Monday, April 28, 2008

Week 9 Communications

TASK
I have entered Twenty 20 Cricket, as my topic of interest. It came up with 234,000 results. There are many different ones relating to womens cricket, the current IPL cricket matches, how it will change the game of cricket in the future.

The information that I read was interesting and some of the suggestions were not only funny but practical as well. It has people suggesting that other countries should try and have their version of the IPL. Though this is the first time a country has run an international team Twenty20, it definately has brought alot of attention to a sport that was becoming less entertaining and losing all of the well known athletes of the game.

Potential Benefits
Podcasts for university students is very helpful as it offers different ways to learn, through visual, audio and reading through topics. This helps most poeple who have different learning styles and need the audio to help them. Podcasts are also a good way of showing information when doing presentations. All video shots or pictures are easily shown through a podcast.
Summary
It is interesting to see the different groups that are accessible on the net that all relate to the same topic. Knowing this will come in handy when doing assignments and wanting to see if anyone else has suggestions on the same topics. It will open my understanding of the topic and may help me more. Though I never really had an understanding of Podcasts, it was interesting to understand how they can help in assessments.
Reading 1
Spam; This site explains what a spam is, how you can get it and how to prevent your computer from catching one. If you are unfortunate and do happen to get a spam on the computer this site explains the process of how to get rid of it. It is an interesting site and very detailed.