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