Saturday 23 November 2013

Topic 5: Online Behaviour

6. Positive Online Behaviour

Online behaviour plays a very significant role in the portraying a picture of the individual by those that know and don't know them.

The following measures can be practised so as to ensure that one's online behaviour is positive and possibly not offensive to others:

  1. Online posting stays there forever, so try and stick to as little offense as possible
  2. if you are a business person, separate your business online account from the personal account.
  3. Instead of going all rated, rather join age marked groups

Marketing Yourself
  1. Update your site as often as you can (preferably daily)
  2. Respond and attend to queries as quickly as possible
  3. Attracting contents and user friendly sites will make more visits by others
  4. Quick links and referrals and allowing advertising of others businesses related to yours will have people visiting your site more
  5. Simple and user friendly site with ease of navigation
  6. Site design, in terms of colour schemes will also make it receive more attention.

Topic 4: E-Commerce

5. Diagram For E-Commerce


http://nazomuhamed2.blogspot.com/2013/06/topic-4-e-commerce.html - Diagram


The client places an order through the website, once placed. It is placed in their cart. The client completes their payment details and the amount is debited of their account.
Once money debited, and the payment has been confirmed successful. A notification will then sent to the client by their financial institution notifying them of the amount debited of their account. Afterwards, the client gets another notification from the creditor advising them of the successful payment and that the order will be dispatched and an expected arrival date as well as the documents the client will need to produce upon receipt of delivery.

Friday 22 November 2013

Topic 3: Managing Digital Information On A Computer

4. How and Why We Should Back Up Information

It is vital that our data be backed up. As our computers are a big part of our daily lives, they have literally become our journals or photo albums.

As computers are prone to damage of some sort, information/data on them needs to be backed up. This will of course allow us as much of recovering of data as possible in the event of any malfunctions occurring on the pc.

Obviously in the event of any malfunctions or damages of whatsoever nature occurring, then the backed up data can be restored and easily recovered meaning that business will go on as usual and normal.


Topic 2: Using References

3. How To Reference Online Articles
Below are reasons why work should be referenced and the Benefits thereof:

  1. It differentiates between your own work and that of the others
  2. It proves that enough evidence was gathered to support the work done and referenced
  3. It is a way of showing that credible sources were utilised
  4. allows one to learn and read appropriately at academic level

Attached herewith a .pdf document on one of the styles of referencing:

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/help/referencing-style-guides

Topic1: Learning Possibilities Supported By The Internet

1. Creative Commons Licences

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of their own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license
 
5 Suggestions of How I Think Creative Commons License Can Be Incorporated Into Training Institutions In South Africa In The Following Manner:

•Graphic designers can use images that have been marked for personal re-use
•teachers may play video tutorials/lessons for learners in class
•Audio lessons may be provided to leaners
•Creative commons license also includes academic materials which may be used in learning     institutions
•Learners may be taught about commons licenses by creating their own work and having a creative license for it which can be posted online.






2. Five Suggestions  On How The Microsoft Learning Website Can Be Improved

  1. Simpler terminology can be used for those who are seeking more information from the site
  2. More learning pictures and videos can be added to the content of the website
  3. Put an introduction on the site so new users can be aware of what the site is all about before even going into detail so as to know whether it is what they were looking for or not
  4. Decrease the web page navigation bar
  5. Make the Live Chat button more visible