Week 11

    This week, I and my group mates still continued working on the Webpage. However, according to this week, my lecturer also included more lessons- week 7th lesson- to show the students. Basically, the lesson was about......... It was a bit different from the other lesson which let me understand clearer about the technology. He guided me about the processes and some important information.
    Webpage task was the best activity which got me one special skill on designing webpage to display all the activities and new information based what we have done in the class. Working in the group brought me the responsibility and duty among them. Each of us divided the parts of the work to extract more ideas so that we could post them to be our important resource in our webpage. Each part of the whole webpage, we got the first page as the home page, second, third, fourth, and last page consequently as the information about our university, educational system, class, lecturers, and students. Accordingly, our work was on the progress and we were trying to get more information for posting.

Week 10

            As we know that lecture week 10 ,11, and 12 had finished since in week 9, so for this week, there is nothing beside group assignment on Designing website in Google Site. Students were asked to form a group of 3 to 4 people in order to work on this assignment. This project was regarding to the information of the class, the activities that we have done in the class, and the new understanding and reflection after participating from the class. Moreover, we had to show a unique picture which completely showed the interaction between students and lecturer in the class. This was my pleasure of having a chance to work with my classmates in order to get succeed because it was such a valuable knowledge which we would be able to use in the future. Even it was not so professional like the others, but it was useful and acceptable to work things out. We started with the introduction of  the members in our group and some information about our interesting class. Spending more than two hours in the lab of the library, my group found out that there were so many things that we needed to include in this website in order to show our activities in the class. However, we'll try our best to reach our goal.

Week 9

 
        Going through to every week of the lecture, my understanding had been added to a higher level. For this week, it was a noticeable week which was different from before. In fact, for this week, we were supposed to continue the lecture week 7, but my lecture has skipped the lessons of week 7, 8, and 9 and completely jumped up to lesson week 10. Everything had its own reason when something happened, for this week, it was because it was the ninth week which soon reached the end of the second trimester, so he wanted to bring the last two weeks for students to do the last group assignment. According to what we have learned with him in this week, it was different from the previous week because he had guided us all the lectures on week 10,11, and 12. Even there were so many things to be understood, my lecturer ushered me only the main points of each lesson in order to make easy for students to understand.
     Basically, the tenth lesson was about Trends in the Internet and WWW. The question which was able to provoke me to recognize was What is the difference between Internet and World Wide Web? not only this question, some detail which extremely described this lesson is Analyzing Web 2.0, classification of web 2.0 site, and Comparison between Web 2.0 and 1.0. Beside these Webs, Web 3.0 was also included in this week for students to recognize and understand more.
     For the next lesson, it was about Developing Simple Applications for managing Information and other resource using available tools. For this lecture, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 had been recapped to provide more details about Internet. Additionally, Web Applications and Web Information System had been added to exaggerate the concepts of this lesson. Web Applications was shown to give the details of detail classification of each Web whereby Web Information System told the concepts of WWW.

    For the last lesson, it was the same as the previous lesson, but  interesting points have been pointed out to make thing clear. There were about Google Applications, and How to design Website.
    What an amazing lesson...!!! this is what I've been thinking because I really want to know how to design my own website. I'll try my best to do that.

Week 8

     Hi everyone... !! this was the eighth week of my participation in the class. We started class as usual, but since a few weeks, we have changed the class to the lab of the library in order to get convenient when students wanted to improve their study on searching information. For this week, I and the other students were asked to form a group of 3 in terms of doing some searching on certain topic. My group was conducting on Methodology and some categories of it. Actually, I did not understand at all about this lesson, but when I did research with my group mates, I got some clear information which was shown by my friends. Basically, Methodology is a collection of Tools, Procedure, and Documentation Aids which help the system developers to implement a new information system. As we went through to the classifications of the Methodology, we could see that there were such a number of them which were very useful. However, the most common and important one are Gane and Sarson (STRADIS), Information Engineering (IE), Jackson System Development, Prototyping/Iterative Approach, and Structured Approach. My group was supposed to conducts on these components in order to clarify the meaning and concepts which would be used in the future.
     STRADIS is based on the building of a logical model system, using graphical to enable users, analysts, designers to get a clear and common picture of the system and how its parts fit together to meet user's meet. IE is an approach to designing and developing information system as well as an architectural approach to planning, analyzing, designing, and implementing applications within an enterprise. JSD is a method of  system development that covers software life cycle either directly, or by providing a framework into which more specialized techniques can fit. Prototyping/Iterative Approach is a program used to show proof of concept to senior management, to validate system specifications, and to explore solutions to specific usability and design problems. Last but not least, SA is the process of developing system or software to meet certain requirements.
    Even my group had found some of these definitions and concepts to make thing clear in this lesson, my lecturer said for the level of my learning now, I as well as the other students did not have to clarify the processes or the method for using of these Systems because it is totally complex for me to understand. Moreover, he said that being in this levels and understanding the classifications of Methodology is adequate for me to analyze.

