Lesson 4: Cascading Style Sheet

Hi,

As you have seen in the previous post, there are some problems. To see the full attachment, please go to Live@Edu. Under my Skydrive, ther is Infocomm Studies where I have uploaded my blog post. My username is : y10tayweeshingkervin@student.hc.edu.sg

If there are any problems, please do not hesitate to contact me at kervinsingapore@gmail.com

I apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Kervin

Lesson 4: Cascading Style Sheet

Hi,

This was my fourth IS lesson at Computer Lab 1 again. The whole lesson was on CSS, Cascading Style Sheet. The objectives of the lesson were to understand what CSS is and how it can affect the appearance of a web page, to build upon our web knowledge and appreciate how a CSS page is presented on the Internet and the codes that are involved to display the various page elements.

For me, I had to spend a lot of time at home to really get the hang of it. After a long E-Learning experience, these are the learning points:

1.) When doing CSS, remember to have additions of DOCTYPE and CSS external style link sheet.

Example:




Basically, the first one is the website where you get your elements from while the second one is to refer to which CSS document.

2.) Spelling mistakes must never happen.

Example: “Color” to “Colour”

This is because CSS is American.

3.) To link your HTML file to your CSS file, remember to put them in the same folder. To add on, the same CSS file can also be linked to more HTML files.

4.) Besides that, there are learning points on a real CSS document when you do it yourself.

I did not learn much as the format had been put up already.

This is my final product:

html{
background-color: #8B4513;
background-image: url(http://www.webpagebackground.com/wood/hardwoodfloor.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
}
body{
width: 850px;
font-family: Comic Sans MS;
margin-left: 100px;
border: dashed #000000;
position: absolute;
left: 100%
background-color: #fffafa;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-right: 100px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 100px;
}

h1{
background-color: #FF0000;
}

Cheers,
Kervin

Lesson 3 : HTML Coding

Hi,

As you have seen in the previous post, there are some problems. To see the full attachment, please go to Live@Edu. Under my Skydrive, ther is Infocomm Studies where I have uploaded my blog post. My username is : y10tayweeshingkervin@student.hc.edu.sg

If there are any problems, please do not hesitate to contact me at kervinsingapore@gmail.com

I apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Kervin

Lesson 3 : HTML Coding

Hi,

This was my third lesson at my classroom (due to NE quiz) again. The main point of this lesson was the good and bad news. The good news was the assignment given was pair work while the bad news was there was going to be and Infocomm Studies test in Week 6. After this assignment, it seriously justified the learning points in the earlier lesson, when I commented on the topic “Blog or Website?” and sure, a website was much more difficult to maintain.

The main objectives of this lesson were to understand and use HTML successfully. Besides, it was to build upon our web knowledge and greater appreciation of HTML usage and also to encourage collaborative learning with students working in a pair.
Basically, to create a website, just add “.htm” or “.html” when saving a document.
Firstly, the main structure of HTML coding is actually:





…


The tag is used for the title while the is used for content of the website.

Next, there are also some other common HTML tags such as:

1.)

…

is to create a paragraph.
2.)
is to create line break.
3.)

…

is to create header 1 text.
( More Information : There can be up to h6 )
4.) … is to bold.
5.) … is to underline.
6.) … is to emphasize.
7.)

---

is to create a horizontal line.

Lastly, there are three more much more complicated tags to be used in HTML:

1.) is to add a image. ( Much more complicated )
2.)

Cheers,
Kervin

My Second IS Lesson: Forum

Hi,

I had my second Infocomm Studies lesson at Computer Lab1. Most of the learning points came from “home-learning” as the lesson only lasted for forty minutes, at home or at school, I still had a lot of learning points. Again, I would introduce you on what the lesson’s objectives were. The lesson’s objectives were to voice your own opinions in a forum and also post your opinions of others’ posts and the three topics were:

1.) The Social Impact of New Media Technologies
2.) Ethical Issues on Media Usage and Intellectual Property
3.) Blog and Website Differences

I was put in-charge to do the last topic, “Blog and Website Differences.” After watching the 9 minutes 43 seconds, I had a lot to take from the vedio. The vedio was interesting, keeping me engaged all the time. In my post, this was what I wrote:

I feel that this video has portrayed that both blogs and websites have their respective advantages and disadvantages.

Blog

Advantages: 1.) Quick and easy to create and post
Disadvantages: 1.) Commitment is needed, frequent posts has to be up

Website

Advantages: 1.) Easy to change the layout of information

Disadvantages: 1.) Some degree of knowledge is needed
2.) Web host is needed to publish posts
3.) Some software has to be purchased

In my own point of view, I feel that the choice is up to you and your interests and purposes in getting a blog or website. However, I would prefer a blog for myself as I have no purpose in making my blog a popular one and a blog is fast, easy and convenient to create and the whole process is absolutely free. As such, this is a summary, if you are a person that feels time is precious, does not want to waste money, go for a blog. If not, you may try using a website.

