Week One - Personal Computing

LECTURE:

The purpose of Personal computing class in the first week was to introduce students to the basic knowledge of how to use a PC to access information and technical communications through ECU websites, such as myecu.ecu.edu.au. By learning how to access beneficial web pages through ECU websites, it enabled us to process data and information which will contribute in the production of our tasks or deadlines. I personal found this lecture very beneficial and helpful as my knowledge expanded after learning research strategy, information processing and using the computer for communication requirements.

WORKSHOP:

In week one of Personal Computing we used SIMO on http://www.ecu.edu.au/ to reassure that our enrolment details and activities, such as lectures, tut's and our times table are correct. The tut also showed us how to send and receive emails via the ecu web mail as well as using Blackboard to access unit resources, assignment deadlines and quick links. after that we created our own personal blogs on http://www.blogger.com/, set up our own account in http://www.imageshack.com/ and finally learnt how to produce screen captures, as well as editing the images on paint. Going through the basic procedures of how to use student web mail and SIMO is crucial as these sites will help keep me up to date of what is happening at ECU and in my tutorials, therefore i found week one work shop very introductively helpful.

This is a screen capture of my blogger account which i set up.

READING:

Week one Reading provided us with two sites linking us to two different web pages. The first site http://www.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm introduced us to the basics of a PC hardware. Learning about the hardware meant learning about the graphics, video files, net framework, SNA, APPC and character encoding. We learnt how these components of a PC where established, why they were created, how and what they are used for.


The second site was http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm. This site was more useful as it showed us how the different parts of a PC worked. The site even had a short video to visually show us the different parts inside of a PC and how it works. We learnt about the basic parts that make up a PC such as the Monitor, Speakers, mouse, and PC tower. Further on we learnt in depth about the importance's of a PC, such as the CPU (central processing unit), using virtual memory to store temporary data, the ROM (Read-Only Rom) which is the permanent part of memory storage, the PC connections, operating systems and lots more. Although i already breifly know about the different parts of a PC, this reading has given me an insight of a PC in a deeper depth and helped replenished my memory on the parts of a PC that i was unsure of.