Week 7

     Salam everyone.. !
     After mid-term break has been over, this is the seventh week, on 2nd March, which students were struggling to run the project seriously. Anyway, for this week, students tended to be desperate than the other days because  there was a mid-term test of ICT of this second trimester. About this test, actually, it was a bit tough for students to understand but it was understandable for me to do it also. The test was about from lesson in Week 1 to Week 5 which totally were about data and information, Information System, and the other useful types of system network being used in the particular department. I could realize that I was able to catch up the lessons, understand the concepts, as well as do that test accordingly. Specifically, the determination of the test was to remind the things which have been learned since the first week of the trimester. Until now, the outcomes of my ICT learning is fully satisfied when doing the test even I'm not perfect or the best one about ICT; however, I'm glad to accept and acknowledge my ability on that.
    
     Besides the most significant test for the life of learning ICT, this week was also the week of submission Group Project. As I have mentioned from the previous week, this project consisted of 3 students getting involved. The aim of this assignment was to report the Background, Systems, and Staffs who are in charge of IT Department in a specific company, being as a manager of that company. A long with the progress, we have been doing research as well as choose Hotel as a particular company. Moreover, we have identified the Systems being used in our Hotel such as Hardware, Software, Communication Technology, Staffs, and the Costs of the IT Infrastructure as well. Our work was successful, and, to me, it was such an amazing activity which let me coherently recognize that this project was very crucial for me to identified the systems being used in the company so that in the future, I'll be strongly able to organize the IT Systems in my business company.

week 6

        Salam everyone..!!  this was the end week, 24th of February, of the mid-term of the second trimester which I've been participating in the class. From this week, it was not so different from the previous week, and I have learned more details about the Information System. Actually, in the fifth week, I also learned about IS, but for this week my lecturer has included more exercise and questions for me to answer as well as to identify how much I have understood the lesson. It was like the mock test which comprised nearly 30 questions to be searched. I, also, was a little bit confused on the questions because some of the questions were quite similar to each other to analyse. Those questions were mostly about IT Architecture, IT Infrastructure, IS, and the other components of IS.
     I found that I had highly understood about all the lessons that i have learned from the class even some questions were not completed. Trying to learn and identify the meaning and concepts of ICT lets me realize that it is very crucial for not only me but also the other students to coherently enhance the understanding on learning ICT because each lesson consists of its own sequences to display and apply on a certain field of one particular subject. For instance, about the mock test which was done, I can recognize that they are very useful to apply on daily lives, especially Business field. To justify my point of view, let's have a look on the main concept of the lesson of week 5, it is about the Application software which is used by the Top manger ( ESS ), medium manger ( DIS, MIS ), and Ordinary people ( TPS ). Therefore, it is interrelated between these materials to how the processes of business company run their business by using these systems. In order to get success and perceive the goal as the business woman, ICT plays as an important role to supply on the steps the I've been walking through.

Week 5

        Salam Everyone.. this was my fifth week, on 17th of February, being participated in ICT course in AIU. After the fourth week, on which I was doing my essay about the Information System in the library, I pursued, for this week, being instructed by lecturer about the types of IS and classified the detail components. Basically, we started from the categories of IS which are TPS (Transaction Processing System), MIS (Management Information System), DSS (Decision Support System), ESS (Expert Support System), ESS (Executive Support System), and Others. My lecturer went through to the main point of this lesson and elaborated all the concepts included in the updating information. As IS is the main point and the main coordinator of one particular organization used to run the system, there are two sub-coordinators which are Operations Support Systems and Management Support System.
     
       Besides learning these valuable things, my lecturer clarified and distinguished the functions of each system; additionally, he also opened up every component mentioned above to the details so that I could instantly catch up and understand the concepts of the lesson.
   
      After being so sensitive and clear about the procedures from the lesson, all the students were asked to form a group of three in order to answer the questions which would be given. Being one of the groups working and searching so hard on the second floor of the library, we, three people, were given three questions to be conducted. The first question was about How many kinds of Information System being used in AIU library?, the second one was What are the functions of Information System?, and the last one was required to give examples of IS in the library. It was like a tough task for me and my friends to do because we really didn't exactly know the IS in our library; moreover, we also didn't know clearly about how the systems worked. Nevertheless, we went to see Mr. Azhar to ask him to elaborate and clarify the systems being used in the library. The wonders and curiousness were eliminated when we got such a detail information about the materials of the system. First of all, our library is using VTLS which was the full-function library management, providing management of circulation, cataloging, serials, acquisitions, course reserves and more.

    VTLS has got various types of components; additionally, among those components and the most specific system which is being used in the library is ILS which contains Acquisition, Cataloging, Holdings, OPAC, Circulation, and Serial. These main points are very crucial to run the system processes in our library. Moreover, the services provided by our library make everyone convenient to consume and apply the self-learning.