LIB 1201 – Research & Documentation for the Information Age – Section 3930

I find myself replacing broken screens and digitizers for phones and tablets quite often. I have become rather proficient at it, but the first couple of times I was asked to change one I had no clue what I was doing. So I hopped onto YouTube and searched for Videos to help me with my dilemma. I was surprised to find a large number of videos that documented the replacement process for many different phones, tablets, laptops. My example is a video on how to replace an iPhone 4 screen

iPhone 4 Screen Replacement

Its true that documentation is all around us and most of the time we use documentation without ever being aware of that we are. Edges’ article made me realize that documentation can be used as a powerful tool for learning. not just in the class room but everywhere. All organizations need a way to document things from records to their SOPs. Like students if new employes where made to document their learning within the company they would probably become a more effective member within the organization. I would like to respectfully disagree with Robinson, The process by which things are documented can change but the standard set forth for the quality of the documentation does not. I have no problem holding someone to a standard of documentation that was being met before but for some reason it cannot be met anymore, that sounds like bull. The “Disillusionment” would not be there if people were held accountable and such inferior quality products were not allowed.

The example of process documentation that I saw was a youtube video of a Chef Named Gordon Ramsay who is popularly know as a 4 star chef and has his own T.V show. the Video is called “Gordon Ramsay Cooking Lesson” and it teaches the viwers how to cook  harissa sardines on horseradish toast. it was very quick and informative

All organizations need documenations, because it is a very necessary process for the organizations to keep their resources. And it is a very effective to way to improve working standard and efficiency. According to Irene E. Edge, by requiring the students make documentations when the student do their project, the students made progress of learning the concept, and the student can go back and forth in their study to find out the changes that have been made and if there is any mistake during the project. Documentation is a very useful process, but it can also creat problem. According to Christine Robinson, documentation rises the expectations, especially in the quality management system. “When expectations are not met, disillusionment and discontent can result.” So we also have to find a way of balancing the process, to rise its efficiency to the maximum level.

Process documentation is the recording or writing down the steps of a process. One example is the chemical experiment procedure and report. In a chemical experiment,the purpose of the experiment has to be defined first, then the experiment is carried out step by step. Observations and measurements are required at each step to determine whether the right chemical is formed.  Some experiments are very complex and requires many steps, documentation is necessary due to the complexity of the experiment and to check whether the results and observations are different from different trails. Documentation process is very useful in all the chemical experiment.

Hello class!

Be sure to read and print out before class on Monday the assignments for the online documentation project and class presentation (in the assignments tab).

Also, most of you still need to post comments on last week’s readings, AND your example of process documentation (with link, or embedded in your post). This also needs to be done before class on Monday!

Prof. Beilin

I agree with Yaoling Zhu concerning the statement that the copyright laws are stopping us as evolving humans to create new and updated ideas and versions of the original date.I also believe that copyrights need to be shortened so that instead of the individual creator

i believe that if people help and serve as a guide to help with people works are not apart of plagerism. The reason why education establishment are so strict with policy is because they want you to develop the adequate skills necessary to properly function in society.