Unit 1 - Activity 2: I.C.T.

Terminology
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Technology To Go: The Evolution of Mobile Communication
Mobile computing When a device is portable and capable of wireless
communication.
WiFi Allows mobile devices to connect through a wireless access point.
WAP Wireless Access Point
PDA Personal Digital Assistants
Why are mobile computing devices so popular?
It is able to connect to the internet from anywhere. Also they are light to carry and
smaller in size.

Sending Electronic Mail

What are some of the difference/advantages/disadvantages between web-based
email and an e-mail software that can be installed on your computer?
An email software that is already installed on your computer is much faster to use
then webmail also it is less private and secure problems than webmail.

Networks
LAN Local Area Network

Intranet A private network that is usually larger than a LAN

WAN Wide Area Networks

Internet Huge network of between 350-500 million computers

WWW World Wide Web

Webpage A single web document containing text,links, photos and other types of
multimedia

Website A bunch of webpages usually maintained by the same person or

organixation/company.

Web Browser To see webpages you use your web browser, a software application
that transforms information from the internet into webpages.

Here are some items (numbered from the picture above) that are common to web
browsers:
Button Name

Purpose

Keyboard
Shortcut

Back

Takes you to the previous page youve visited

ALT-left

Forward

If youve gone back to a previous page this will

bring you to the page you were using before you
went back.

ALT-right

Stop

Stops any data from downloading from a

webpage

Esc

Refresh

If data on a page is changing hit refresh to load

the most recent information on the page

F5 or CTRL-R

Home

Returns to your homepage

CTRL-Home

Favourites
(Often called
bookmarks)

Opens up a list of your bookmarks(web

addresses that youve saved so you can view
them later.)

Varies
according to
browser

URL

URL The Uniform Resource Locator of the page

being currently visited

HTTP The beginning of most URLs stands for

HyperText Transfer Protocol

The address
bar

Type the URL that you want to visit here than

press enter

Links

Link are usually underlined and/or a different

colour of text. You will be taked to a new
webpage by clicking on the link

When finished, pair up with a classmate and take the Jeopardy-style Quiz!