Empowerment

Technologies
Information and Communication Technology
Introduction to
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
Are you a digital native?

Let’s find out

1. How many times did you check your phone
this morning?
2. How many status updates have you posted
in your Facebook or Twitter today?
3. Did you use the internet for an hour after you
woke up this morning?
4. Do you follow a celebrity via his/her social
media account?
Introduction to
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
Is a person born or brought up
during the age of digital
technology and therefore
familiar with computers and the
internet from an early age DIGITAL
NATIVE
 ICT
• It deals with use of different communication
technologies such as mobile phones, Internet
and etc. to locate, save, send, and edit
information
• Having a unified way to communicate is one of
the goals of ICT.
• We spend less because of ICT.
World Wide Web
• The World Wide Web, commonly referred to as WWW,
W3 or simply the web is an interconnected system of
public webpages accessible through the internet.
• It was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
• Web pages are what make up the world wide web and
it can either be static or dynamic.
WEB 1.0
Web pages are static and not interactive.
You can’t post comments or create an
account.
EXAMPLES
https://www.9boninnes.co.za/

http://www.fibercom.co.za/
WEB 2.0
• Term used to describe the present generation of
the World Wide Web that concentrates on its
capability of providing people the means to
collaborate and share information online.

• The second stage of World Wide Web

WEB 2.0
• Dynamic Website
the content of website changes
• Interactive
the user will be able to comment or create
user account.
• Enables an increased participation in the web.
EXAMPLES
FEATURES
OF
WEB 2.0
1. folksonomy
allows user to categorize and classify
information using freely chosen keywords
e.g. tagging by FB, Twitter, use tags that start
with the pound sign or sign (#), referred to as
hashtag.
2. Rich in experience
• content is dynamic and is responsive to
user’s input

• Incase of social network site, when logged

on, your account is used to modify what you
see in their website.
 3. User Participation
• The owner of the website is not the only one
who is able to put content. Others are able to
place a content of their own by means of
comments, reviews and evaluation
• e.g. Lazada, Amazon.
 4. Software as a Service
• users will be subscribe to a software only
when needed rather than purchasing them
• e.g. Google docs used to create and edit word
processing and spread sheet.
 5. Mass Participation

• diverse information sharing through

universal web access.
• Web 2.0’s content is based on people from
various cultures.
WEB 3.0
• Semantic Web
• Semantic – ability of web technologies to
understand and interpret human-generated
content
• Aims to have machines (or servers) understand
the user’s preferences to be able to deliver web
content.
EXAMPLE

Apple Siri
TRENDS
IN
ICT
1. CONVERGENCE
Technological convergence is the combination
of two or more different entities of technologies
to create a new single device.

Ex. Using of smartphone to create a word documents

that was previously can only created using desktop
computer.
2. SOCIAL MEDIA
is a website, application, or online channel that
enables web users to create , co-create,
discuss modify, and exchange user generated
content.
05 Types
of
Social Media
1. Social network
These are sites that allows you to connect
with other people with the same interests or
background.

Example:
Facebook and Google+
2. Bookmarking Sites
• Sites that allow you to store and manage
links to various website and resources.
• Most of the sites allow you to create a tag
to others.
Example:
Stumble upon, Pinterest
3. Social News
• Sites that allow users to post their own
news items or links to other news sources.
• The users can also comment on the post
and comments may also be rank.
Example:
reddit, digg
4. Media Sharing
• Sites that allow you to upload and share
media content like images, music and
video.

Example:
Youtube, Instagram
5. Microblogging
• focus on short updates from the user.
• Those that subscribed to the user will be
able to receive these updates.

Example:
Twitter
6. Blogs and Forums
• allow user to post their content.
• Other users are able to comment on
the said topic.

Example:
Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr
3. MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
• The popularity of smartphones and tablets
has taken a major rise over the years.
• This is largely because of the devices
capability to do the tasks that were
originally found in PCs.
3. MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
• The popularity of smartphones and tablets
has taken a major rise over the years.
• This is largely because of the devices
capability to do the tasks that were
originally found in PCs.
 DIFFERENT TYPES
OF
MOBILE
OPERATING SYSTEM
• iOS – use in apple devices such as iPhone and iPad
• Android – an open source OS developed by Google. Being open
source means mobile phone companies use this OS for free.
• Blackberry OS – use in blackberry devices
• Windows phone OS – A closed source and proprietary operating
system developed by Microsoft.
• Symbian – the original smartphone OS. Used by Nokia devices
• WebOS- originally used in smartphone; now in smart TVs.
• Windows Mobile – developed by Microsoft for smartphones and
pocket PCs
4. ASSISTIVE MEDIA
• is a non- profit service designed to help
people who have visual and
reading impairments.
• A database of audio recordings is used to
read to the user.
Prepared by:

Ms. Jay-An Fe M. Amoto

ACTIVITY
1
A. Give at least five web applications for each type of social
media. Then examine its content
B. From the list above, choose the best for you. Why
you chose it as the best?
C. Differentiate Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 in
your own words.
 QUIZ
1
Empowerment and Technologies
I. DIRECTION:
Write SO if the social media website is a
social network, BS for bookmarking site,
SN for social news, MS for media sharing,
MI for microblogging, and BF for blogs and
forums.
1. Facebook
2. Blogger
3. Twitter
4. Reddit
5. WordPress
II. DIRECTION:

Read the questions carefully

and write the correct answer.
1. This operating system is used by apple
devices such as iPhone.

2. This media is designed to help people who

have visual and reading impairments.

3. This feature of Web 2.0 allows users to

categorize information through tagging.
4. A web pages that are static and not
interactive. You can’t post comments or
create an account.

5. It deals with the use of different

communications technology to locate, save,
send, and edit information.
6. The combination of two or more different
entities of technologies to create a new
single device.

7. Sites that allow you to store and manage

links to various website and resources.

8. The original smartphone OS. Used by

Nokia devices
 World Wide Web was invented by
9. _____________ in 10. ________________
ANSWERS
I. II.
1.ALL EXCEPT MI 1. iOS 9. Tim Berners-Lee
2. Assistive media 10. 1989
2.BF 3. Folksonomy
3.MI 4. Web 1.0
4.SN 5. ICT
6. Convergence
5.BF 7. Bookmarking Sites
8. Symbian