LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO ICT Ex.

Reddit and Digg

ICT– Information and Communication Media Sharing – sites that allow you to
Technology upload and share media content like
images, music and video.
• It deals with the use of different
communication technologies such as Ex. Flickr, YouTube and Instagram
mobile phones, telephone, Internet to
Microblogging – focus on short updates
locate, save, send and edit
from the user. Those that subscribed to the
information
user will be able to receive these updates.
ICT in the Philippines Ex. Twitter and Plurk
• Philippines is dub as the ‘’ICT Hub
Blogs and Forums – allow user to post their
of Asia” because of huge growth
content. Other users are able to comment
of ICT-related jobs, one of which
on the said topic.
is BPO, Business Process
Ex. Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr
Outsourcing, or call centers.
• ICT Department in the Mobile Technologies– The popularity of
Philippines is responsible for the smartphones and tablets
planning, development and
- because of the devices capability to do the
promotion of the country’s
tasks that were originally found in PCs.
information and communications
technology (ICT) agenda in • iOS – use in apple devices such as
support of national development. iPhone and iPad
• Android – (UNIVERSAL) an open
Computer– an electronic device for storing source OS developed by Google.
and processing data, typically in binary Being open source means mobile
form, according to instructions given to it phone companies use this OS for free.
in a variable program.
• Blackberry OS – use in blackberry
Internet– is the global system of
devices
interconnected computer networks that
use the internet protocol suite (TCIP/IP) • Windows phone OS – A closed source
to link billions of devices worldwide. and proprietary operating system
developed by Microsoft.
CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGY
• Symbian – the original smartphone
Combination of two or more different
OS. Used by Nokia devices
entities of technology to create a new single
device. Ex. Fax resolution, smartphones • WebOS- originally used in
smartphone; now in smart TVs.
Social Media
• Windows Mobile – developed by
• It is a website, application, or online
Microsoft for smartphones and
channel that enables web users to
pocket PCs
create, co-create, modify, and
exchange user generated content. 4. Assistive Media– is a non- profit
service designed to help people who
Social Networks – These are sites that
have visual and
allows you to connect with other people
reading impairments. A database of
with the same interests or background.
audio recordings is used to read
Example: Facebook and Google+
WEB 1.0 – Static and not inteactive
Bookmarking Sites – SITES that allow you
to store and manage links to various WEB 2.0 – writable, - interaction between
website and resources. Most of the sites the web users & the sites.
allow you to create a tag to others.
WEB 3.0 – machine to machine
*Stumble Upon, Pinterest
INTERNET – Information superhighway.
Social News – Sites that allow users to
INTERNET THREATS
post their own news items or links to
other news sources. The users can also Cyber crime- a crime committed or assisted
comment on the post and comments may through the use of the Internet.
also be rank.
Privacy Policy/Terms of Services (ToS) – • JPG
tells the user how the website will handle • GIF
its data. • PNG
Malware- stands for malicious software. CLIP ART - This is generally a .GIF type;
Virus- a malicious program designed to line art drawings or images used as generic
transfer from one computer to another in representation for ideas and objects
any means possible. SHAPES - These are printable objects or
materials that you can integrate in your
Worms– a malicious program designed to document to enhance its appearance or
replicate itself and transfer from one file allow you to have some tools to use for
folder to another and also transfer to other composing and representing ideas or
computers. messages.
Trojan-a malicious program designed that
is disguised as a useful program but once SMART ART - these are predefined sets of
downloaded or installed, leaves your PC different shapes grouped together to form
unprotected and allows hacker to get your ideas that are organizational or structural
information. in nature.
Spyware– a program that runs in the
background without you knowing it. It has SCREENSHOT - creating reports or manuals
the ability to monitor what you are for training or procedures will require the
currently doing and typing through key integration of a more realistic image of
logging. what you are discussing on your report or
manual.
Adware- a program designed to send you
advertisement, mostly pop-ups. CHART - Another type of material that you
can integrate in your Word document that
Spam– unwanted email mostly from bots or allows you to represent data characteristics
advertisers. and trends. This is quite useful when you
Phishing- acquires sensitive personal are preparing reports that correlate and
information like passwords and credits present data in a graphical manner.
card details. 1. Main Document
Pharming- a more complicated way of the letter which contain the email
phishing where it exploits the DNS system. information for each of the merged
Copyright- a part of law, wherein you have document that can be letter, stationary or
the rights to work, anyone who uses it w/o template. MS WORD
your consent is punishable by law. 2. Data source
it is also called data file which comprises
WORD PROCESSOR
the information to be merged into a
A word processor is a computer program document such as the list of names and
or device that provides for input, editing, addresses to be used in a mail merge. MS
formatting and output of text often with EXCEL
some additional features.
3. Merge document
BASIC ELEMENTS IN WORD PROCESSOR
it his is also a word processing document
> Font Style that is the generated output after executing
the merge process. MS WORD
> Font size
What is a spreadsheet?
> Font color
It is a software application that enables a
> Double spacing
user to save, sort and manage data in an
> Header & footer arranged form of rows and columns.
> Page number • Row – horizontal line of entries in a table
PICTURES – Electronic soft copy or digitals - numeric headings
pictures
• Column – vertical line of entries in a table
- alphabetic headings Slide - is a single page of a presentation.
Collectively, a group of slides may be
• Cell – the place where info is held in a
known as a slide deck.
spreadsheet
Design Template - pre-designed graphic
- intersection of row & column
styles that you can apply to your slides.
• Active Cell – the selected cell
Slide Show - a collection of pages arranged
• Cell Reference – the cell address of the in sequence that contain text and images
cell usually combine letter and number (ex. for presenting to an audience
A1, B4, C2)
- Press F5
Text / Labels - It identifies the purpose of a
Animation - is a set of effects which can be
cell, it can be a brief instruction, a title, or a
applied to text or graphics within a slide
caption.
Transition - are motion effects that when in
• Formula – is an expression which
Slide Show view add movement to your
calculates the value of a cell.
slides
Mathematical Operators - MS Excel uses
Hyperlink - allows you to jump to another
standard operators for formulas.
location.
• Functions – are predefined formulas and
are already available in Excel
- always start as ‘’ = ‘’
• SUM – Adds all the number in a range
of cells
• COUNT – Counts the number of cells
that contains numbers
• AVERAGE- Returns the average
(arithmetic means) of arguments
• MIN – Return the smallest number of
set values
• MAX – Returns the largest number in
a set of values
• IF – most popular functions in Excel
- perform logical test, returns one value
if TRUE and FALSE.

Advanced Presentation Skills

Powerpoint is a highly innovative and
versatile program that can ensure a
successful communication whether you’re
presenting in front of potential investors, a
lecture theatre or simply in front of your
colleagues.
Presentation Software - an application
software that allows users to create visual
aids for presentations to communicate
ideas, messages and other info to a group.