Week 4, Communicaion

Lecture
This week's lecture was on ways to communicate using a computer. We were shown different types of Email clients, instant message clients, discussion board/forums, blogs and wiki webs. Most of these examples I had already used before, so I already had a lot of knowledge on each.

Tutorial
In our tutorial we had our blogs looked at just to see if we were on the right track. Justine didn't get around to seeing my blog, but I think I'm on the right track. We also had to visit Google and search for a topic of our choice in groups. My topic was my favourite T.V show Will and Grace. I found a discussion board called Urbana Grace United Methodist Friend . It didn't look like a very interesting discussion board, so I had a little read of what people had posted, but there wasn't anything very interesting.
The potential benefits of podcast in a university is that it's helpful if you cant make a lecture and you know it was an important one, you can go online and download the lecture so you don't miss anything. Also even if you are at a lecture but you found you missed a lot, you could always download the lecture and listen to it again on your way home from uni.

Readings
The reading 14 Email Do and Donts was a good reading to look at. It was helpful to see how you should ask for something in a way which will always sound nice on the other end. Most of the time when sending an email you just forget about punctuation and grammar, which is not a good thing if your sending an email to a tutor and they think you are coming across a little pushy.