Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Module Four Unit Work

Taking from the WWW

Software

PDF: Portable Document Format. A program for reading text files that preserves original formatting.

Flash/Shockwave: Files containing animation and interactive applications. These are playable via a free ‘plug-in’ player.

Java: A ‘platform independent’ computer language. Operates in a similar way to Flash/Shockwave.

Video: Common video file formats of which a standard has not yet been decided. The main three are Windows Media player (wmv), Real One (rm) or Quick Time (mov). These are all free and play a variety of video/audio file formats and can stream video.Each also has a preferred priority file format..

Tools: Bookmarks, Meta search and Organisational tools.

Advanced Internet Searching
  • Learn to use the advanced search options and better search techniques.
  • Develop a greater awareness of the sources from which you can search-know whats out there.
  • Evaluate the information recieved in a search result like you would any other source material (validation, credibility, content, purpose, relevance, currency etc)

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