Printed materials or digital materials...which I prefer

Living in this advanced high-technology modern world, people seem to chase time and want everything to be done easily. Same thing goes with me when comes to reading. I prefer digital reading rather than traditional reading(printed materials). In my opinion, reading printed materials makes one to stick to the author's idea all the time whereas digital reading will direct us to other links and provide us more relevant knowledge. Besides that, digital reading will be more interesting with the use of hypermedia such as attractive visual reality and motion video. However, some of my coursemates prefer printed materials because they feel comfortable with their books beside them all the time. There are some disadvantages of digital reading, the most serious is the effects on our sightness because of straining our eyes sitting infront of computer for a long period. In short, the preferences of reading materials depends on the individual convenience as well as the types of materials.

Tutorial week 5

Hi everyone,
I'm glad to meet you all again this week.For this week, Asha and me work in pair to find out some of the aspects or terms which is quite common in digital reading. Below are our findings in slide presentation form.

Tutorial week 4

Hello everyone,
How are you all?Hope you all fine. For this week tutorial, I have search for three different search engines to find out one educational website which provides English language learning and teaching materials for reading,speaking, writing and listening skills. Below are some of my findings:-


BING SEARCH RESULTS
1. http://www.serve.org/seir-tec/publications/searchcards/learn.pdf
2. http://www.esgold.com/
3. http://www.real-english.com/

GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
1. http://www.usingenglish.com/
2. http://www.eslmonkeys.com/student/esl_learning.php

YAHOO SEARCH RESULTS
1. http://www.eslmonkeys.com/student/esl_learning.php
2. http://www.usingenglish.com/
3. http://www.1-language.com/

Based on my findings, I think Google provides better website which consider a good guide for an English learner as well as a teacher.
Besides that, I also find out a website which provides a better translator from English to Malay and vice versa.

Digital payment development company MOL Global has purchased social netwoking site Friendster. In the deal, reputedly to have cost up to US$ 100 million, a statement said: This deal would effectively create Asia's largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network, pairing with MOL's off-line retail channel partners and payment platform with Friensters' large online foot-print, social network and user community in Asia.




Syarikat pembangunan pembayaran digital MOL Global telah membeli tapak Netwoking sosial Friendster. Dalam kesepakatan itu, kononnya untuk biaya hingga US $ 100 juta, kata kenyataan: Kesepakatan ini akan secara berkesan menjadikan terbesar di Asia end-to-end content, pengedaran dan rangkaian perniagaan, pasangan dengan MOL's off-line rakan saluran runcit dan bayaran platform dengan Friendsters 'besar talian kaki-print, rangkaian sosial dan komuniti pengguna di Asia.


Based on http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_malay.html, I have found that the accuracy is not 100% because some of the words translated directly regardless proper structures of sentences as well as grammar.

Reproducing Advertisement

Hello my dearest lecturer and friends,

I'm glad to meet you all again. I'm sure we all have fun reproducing printed advertisement using our own creativity. This is my first attempt in reproducing an advertisement even though it does not look exact as the actual advertisement. Firstly, I collected some samples of advertisements from newspaper and chose the easiest to reproduce. I search all the relevant images from internet using Google search engine. It was easy for me since I chose one of the well-known advertisement which is Digi Campus. I typed all the wordings and add the images using Microsoft Powerpoint. Later, I convert my page into JPEG format. As a moderate computer user, I use my four fingers which is two of my right hand and two of my left. I never use Thesaurus to check my spelling since the wordings were simple. However, I found difficulty in publishing my advertisement in blog where I need to change format but I manage to do it with Dr.Norizan and friends' guidance. I hope this activity help me to upgrade my knowledge on utilizing ICT as much as possible. Lastly, if I am asked to evaluate myself, I would give five over ten marks for my writing and designing skills.
Thank you and have fun:)

Definition of some ICT terms

Information Communication Technology
Information communication technology (ICT) covers all technical ways for processing and communicating information.It is most often used to describe digital technologies including methods for communication, as well as techniques for storing and processing information. The term has gained popularity partially due to the convergence of information technology (IT) and telecom technology.
http://informationcommunicationtechnology.com/category/information-communication-technology/

Internet
Internet known as cyberspace, the information superhighway, online community, electronic library and digital revolution. it is the largest and most well-known computer netwok in the world. People connect to the Internet via Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Computer Mediated Communication
Computer mediated communication is defined as any communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers. Traditionally the term refer to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats such as emails and chat rooms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication

Netiquette
Netiquette refers to unofficial rules defining proper behaviours on Internet. It also means online manners and rules of conduct for Internet users. One of the primary rules of etiquette is not typing messages in all uppercase letters, which is considered the equivalent of shouting.

http://www.google.com.my/url?q=http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/support/glossary
http://www.google.com.my/url?q=http://dl.austincc.edu/students/DLGlossary.html

Web Browser
A Web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources.

Navigating the web
Website navigation is the science and skill which you apply to a website that helps visitors move from one page to another page. Over time some-more-or-less standard navigation layouts have developed:-
1. Main navigation-above the fold or left side column
2. secondary navigation-below the fold or right side column

http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/navigation/

Dear Dr. Norizan,

Based on some of references, I have find out definition for the concepts below.
Information Technology
Information technology or IT refers to the use of computers and software to manage information.In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/ITDefinition.htm

Information technology also defined as the study, design, development, implemention, support or management of computer-based information systems, especially software applications and computer hardware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology