Unit 1 The Online

World

Learning Aim A

Name:

Form:
 Lesson 1 Online Services
(Student Book A Pg 3, 4)

Starter What is an online service?

Fill in the gaps below

Service Types Examples Benefits

Communicati Email, messaging, news Using social Instant responses to
on groups,social networks, networking someone who is remote
conferencing, blogs and applications like from you, at no additional
vlogs. Facebook or cost to your broadband
Google+ to fees.
exchange Socialising.
information.

Real-time Provides up-to-date

information information when picking
people up from an airport.
Companies can use real-
time information about
customers reactions to an
advertisement to improve
the effectiveness of the
advert.

Commerce Banking, auctions,

online salesand
purchases, publishing.

Government Applying for your Allows users to carry out

first provisional transactions seamlessly
driving license. (without the need to use
physical money) and
globally.
Education Using the
Microsoft training
package for
Windows 7.

Virtual Cost effective for the

learning school/college and allows
environment the school/college to track
(VLE) the submission of
learners work.

Business Business networks,

(different collaborative working,
types of video conferencing
organisations
)

Entertainmen Playing a game with

t other people over
the internet

Download Music, films, new Makes purchasing easier

services software, software and more affordable.
upgrades, games

Service
Types
Complete the table below to think about and record some of the services that you
may use on a daily basis and what you use them for?
Service Provider How do you use it? /
What do you use it for?

Email (E.g. Yahoo Mail)

Chat

Forum

Download
Services

Search engine

Find out what the following key terms mean in relation to the online world.
Profile

Network of friends
Online community

Virtual World

Chat

Chat room

Netiquette

Plenary In pairs decide and write down which services are most important for:

Businesses? Schools and Colleges? People wanting to

communicate with
friends and family?
 Lesson 2 Online Advertising
(Student Book A Pg 5,6)

Starter What is online advertising? Give some examples

Explain 3 types of online advertising commonly used

Name
Explanation

Name
Explanation

Name
Explanation

What do companies need to do to ensure their online advertising is effective?

1.

2.
 Use the space below to design a web page for your school. Include three types of
advertisement:
Pop up
Web banner

Show in your designs where you would include your advertisements and which type
they should be

Internet browser window web page

Why did you choose those types of advertisement?

Advertisement Reason for choosing -
 What is pay-per-click advertising?

What is another name for online data storage?

 Lesson 3 Online Documents
(Student Book A Pg 7 - 9)

What does upload mean?

What does download mean?

What is an algorithm?

What is the most common method used to compress a file? What is the most
popular program used to achieve this?
Draw an image to represent the
program

What are the advantages of using online software packages?

A

How does automatic backup work?

 Find out the meaning of these terms

Version Control

Locked

File Permissions

File Permission Draw a line to match Description

This allows users to retrieve
a document, read it, edit it,
Read-only Access add a new document or
delete or archive an existing
document.
This allows a user to look at
and read a document but
Read/Write Access
not change it.

This allows the user to look

at and read a document but
Full Control
also to make changes to it.

Write down what permissions each of these people should have.

Person Permission
Computer Administrator
Teacher / Lecturer
Pupil / Student using a shared drive

Plenary

What is a common format for compressing files?

 What are the advantages of online documents?

What are the disadvantages of online documents?

 Lesson 4 Online
Communication 1
(Student Book A Pg 10 - 13)

What is an online community?

Match the following information exchanges to their correct descriptions

These are sites which allows

users to create and
exchange really short text
Web logs (blogs)
entries. A popular example
of this type of site is Twitter.

These are websites that provide information

that visitors to the site can extend and edit.
They allow users to share information and are
Microbloggi
useful for research. The best-known example
ng sites
of a wiki is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia
that can be updated by contributors.

These are frequently updated online journals

with diary-like entries which allow people to
express their thoughts and feelings and give
Wikis
details of their daily activities. Typically, a blog
includes text, photos and sometimes video.

Online communication within communities is

sometimes referred to as chat. Some of the
large interactive communities where people
Chatrooms take part in the same conversation or type of
chat at the same time are known as
chatrooms.
 1. Research and write a short description for each of the following
key terms:

Electronic mail (e-mail)

Newsgroup

Social networking

Conferencing

Blogs

Vlogs/Podcast

From discovering various

online communications that
are used online, what do you
use and why?
 Lesson 5 Online
Communication 2
(Student Book A Pg 13 - 14)

What are the implications of online communication?

Think about the positive and negative aspects

Positive aspects Negative aspects

What are the three main benefits of instant messaging?

What are the main disadvantages of instant messaging?

3
 What does VoIP stand for?

What does VoIP do?

What are the limitations of VoIP?

What are the benefits of VoIP?

Plenary Give three examples of social media used online?

What does netiquette mean?

 Lesson 6
Cloud & Ubiquitous computing
systems
(Student Book A Pg 15 - 17)

What is meant by the term cloud computing?

Can you name four well known hosting companies?

2 Cloud uses are able

to access software
3 data and storage o
the host computer
4

What is cloud storage?

Why software is considered a concern in relation to cloud computing?

What are the benefits of cloud computing and cloud storage?

What is meant by the term ubiquitous computing? Try relating to the image

What does RFID stand for?

What is an RFID? Give an example of an RFID chip in use

Example of RFID

Can you give 3 examples of applications of ubiquitous computing?