Summary Blog Posting

It's The End!

This fall semester ends really fast, and this will be the last blog post for Intro to Internet (COM 125). Below will be a summary of what I had learned in this module for the semester.

Week 1

What is Internet?

The internet connects different country within a click on the mouse but, of course, that country needs to have access to the network. Most of us have a device that have internet access, for example, smartphone and computer. These devices connect us to the other side of the world.

Week 2

The power of Social Media.

In today’s day and age, there is a new phenomenon:, there is an increasing prevalence of young people spending much of their time on their mobile phones. They are busy updating themselves on Facebook, liking photos on Instagram, and tweeting their current emotions on Twitter. Suffice to say, teenagers spend a large amount of time on social media. It has also been noted that these teenagers are portraying a different image from their real lives on social media, and some have even gone anonymous or under a different name and identity. This could be due to their desire to gain the attention of others, or to protect themselves from online threats.

Week 3

Benefits of using Social Media

Social media is an easy way to learn about your audience
While using a social media management software for example Hootsuite, Sprout Social and many more you can learn who are your audience. It is easy to find the gender distribution, languages used and where are they from.

Week 4

What are E-Business and E-Commerce?

E-business is broader than e-commerce; including the transaction based e-commerce businesses and those who run traditionally but cater to online activities as well. An e-business can run any portion of its internal processes online, including inventory management, risk management, finance, human resources.
E-commerce is “any transaction completed over a computer-mediated network that involves the transfer of ownership or rights to use goods and services. E-commerce includes sales made on the Internet, Intranet, Extranet, World Wide Web, by email and even by fax.

Week 5

E-Learning

Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy

Cognitive Domain

The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills (Bloom, 1956).

Former students of Bloom revised the cognitive domain in the nineties.

1. They change all the categories to verb forms.

2. Rearranging the categories

This revised version reflects a more active way of thinking and might be even more accurate.

Psychomotor

The psychomotor domain (Simpson, 1972) includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas.

Affective

This domain includes how we deal with things emotionally, for example, feeling, values, appreciation, enthusiasm, motivation and attitudes.

Week 6

Internet Tools

This week, I did a video and uploaded it to youtube. It was my first time doing a video all by myself.

Week 7

Internet Security

Cybercrime rates are increasing in Singapore, e-commerce cheating or extortion on cyberspace climbed from 510 cases to 1,659 cases last year.Teenagers one of the easiest target online.

Police say that members of public should beware of such scams and take the following precautionary measures:

-Exercise caution when befriending strangers on the internet.

-Do not agree to any request that may put you in a vulnerable position, such as performing compromising acts in front of a webcam and providing personal details to other internet users.

-Contact the police immediately if you receive any message or call from anyone claiming he/she is in some kind of trouble overseas and need you to urgently send money over.

-Inform the police if anyone tries to extort money from you.

Week 8

Virtual Reality applications

When we hear people talk about Virtual Reality applications, most of us would think about virtual gaming. For example Oculus Rift and Virtuix Omni.Virtual Reality applications are not only for gaming but there are many different kinds of uses.

Week 9

Internet and Politics

Social media is a powerful tool to gather people around in a common platform. Politicians cannot ignore the power of social media even if they hate it. This is because too many of us are on social media. It is fastest way to get information thru millions of people in seconds. Way faster than traditional media.For example Singapore 2015 election, almost all the candidates have a Facebook page, a twitter account or even Instagram.

Week 10

Internet and Journalism

I think that The internet is another platform for Journalist who can't voice or comments their findings. Take Mexico for example, According to Reporters without Borders (2015), Mexico’s press freedom index is ranked at 148 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index. The government, drug cartels, and media conglomerates in Mexico control the press freedom there.

Week 11

Internet & Innovation

This week, I had talked about this company call Glints. Glints is an online talent recruitment and career discovery platform headquartered in Singapore. It is a platform for young talent to build up their career readiness through internships and graduate jobs; developing skill sets required in different careers.

Week 12

Future of Internet

Everyone in the world, be it in the rural or developing countries, will have internet access. Iron Man technology may become reality! It is possible, we have the ideas, and I'm sure we could create it. 

And that conclude my journey with COM 125. Below is a video we did for our presentation and we call ourselves, The PMS. HAHAHAHA!