FCC 113 (Week 11)

Web 2.0 Application

       In the last week lesson of computer and internet, I would like to give some information on how to apply the Internet tools and applications to obtain information and other services to support our teaching-learning activities as well as other daily uses. What do you know about Web application 2.0 technologies? Well, it is really common use on the internet application such as; E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Banking, and so on.

 

          Before I start to describe the technology Web 2.0 Application, It is better getting to know with Social Networking which are really addicted to our life, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FriendWise, FriendFinder, Yahoo Messenger, Orkut, Classmates, flickr, and many others. Social Networking is basically communication devices on the internet that can be in a group or individuals subdivision. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. Why online? The internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and experiences lots of topics and interests. 

Web 2.0 Technologies

•      Web 2.0 describes an evolved type of Web interactions between people, software and data.

•      It support the changes from users just passively using Web content to actively creating, sharing and collaborating their own Web content.

•      A user act as a participant in the social web.

•      Web 2.0 also describes a trend of new applications to combine the functionality of multiple applications.

FCC 113 (Week 10)

Web Application 

Web Application (Web Apps) is an application or a piece of software that can be run on the Internet, on our computer, or on our phone or other electronic device. It also refers to any applications or services in internet. For example, Google Documents, Windows Live Hotmail, Turbo Tax online and etc. As addition, Web browsers are software applications that allow users to retrieve data and interact with content located on web pages within a website.

These are the examples of Web Browsers:

Furthermore, we have to know how to use web browsers on our computer. Firstly, we must know URL (Universal Resource Locator), it is address of information on the World Wide Web. Then, use Hypertext Transport Protocol (http) or HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Lastly, domain suffixes; such as: 

AC = Academic 

 CO = Commercial (same as .com), 

COM = Commercial

 EDU = Educational Site in the U.S. 

GOV = U.S. Government 

INT = International 

MIL = U.S. Military 

NET = Network 

ORG = Non-Profit Organization

ARPA = Research Organization 

NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    There are lots of famous search engine on the internet that allow us to find information and give some advantages of using the internet. 

All of the above search engines are the most famous search engines in our daily lives while using internet, but I prefer to use Google because it has more specific when it comes through searching information on it. 

FCC 113 (Week 9)

Internet

     We always use the Internet, but we have never known the exactly meaning of it. In this week lesson, I would like to share a little bit about Internet and the uses of it in our daily life.

 Internet is the largest network in the world that connects hundreds of thousands of individual networks all over the world. It also connect two or more computers, when two computers are connected over the Internet, they can send and receive all kinds of information  such as text, graphics, voices, videos, and computer programs.

The popular term of internet is Information Highway. It is the global information and communications network that includes the Internet and other networks and switching systems such as telephone networks, cable television networks, and satellite communication networks.
          No one owns Internet, although several organizations in the world over collaborate in its functioning and development. The high-speed, fiber-optic cables (called backbones) through which the bulk of the Internet data travels are owned by telephone companies in their respective countries. The Internet grew out of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's Wide Area Network, called ARPANET, established by the US Department Of Defense in 1960s for collaboration in military research among business and government laboratories. 

         How do people use the internet in their daily life? Well, it is a place where you can gain your knowledge about the uses of internet and its applications. The uses of internet is very simple, we can send e-mail messages, send (upload) or receive (download) files between computers, participate in discussion groups, such as mailing lists and newsgroups, or surfing the web and so on. In today modernize, the most interesting webpage that all people use is social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Myspace, FriendFinder, and many others.

Furthermore, the applications of internet has divided into three categories.

1.     Traditional Core Applications

v Email

v News

v Remote Login

v File Transfer

2.     The Killer Application

v World Wide Web (WWW)

3.     New Applications

v Videoconferencing

v Telephony

v P2P applications

v Internet Broadcast

In the internet, we should know about the illustration of it.

  Then we should memorize the underlying technologies; the 7 layers of OSI (Open System Interconnection) model which are:

•      Layer 1 (Physical)

•      Layer 2 (Data Link)

•      Layer 3 (Network)

•      Layer 4 (Transport)

•      Layer 5 (Session)

•      Layer 6 (Presentation)

•      Layer 7 (Application)

World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Tim Berners Lee, a researcher for CERN, in 1989. So, what is the exactly meaning of Web?

The Web (World Wide Web) is consists of information organized into Web pages containing text and graphic images. It contains hypertext links, or highlighted keywords and images that lead to related information and a collection of linked Web pages that has a common theme or focus is called a Web site. As we know, to open web site is very simple, we just open the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or other browsers. Web browsers are used to connect you to remote computers, open and transfer files, display text and images.

How does internet work? I have already explained what internet is, so now I would like to explain about how the internet works:

1.      Transport control protocol (TCP)

•      A protocol that operates at the transport layer and is used in combination with IP by most Internet applications

2.      Backbone

•      An Internet high-speed, long distance communications links (like a bus; wire that connects nodes)

3.     Uniform resource locator (URL)

•      An assigned address on the Internet for each computer

E.g., http://www.aiu.edu.my

FCC 113 (Week 8)

Microsoft Excel

What do you know about Microsoft Excel or known as Excel? In this session, I would like to share about Excel and explain what Excel is about. Firstly, Microsoft Excel is a part of Microsoft products that can allows you to store, organize and analyze info. The purpose of Excel is to solve types of problems that involve numbers and it can be spread sheets in Microsoft Excel.
Furthermore, I would like to give some briefly explanation on how to use Microsoft Excel according to my understanding. First of all, you have to open Microsoft Excel on your PCs or laptop, then try to make a table either timetable or work schedule. What you have to do next is to know about Cell Basic and Cell Content, because you would be able to calculate, analyze, and organize data. Then, you can modify Columns, Rows, and Cells in your table by merger cells, insert or delete columns and rows, and also change rows height and columns width. Moreover, you may also calculate the numbers in your Excel Sheet, such Add or Sum, Multiply, and Divide.
In addition, Excel also has formula to compute the numbers from your Excel Sheet or table. So, as you can take a look at this picture how we can use the formula.

       Last but not least, in Excel you also create Chart, such as Pie Chart, Column Chart, Line Chart, Bar Chart, and so on. There are a lot of Charts that can help you to identify the percentages or the other things.