Friday, 27 June 2014

CULINL301A ICAWEB201A Assessment Task 3:

Answer the following questions in your presentation of the information.


1. What is your topic?

Mutton Birds and their migratory patterns

2. Why did you choose it?

I chose Mutton Birds because I know a lot about them because I do public programs about them at my work place and I also catch Mutton Birds for a feed and as a cultural practice.

How did you decide what to look for?

I decided to look for information on Mutton Birds because I knew a lot about them and I enjoy teaching about them.

What was your required outcome?

For my hypothetical client to gain knowledge on the Mutton Bird and for me to provide them with a variety of good resources to help with their research etc images, videos, social media.

3. What retrieval strategies did you apply?

I thought about the exact information I needed, then broke it down and did each part separately my search terms were quite broad, but because the Mutton Bird covers a wide range of the petrel family. I refined my search by using short-tailed shearwater and added Tasmania to that and was able to get more useful information.

4. Which of the following tools were relevant and why?

Print- Not Relevant

Non print – specify what social media tools you have used and why.

I used online resources such as YouTube for my videos, the images off the relevant websites a relevant blog attached to Etsy and a Facebook page with information on my topic.


5. Which information agencies or Internet sites did you use? Why?

I used the Parks and Wildlife factsheet page because it has relevant and very reliable information that I have already used on previous occasions. I also used YouTube because I knew for certain how to EMBED off there and because it has such a huge amount of content that I believed I could find what I was after.
6. How did you analyse / sort the information?

I analysed the information by disregarding anything I felt didn’t help or benefit my client and sorted it into one topic “Life Cycle” in that topic I then broke it up into feeding habits and migration. With an emphasis of how a lot of the birds pass away on migration.

7. Did you need to reassess or follow up?

Yes from time to time I had to go back through and tweak and change my formatting of my blog, I also had to reassess the way I did my citations and then change them to how I felt they were best formatted.

8. How have you recorded and managed your information?

I recorded and managed all my information by creating a Word document titled Assessment Task 2 Referencing that way all my information was offline and in an easy to use and easy to alter format.

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Australian Seabird Rescue Facebook Page



Citation:

Australian Seabird Rescue Inc 2013, N.d., Facebook, 16 October, accessed 22 May 2014, <https://www.facebook.com/AustralianSeabirdRescueInc/posts/272945619497087>.

Authority:

Australian Seabird Rescue Inc (ASR)

Currency:

This post/page was put up in 2013 and is still very current because the same cycle of exhausted birds happens every year, in saying that it varies from migration to migrate e.g year to year.

Relevancy/Suitability to Client:

This is suitable for my client because it helps them to understand how many birds die from exhaustion and how well known it is to the wider community.

Popularity:

8 Likes, 25 Shares, 8 Comment

Security:

No Security completely Public

Age Group:

Everyone

Pages:

1

Customization:

By having the logo and name of the author the post belongs to makes it customized.

Networking Features:

You have the option to share so your friends can see and to like the ASR page so you can receive any information in your news feed.

Help and Support:

The help and support functions are the regular functions you find on Facebook.

Search:

The search function is the regular function that is already used on Facebook.

Burnt Feathers Blog



Citation:

Burntfeathers 2014, ‘Death of the short-tailed shearwater’, Blog Post, 20 March, accessed 22 May 2014, <http://burnt-feather.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/death-of-short-tailed-shearwater.html>.

Authority:

Etsy and the blog author Burntfeathers

Currency:

This blog is quite current considering it is only a few months old and even though it is more artistic than scientific based.

Relevancy/Suitability to Client:

This isn’t all that relevant other than that it contains images of Mutton Birds and an interesting (albeit morbid) write up about their journey and subsequent death.