Laa Revision Booklet

Unit 1 The Online
World
Learning Aim A
Name: Palminder Sanghera
Form: 11BBH
Lesson 1 Online Services
(Student Book A Pg 3, 4)
Starter What is an online service?

An online service is a service provided by a software
application, running online, making its facilities available to
clients over the internet
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 Socializing.
information.
Real-time Time tables, news, Checking on an Provides up-to-date

information sports updates, airport website for information when picking
weather reports, travel estimated arrival people up from an airport.
news times of flights Companies can use real-
time information about
customers reactions to an
advertisement to improve
the effectiveness of the
advert.
Commerce Banking, auctions, Selling items Allows users to carry out

online salesand though services like transactions easily,
purchases, publishing. Amazon or eBay without the use of
physical money, globally.
Government Tax returns, e-voting, Applying for your Saves time and is more
applications for grants first provisional convenient. Errors in
and benefits. driving license. forms can be easily
amended.
Education Online learning and Using the Allows you to complete

training, manufactures Microsoft training training from the comfort
online tutorials. package for of your own home, at your
own pace
Windows 7.
Virtual Moodle Your school or Cost effective for the

learning college school/college and allows
environment may use a VLE for the school/college to track
(VLE) you to access the submission of
lecture notes and learners work.
assignments, and
for you to submit
assignment work
Business Business networks, Using a price Allows you to get the best
(different collaborative working, comparison website price on purchases.
types of video conferencing is an example
organizations where you touch on
) business usage
Entertainmen Allows you to get the Playing a game with Enhances the gaming
t best price on other people over experience by allowing
purchases. the internet you to play against people
you may not know
Download Music, films, new Downloading music Makes purchasing easier

services software, software from iTunes or and more affordable.
upgrades, games Amazon
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
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?
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
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
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
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?

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Unit 1 The Online

Name: Palminder Sanghera

Starter What is an online service?

Fill in the gaps below

Service Types Examples Benefits

Real-time Time tables, news, Checking on an Provides up-to-date

Commerce Banking, auctions, Selling items Allows users to carry out

Education Online learning and Using the Allows you to complete

Virtual Moodle Your school or Cost effective for the

Download Music, films, new Downloading music Makes purchasing easier

Email (E.g. Yahoo Mail)

Starter What is online advertising? Give some examples

Explain 3 types of online advertising commonly used

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

Internet browser window web page

Why did you choose those types of advertisement?

What is another name for online data storage?

What does upload mean?

What does download mean?

What are the advantages of using online software packages?

How does automatic backup work?

File Permission Draw a line to match Description

This allows the user to look

Write down what permissions each of these people should have.

What is a common format for compressing files?

What are the disadvantages of online documents?

What is an online community?

Match the following information exchanges to their correct descriptions

These are sites which allows

These are websites that provide information

These are frequently updated online journals

Online communication within communities is

Electronic mail (e-mail)

From discovering various

What are the implications of online communication?

Positive aspects Negative aspects

What are the three main benefits of instant messaging?

What are the main disadvantages of instant messaging?

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?

What is meant by the term cloud computing?

Can you name four well known hosting companies?

2 Cloud uses are able

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 does RFID stand for?

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

Can you give 3 examples of applications of ubiquitous computing?

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