Sandra’s ICT Blog

What i learnt in this tutorial:

I found today’s lesson to be quite intense compared to our past few tutorials. I am someone who does not have a great grasp of the purposes of the internet and such, so today’s lesson really opened my eyes to it all. By attending this tutorial i am now able to understand the function of the program MS DOS. I suppose that MS DOS isn’t a program that i will be utilising within my future profession but for my own knowledge i am happy that ive gained a greater understanding. I now am able to use the program to find the ip addressses of various sites which will enable me to connect to the sites slightly faster. But we also learnt about many other interesting insights into internet usage and such. I was previously aware that generally internet usage is used for the world wide web and email but my knowledge was furthered in regards to the notion of clients and servers, whereby i now understand that the client is a program (e.g. MS Outlook) that is utilised to access a specific server (mail server).

My home computer has been prone to viruses and such and seeing as my family are pretty much technologically inept this tutorial did wonders for me. I am now aware that you ‘cannot catch a flu from a computer’ lol. More importantly i find that i will be able to more so recognise specific viruses and how they infiltrate your system i.e. through email attachments and such. Another key little insight i learnt within this lesson was that a trojan horse is NOT! a virus strangely enough… but instead a program that is implemented to plant a virus or damage specific files on your computer… how scary! I really believe that this tutorial was a pleasure to attend… i can now conclude that the internet is good, though at the same time bad

How what i learnt in this tutorial may be applied to my future profession as a teacher:

Through expanding my knowledge base within this tutorial i feel that any questions directed at me by my future students regarding email and the internet especially the notion of clients and servers will be able to be answered both more confidently and thoroughly. By listening in on this tutorial i feel that i will be more competent with my internet usage and therefore a better model for my future students to follow as to computer use. I will be more able to guide them in the use of safe programs as well as the avoidance of viruses and such. Again as i foresee that smartboard will be implemented into the vast majority if not all classrooms in the future and the internet accessed and demonstrated through it, so as this tutorial has built up my confidence in regards to internet usage i believe that more effective internet learning and familiarisation will occur in my classroom as a result.