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.

Week 4

            Salam everybody..!! This was the fourth week, setting up on the10th of February,  for me who have been participating in the class. After three weeks ago, the lessons and processes of ICT had been continued to be explained. For this week, my lecture had indicated me about the IS, which meant Information system. Firstly, he provoked all students by asking some questions about IS and also reminded about the Data and Information which were in the first lesson because learning about IS would be related to Data and Information. Initially, he introduced some concepts abut system which referred to a set of components working together to achieve a common set of objectives. In this point, it was very crucial for me to get through to the main ideas of IS because if we directly got through to the objective was that it was the combination of Software, Hardware, Infrastructure and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination and decision making in an organization. It was very nice to know such an important point which I'd never known before because even I knew software, hardware, and the other structures of computer, I just know IS when I joined the class this week.
 
        Moreover, my lecturer also opened up my mind and clarified the differences between IS and IT because most of the students in the class got confused on these points. However, the thing became bright and conspicuous when we got a clear indication from our lecturer that IT, as we know, it was formed by the characteristics such as Software, Hardware, Database, Network, and Other Related Components, and all of these components were processed to build IS such as Payroll System, Customer Service System, Inventory System, and Marketing System. Additionally, my lecturer ushered more details about the characteristics of IS by presenting some indispensable points which were Procedure, Database, Hardware, Software, Telecommunication, and People. It was a little bit weird to familiar with People who got involved in IS; nonetheless, the roles of people were to Manage, Run, Program, and Maintain the system so that the system would be able to process and access the applications coherently. 

         After finishing the class, students were required to conduct as well as to write an essay about discussion on how does the organization use technology to accomplish its goal. Gradually, students had to do research in the library. My lecturer did like this was like to convey how students understood the concepts of the lesson so that students would find it easy and convenient to do the work. According to that work, I ultimately defined about the thing that I was supposed to write would be OPAC, an application software being used in AIU library, because based on what the topic was being discussed, it was supposed to be elaborated by identifying the Information System being used in a particular organization; hence, I chose OPAC in library as my own realization to raise and justify my understanding. I observed myself I have got through to a deep understanding that I've been dreaming, and this was what I obtained from week4.

Week 3

         Salam everyone..!!
            This is the third week which I've been participating in the class. The class was set up on the Friday the 3rd  of February, and for this week, students who were asked to form the group of 5 last week have shown up and presented the topics. Everyone was so seriously focusing on their work because the presentation was quite elaborated to understand, which the main idea was about the interrelation between IT Architecture and IT Infrastructure. As we started presenting in each group, I have realized that all of the groups clarified many different contents in terms of trying to make things coherently understood.

 

           After doing presentation, I did appreciate what I've done and what I've understood about that because I immediately got through to the main idea and was able to categorize the functions each of IT and the interrelation between both of them. Even all students seemed like were not able to explain professionally, we had caught up all the main concepts of the points and smoothly presented without any reluctance. All the groups  who would be presenting were finished successfully, additionally, my lecturer also covered everything being done in the class in order to enhance the self-learning of each student. He also provoked the learning thinking by adding questions to be searched more such as what are the differences between IT and ICT?
This was such a very crucial question for everyone to know because even we were intelligent on learning ICT, it was a brilliant to know clearly specific the differences between them.
           Just as we've done the presentation, new assignment had been assigned to all students once again. This new knowledgeable work was in charge of Being as a manager of an IT Department to identify the ITA being required in terms of being used in the department. I thought this work would be elaborated and complexional for students because it demanded us to come up with a significant idea in order to manage as well as coordinate    social network which played as an important role for business.