Week 3

In this week we talked about information gathering and the Green IT topic tutorial.

Well, information gathering, how important is this?We use information gathering when we want to apply for a job position and later on get interviewed for this position. It is important that the candidate has an understanding of what this company is about and what is this job about that he is planning to apply or applied or even being interviewed about.

We use also information gathering when we want to write about a specific topic for an assignment that we have to complete; we need at that time to have a topic that we want to search about and then search for it in books, journals, the Internet or any other mean that you think that can bring the optimum result.

(London Metropolitan University)

This information gathering process is divided in six steps which they basically have to do with: thinking in the beginning of what question you want to answer, the means that you will use in order to reach the best conclusions (books, journals etc), the collection of data, the analysis of all the information that you found and to decide whether something is irrelevant or not, to make a plan and then to reach the best answer. (London Metropolitan University)

The information is divided into two categories which are: a) primary information and b) secondary information

a) Primary information: This kind of information can be obtained by the writer the same and from what s/he experienced, knows. It can take part by using observation, experimentation, his/her experience and also the use of questionnaires.

b) Secondary information: Information that you gather from other people; other people have said something or written something and you either quote their words or paraphrase them.This type of information can has to do with: books, journals, newspapers, videos, tv, radio etc

In the third hour of the lesson we talked about the Green IT tutorial which we had to read, discuss it in class and answer questions which are relevant to this tutorial and questions which were general and had to do with our thoughts towards recycling. This tutorial was an interesting one as it showed how to save energy while using computers and other devices. Personally i don't leave any devices on while i am out of home (for example computers, mobile phones etc) as i am always worried if there will be any kind of problem while noone is at home. While also at home, i prefer to turn off any device that i no longer use as it was mentioned in the tutorial.

This week's lesson was an interesting one as we talked in depth about information gathering and all the stages and categories of it which it is important because while later on completing a project in university or in work, it is good to have the ability to search for information or better to say, to be able to know how to search for information.

Last but not least, it was also good that we had to answer a word document's question related to the Green IT tutorial and that we had to write down how long it took as to complete it. This was good as we see how long it takes us to answer something when we are under pressure whether in university or later on in job.