For the second week, we've start the class a bit late because all of us need to participate in a meeting with lecturers and fellow friends from the educational multimedia department. Although the class has been postpone for about an hour, we've learned about the basic concept of webpage and types of website. we learned that websites can be categorized into a few category, and we can guess the type of the website according to the extesion in the URL. For some examples, .org is for organization, .edu is for education, .com is for commercial, and .gov is for government.
Other than that, we got familiarise ourself with the term webpage, websites, annd portal. There is a significant difference between each term. A website is actually a collection of web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user's Web browser. for an analogy, a webpage is like a page in a book, where the book can be an analogy to a website. For the definition of portals, portals are pages intended to serve as “main pages” or “gateway” for specific topics or areas.Some portals that are popular are Yahoo!, LYCOS, Netscape, and many more.
If you can see at the left side, there are a few categories that you can click to start browsing.
Last but not least, we've learned about CMS and LMS. CMS or Content Management System, is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. It is also a web application used for managing websites and web content. Some of the examples of CMS is Joomla, Mambo, PhpNuke, Xoops and Zope.
For LMS, LMS stands for Learning Management System. it is a set of software tools designed to manage user learning interventions. The function that LMS have is like creating an online discussion forum, link for assignment submission, quizzes and many more. The examples for LMS is Sakai, Moodle, and WebCT.
For the learning activity, we've a little disscussion and presentation about Personal web development using web authoring software vs CMS vs Blog ? and Educational web development using web authoring software vs LMS vs Blog ? So for each case, we have to pick the right choice..
That's all. Have a great day everyone!
