NET 11: Advanced Skills in Internet Use

Module Five

Reflections:

Now it is time to review what I have done over the semester, it is very clear that I have learned lots of thing from this unit; I have improved my skills on using internet. To be honest, at the beginning I’m not expect too much from this unit, because I thought I’m quite familiar with internet, I don’t need to learn how to use internet, actually I was wrong. I have been using internet for almost eight years, everyday I use internet for checking email, chatting with my friends, looking some news and downloading movies and music, but I have never thought how the internet worked. I’m only a simple internet user, but now I can say I’m an advanced internet user. Reflecting on this unit, it seems apparent that all the tasks I have done over the semester, it is based on the conceptual understanding. Obviously understanding of concepts is crucial to becoming and advanced internet user. Conceptual understanding enables us to not just do a task, but also to understand what is happening. These concepts will help us not only when the problems arise, but also give us confidence to think critically about it and its related technologies.

NET 11: Advanced Skills in Internet Use

Module Four - Tasks

Downloading Tools Task:

1. Adobe's pdf reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most famous reading tools and it is a software product from Adobe Systems that enables you to view PDF documents. The Adobe Acrobat Reader software allows you to view PDF documents directly from a web site or from your local disk. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge directly from Adobe's web site: http://www.adobe.com. Moreover its automatic update system reminds the user downloading the latest version of reader at the first time when it has been released.

2. Flash/Shockwave Players

Flash is the premiere vector-based design and animation technology on the Internet. Millions of Web users already have Flash Player installed. Shockwave Player is the Web standard for powerful multimedia playback. It lets you view interactive Web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your Web browser. The web users have installed the Macromedia Shockwave Player, and they have access to some of the best content the web has to offer including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications.

3. Media Players

Apple Quicktime Player, Windows Media Player, and Real Networks Player, these three softwares are the most famous media players around the world, I have Realone and Windows Meida Player installed on my PC; I like these two media players, and most time I have used Realone to paly videos which is "rmvb" format and I have used Windows Media Player to play "avi" and "wma" format videos. QuickTime is not my favorite player, because it doesn't handle many common used video format.

4. Search Manager/Combiners

Copernic Agent Basic is a internet tool orgnise searches of many engines at once. There is a detail information about CAB, "Copernic Agent Basic queries leading search engines to bring you back relevant, high quality results. Its intuitive user interface and search toolbar quickly allows you to make the most of the numerous included search enhancement features, making your Internet searches faster and easier than ever." I have downloaded it and installed to my PC, and I search some topic as practice, this is the screenshot for the search result:

5. Bookmark Manager

Bookmark Manager (BKM for short) is an open source tool for managing your bookmarks. BKM consists of two projects: vbBKM and pyBKM. vbBKM is a program developed in Visual Basic which works on the Microsoft Windows platform. pyBKM is a tool developed in Python running on multiple platforms. I don't want say too much about pyBKM because I'm not going to use it. For me vbBKM is enough, because it is a stable and well-tested bookmark manager for Windows. There is a short and incomplete list of features:

• Import and export from/to: Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla, Opera, HTML pages
• Check bookmarks for dead links
• Check for duplicates
• Fast even when managing hundreds or thousands of bookmarks
• Manage bookmarks in independent databases
• Open bookmarks files directly from an FTP server
• Available in three languages: English, German and French
  

6. Offline Browser/Copier

NewsCopier is a kind of software that I can download sites to my hard disk and then I can read them offline, this software is very interesting me, because I have never heard it before, and I have installed NewsCopier to my PC and use it for downloading some websites, and then read them offline. I'm really enjoy using this type of software. It is good for me.

Search engine Task:

1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search for the words: advanced internet users --- record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log

Results 1 - 10 of about 131,000,000 for advanced internet users. (0.16 seconds)

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
Information about using your internet browser's Help Menu is available and linked ... Choose what web page will be shown when you start Internet Explorer. ...www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
- Advanced User's Internet Training Resources
VICNET Internet Training - More Advanced Users. Been connected to the Internet for a while? Want to get more out of the services it offers? ...www.vicnet.net.au/training/advance.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
Advanced Internet Users, School of Continuing Education ...
Advanced Internet Users. Nearly everyone knows how to use the Internet, but are you an expert? Can you find the number of people currently living in the ...www3.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=6835 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
News @ Cisco: China Supports Advanced Applications for Internet ...
Professor Li Xing, deputy director, of the CERNET Network Center said, "With the increase in the number of Internet users and the development of advanced ...newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2005/pr_09-21.html - 48k - Cached - Similar pages
StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
Detailed visitor stats and a choice of graphical counters. An invisible counter is also available.www.statcounter.com/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
Msen Advanced Internet Users Links Page
The following links may be of interest to advanced users. Route Servers; Digex - Main page. MAE East Looking Glass · MAE West Looking Glass ...www.msen.com/1997/adv_links.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search --- record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search. What differences did you notice? Why? Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results?

Number of Result: 43

Compare all of the results, it's hard to say which are the most relevant, both provided the same first link. But in my opinion, Google results were more useful. I like Google.

Boolean searching Task:

Use of logical operators will filter the searching results. The Following figures show us the different no of searching result by using different logical operators :

advanced internet users: 131,000,000

advanced OR internet OR users: 318,000,000

advanced AND internet AND users: 318,000,000

advanced NOT internet NOT users: 133,000,000

Organising search information Task:

URL:http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/

Author: n/a

Institution:The Ohio State University Libraries

Description: This website provides the fantastic information regarding to website evaluation.This site introduces techniques for judging the value of websites for research purpose.

Screenshot:

URL: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Author: n/a

Institution: NoodleTools, Inc

Description:Noodletools.com is a comprehensive search engine website which is more useful for school students. “NoodleBib” is a web-based tool with free access for students, teachers, and professionals by using their computers. The features of “NoodleBib” includes: multiple classified search engines, and software to install.

Screenshot:

URL: http://www.asianlaws.org/resources.htm

Author: n/a

Institution: Asian School of Cyber Laws

Description: This website is designed by Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) which is the premier educational institute imparting knowledge and consultancy in the fields of Cyber Laws and Cyber Crime Investigation. This comprehensive website provides the best quality of Cyber Law resources to the audiences.

Screenshot:

Evaluating The Web Task:

• URL:http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/
  
• ANNOTATION:

This website provides the fantastic information regarding to website evaluation. Don’t waste your time on searching how to evaluate website, if you know nothing about evaluating website, this is where you start. This site introduces techniques for judging the value of websites for research purpose. The tutorial overview page lists six evaluation criteria and each criteria with links to actual pages that illustrate each point. Furthermore, to help audience better understanding the evaluations of website, each explanation has been equipped with examples as assistant teaching martial. As reference these examples could be very useful when you evaluating a website. For me this tutorial is the very best of quality. All students would be advised to read and study this tutorial. I’m pretty confidence that student would benefit from this tutorial.