Week 6:

Comments:

Blogger:

On Kirsten's blog response:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7533952523781723717&postID=5618822023673789896

Courseweb:

On Theresa's entry on YouTube Libraries

https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_9047_1%26url%3D

Local Area Network:

This was a nice article on the history of networking and cabling.  It defined a local area network, or LAN network, as a computer network covering a small physical area.  It listed the characteristics and how they contrast to wide-area networks, or WANs.  I'm sure we've all worked with LAN networks before, considering some of us have LAN networks in our houses.  It also went into the history of the personal computer.

Computer Network:

This article described the different computer networks out there and how they are classified.  There's a lot of different network names that I didn't even know existed such as the Campus Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network, and Global Area Network.

Relativity YouTube Video:

Short and sweet, right to the point.  Great definitions to different networks and where they are most commonly used.  These videos go the best with the Computer Network Wiki site.

Muddiest Point: 

The assignments were a little hard to comprehend and pretty vague.  What I did enjoy this week was the relativity of all the assigned readings and watchings.