Online behaviour

Be Relevant

Have you ever Googled yourself? If so, did the results surprise you? Maybe there are others who share your name or, maybe, you don’t even appear at all. Either way, if you are not easily recognizable on the web, you are virtually invisible.
One way to make sure your name is not lost in the sea of search engine results is to create your own website, with your own name in the URL. When optimized effectively, your site should be the first to appear. That way, you can control what the viewer sees when they search for you online.
In addition, you should cast your online profile throughout the Internet. Make sure you create profiles on all the major social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In addition, consider creating a Google profile, not to be confused with Google’s social networking site Google+, and getting listed on sites that act as digital white pages, such as Spokeo. 

Brand Yourself

So, you’ve now established your online presence. What’s special about you? Let the world know. Is it your awesome ability to manage high-profile projects? Your creative problem-solving techniques? Your fascination with foreign films? Whatever it is that makes you unique and marketable to potential employers, make sure that it is prevalent across all your online profiles.
Keep your messaging consistent. When others visit your profiles, they should be able to “see” the same personality. Know what type of company culture most correlates with your personality and create your online presence to complement that.

Managing digital information on a computer

 Managing digital information on a computer

If you are using a computer to store your important information you need to back it up because you wount know when your computer will crush or when your laptop needs to go for repairs. Backing up your information is crucially very important if you use a computer on a daily basis. Install a data back up software so it can keep all your valuable information safe incase something happens to your computer. Imagine losing a spreadsheet of important payments or a song you wrote, you cant remember all the words you wrote down. Rather be safe than sorry and back up your information.

You can use an external hard drive to back up your information or save your work on a removable disc and put them in a safe place.

Using references

 There are no spaces used with brackets in APA. When possible, include the year, month, and date in references. If the month and date are not available, use the year of publication. Too, that the OWL still includes information about print sources and databases for those still working with these sources.

Because online materials can potentially change URLs, APA recommends providing a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), when it is available, as opposed to the URL. DOIs are an attempt to provide stable, long-lasting links for online articles. They are unique to their documents and consist of a long alphanumeric code. Many-but not all-publishers will provide an article's DOI on the first page of the document.

 Article From a Database
APA states that including database information in citations is not necessary because databases change over time (p. 192). However, the OWL still includes information about databases for those users who need database information.
When referencing a print article obtained from an online database (such as a database in the library), provide appropriate print citation information (formatted just like a "normal" print citation would be for that type of work). By providing this information, you allow people to retrieve the print version if they do not have access to the database from which you retrieved the article. You can also include the item number or accession number or database URL at the end, but the APA manual says that this is not required.
If you are citing an article from a database that is available in other places, such as a journal or magazine, include the homepage's URL. You may have to do a web search of the article's title, author, etc. to find the URL.

learning possibilities supporte by the internet

There are many different viable opportunities for learning using the internet. Each form or method for learning online serves a different purpose. They can be created or modified by teachers in schools, lecturers, Managers of companies, parents etc. It is generally used by anybody who wants to learn. It is not the same as e-learning which can also be done on a stand alone computer. it is known as web-learning and can be done through any computer connceted to the internet.

People can use other people's work for free through the use of a creative commons license. when a person creates something, the may get a creative commons license which specifically states for what and how that particular peiec of work can be used. if a person creates learning material, they can specifically stipulate in the creative commons license that it may be used for teaching purposes.

A creative commons can be intergrated into training institutions in the following way:

• Graphic designers can use images that have been marked for personal re-use
• teachers may play video tutorials/lessons for learners in class
• Audio lessons may be provided to leaners
• Creative commons license also includes acedemic materials which may be used in learning institutions
• students may be taught about commons licenses by creating their own work and having a creative 

• license for it which can be posted online

 There is no clear indication of who wrote the page, although it is a website for the company Microsoft there should be a clear indication of who the author of the website is as well as information to clearly indicate whether or not the person is qualified to write this website.

There is no clear distiction between the webmaster and the author of the article. There should be a clear indication made so reader or users of the website and clearly know the difference in the case of some readers/users wanting to contact the author about content or the webmaster for any queries about the website.

The layout of the website can become rather confusing and over-whelming for users. The creator of the website should redesign the page in order to enforce simplicity in the website. there are a large amount of links on the website linking to other website as well as other pages. a list of links wopuld be more desirable as well as categorising the links in a manner which groups the links of the same site in one location while grouping links to other websites in a different category.

There is no detailed information on the website. All the content on the website in very vague and should rather be redone in order to give the users more clear information of the purpose and content of the page.

The information presented in the website Is very clustered and can not be read very easily. A person would have to clearly read all the information in the website in order to find the link or information they are looking for. Information in the website should be summarised better and placed in categories so that users can navigate the wbsite with ease.

All the information presented in the website is based on the evaluation of the Microsoft Learning website http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx#fbid=uIa8Lsst8fN