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Unit 1 – The Online World
Learning Aim A
Name: Form:
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Lesson 1 – Online Services
(Student Book A – Pg 3, 4)
Starter What is an online service?
Fill in the gaps below
Service Types Examples Benefits
Communication Email, messaging, news groups,social networks,
conferencing, blogs and vlogs.
Using social networking applications like Facebook or Google+ to exchange information.
Instant responses to someone who is remote from you, at no additional cost to your broadband fees. Socialising.
Real-time information
Provides up-to-date information when picking people up from an airport. Companies can use real-time information about customers’ reactions to an advertisement to improve the effectiveness of the advert.
Commerce Banking, auctions, online salesand purchases,
publishing.
Government Applying for your first provisional driving license.
Allows users to carry out transactions seamlessly (without the need to use physical money) and globally.
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Education Using the Microsoft®
training package for
Windows® 7.
Virtual learning environment (VLE)
Cost effective for the school/college and allows the school/college to track the submission of learners’ work.
Business (different types of organisations)
Business networks, collaborative working, video conferencing
Entertainment Playing a game with other people over the internet
Download services
Music, films, new software, software upgrades, games
Makes purchasing easier and more affordable.
Service Types
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Complete the table below to think about and record some of the services that you may use on a daily basis and what you use them for?
Service Provider How do you use it? /
What do you use it for?
(E.g. Yahoo Mail)
Chat
Forum
Download Services
Search engine
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Find out what the following key terms mean in relation to the online world.
Profile
Network of friends
Online community
Virtual World
Chat
Chat room
Netiquette
Plenary – In pairs decide and write down which services are most important for:
Businesses?
People wanting to communicate with friends and family?
Schools and Colleges?
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Lesson 2 – Online Advertising
(Student Book A – Pg 5,6)
Starter What is online advertising? Give some examples
Explain 3 types of online advertising commonly used
Name
Explanation
Name
Explanation
Name
Explanation
What do companies need to do to ensure their online advertising is effective?
1.
2.
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Use the space below to design a web page for your school. Include three types of advertisement:
Pop up Web banner …
Show in your designs where you would include your advertisements and which type they should be
Internet browser window – web page
Why did you choose those types of advertisement?
Advertisement Reason for choosing -
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What is pay-per-click advertising?
What is another name for online data storage?
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Lesson 3 – Online Documents
(Student Book A – Pg 7 - 9)
What does upload mean?
What does download mean?
What is an algorithm?
What is the most common method used to compress a file? What is the most popular program
used to achieve this?
Draw an image to represent the program
What are the advantages of using online software packages?
A
B
C
How does automatic backup work?
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Find out the meaning of these terms
Version Control
Locked
File Permissions
File Permission Draw a line to match Description
Read-only Access
This allows users to retrieve a document, read it, edit it, add a new document or delete or archive an existing document.
Read/Write Access
This allows a user to look at and read a document but not change it.
Full Control
This allows the user to look at and read a document but also to make changes to it.
Write down what permissions each of these people should have.
Person Permission
Computer Administrator
Teacher / Lecturer
Pupil / Student using a shared drive
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Plenary
What is a common format for compressing files?
What are the advantages of online documents?
What are the disadvantages of online documents?
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Lesson 4 – Online Communication 1
(Student Book A – Pg 10 - 13)
What is an online community?
Match the following information exchanges to their correct descriptions
Web logs (blogs)
These are sites which allows users to create and exchange really short text entries. A popular example of this type of site is Twitter.
Microblogging sites
These are websites that provide information that visitors to the site can extend and edit. They allow users to share information and are useful for research. The best-known example of a wiki is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be updated by contributors.
Wikis
These are frequently updated online journals with diary-like entries which allow people to express their thoughts and feelings and give details of their daily activities. Typically, a blog includes text, photos and sometimes video.
Chatrooms
Online communication within communities is sometimes referred to as chat. Some of the large interactive communities where people take part in the same conversation or type of chat at the same time are known as chatrooms.
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1. Research and write a short description for each of the following key terms:
Electronic mail (e-mail)
Newsgroup
Social networking
Conferencing
Blogs
Vlogs/Podcast
From discovering various online communications that are used online, what do you use and why?
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Lesson 5 – Online Communication 2
(Student Book A – Pg 13 - 14)
What are the implications of online communication? Think about the positive and negative aspects
Positive aspects
Negative aspects
What are the three main benefits of instant messaging?
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2
3
What are the main disadvantages of instant messaging?
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2
3
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What does VoIP stand for?
What does VoIP do?
What are the limitations of VoIP?
What are the benefits of VoIP?
Plenary – Give three examples of social media used online?
What does netiquette mean?
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Lesson 6 – Cloud & Ubiquitous computing systems
(Student Book A – Pg 15 - 17)
What is meant by the term cloud computing?
Can you name four well known hosting companies?
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Cloud uses are able to access software, data
and storage on the host computers
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What is cloud storage?
Why software is considered a concern in relation to cloud computing?
What are the benefits of cloud computing and cloud storage?
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What is meant by the term ubiquitous computing? Try relating to the image
What does RFID stand for?
What is an RFID? Give an example of an RFID chip in use
Example of RFID
Can you give 3 examples of applications of ubiquitous computing?
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