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Unit 1 The Online World
Name:
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1. Match the following information exchanges to their correct descriptions.
Web logs
(blogs)
Microblogging
sites
Wikis
Chatrooms
2. Research and write a short description for each of the following key terms:
Newsgroup
A newsgroup is an Internet-based
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Social networking
Its a place where everyone is connected and you can talk to anyone
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Unit 1 The Online World
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Conferencing
Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote
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Blogs
Often updates of what
your
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Vlogs / Podcast
A video blog
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3. From discovering various online communications that are used online, what do
you use?
I use social medias like Facebook, Instagram and twitter and I use email and black berry messenger
these are all popular social and instant messaging services
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4. What are the implications of online communication? Think about the positive
and negative aspects.
Positive: its fast and easy to communicate with friends and family. You can meet new people.
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Negative: you need internet access which not everyone has. Its costs quite a lot for anything that has
access to the
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5. What does VoIP stand for?
.voice over internet
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6. What does VoIP do?
voice-over internet protocol: a system for converting analogue signals to digital so that telephone calls
may be made over the internet
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A.Silver
BTEC 2012
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Unit 1 The Online World
Name:
A.Silver
BTEC 2012
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Unit 1 The Online World
Name:
Plenary
1. Give 3 example of social media used online?
2. What does netiquette mean?
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2.
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