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Tag Archives: WWW
Conceptual Models
instructing The user issues instructions when performing tasks. For example, typing commands, menu option selection, touch screen, speech recognition, a combination of function keys, and etcetera. For instance, tell the time, print a file, find a photo… The main benefits … Continue reading
Second Life failed or met expectations?
Expectations are personal. When we get our hopes up, the film turns out lousy. The question of whether Second Life met or failed one’s expectations is conditional upon prior knowledge and experience. Personally speaking, I feel a lot like Neo … Continue reading
benefits of using Second Life as an educational tool
Although initially sceptic and frustrated with the learning curve, I am starting to realise how Second Life can be beyond awesome for learners. Let’s face it, we all learn and many of us loathe the necessity due to the form … Continue reading
Design Considerations
Interactivity What sets multimedia apart from all other communications is interactivity. To create effective multimedia, a sense of interactivity between the user and the product must be developed. For an interactive multimedia system, these main criteria (a.k.a. the 4 Cs) … Continue reading
back in a Flash
Flash’s ThemeWell it’s been a while. After some time, and several painful versions, Macromedia come Adobe’s Flash has finally matured. Yes, we can all go back and build annoying Flash intros for websites… Or try Wix for a Flash website, … Continue reading
porn or privacy pin-pricked
As an illustration of the information you give away when you are browsing online, go to one of the following websites: http://privacy.net/analyze/ http://centralops.net/asp/co/BrowserMirror.vbs.asp This is just a sampling of the large amount of information that can be collected from you. … Continue reading
The art of website evaluation
Since every man and his dog can publish anything on websites, we may question the accuracy of that content. Following the net.Tutor tutorial on Evaluating Web Sites, there are 6 points to consider in order to infer a reliable source. … Continue reading
annotation of search information
First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task. Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites: URL author institution blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy … Continue reading
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soul searching on the web – in the clouds
Engines Boolean searching Organising search information Engines Google, (in the western world at least), is such a common search engine, the very name has become an accepted slang verb! So let’s google with a query of my choosing: [Image of] … Continue reading
Swiss army knife and other tools for using the web
As we’ll be covering searching the web in the next post, this one will only provide detail on the choice search combiner tools, as well as five other handy non-search related tools for using the web. As you’re reading my … Continue reading