COMMUNICATION AIDS AND STRATEGIES USING TOOLS OF TECHNOLOGY

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individuals who were born and raised in a world of
gadgets, computers, and internet.

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Digital Natives

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is a form of communication, using the various channels available on the Internet to communicate and interact online to relay a message to a targeted audience.

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Online Communication

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handle the capturing, storing,
presenting and communicating the information, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well.

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Communication Tools

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handle mediated interactions between a
pair or group of users. They focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation
and talk.

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Interactive Tools

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allows one to communicate with another person over a network in real time, in relative privacy

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Instant Messaging

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KINDS OF ONLINE
COMMUNICATION
TOOLS OR SOFTWARE

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Instant Messaging
Electronic Mail (E-Mail)
Text Chat
Forum
Internet Forum
Blogs and Microblogs
News Groups
Social Network Services
VOIP Voice over IP
VideoConferencing

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a web-based discussion and advice- sharing site; more feature-rich type of newsgroup Users register on the web site so that their posts will beidentifiable
A forum thread is a post along with all thecomments to it Many companies have tech support forums for their products

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Forum

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These allow users to post a “topic” for others to review.
❖Other users can view the topic and post their own
comments in a linear fashion, one after the other.
❖Most forums are public, allowing anybody to sign up at
any time. A few are private, gated communities where
new members must pay a small fee to join

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Internet Forum

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short for web logs, are like online journals for a particular
person.
❖The owner will post a message periodically, allowing
others to comment.
❖Topics often include the owner’s daily life, views on
politics or a particular subject important to them

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Blogs and Microblogs

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A web page containing personal experiences and opinions, with posts listed most-recent-first

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Blog

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A web server that hosts the blogs of individuals,
either free or for a small fee. Examples: WordPress, Typepad, and Blogge

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Blog Platform

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A service that allows the posting of short messages. A
status update service such as Twitter, limited to a very few
characters per post. Unlike , microblogs can be seen by anyone
and can be commented on by anyone

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Microblog

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An online discussion group; predates the web, forerunners of
web-based forums that are popular today

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Newsgroup

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A global distributed discussion system of servers hosting public newsgroups

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Usenet

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An application used by people to read Usenet articles, or an email client that supports newsgroups; organizes incoming messages from
newsgroups and allows users to read and respond to them

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Newsreader

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transports news articles between
news servers and clients reading and posting articles

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NNTP (Network news transport protocol)

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These allow people to come together online around shared interests, hobbies or causes. For example, some sites provide dating services where users post personal profiles, locations, ages, gender, etc and are able to search for a
partner.

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Social Network Services

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based system enabling users to interact in real-time and by using messaging programs

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An Internet

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is used to make voice calls via the Internet
❖Turns the voice message into data packets and sends them as if they were other
Internet data

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VOIP

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is used to identify individual devices that are
connected to the Internet and to route calls between them.

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IP or Internet Protocol

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is feature-rich, group video chat
❖Can include computer application sharing, voice, text
chatting, and document collaboration
❖ uses the same underlying protocols as VoIP uses, but it
requires much more bandwidth.
❖enables multiple people to video chat at the same time

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VideoConferencing

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A computer-based system for exchanging messages
through mail servers.
❖is a store-and-forward system: A message delivery system
in which messages are forwarded between servers and
then stored on those servers until they are picked up

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E-mail

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Online chat technologies allow users to join chat rooms and communicate with many people at once, publicly.

Users may join a pre-existing chat room or create a new one about any topic

Once inside, you may type messages that everyone else in the room can read, as well as respond to messages from others.

Often there is a steady stream of people entering and leaving.

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Text Chat

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a web-based discussion and advice- sharing site; more
feature-rich type of newsgroup
❖Users register on the web site so that their posts will be
identifiable
❖A forum thread is a post along with all the comments to it
❖Many companies have tech support forums for their
products

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Forum

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These allow users to post a “topic” for others to review.
❖Other users can view the topic and post their own
comments in a linear fashion, one after the other.
❖Most forums are public, allowing anybody to sign up at
any time. A few are private, gated communities where
new members must pay a small fee to join

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Internet Forum