Session 84 (16 July 2013)

Today we went to attend the ICT seminar. I learned a lot of things in the seminar such as how to answer the questions in a right way and what kind of question will come out. It started at 8.00 a.m. and ended at 2.00 p.m..

Session 83 (11 July 2013)

- Today I'm not around but I heard my friends said that we are going to have a collaboration with Koreans students and this makes me feel very happy and excited because personally I like Korean cultures very much, and most of all, I love K-POP!!! (sorry for my craziness)

- I also heard that we are continue doing ICT assessment.

Session 82 (9 July 2013)

- Doing ICT Assessment

Session 81 (4 July 2013)

- Doing ICT Assessment.

Session 80 (2 July 2013)

- Doing ICT Assessment.

Session 79 (27 June 2013)

- Doing ICT Assessment

Session 78 (25 June 2013)

- Doing ICT Assessment

Session 77 (20 June 2013)

Doing ICT Assessment

Session 76 (18 June 2013)

We have to do our ICT Assessment today.

Session 75 (13 June 2013)

Discuss exam paper.

Session 74 (11 June 2013)

- Check work got finish or not
- Mr.Z will gives task on Facebook about programming.
- Find answers for the exam paper.

Session 73 (7 May 2013)

Having mid-year exam.

Session 72 (2 May 2013)

Teacher suddenly went to give a talk, therefore we continue do our hands-on test. We passed up our LO today.

Session 71 (30 April 2013)

We have to hand in the LO which included the database assignment which had done at the last few sessions. The due date of LO is on 2 May.

Mr.Z also explained the examination format and gives us a hands-on test on Microsoft Access.

Session 70 (26 April 2013)

Continue doing the database assignment and Mila is still not around, so I have to do the work by my own again. =(

Session 69 (23 April 2013)

Doing Database Assignment with Mila, but she was not around today, so I do it by myself first.

Session 68 (18 April 2013)

Foreign key - the field that matches the primary key in another table

We have database task next week.

Session 67 (11 April 2013)

Query - a request for a specific data from a database

Form - an interface to enter data

Report - summarises information from the database

Mr. Z also introduces FROG VLE to us. It is a web-based learning system that replicates real-world learning by integrating equivalent of conventional concepts of education. For example, teachers can assign lessons, tests, and marks virtually, while students can submit homework and view their marks through the VLE. Parents can view school news and important documents while school administrators can organise their school calendars and disseminate school notices via the Internet. The website for our schools FROG VLE is https://wea0194.1bestarinet.net .

Session 66 (4 April 2013)

byte - a collection of bits

field - a unit of data consist of one or more character (byte)

record - a collection of related fields

file - a collection of related record

Database - a structured collection of information

DBMS - a program that accesses information from a database.

Benefits of using database

• minimise data redundancy
• data integrity is assured
• allow the sharing of data / data can be shared
• information can be accessed easily

Session 65 (2 April 2013)

We have to send Lesson Plan for Area 6 before tomorrow night.

The due date for Learning Outcomes for Area 6 is 2 May 2013.

Microsoft Access - Database Program

DBMS (Database Management System)
- to process data inside the database

Data
- raw material
- not organised, little value
- text, numbers, images, audio and video

Information - organised and valuable

Information System - a set of related components that collects data, processes data and provides information.

Education

• keep track of students statistics and grades
• help teachers and students in online learning and discussing

Business

• carry out online buying and selling
• help plan the delivery of goods and services
• make room bookings and for checking the best rates

Management

• see employee records
• analyse products, services and product prices
• process customer orders, organise product

Information System Components

- data

- hardware

- software

- people

- procedure

Management Information System (MIS) - to provide regular information

Session 64 (21 March 2013)

Mr. Z want us to e-mail the visual basic assignment in .exe by 28 March 2013.

Program analysis - Review and define the problem

Program Design
- top-down design module
- pseudo code
- flow chart

The due date for Learning Outcomes is on 2 April 2013.

Session 63 (19 March 2013)

Basic elements in programming

• Constants
• Variables
• Data Types
• Operators
• Control sturctures

Pseudo Code

- text only sentences that describe the logic and program flow of a computer program

- can personalised the code

Flow chart

- terminator

- input/output

- process

- decision

- arrow

Session 62 (12 March 2013)

Today we did our multimedia presentation in class.

Session 61 (28 February 2013)

A computer program - a series of organised instructions that directs a computer to perform task

Programming - creation of a set of commands or instruction

Programming language - a set of words, symbols and codes that enables humans to communicate with computers

Examples of programming language:

• BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction)
• Pascal
• C
• C++
• Smalltalk

Low-level programming language:

• 1st Generation
• 2nd Generation

High-level programming language:

• 3rd Generation
• 4th Generation
• 5th Generation

1st Generation (1GL)

- machine language

- written in binary code

- each statement corresponds to each other

2nd Generation (2GL)

- assembly language

- symbolic instruction codes

- assembler - a program that translate assembly language into machine language

3rd Generation (3GL)

- procedural language

- English-like words

- compiler or interpreter - translate the high-level programer into machine language

4th Generation (4GL)

- non-procedural language

- enables user to access data in a database

- examples: SQL, NOMAD, FOCUS

5th Generation (5GL)

- visual programming language

- natural language

- example: Prolog, Mercury

Object-Oriented Programming: Java, Visual, C++

Session 60 (7 February 2013)

We passed up our LO to teacher today.

Teacher also had check our scrapbook and multimedia project.

Session 59 (5 February 2013)

Task:
Send the soft copy of LO by tomorrow and the hard copy by Thursday
Check the progress of our scrapbook on Thursday
All assessment due date is after CNY

Session 58 (31 January 2013)

Virtual Reality - computer-created enviroment that a user can experience through the senses of sight, hearing and touch

Multimedia elements + Interactivity in Virtual Reality = Immersive Multimedia

Task: Ask Trizah to give some information about Multimedia.

Session 57 (29 January 2013)

We learn how to test and evaluate the multimedia project.

Session 56 (22 January 2013)

Development Team:

• Project Manager
• Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Graphic Artist
• Audio/Video Technician
• Instructional Designer
• Programmer

Phase in Multimedia Production:

Analysis

Design

Implementation

Testing

Evaluation

Publishing

CASPER Principle:

Contrast

Alignment

Simplicity

Proximity

Emphasis

Repitition

Session 55 (17 January 2013)

Web editor - a program that you use to create web page

Examples of web editor:

• Text-based - Notepad, PSPad
• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) - Front Page, Dreamweaver

User Interface Principle:

Consistency

Clarity

Context

Navigation

Search

Personalisation

Learnability

Flexibility

Session 54 (15 January 2013)

Today we learn more about authoring tools.

Task:

• Post something on Project Colmas
• Join "Project KenyaMas" group on Facebook

Session 53 (10 January 2013)

Hardware that can be used to produce multimedia product:

• scanner
• video camera
• camera
• audio devices
• video capture devices

Examples of editing software:

Authoring tools:

• time frame concept
• icon concept
• card concept

Session 52 (8 January 2013)

Multimedia - the presentation of information by using a combination of text, audio, video, graphics, animation.

The Medium of Delivery are web-based and CD-based.

Multimedia Elements: text, audio, video, graphics, animation.

Difference between web-based and CD-based:


Task: Pass up lesson plan tomorrow night.

Session 51 (3 January 2013)

Today is our first ICT class in 2013. Teacher told us about what we have to do in this year and told us to work hard this year.