Friday, January 26th
Networking Exam
Continue work on your ITGS project.
Project Complexity Requirement - you must document and justify your complex tasks with screenshots of what you did.Instructions for creating an animated drop down menu in CSS3
STOP! - Update your Criterion C with the task you completed today and decide what part of your project or report you will work on this weekend.
Homework
Continue working on your project. Be sure your project is moving along according to your schedule. Also be sure you are documenting your work (save screen shots and give them appropriate names). Your report must have enough detail so that someone else could duplicate your project.
Continue work on Criterion E - Project Report. This is the most important part of your report and it is worth 8 points. Be sure you are thorough and detailed in this section of your report. Also be sure to perform a word count for this section.
What
3.4 Internet - page 29
The use of the internet for activities such as e-commerce, academic research and social networking can
raise ethical issues and have positive or negative social impacts. These may include exposure to ndesirable
materials, cyber-bullying, e-fraud, improved communication between individuals and groups, intellectual
property theft, plagiarism, spamming and the global dissemination of ideas. Students are expected to
discuss, where appropriate, possible solutions to a specified problem and evaluate their effectiveness.
Possible scenario
A school is considering using the internet to enhance the learning opportunities of its students. Before
making a final decision it intends to obtain an outline of the different facilities available. It must also consider the potential problems of opening this “window on the world”. Where appropriate, the ITGS student should investigate different environments to experience the range of available learning opportunities.
This may include research using different collaborative websites, educational websites or online sources of
information.
IT concepts to address in this topic
Fundamentals
• WWW (World Wide Web), URL (uniform resource locator), internet, intranet, extranet
• Internet protocols: for example, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol
secure), FTP (file transfer protocol), TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol)
• IP address
• Modem, browser, internet service provider (ISP), bandwidth, download, upload, streaming audio/ video, compression, decompression, cache
• Domain names, domain name system (DNS)
• Features of a website: for example, hyperlinks, navigation, metatags, tags, forms
• Features of a browser: for example, bookmarks, visited links, tabs
• Web-based languages: for example, hypertext markup language (HTML), JavaScript
• Adding functionality to a browser (for example, plug-ins)
• Data-driven websites: for example, active server page extended (ASPX), personal home page (PHP)
• Site management: for example, web hosting, uploading
• Other site use: for example, bounce rate, click-through rate (CTR), avatar, profile
Tools
• Search engines, web crawler/spider, search directories, search techniques, filtering, keyword density,
keyword prominence, ranking of sites
• Social networking: for example, newsgroups, message boards, chat rooms, forums, instant messaging
• Email, email server, list server
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and beyond, collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, micro-blogs, RDF
(resource description framework) site summary feeds, RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, mashups,
forums, social bookmarking, online collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social
networking sites, templates, tagging, viral marketing, webcasts, widgets, virtual worlds and learning
environments
• Web databases, encyclopedias
Services
• Online advertising and marketing technologies: for example, banners, pop-ups, cookies
• Push–pull technologies: for example, email newsletters
• Content management systems: for example, Moodle, Blackboard
• E-commerce technology: for example, business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C),
consumer-to-consumer (C2C), payment services, secure transactions
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Internet threats and security
• Internet security: for example, firewall, proxy server, SSL (secure sockets layer), encryption, public and
private keys, digital signatures
• Internet threats: for example, global viruses, hackers, spam, phishing, pharming, spyware, adware
Practical techniques
• Collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, mashups, forums, social bookmarking,
online collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social networking sites, templates,
virtual worlds and virtual learning environments
Why
Understanding when and how to use various graphics tools to create and modify images is a valuable skill.
How
By completing the drawing exercises.