Topic 5: Online behaviour

6.

http://www.dreamgrow.com/ensuring-brand-management-on-facebook/

It is important you ensure that you have a positive online presence as your online presence can have an effect on new career prospects. It has become the norm nowadays for companies to visit your online spaces to see how you have been behaving.

Keep account names and handles professional. Your name on any social media site is the first impression others will have of you online. The easiest choice is to use your full name or a variation of it (such as the first initial of your first name followed by your full last name) as your account name. If your name is already taken, consider using a simple combination of numbers with your name or a word that relates to your career field.
Create one biography for all social media profiles. Just about every social media site asks for you to write an "About Me" or biography section. Writing one biography that you can insert into all of your online accounts will help to save you time and ensure you represent yourself consistently on every site. You might need to create more than one version of your biography of varying lengths depending on the platform you are using. For example, Twitter only gives you 160 characters, whereas Facebook and LinkedIn allow for greater length. Be sure your biography reflects your personal brand.
Add a picture to all of your online profiles. Adding a picture is one quick and easy way to legitimize your online presence. Even if you don't complete every aspect of a social media profile, including a picture creates the illusion that your profile is complete or near complete. Just as you did with your biography, you can choose one picture to use on all social media sites to save you time and create consistency online. The picture you choose doesn't have to be taken by a professional photographer, but should be a nice-looking photo of you, cropped fairly close to your head and shoulders, and have a neutral background.
Keep your experience up-to-date. Did you just graduate college? Complete an internship? Start a new job? Be sure to make the necessary changes to your online profiles and website if you have one. Any time you make a change to your resume you should also make changes to your skills and experience shown online.
Find people you know. Having a complete profile or account alone will only get you so far, so reach out to people you know on social media sites. Friend your friends on Facebook, connect colleagues and employers on LinkedIn and follow people on Twitter. This will not only reveal more about your social and communication skills to potential employers, but it's also an easy way to keep in contact with people in your network.

http://voices.yahoo.com/5-shortcuts-creating-positive-online-presence-8594421.html




http://ayay.co.uk/background/cartoons/garfield/well-duh/
http://fwinteractive.com/make-your-online-presence-professional/
 

Topic 4: E-commerce

5.

http://cococommunications.com/ecommerce.php

e-commerce


The diagram displays the visual and functional components of each page, and highlights the primary actions available to the user in order to navigate through the site to complete a purchase.

https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/javaee/ecommerce/design.html

Topic 3: Managing Digital information on a Computer

4. how and why you need to back-up your information.

Why You Need to Backup your Data
If you’re someone who uses a computer for anything in your day-to-day life, you need data backup software. This software can ensure that your most important data remains after any sort of failure within your computer. We have many things on our computers that we have put a lot of time and effort into. Sure, we could go back and do it again, but it’s hard to get the feeling back from the moment you wrote the perfect song. None of us could remember everything we wrote down, so the best parts of what we created get lost forever.
But protecting data is something all of us need to worry about, not just the writers, musicians, filmmakers and other creative people. Imagine storing every last bit of your financial information for a year leading up to the following tax season. You don’t have any hard copies of any documents because you hate how it clutters up your desk. Then your computer crashes, sending that information you painstakingly compiled deep into the digital abyss. You’re left scrambling and are likely going to file taxes late this year, if you’re able to file taxes at all.
Take a big corporation for instance. They’re working on a multimillion-dollar project that has a lot riding on it. The project goes on for months and takes up a lot more time and money than anticipated. The company doesn’t believe in backing up their data because it’s a waste of time. They would rather work harder and faster to get the project done before they even need to consider backing up their data. One power surge and hardware failure later and they’re back where they started. Nothing can be recovered and they’re already behind schedule and over budget. Failing to protect their data could’ve lead to the undoing of their company.
Consider a nursing home or other healthcare facility. All of their patient records are digital these days, which means that data could mean life or death for some of us. If they fail to protect their data and something happens, who knows the catastrophic results it could product. A patient could lose the prescription information for a medication they desperately need and the entire process would grind to a screeching halt while they try to locate the lost information. Medicine is the last possible area that should be slowed down by data failure.
The above mentioned are examples of why backing up your data is crucial. Data backup software can help you protect and restore your data when something goes wrong. Depending on the software you choose, this could be a quick and painless process or a slow and arduous one. You want to choose the program that best suits your needs and accomplishes what you need to get done. Don’t be left out in the cold without your important documents again. Get data backup software and keep what should have remained on your computer the entire time. Just because computers aren’t perfect doesn’t mean your efforts to protect your data should be.

How To Back Up  Data

Step by Step: Using Windows or a Backup Program

Step 1 Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.
Step 2 From the Classic View, open Backup and Restore Center. Using the new control panel, click Back up your computer under the 'System and Maintenance' heading.
Step 3 Click the Back up files button from the Backup and Restore Center menu.
Step 4 Select where to store the backed up files. The first drop-down menu allows you to choose from local drives such as a second hard drive, a DVD, or a recovery partition on your current hard drive. The second drop-down menu lets you select a location that you can connect to via a network. If you do not see your desired backup destination, try selecting the Refresh option from the drop-down menu.

Step 5 Click the Next button after selecting your desired location.
Step 6 Select which types of files to back up, and then click the Next button to proceed.

Step 7 Assign a schedule to your backup so that Windows will know how often to create a new backup of your files. Click Save settings and start backup when you are ready to create your backup.

Step by Step: Manual Backups

Step 1 Open Windows Explorer.
Step 2 Select the files to back up, and copy them to the Clipboard by right-clicking them and selecting Copy, or by pressing Ctrl+C. You can also drag and drop folders.
Step 3 Open the destination folder where you wish to back up the data. This folder should be on an external hard drive or on a DVD. This method is less precise than using a program like Windows Backup and Restore, but it will allow you to select exactly which files to back up.

By Wes Simons, PCWorld,Oct 27, 2010 4:25 PM,http://www.pcworld.com/article/209006/how_do_i_back_up_my_data.html

Topic 2: Using references.

 

3.

http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf

TOPIC 1: Learning possibilities supported by the internet

1. The Internet gives people the opportunity to educate themselves, and all from the comfort of their own home if they wish. It allows us to be able to learn as much as we want about what we want. For example, if you were interested in a subject or course that your school or college does not cover, you could take it upon yourself to teach yourself through your own online research or by signing up to an online course, either for free or for a set fee. As is the helpful and cooperative nature of the majority of those who use the Internet, help is easy to find. Through the use of online forums or other websites users can post questions and get immediate responses. Another obvious benefit of the Internet is connectivity. This allows students to interact with their teachers or other educational professionals even though they may not be geographically near. All in all the Internet is making the entire education process a lot faster and more open, which is a major benefit.

Creative Commons Licences

 

A creative commons can be intergrated into training institutions in the following way:

 •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 acedemic materials which may be used in learning institutions

 •students may be taught about commons licenses by creating their own work and having a creative license for it which can be posted online.

2.Microsoft Learning Website

 •Give more simple, detailed and understandable inforamtion. Update recent and most realible information

 •Pictures should be in a great quality

 •Improve or change the theme of the website

 •Add more videos that show people talking about the success of the website

 •At the bottom of the page, state the purpose and importance of the website and state the founder of the website

 With all these improvements, it will attract more people to the websites because they would be more curious but the overall i like it.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/retired-certification-exams.aspx#fbid=1gFJsnCSpni

Reference:
http://www.creativecommonsza.org/
http://creativecommons.org/about