Issues in Informatics System Flashcards
- professional network that have expanded phenomenally since the advent
of the Internet and other ICTs
Virtual social networks
Serve as a convenient vehicle
for building virtual social networks for creating
shared knowledge through collaborative learning
and problem solving
Electronic Media
Provide a cyberspace for nurses to make contacts,
share information and ideas, and build a sense of
community
Nursing Virtual Social Networks
Nursing virtual social networks PURPOSES
➢ exchanging ideas on practice issues and best practices
➢to become more knowledgeable about new trends, research, and innovations in health care
➢ to participate in advocacy, activist, and educational initiatives.
Social technologies are used to provide a dynamic virtual environment, and often provide communicative capabilities through:
➢posting tools like blogs, forums, and wikis
➢email for sharing ideas on a smaller scale
➢collaborative areas for interaction
➢creating and building digital artefacts or planning
projects
➢navigation tools for moving through the virtual network landscape
➢profiles to provide a space for each member to disclose personal information with others
- Described as the type of applications which use the internet for operating successfully.
- Aids the internet for fetching, sharing and displaying the
information from the respective server systems.
Internet Applications
- A portable device that functions as a personal information manager.
- Uses: Web browsing, office applications, watching videos, viewing photos or as mobile phones.
Personal Digital Assistance (PDA)
- A method of exchanging messages (“mail”) between people using electronic devices.
- Invented by Ray Tomlinson and was recognized as email in the mid 1970’s
- A saved shortcut that directs your browser to a specific webpage.
- It stores the title, URL, and favicon of the corresponding page.
- It allows you to easily access your favorite locations on the Web.
Bookmarks
a technology that allows users in
different locations to hold face to-face meetings without having to move to a single location
together
Video Conferencing
Was the norm with traditional video conferencing setups (like closed-circuit TV)
Still popularly used with common IT teleconferencing tools, such as Skype.
. A benefit is that syncing the two signals does not require a bridge or
other sophisticated system. Also, unlike many multi-point
systems, there is a better chance of a clearer signal and less
lag time.
Point to Point Video Conference
- In a P2P video conference, there is a simultaneous
communication between two different sites. But here
there is communication between more than 2 sites at the
same place. Advanced equipment is necessary for this
type of communication to take place.
The maximum number of participants in a multipoint
video conferencing depends on the software which you
are using.
Most software generally allows more than 25 users at
once.
Multipoint Video Conference
Advantages of Multipoint Video Conferencing:
- Reduction in Travel Cost
- Increased Productivity
- No time Constraints
A videotelephony application designed by Apple for use in mobile devices connected to a wireless network. FaceTime uses the camera and WIFI of the device to
create face to face conversations via the
internet.
FaceTime
A service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones
TEXT MESSEAGING OR Short message service (SMS)
1st message was sent in the UK on ________ it read_______
1.) December 3, 1992
2.) Merry Christmas
the first handset manufacturer whose total GSM phone
line in 1993 supported user-sending of SMS text messages.
Nokia
- In 1995, an average of ____ texts were sent per cell phone user per month. By the end of 2000, an average text message user sent _____ per day.
1.) .4
2.) 35
Social Effect
- Effect on language
- Texting while driving
- Texting while walking
- Sexting
- In schools
- Bullying
An American microblogging and social
networking service on which users post and
interact with messages known as “tweets”.
Twitter was created in __________ by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, launched in _____of that year.
1.) March 2006
2.) July
Twitter had ______ tweets posted per quarter in 2007.
This grew to ________ tweets posted per quarter in 2008. In February 2010, Twitter users were sending __million tweets per day
1.) 400,000
2.) 100 million
3.) 50
By March 2010, the company recorded over ______registered applications. As of June 2010, about __ million tweets were posted each day, equaling about ___ tweets sent each second, according to Twitter
1.) 70,000
2.) 65
3.) 750
On February 11, 2015, Twitter announced that it had acquired _____, an advertising network for social media stars, founded by Rob Fishman and Darren Lachtman.
NICHE
an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple,
and Microsoft
Google was founded in________ by _____ and ______ while they were Ph.D. students
at Stanford University in California.
1.) September 1998
2.) Larry Page
3.) Sergey Brin
American online social media and social
networking service based in Menlo Park, California and
a flagship service of the namesake company Facebook,
Inc.
Facebook was founded by __________, along with
fellow Harvard College students and
roommates ___________,__________, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
1.) Mark zuckerburg
2.) Eduardo Saverin
3.) Andrew Mccollumn
been dubbed as the Facebook capital of
the world
Philippines
- Term used to describe a variety of web sites and applications that
allow anyone to create and share online information or material they
have created. - It allows people to create, share, collaborate & communicate
Web 2.0
Types / Examples of Web 2.0 Applications
❖Hosted services (Google Maps)
❖Web applications ( Google Docs, Flickr)
❖Video sharing sites (YouTube)
❖Wikis (MediaWiki)
❖Blogs (WordPress)
* social networking (Facebook)
* folksonomies (Delicious)
* Microblogging (Twitter)
* podcasting (Podcast Alley)
Advantages of Web 2.0
✓ Available at any time, any place.
✓ Variety of media.
✓ Ease of usage.
✓ Learners can actively be involved in knowledge building.
✓ Can create dynamic learning communities.
✓ Everybody is the author and the editor, every edit that has been made can be
tracked.
✓User-friendly.
✓Updates in the wiki are immediate and it offers more sources for researchers.
✓It provides real-time discussion.
