Tuesday, January 5, 2010

0 First Tutorial Activity (Meaning Of The ICT Terms......)

1. Information Technology
In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.
Reference:http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/ITDefinition.htm

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware."[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
2. Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Information and Communications Technology - or technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information. The term is sometimes used in preference to Information Technology (IT), particularly in two communities: education and government. In the common usage it is often assumed that ICT is synonymous with IT; ICT in fact encompasses any medium to record information (magnetic disk/tape, optical disks (CD/DVD), flash memory etc. and arguably also paper records); technology for broadcasting information - radio, television; and technology for communicating through voice and sound or images - microphone, camera, loudspeaker, telephone to cellular phones.
Reference: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_ICT

3. Internet
The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). Reference:http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci212370,00.html
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.
Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

4. Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is defined as any communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers. While the term has traditionally referred to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats (e.g., instant messages, e-mails, chat rooms), it has also been applied to other forms of text-based interaction such as text messaging.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication

5. Netiquette
Refers to the rules of correct or polite behaviour among people using the Internet. (Definition taken from page 983, A S Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of Current English Seventh Edition, Oxford University Press)



More definition at the links below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

6. Web Browser A Web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.[1] Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources.
Although browsers are primarily intended to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by Web servers in private networks or files in file systems. Some browsers can be also used to save information resources to file systems.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Browser

7. Navigating The Web

Use search tools to get information around the internet of from some specific websites. Search tool such as Google and so on.

*To clarify, I do not own all these information. All these information are taken from the internet. There are reference links under the definitions. To learn more, you can click on the links to the specific website. Thanks......

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