My class was slightly late for IS lesson today. Mr Cheong hoped we will not be late next time. Today, he repeated what he had taught last week such as what is FTP,URL etc. We were told that blog, Twitter and Facebook are web 2.0 which are the latest. We were then asked to decorate our blog by changing blogskin and give our blog address to him. He also told us to post our photos because marks will be given. Those who did not post their photos (includes me) were nervous when they heard that horrid news. We quickly asked Mr Cheong to teach us the ways to transfer photos into computers.He explained to us. There are several ways to transfer images. We can scan an image into the computer, use a digital camera and transfer it to the computer or send it through Bluetooth. After that, Mr Cheong wanted everyone of us to participate in a forum. There are more work to do now. The forum discussions are on social media, IP and blog/website. He wants to hear more of our personal thoughts on the web & new media- 1) the social impact of new media technologies, 2) ethical issues on media usage and intellectual property and 3) blog/web differences.
The objectives of the forum discussions are as below:
1) Explain social networking websites, its uses and social impacts.
2) Explain intellectual property and observing copyright protection.
3) Decide blog or website- which is the best?
Five marks are given for this assessment. The forum topic that we have to choose from is based on the class index number as stated:
1) Index 1-11: Social impact of new media.
2) Index 12-22: Intellectual Property- Is copy right?
3) Index 23-33: Decide blog or website.
There are some videos for us to see about the discussions. My index number is between index 12-22, so I am supposed to do "Intellectual Property-Is copy right?". I have to post a reply of more than 100 words and read 1 other posting by my friend in the same forum and write a feedback of about 50 words to them. Then, I will also have to read 1 other posting by my peer in another forum and give a feedback of about 50 words too.
If you want to know more, please visit Mr Cheong's blog.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
My first IS lesson!
Hi everybody, I am Leon. Pls look at "about me" to know more about me. On the 13th of January, Wednesday, I sat for my first IS lesson. The first lesson was conducted by Mr Kent Cheong who will be my IS teacher for the rest of the year. He is not a fierce teacher and his lesson was pretty interesting. If you want to know more about him, please go to http://webnewmedia.ning.com to browse his blog.
During his first lesson, he taught us some things related to Internet. I am a person who sucks in computer but i still managed to understand most of them. He let us see a movie in Youtube. If you want to see the movie, you can key in "Did you know?" in Youtube. It was a fascinating video. I was startled as i learned many new things and facts which I could hardly believe at all. It said that China will soon become the first English speaking country in the world. The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of United States. The first commercial message was sent in December 1992 which was quite stunning to me. The amount of new information is doubling every two years. By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain.
Mr Kent also showed us a 57-pages-presentation about the internet and world wide web. The Internet was originated to allow scientists at different places to share informatio. Internet became functional in Septenber 1969. Since then, Internet has grown in an extraodinary speed, from four host nodes in 1969 to more than 200 million host nodes today.
There are many Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Safari and Mozilla. There are nine basic types of Web sites, they are portal , news, informational, business/marketing, educational, entertainment, advocacy, blog and personal. The slideshow also explained every web site. during the presentation,I managed to jot down some abbreviated word such as below:
1. URL= Uniform Resource Locator
2. FTP= File Transfer Protocol
3. VR= Virtual Reality
4. ISP= Internet Service Provider
5. WWW= World Wide Web
6. IM= Instant Messaging
For more information, please visit Mr Kent's blog, I get some of the information from there.
During his first lesson, he taught us some things related to Internet. I am a person who sucks in computer but i still managed to understand most of them. He let us see a movie in Youtube. If you want to see the movie, you can key in "Did you know?" in Youtube. It was a fascinating video. I was startled as i learned many new things and facts which I could hardly believe at all. It said that China will soon become the first English speaking country in the world. The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of United States. The first commercial message was sent in December 1992 which was quite stunning to me. The amount of new information is doubling every two years. By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain.
Mr Kent also showed us a 57-pages-presentation about the internet and world wide web. The Internet was originated to allow scientists at different places to share informatio. Internet became functional in Septenber 1969. Since then, Internet has grown in an extraodinary speed, from four host nodes in 1969 to more than 200 million host nodes today.
There are many Web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Safari and Mozilla. There are nine basic types of Web sites, they are portal , news, informational, business/marketing, educational, entertainment, advocacy, blog and personal. The slideshow also explained every web site. during the presentation,I managed to jot down some abbreviated word such as below:
1. URL= Uniform Resource Locator
2. FTP= File Transfer Protocol
3. VR= Virtual Reality
4. ISP= Internet Service Provider
5. WWW= World Wide Web
6. IM= Instant Messaging
For more information, please visit Mr Kent's blog, I get some of the information from there.
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