Entry Two : IT and ICT

Hello ,

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

In my second entry, I would like to reflect back on what I have learned about IT (Information Technology ) and ICT ( Information Communication Technology ) during classes. Nowadays , people often call our era as information technology era. Information plays important role in the age of globalization.IT is any computer based tool that people used to work with information and to support the information and information processing needs of an organization. There are two concepts in IT which are IT architecture and IT infrastructure. IT architecture is a plan or map of information for an organization, and IT infrastructure is the physical facilities such as IT components , IT personal and IT services .

ICT is actually based on IT. It is the combination of the technology and media broadcasting in order to manage and process information. ICT plays very important role in our everyday life . ICT normally use in education, business organization, banking, government organization and so on. In the age of ICT , there is no one who do not deal with ICT.

Our Group Presentation : ICT in Everyday Life

Entry One : Data , Information and Information Management

Hello , 

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

As a first learning outcome, we have learnt about the different between data , information and information management. From my understanding , data is the raw facts or materials which is used to input into a computer system . Normally , data can be numbers , characters , image , audio  and video. Data , left by itself , cannot be meaningful .

When data  is organized together as input , the combination of data comes out  as information . In order to get information as a output, data need to be processed by using I-P-O method ( input-processing–output method ). Information is used to persuade and influence people , in decision-makings and as capital resource for information-based products and service . Normally , information has two basic elements . They  are reach and richness. Reach refers to the number of  people , the participants , in sharing information and richness means the quality of information.

                   

Information management is used to manage the use, value and distribution of information. Information management normally contains people , content and technology . Information management is also used to support better decision – making , to improve the efficiency  and productivity , and to faster professionalism in running business.

My Purpose of Writing Reflections

I normally ask myself about my perspectives of learning such as “ why is the purpose of learning ? “ and so on . Finally , I came out with  that I want to store knowledge and generate them to use in my life long decision-makings  or choices . In order to be generated , I have realized that I have to reflect what kinds of knowledge that I have already stored . In my opinion , reflection is very helpful  for me to know whether I have already learnt or just gone through. I usually tend to forget the 80 % of what I had learnt in my classroom or lecture . By writing reflections ,  I can not only review  the lessons  , but explore more about the lessons .  Moreover , it is supportive to organize and use my knowledge  wisely . Therefore , I have promised myself to write reflections as much as I can .

Wut Hmone Hnin Hlaing

    ( Myanmar )

Week (10) Internet

Hello everyone,

     How are you all ? I hope you all are fine . Today , I would like to share about what I have learnt in week ten. Actually , all the things that I have learnt is all about Internet . Do you guys know about internet, right? But, it's a little more like  history of Internet . Actually , it is boring for me to learn again and again about Internet . However , We should know about the history of Internet , right ? So , let's talk about it .

Do you guys know Internet start in 1960 with Packet Switching. After that , it goes on developing until now . Moreover , I have learnt so many things that I don't know  when I am using Internet . Have you all seen HTML when you all use Internet ? Of course , everyone see  it ,right? Actually, it is wonderful when I found out it's mean Hypertext Makeup  Language .

Moreover, I have learnt that Internet is the part of the WAN topology . It's known as information highway . Do you guys know who own Internet? Actually , no one own Internet  that means we all own it ,right? Because , we all share our knowledge and information in the Internet . That's why , we should own it !

By the way , have you guys ever know  URL ? It is actually  the address of the web page like www.google.com. It's called  URL - Uniform Recourse Locators . I have learnt that  the difference between URL and Domain . URL has more detail and it has four parts such as transfer protocol , domain name of the computer , pathname of the folder and the name of the file .

I  have to share one more with you guys . It's  about OSI ( Open System Interconnection ) . OSI consists of 7 layers . They are Physical hardware, Data link , Network , Transport , Session , Presentation and Application .

That 's all for today . I hope you guys will understand what I post it . Ok , See ya... . Bye for now :)

Week ( 9 ) Microsoft Excel 2010

 Hello again ,

    How are you all ? I hope you all are fine . Today , I would like to  share about MS Excel 2010 that I have learned  in week  eight. As you all know,Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations .











Microsoft Excel help us  to do different types of charts and pies . It's really good tool to use for our presentation.

So , I hope you guys will understand about MS Excel 2010 . See you later . Bye for now :)....