Topic 5: Online behaviour

With all the surge in popularity of social media, this percentage is not surprising, But these results should call the attention to the importance of creating and maintaining positive online reputations.

This applies to every individual that is currently participating in social networks and developing a digital footprint with every "like" video and photo posted.
By posting positive information, pictures, statuses and videos they can create digital reputation that will be an asset for future school and employment opportunities.

There are a number of ways one can produce a positive digital reputation, such as

• Not posting anything with pornographic material.
• Nothing raciest.
• Nothing that will offend other people.
• Nothing illegal.
• No terrorist attacks

http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=EP89d8S8d4ufvM&tbnid=plZyP_-g_YPXSM:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkiwicommons.com%2Fblog.php%3Fp%3D7118%26tag%3Dwhat-not-to-post-when-the-teacher-becomes-the-student&ei=D1-_UZOnEaLY7AbtiYDIDw&psig=AFQjCNGIJwDau7_4fFUwF1Xc8GJAjIhHrw&ust=1371582607363511

http://www.ikeepsafe.org/be-a-pro/reputation/social-networks-and-a-positive-online-reputation/

WEB 2.0 Concepts and Applications

Topic 4: E-commerce

This is the process of buying a product:

• The customer places an order.
• The order is made either via the phone or on line.
• The customer pays for the item(s) using a credit card.
• The order is sent to the warehouse for distribution via shipping.
• Then shipped to allocated destination and sent to the customer.

http://tinyurl.com/ptuazc4

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Topic 3: Managing Digital information on a Computer

Backup is the activity of copying files or databases so that they will be preserved in case of equipment failure or other catastrophe. Backup is usually a routine part of the operation of large businesses with mainframes as well as the administrators of smaller business computers. For personal computer users, backup is also necessary but often neglected. The retrieval of files you backed up is called restoring them.

There hardwares that can help one back-up

• Hard disk.
• SD Card
• DVD, CD.
• Flash.
• Cloud backup.
• External hard drive.  

We need to back-up so we are able to restore lost or damaged information

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/backup

Topic 2: Using references

It is essential for one to reference to ensure that you aren't plagiarising another person’s work. There is material an individual is able to reference, a book, newspaper, internet , and a magazine. All references must be visible at the end of your text. The Harvard referencing system is the most popular technique used to reference. Referencing is able to ensure that you have attained information from reliable sources. It is important to reference so that one is able to see that have acknowledged another’s work.

7.4 PDF document

Where a document is in PDF format, cite page numbers:

Citation examples

According to a H.M Treasury report (2009, p.16)…..

In

Reforming financial markets (H.M. Treasury, 2009, p.20) it is stated…

Reference list

H.M. Treasury (2009)

Reforming financial markets [online]. London: TSO, available: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/reforming_financial_markets080709.pdf [accessed 25 January

http://www.hw.ac.uk/is/Harvardguide.pdf

Topic 1: Learning possibilities supported by the Internet

Students can communicate with national and international students, and they can share and gain knowledge and experiences, get involved in educational chatrooms, sharing ideas and solutions and they can learn about the diverse cultures out there.

1.

• Youtube
• Networking
• Ebrary
• Photo Editor
• Screen Casting

2.

• Providing a link for feedback.
• Provide a link to attain different languages.
• A link for images.
• Provide a simplied explaination.
• A link for a RSS feed. 

Reference's
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/STUDENTS/Lui/index3.htm
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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I would say twitter is not a credible source, because twitter has had a history of not always providing accurate information and some people on twitter  might be lying about who they are and they might be tweeting false information all the time.

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Facebook says "We take safety issues very seriously, especially with children, and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet practices"

Facebook has a lot of features that protect minors, there is a feature that allows you to hide your personal details from people you don't know, Its allows users to have their won unique password, gives one the opportunity to either accept or reject a friend request, one can report a picture that offends them and there a is a friend limit. and there is a feature that allows one to block their wall from people they don't know, to unfriend people you not comfortable with or to block them totally so they don't see your profile one Facebook.

http://cdn.iag.me/assets/facebook-security.png