Bookworm or computer-worm???

What you need to know first...

Hyperlinks are a reference to a document or other web that the user or the reader can directly follows in a hypertext.

In a digital world, Hypertext is a text that is rich with hyperlinks and multimedia.

Hypermedia is an extension of hypertext which text and multimedia combine to become a non-linear communication with support of several programs like media players.

Online reading is basically a way of reading online using ICT.

Digital literacy is a command of using digital technology to access information and to communicate.

Reading strategies are the process we used to get information from any reading material whether intentionally or unintentionally.

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I usually preferred printed copies than soft copies. It is because it is easier for me to concentrate to the reading materials. My eyes cannot stand the monitor too long. Whenever I read, I often glance through the material first to know the length of the text, the ways the text is presented and the interest in it. After that, I read the material slowly but without judgments. Then, I will start to read it again, this time I will read it thoroughly and will try to concentrate every minute details. I may read it again just to make sure I can understand it perfectly and hope I did not miss any important details. Although printed pages are harder to flip through the early pages, I find it amusing to flip between pages than using the mouse to scroll the pages as it makes my eyes blur. However, in reading references that are related to each other, digital materials make my reading easier because there are hyperlinks.

By web we learn...

By glancing and surfing the wide web, there are so many ways for us to improve ourselves whether for how to speak properly, write properly, know what to read and simply what to hear or listen to. You may pick up some website your already knew. I myself picked quite a few for example

www.englishtime.us

www.free-english-study.com

www.onestopenglish.com

you might say yourselves this website is better

than the rest but your opinion states

like the other. People reception ARE different but what others can say.

Some might say the web lack interaction. Other

might say the reference is too limited. There are

other who not really care and might skipped several lesson which

might be important just to finish the lesson as early as possible. However, all of the web maintain its sole purpose : to help others to improve their English by all possible means. Thus they put up more simple and less complex explanation.

The other thing we seek to learn inside the Internet is; the one we mostly not noticed, TRANSLATIONS. For none native speakers like us Malaysians, we unconsciously construct sentences with our own language first then we translate them. For some the second process proves to be difficult. Some also find it hard to translate certain words. Did you ever bumped into a situation when writing an essay and we say,' Oh, what is that word again.' or ' God, I know this, I know this.' but still the word we seek did not come. Hence, the translation web exist. I give you some to look at :

www.stars21.com

www.babelfish.yahoo.com

www.microsofttranslator.com

Yes, yes the webs are indeed useful but there some glitches. One is the capacity of the translation websites. If you noticed, the webs can only translate simple sentences. Complex sentences can lead to more direct translation where the translated sentences tend to be funny and obviously grammatically wrong. The web also cannot translate nouns efficiently. Often in more uncommon nouns like type of fish, food and etc.. For example, in Malay ' ikan kerapu' is groupers. However, ' ikan siakap ' will not gives out as Asian Seabass but fish Siakap. Thus one must be critical and sensitive on using translation web.

Come here everyone!

To finish the advertisement, I used Microsoft Power Point. First, I tried to detect the fonts used for the words. Then, I find any suitable picture that complements the advertisement. Instead of download the picture needed from the Internet, I just used the picture I already have in my folders. My priority is to copycat the advertisement I got from the newspapers as similar as I could. For the advertisement to be able to be uploaded into my blog, I save the file as a PNG format (like a picture). To make sure the process is easier to manage, I phoned my friends to get any ideas and clearer picture of the task. By the range of ten, I only give myself 6 points since my experience in advertisements and graphic design is still weak.

To start the vast journey.

We know about the Net and the etiquette, the browser and what is ICT. Now is to guide on how are YOU going to sail through the pages. The browser has lots of things to click on to and too many symbols for early users to understand. What you need to know web page and links. These two is the face and hand that show and guide you from where you start to where you will end. Come with them is the url; the address of the web page itself. Others are symbols that correspondent to the links that help you search what are you actually looking for. If you want to learn step by step the navigation of websites and Net, how about practise them in this grey link : http://www.learnthenet.com/english/web/060www.htm

The fox is on fire.

Apart from using Internet to chat and calling a friend, Internet is widely use to search for information. The web browser or just browser is program that let us search through all the websites that contain any details that we want. Most computers are already been provided with Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, since the need to be fast and instant, many other competitors exist nowadays. The common one is Mozilla Firefox which has lots of tool bars and also plug ins but I still prefer to use Google Chrome since it is faster for browsing the Net. It is mostly up to you I guess. http://www.linfo.org/browser.html

What is this?

There are several rules while using Internet. In fact, it is not several yet plenty of do and don't in this wide binary world. This rules are what we call Netiquette. To make it easier to understand, just break the word to Net and etiquette. Net represents the network connection or Internet and the etiquette is the proper way for us to behave. Add both of them you will get a proper way for use to use Internet. Netiquette helps us to communicate with other persons in a good manner. This helps to prevent cultural abuse of networking such as using bad words and spamming. If you want to read a list of this rule, why don't you check this website. I believe it has some useful tips about Netiquette. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html

From Me to You.

Since we have the internet, there are more interesting ways to talk to each other rather than dial-up a friend's number. By using Internet, we can chat and video call. Both of them are consider as components under computer-mediated communication. In a simple term that explain the interactions between one party to another via the use of network connections on different computer. Using other hardware like microphones and web camera, this method is one of the most useful way of communication. For more information, click this http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Computer-mediated_communication