Also, I posted up my views and opinions onto Jonathan’s post. Below is what I wrote:

I do not entirely agree with Jonathan’s opinion. Firstly, in my point of view, a website would actually be more suitable to share news. Although it is easy to post messages onto your blog, I feel that there is a higher “viewership” for websites. However, I feel that he should have elaborated more on the part where he put “easier to change” as it is pretty general. However, I agree with the rest of the points stated. To add on, to make one point clearer which is “Pressure to update blog regularly” would be to try to get a topic you can talk frequently about, so that it can attract readers.

Lastly, two people posted their view on my respective posts. Below is what they had posted:

I agree with Kervin regarding his post. However, to decide whether to use a blog or a website, I think you should go back to the purpose of the website/blog. If the purpose of the blog/website is commercial, then a website may be more suited to the purpose. However, bloggers who blog for a living - Mr Miyagi, Xiaxue, etc, customise their own templates and have advertisements in the sidebar. This shows that the difficulty in changing the layout does not affect dedicated bloggers. Thus, I think that the choice to use a blog or a website is entirely personal.

I do not entirely agree with Kervin's and Jonathan's point. For one, there does not actually exist a pressure to update your blog if you are not blogging for a living or your school work (E.g. Our IS Blogs)! Also, for Kervin, if we want to attract readers, focusing mainly on a topic will get the readers bored after some times. For instance, imagine this. It is 2015, and you are always looking for a blog to read. Then, you come across one blog which still discusses the Jack Neo saga. Would you be interested?

Besides that, I blogged on the first topic “The Social Impact of New Media Technologies”. The video was especially interesting for me as it portrayed what are the possible lifestyles we could actually face in the future. I blogged:

With high technology in the future, people are “too contented” with what they have and slowly, relying on high technology to do what they want to do, which actually results in people getting lazy. The problem with high technology in the future is how to prevent us from relying too much on high technology. Many would say we can just not depend on high technology too much but are we able to control it? In my point of view, to solve this problem, try to release high technology at a time, one by one.

Also, Ban Siang commented on my post:

In addition to my previous post, I also agree with Kervin. We should always do things in moderation. In this case, we can release a technology at a time, to give people a chance to get used to them. Also, to deal with the problem he mentioned, we can hold lectures / talks to help people prevent themselves from "being controlled" and being too over-reliant on this advanced technology.Also, we must take things one step at a time. Other than releasing the new technology slowly, we must also take away the older technology slowly, or those more familliar with the older technology (i.e. the older generation) will only be at a complete loss.

Wow! Just this simple assignment kept me so engrossed. Firstly, not only does this platform allow you to post your own opinions, it also allows you to view others’ posts and then have many learning points available. I feel that this is a great platform that should be used more often in thefuture in any aspect, an example would

My First IS Lesson: The Internet & WWW & Web 2.0

Hi,

I had my first Infocomm Studies lesson at Computer Lab1 and well, it was going to be a great start for the term. In this one-hour session and also time spent at home, I learnt a lot of stuff. The whole lesson’s objectives were just to get a basic understanding of the Internet, its brief history, web publishing and FTP, web 2.0 and other web terminology.
Firstly, we were introduced to a 57-slide powerpoint presentation on the Internet and World Wide Web. Typed below are the learning points from the 57-slide powerpoint presentation:

1.) The Internet originated was by Advanced Research Projects Agency (APRA) and finally became functional in September 1969.
2.) The URL stands for Uniform Resource Locater and is a unique address for a webpage.
3.) There are 9 basic types of websites – Portal, News, Informational, Business, Educational, Entertainment, Advocacy, Blog, Personal
4.) The FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol which allows you to download and upload files with other computers on the Internet.
5.) The netiquette while on the Internet is actually: Treat others as you would like them to treat you.
6.) The IM stands for Instant Messaging which is a real-time Internet communications service that notifies you when one or more people are online and allows you to exchange messages or files.

Next, we watched a video on Web 2.0 which I did not even hear of before. Basically, Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

Lastly, we watched a final video on comparison between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. In my own loose words, Web 1.0 is basically a platform where the organizer sends information to everyone while Web 2.0 is a platform that sends the information anyone puts there to all of those that are involved in that particular platform.
While at home, I also learnt something new: How to change the blog skin design. From the video, these are the steps to be taken:

1.) Create a blog at www.blogger.com.
2.) Go to “Layout” and “Edit HTML”.
3.) Click “Revert to Classic Template”.
4.) Go to www.blogskins.com and find the design you like.
5.) Click “Blogger Main” under “Actions” and a notepad will appear.
6.) Make a new notepad.
7.) Copy and paste the quotes from your previous blog into the empty notepad.
8.) Backspace all your previous quotes and copy the new quotes to the “Blogger Edit HTML” box.

All information taken from the videos is: http://is-wnm.ning.com/video

Cheers,
Kervin