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.