week 3

Learning Aims and Objectives:
Aim: In this weeks page, students will learn the different online services available to uses. Student will identify the different online services with examples of thier use and present these in a variety of different ways through the participation of set activities.

Objectives:
1. By the end of this weeks page students will

2. By the end of the weeks page students will

Online communication

Contemporary social media

In our society today people with common interests gather together to share their views and opinions as well as create ideas. In many situations people that share these interests form club’s for example, football clubs, hockey clubs, chess clubs and gaming clubs these are not limited to just clubs there are gatherings of groups that create a society where they read, discuss and develop ideas as well as review others that may have been created already, an example is an historical society. However, with the ever increasing use of the internet there has been an impact on the way that we communicate and share information with each other.

Online communities

Anyone that has some computer skills and knowledge can use equipment and services to create a groups or ‘societies’ online using things like blogs. The groups are often known as online communities, which allow users access to a place where people with similar interests can come together discuss and swap their views and opinions. Sometimes the communities exist in a virtual world online. This is an unreal world created by the computer. Popular examples include SecondLife, Twinity and Habbo. The World of Warcraft virtual world a wide covering online community covering a large global area the gaming virtual world supports multi-player gaming enables users to buy, sell and share virtual reality products and equipment between them as well as create loyalty and allegiances between groups.

Netetiquette

When using the online world to communicate a special behaviour or etiquette should be used and is often know as netiquette. The use of netiquette is designed to reduce, restrict and prevent abusive online behaviour. These rules are used widely across the internet online areas and if a user is found to be breaking these rules they may be removed from the online communication areas that they are in and in more severe cases reported to the police. Other individuals may also report users to the site admins of the possible breach of the netetiquette rules.

Exam Question: What do you understand by the term "Netetiquette" [2]

Create a poster to educate a teenager to the rules of Netetiquette

Information exchanges

When using communities’ members often make available information to its members by the use of contemporary social media, this could be information to gatherings offline, special events that maybe coming up soon that have financial gains, for example discounts, or free previews. Other ways that users are able to share information other than through social media would be via the use of

Web logs or blogs, these are continually updated online journals very much like diary’s which enable authors to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings to others and the community can respond in turn to the author. In most web logs, a blog includes text, photos and sometimes video.
Microblogging sites are sites which allows users to create and exchange short text entries, these are popular, an example of this type of site is Twitter.
An area in which most are familiar are Wikis. These are sites where people provide information to visitors to the site that can extend and edit, often they are used to share information and are useful for research. However please remember that these are moderated and in some cases fact is fiction, you should always seek a secondary source of information to prove or disprove your findings.
Finally, chatrooms. This is an online communication that almost all users of the internet are familiar with, found in most communities this is sometimes referred to as chat. This can be also found on sites like Facebook.

Exam Question: Which of these is NOT an example of an Information exchange?
1. Twitter
2. Wikipedia
3. Reddit
4. BBC

DISCUSSION TIME!!!

The way that we use technology has changed how we communicate with each other. Find out what the most common forms of communication were 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and 150 years ago. How do these methods compare with modern forms of communication?

Create a presentation on Netetiquette, provide information to what it means and the rules to obey and how to be safe. Remember that this infomation might be used by a person that is new to using the internet e.g Your Grandparent.

When we look in to the use of online communication in most parts we think to “Real Time” however online communications can be done in the past and then reused at a later date, this can come in the form of Podcasts. Podcasts are a number of audio or video files that are downloadable from internet sites. These are usually published in episodes of events, this could be a radio shows morning schedule, an example would be that of Radio One or Heart FM. These allow fans of the show to catch up with the music, interviews, news and general chat. This process is also known a vlog when the use of videos are involved. One of the world’s most recognizable vlogs is Youtube.

Youtube was purchased by Google in 2006 for a reported £883 Million pounds.

