the Web

Whew…. I have to review my sources and I decided to write this annotation on “Ian J. Lee” Virtual Reference in an Australian academy library via searching Yahoo Search.
My annotation:
This article is examining the Virtual reference in an Australian academic library by using qualitative and quantitative analyses of e-mail and chat transcripts. As such it is not meant to provide a complete analysis of the online librarian service.I feel that this article is very informative to support my essay because in this article a number of quantitative and qualitative measures were taken, it also has some discussions and shows the comparison of the use and usage of e-mail and chat virtual reference, question type across e-mail and chat virtual reference and differences in word number in e-mail and chat.
This article was last updated in June 2004, so is relatively current.

Module 4: Organising Search Information

These are the sources that I found for my concepts assignment:

· An exploratory study on the use of Asynchronous Online Discussion in Hypermedia Designhttp://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/Vol6_No1/an_exploratory_study_on_the_use_.htm
· What is Netiquette?http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/start/netequette.shtml
· Intelligent User Interfacehttp://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/report/DKS03-01.pdf
· Online librarian – real time / real talk: an innovative collaboration between two university librarieshttp://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/20FlHaMc.PDF

I saved this information using bookmarked and printed the articles so I can read them when I have break at work. I had created a folder for my study NET11 and saved all information that relevant to my module tasks and assignments.
I only used Google search or Yahoo search to get the information.

Module 4: Boolean Searching Task

I found that the Boolean logic very interesting. For this task I still used Google search engine. I still used the keyword Netiquette and add another keyword that relevant to the first keyword "Behaviour" and "Manner".

These are the results when I used Boolean logic Netiquette OR Behaviour OR Manner:

These are the results when I used Netiquette AND Behaviour AND Manner:

Boolean Searching get more options for searches, by using exact keywords or in fact skipping some words enable a search to get you closer to the exact category of site you are seeking. This is my first experienced used Boolean Searching.

So to gain the biggest number of hits relating to the keyword I would use ‘OR’, with ‘OR’ logic the more records we can retrieve. (Boolean Searching on the Internet, 2008)

To get information most relevant to what I actually wanted to look for, I will use the ‘NOT’ logic, it’s excludes records from your search results. (Boolean Searching on the Internet, 2008)

Module 4: Search Engine Task

I always used Google as my internet search engine. I used the word “Netiquette” to research my task.

The first result that appeared with Google was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette
Netiquette, a portmanteau of "network etiquette", is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums.

These are the results when I used Google Search
Results 1 - 10 of about 6,400,000 for netiquette [definition]. (0.06 seconds).

Netiquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Netiquette, a portmanteau of "network etiquette", is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette - 40k - Cached - Similar pages

Netiquette Home Page -- A Service of Albion.com
This page is dedicated to the topic of network etiquette.www.albion.com/netiquette/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

The Core Rules of Netiquette -- Excerpted from Netiquette by ...
The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule for elaboration. ...www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pagesMore results from www.albion.com »

Internet Netiquette
Gives a summary of the important points of e-mail, mailing list, USENET, and chat etiquette.www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

What is netiquette? NetAlert
Netiquette describes the rules for online behaviour especially in newsgroups, forums and chat rooms. It is derived from the two words Internet and etiquette ...www.netalert.gov.au/advice/behaviour/netiquette_emoticons/What_is_netiquette.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

Email Etiquette (Netiquette)
David Tuffley, ICT, Griffith Univ. Australia. A general guide for writing and sending email. Email that does not irritate and/offend the recipient is more ...www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Student Guide: Netiquette
Online Participation Guidelines: Netiquette. For many of you this will be your first experience of participating in tutorials and discussion groups through ...online.mq.edu.au/docs/neti.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines
This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use. ...www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages

RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines
FYI: 28 October 1995 Category: Informational Netiquette Guidelines Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. ...www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt - 46k - Cached - Similar pagesby N Guidelines - Related articles - All 83 versions

RFC 1855 (rfc1855) - Netiquette Guidelines
RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines. ... FYI: 28 October 1995 Category: Informational Netiquette Guidelines Status of This Memo This memo provides information ...www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

META-SEARCH
Next I used Copernic meta-search.
The results are here:

Some of the results are similar with Google search. But the results that appeared in Meta search only 35 results. I think maybe I used the Copernic agent basic one, that’s why it’s only appeared 35 results. Don’t know what happen if I upgrade it to the professional one.
I like to use Google Search, Google search gave me the most promising results. Don't need to spend money and save my money as well :)