Cyberlanguage

What is cyberlanguage?

Cyber language is a language of the Net.

 

Cyber language, a term not yet recorded in traditional dictionaries,

is encountered by a majority of people daily in media and regularly

in the workplace.

 

 

Cyber play: Variations on abbreviations, emoticons, and smiley

 

 

Creating Cyber language

 

Before the convergence of IT, those terms, for example, mouse, is

used to describe an animal and address is to describe where people

live.

 

But now, those terms have different meanings, and the new

meanings are world widely acceptable by people.

 

The creation of cyber language is a never ending process and

unpredictable one. 

 

New terms will be introduced as technology evolved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Please view this video on cyberlanguage.

 

 

 

Please click at this link for more understanding.

 

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/03/181_23795.html 

Scenario:

 

If all the human being are using cyberlanguage in their daily

life, what will happen to the world and the future generation?

Information Sharing

Many people nowadays have created accounts to various social websites.  People can now connect with friends old and new.  You now have access to different people and groups.    People with business now use social websites to connect with their potential clients.  These are just some of the benefits of social websites, and the great thing is, there is a lot more that these sites have to offer.

What is social networking?

Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision. Although social networking is possible in person, it is the most popular online especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools.

Advantages of social networking :

Low Costs

Most of the social networking site is free of charge. It’s a great way for you to communicate with your loved ones especially from other countries without incurring expensive phone bills. 

Connections

You can make lots of friends not only from your country but also foreigners. Beside that, you can also find your old friend and make business contact as well.

Expanding Market Research 

Social networking sites give businesses a fantastic opportunity to widen their circle of contacts. For example: Using Facebook, a small business can target an audience of thousands without much effort or advertising.

Improve Your Reputation 

Building strong social networks can help a business to improve its reputation with as little advertising as possible. 

Help user find like-minded individual.

Some people simply find it hard to relate to the people around them.Internet social networks can help people find like-minded individuals and make connections.

Disadvantages of social networking :

Lack of Anonymity

You are putting out information about your name, location, age, gender, and many other types of information that you may not want to let others know. 

Scams and Harassment.

There is a potential for failure of security in both personal and business context. 

Time Consuming.

 If this is not your kind of thing, that it would just be a waste of time for you.The key to social networking is that it is supposed to be fun, whether you are just doing it for kicks or clicking around for business purposes 

The Concerns. 

It is the people who use them that are a cause for concern. Social networkers, if one can call them so, are the root of five problems for an organization that allows social networking at work.   

Viruses and Malware.

There are more than 50,000 applications available for Facebook and while FaceBook may make every effort to provide protection against malware, these third-party applications may not all be safe. 

It’s far too easy for predators to find victims using online social networking. 

Make sure to limit the personal information you share on social networks, and beware of people you don’t know who want to meet in person. 

Please click at this video to know more about the topic.

 

Please  view this link to know more about advantages and disadvantages of social networking.

http://www.everyday-wisdom.com/social-networking.html 

Scenario:

What if social networking like facebook and twitter never exist in this world, what do you think on how people in far away place for example in different country communicate other than telephone and letter?

Online Communication

   

What is Synchronous learning?

Synchronous learning takes place when two or more people are communicating in real time. Sitting in a classroom, talking on the telephone, chatting via instant messaging are examples of synchronous communication. 

What is Asynchronous learning?

Asynchronous learning is a student-centered teaching method that uses online learning resources to facilitate information sharing outside the constraints of time and place among a network of people. Sending e-mail for instance.

Synchronous Learning

In class 
    
When learners and trainers separated by distance but meet at the same time: 

Training materials and lessons include:

• Visual images
• Video conferencing
• Audio conferencing
• Text conferencing - Interactivity is achieved through
• Electronic white board
• Application sharing
• Group collaboration - Progress tracking is accomplished by 
• Online testing

Asynchronous Learning

When learners and trainers separated by distance and time.

Training materials and lessons include:

•  Printed documents
•  Training manuals
•  Announcements
•  Online guidance
  
• Threaded discussions
• Email
• Chat rooms
• Group collaboration - Progress tracking is accomplished by
• Online testing
• Time on task recording 

Please click at the video to get better understanding.

For more information, please click at this link.

http://jamesballou.com/Tabula/?p=32

Scenario:

As a students, which of the two learning method that you preferred the most, asynchronous or synchronous learning?

What is the reasons for your choices?

Browsing Strategies

Tools needed to surf the web:

Computer with a web browser application installed 
Modem and/or NIC (network interface card) 
ISP (internet service provider)

The best searching techniques that you should follow:

1. Use keyword rather than sentences.
2. Use double quote (“  ”) to search for exact word.
3. Use ‘+’ sign.
4. Use Boolean Search.
5. Use alternatives.
6. Avoid Stopwords.
7. Truncation.
8. Wildcards.
9. Maximize the usage of the toolbar of the search engine.
   
   

   

   Other techniques you can use to improve your searches include the followings: 

•   Use specific nouns 
•   Put the most important terms first in the search text. 
•   List all possible spellings, for example, email.
•   Before using a search engines, read its Help information.

Please click at this video to understand more about the topic.

  

For more information on the web advance searching technique, please click at this link.

http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/websearch/quick.html

Scenario:

There are many internet service provider in Malaysia such as Maxis, Celcom and Digi. What do you think will happen if only one of the ISP above is exists? What is the impacts of the situation to you as a users?

Virtual vs Electronic

How many of you know about virtual and electronic learning? Actually both learning is different, virtual learning and electronic learning has their characteristic. There are many pros and cons of using virtual learning or electronic learning.

What is virtual learning?

A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a software system designed to support teaching and learning in an educational setting.


Characteristic of virtual learning:

A physical learning environment generally integrates courses, resources (libraries), formal communication (boards) and informal communication (cafeteria, ...), an administration.

A virtual learning environment integrates a variety of tools supporting multiple functions: information, communication, collaboration, learning and management.

Please view this video for deep understanding.

What is electronic learning?

“E- Learning” may be defined as instruction delivered electronically via the Internet, Intranets, or multimedia platforms such as CD-ROM or DVD

Please view this video to know more about the 
advantages of E-Learning 

Problems:

There have been barriers to progress, which in some cases have

resulted in slippage against project schedules. It need to retain

some flexibility in delivery methods.

 

There are conflicting pressures for and against the early adoption of

standards for hardware, development tools, delivery software,

conferencing software, etc.

 

Standards can reduce costs, staff development needs and product

development times. 

 

Please click at this link to find out more about online learning.

http://education-portal.com/articles/Pros_and_Cons_of_Online_Education.html

Scenario:

In our country Malaysia, many of private institution encourage their students to learn via virtual and also electronic learning. My  concern is, why our Malaysian government never implement this kind of learning method in government institution?What is your opinion regarding this matter? 

Introduction

Welcome to my blog....

The main purpose of writing this blog is to complete the assessment for Digital and Mobile Communication given by our subject lecturer, Miss Norul Ashikin Bt Abu Kasim. Other than that, I  that hope that everyone can gain some knowledge from reading my blog. This blog will be beneficial to all readers especially for the students.

Thank You.