Communication as we know happens anywhere and at any time, we just have to remember that we are doing it. So when we learn we are communicating, we are just listening or reading more than telling or responding. One of the platforms online that we use to communicate in education is via the use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), not to dissimilar to this very site. Within our school communities we come across a number of different VLE’s some noteworthy ones are

Moodle
Edmodo
Blackboard

The use of these covers a wide range of areas of assessment and communication, the ability for the submission of a digital piece of work that can enable the tutor to explain (Communicate) to the student the areas of success and the areas that require improvements. VLE’s a not limited to just the submission of work but also enabling the use of poles, survey and discussion forums around the work. VLE’s also are great for returning to the subject matter at a later time to catch-up or to test knowledge that has been covered in sessions.

Socail Media

We know that this area is one on the most frequently visited web areas on a day to day basis. As mentioned in an earlier “Factoid” approximately 2.8 billion social media accounts are active, that is increadable considering that the reported user levels of the internet are reported to be 3.01 billion.
The use of social media has enabled users across the world to interconnect and communicate between themselves through the simple creation of a user profile. Users are able to add information about themselves and add pictures and videos of things that they like or

DISCUSSION TIME:
Over the past decade the use of social media has grown to huge levels, however with this global exposure of personal information and activities is the use of social media a good thing?

There have been a number of social media sites over the years, some of the best known were, “Friendster”,”MySpace” and “Bebo”.
1. How do these sites compare with the commonly used sites like Facebook and Google+. 2 . Provide your own opinion as to whether you feel that use these sites differently now to when they first became popular.

Social Networking

The area of Social Networking can be misunderstood, most people refer to this as facebook, however this is not entirely true, Social networking is used in business circles as well.
The use of the Linked in, this is used in the business world to promote individual acomplishments and abilities. These are then verified by those that you have worked for and with. These Social networks also enable users to share information and communicate of similar finding or information to others quickly.

Create your own Linked In profile using your own private email (as any school or college email may be unaccessible once you leave) consider how this platform promotes your self and your skills and qualities. It is worth remembering that this could be a window in to employment as employers review your social presence online as a way to see if your the right candidate for them.

Instant Messaging

As we have covered previously, Instant messaging enables a real time communication between users, this could be used in the business area of finance where a stock broker sends a message to another broker to purchase a number of shares in a company, or it would be a message between you and a bank clerk to a question about the interest rates on your bank account.

This way of communicating is effective as an alternative to the telephone, however there are risks to this communication type, the written word can be interpreted in a number of ways and something that has been written to be funny may offend another, so miscommunication is an issue.
In some instances virues can be communicated via instant messaging.

Discussion time, in groups consider what are the risks of instant messaging are? Have you ever had a situation where you have found it to be misused? What protection measures could you use? What support is there?

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

The use of VoIP over the past 10 years has increase dramatically. VoIP uses digital signals of voice and video and sends these over the Internet between a number of points, this enables the users to have a conversation from anywhere in the world.
a common VoIP application used by many is Skype.

VoIP is used in a number of business as an alternative to the conventional telephone, this use of VoIP enable a cleaner conversation without any interference however if there is a power cut or network outage this will not work.
Because VoIP is digital data it can suffer from security issues, this could be the use of identity theft, viruses, spamming and phishing.

DISCUSSION TIME!!!
Where do you find most examples of banners and pop-up's and why? (10 min's)

Email in the most part is informative and is used to make contact with individuals to present them with information that could be focused to thier needs, requirements and or interests. This can be both benificial to businesses and to clients however there are common issues associated with this, these could be,

Spam filters
Incorrect addresses
None active accounts

These issues are likely to stop communication reaching individuals. We must remember that the use of this method of communication has areas that the bussiness must consider inorder for it to be effective, these are,

Captures the users attention, use of images and colour
Retains user interest, some interactivty such as a video

Discussion Time: in groups of 2, discuss the impact that emails have on a company if misused. What about the risks to users of email. What could you and a company do to reduce these risks?

FACTIOD:
47 per cent of consumers expect an e-commerce page to load in two seconds or less.

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2024-09-30 10:51:39

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