Yesterday, we attended yet another enriching lesson by our friendly IS teacher, Mr Kent Cheong. As I had hoped, we learnt yet another part of HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language). We had learnt about CSS(Cascading Style Sheets). We learnt that CSS can be used to change the appearance and layout of our webpage, rather than have a webpage in a boring shade of black and white. Also, CSS allows us to design multiple webpages at once, rather than repeating the same process over and over again. We also learnt a good website that allowed us to learnt the codes of different colours so as to insert it into the CSS. There is a really a big difference between a webpage with CSS and a webpage without! This information is extremely important to us when we go out to work in the future.

I have to thank Mr Cheong for teaching us so many essential skills that will surely help us throughout our life!

Roystan Ang 1I102
6/2/2010

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Yesterday I attended yet another fun-filled lesson by our friendly IS teacher Mr Kent Cheong. In that lesson, I learnt about a lot about designing a webpage with HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language). First we learnt about the basic structure of HTML: html, head and body. The html indicates that all content is html. The head contains information about the webpage, like the title of the webpage. Finally the body contains the main content of the webpage. Do take note that these 3 tags must come in a pair with a closing tag.

Other than that, we also learnt many other types of tags: p, for paragraphing,h1/h2, etc for heading,a href for linking, img for inserting images, br for leaving a line and finally hr for inserting a horizontal line.

Next, we learnt how to create a html using Notepad and saving it in the format of .html or .htm and using it later. It was very useful and I enjoyed trying it out for myself.

Next week, I hope that Mr Cheong can teach us more elaborate HTML but nevertheless, it was once again an enriching lesson!

Roystan
30/1/2010

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Today we had our second enriching lesson by our friendly IS teacher, Mr Kent Cheong. Today we touched on three topics: Social Impact of New Media, Intellectual Property: Is Copy Right? and Decide, Blog and Website. I was assigned to reflect on 'Social Impact of New Media' and I shall state what I have learnt about Web 2.0 technology and HCI(Human-Computer Interaction). From what I have gathered so far, Web 2.0 technology is a type of technology where by the visitors of a particular website get to edit the website themselves, unlike Web 1.0, where by only the creator of the website is allowed to edit the website.

On HCI, I learnt that HCI technology is a technology in which a machine can read the sounds of humans and can interpret it correctly. Personally, I think that this kind of technology is a big leap in technology and I hope even more advanced versions of this kind of technology will be invented in the near future.

Next topic was called' Intellectual Property-Is Copy Right?'. I watched a video posted on the discussion forum. From the video, I learnt 3 important issues. Firstly, it is not right to download any unauthorised material from the Internet for commercial use without permission from the copyright owners, furthermore, you must also give credit to the source when and where necessary. Secondly, one cannot perform any unauthorised photocopying of hard copy materials, also, only up to 10% or one chapter of any book is allowed for photocopying, and it must only be done for personal use, not commercial use. Lastly, unauthorised reproduction of others' works is strictly restricted and their permission must be granted before reproducing their work.

The last topic was ' Decide Blog or Website?'. After watching the video, this are my thoughts: I feel that a blog and a website both have their pros and cons. A blog is easier to edit and changes are more easily undone. However, a blog has limited functions, as compared to a website. On the other hand, a website has more functions and it can be used by the creator to perform many tasks, like advertising a certain item or starting a forum, etc. However, a website is hard to edit and once something goes up, it's hard for it to be removed. Personally, I would prefer a blog as it is more simple and still has pretty decent features.

This is what I have learnt in the second lesson of IS.

Roystan
22/1/2010

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Today I attended the Infocomm Studies(IS) conducted by Mr Kent Cheong at HCI Computer Lab 1. I learned a whole range of stuff. Here I will list what I learned in this enriching lesson. First we learnt about the history about the Internet. It was originally started in 1969 to allow scientists from different locations to share information and to function if part of the network was disabled. The project name was ARPANET(Networking Project By Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency). It originally started in 1969 with four host modes but 15 years later, in 1984, it had more than 1000 host modes. Today, there are more than 200 million host modes! Indeed, technology rapidly improves. There are 3 ways to connect to the Internet- ISP, OSP and Wireless Internet Service Provider. I also learnt about the IP(Internet Protocol) address which is basically a number that is used to identify each computer or device on the Internet. Next, I learnt about the WWW(World Wide Web). It can be also called the Web for short. It is a global collection of electronic documents which can also be called web pages. Web pages can contain text, pictures, sounds, videos and also buit-in connections! There is also a URL(Uniform Resource Locator), which can be used to identify each and every web page. I also learnt about E-Commerce, or Electronic Commerce. It is business transaction that occurs over the Internet.There are also many different stuff on the WWW, which I will list down. Educational websites, Entertainment websites, Advocacy websites, and many more, like a personal website. A thumbnail is a smaller version of a larger picture, which can be used to improve web page display time. There is also a function called email on the WWW, which one can use to send messages to others. I also learnt about online netiqutte. There is basically only one rule, which is to treat others as you would like them to treat you. For example, do not send spam messages to somebody, as you would also not like it if someone else sent spam messages to you. Last but not least, we also learnt about Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Web 1.0 is basically the writer of a certain website requiring to constantly update the website so as to attract readers. However, Web 2.0 enables both the writer and the readers to update the website. An example is the famous Wikipedia. From what I have just said above, it is obvious that technology constantly improves, day by day.
Roystan Ang
15/1/2010

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