Education

Online learning
Online learning has been invited for pupils, so they can extend their knowledge at home. Everything is tailored to the needs of the user.  Every online learning service, have in mind which age target the want to work with, either it is kids or young adults and what would be more beneficial for them. Most of the learning websites for kids look like this one:

Colourful and easy going, it attracts kids and they have a lot of fun while they’re doing their learning.
When I was little I didn’t had the access to internet so I wasn’t able to use it, but I have a little cousin, she is four years old now and I would never think four year old girls would be able to use a computer as flawless as she can. I know there is some disadvantages because these kind of websites are an addiction for little kinds, but don’t forget these are still games based on learning.
Online learning for young adults is not too much difference, but the graphic is changed so it looks more mature.

Still really easy to use but not very often education games are included into these kind of websites it’s more based on various of information that young adult might be expecting to receive. I personally use some of the online learning services in my free time. I look up for information that could interest me but I haven’t covered in school yet. I think it gives me opportunity to be proactive at school.


School web-sites

This is my school web site. As any other school website it gives you information about school. In our school every student is in hold with his own user name and password, therefore he can use any of the school computers and still be able to access on their own account. On our school website you can also access to your school e-mail and software called ‘frog’. ‘Frog’ shares every school drive so that the pupil can easily access to whatever he is looking for.
School Websites are not only used my students but also by their parents and parents are not students in this school but they think about weather this school is good for their kids therefore the school website has to include as much details as it is possible and have to be presented in a very nice way so it persuade parents to this school.
From my own experience I use my school website quite often, not only because I can communicate with my teachers through my e-mail but also because whenever I have work to do that I’ve saved in school and it’s not on my personal computer I can easily go on ’Frog’ and download stuff that I need. There is stuff that I would improve for example I would ask for permission some online learning websites so I could use their links on the school website therefore kids could go straight to it.

Online revision
Most known in UK and very successful revision service is ‘’BBC bitesize’ It gives you the student opportunity to revise for any kind of test or exam. Very friendly and by friendly I mean it’s easy to use and you can receive all the information which is useful for you. When I was preparing for my GCSE’s exams I was using this website the most often. The website had every section that meant to revise including games, videos and other to help me study. I know some of my friends have found other websites and they were successful as well. If someone doesn’t like to learn thing from books online revision may be something they would prefer to do.

School league tables
So many school options for your child and you are not sure which one would be perfect for you are one? Therefore Internet provides you with store information about every school. There are website which show you top 10 schools in you UK, this information you can easily receive from online newspaper.( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575141/UK-top-10-schools-across-the-sectors.html)
If you looking for any specific school these information have an easy admission as well. All you have to do is type the name of the school in to internet research and the school website should give you the school league table. My school (St Gregory’s Comprehensive School) is provided with league table this year 2012 our school had 99% of C-A* GCSE results.

VLE
Virtual learning environment this service is based on web which convention real word education. It’s commonly used for student who have problem with their learning or for those who don’t go to school.  Websites like this are provided with a range of subjects and proper progress on each lesson for each learning objective. Easy going websites for those who can’t really use a computer. VLE website is like real school tests, homework’s and even classrooms. I have a friend who has down syndrome, he goes to real school once a week fir the rest of a time he has a person who is spending time with him and helping him with his learning. He really enjoy the website and it gives him a lot of opportunities to extend his knowledge.  

E-Commers

                                 E-commers

Online shopping
2012 people got used to the fact computers are able to do most of the stuff for them. People are lazy these days and they refer to the computer whenever they need something. Online shopping is one of the thing people do a lot now. They don’t have a time to driver to the shop and spend hours on walking around the shop and look for the product they want. Now people prefer to go online and order their shopping, most of the shops now even offer the delivery free. There is a lot of advantages for people and shops who are using this sort of way for doing the shopping and it’s a big advantage for shops because if they have better offers obviously customers will choose their service also by this the shop my show if they are and do what they offer. Neither I nor my family do online shopping but I know people who do this to save their time and money.

Online Banking
Banks are a perfect way of showing how technology has moved on. Now a day you don’t have to go to bank to get your money. You can get them whenever you want. My dad got his own banking account he can use it whenever he wants to. He can tract his statements and make online payments. It doesn’t cost him anything. It’s one of the offers his back is offering.

Auctions
Auctions are a part of online shopping. Big retail industries that have their own shop and shop online like for example ‘Newlook’, ‘Quiz’, ‘Topman’, ‘Topshop’ etc. these shops are called brick and click industry. You can buy stuff but you can’t really auction them. Where shops like ‘Amazon’ and ‘E-bay’ are just click which means they’re shop online provides. On E-bay original people can put their own stuff on it and sell it, some people are not sure about price of this product so then are setting up an auction where other people can offer their price and of ‘course the person who will pay for the product better amount of money will buy it. Couple of years ago actions were taking part in really big halls and a lot of people were coming and having a ‘shout’ for the product they want. Now you can sit in front of a PC and offer a price that is good for you. I personally never took part of any auction and I don’t know anyone who did.

News service
News service is providing the customer with information which are collected by real time technology. Now you can even view news few seconds after it has happened. Of ‘course there is a massive competition between all the real time news services because everyone wants to be first. In my opinion, I love the fact I can receive the latest news on my e-mail or phone.Not maybe people these days have time to watch television so most of them are viewing some news on the way to work on their "samrtphones".

Timetable
Timetables are commonly used for buses and trains, we begun with simple print media timetables, and you can still see them on some of the bus stops in a small time but now days, you can also see timetables like this one we can see on the left,the electric board is much more useful from the paper timetable as those are real time programed, whenever a bus/train is delete or just late few minutes you can easily read and the updates are really reliable. You can’t really tell from the printed timetables whether the bus is late or have you been late and now you have to wait for the next one. This is an easy example to show how the technology has moved over few years.

Traffic reports
Traffic reports as other real time services is now available online but not only, now there is also an opportunity to use it on your phone as an app any smart phone can download  or GPS.   I don’t you the Traffic reports. Just simply because I relay on public service although my parents especially father is using it a lot. He drives to London as he works there, so he has to be informed with every traffic that is expected, so he’s not late to work.

Newsfeed (Facebook and Twitter)
We live in 21^st century now and Facebook or Twitter are the most successful social networks, I would like to point out that those network are using the real time technology in the most successful way. Every user of Facebook or Twitter is able to update their status anytime they want, it give the opportunity to the user’s friends to see the “Newsfeed”. Most of the newsfeeds are telling us about where our friend is or what is he/she doing. I personally use Facebook a lot but I don’t comment on everything I do, although I know people who are updating their status every day, few times.

Weather
BBC Weather as other weather websites is provided with real time technology. The satellite images provide an excellent view on the clouds in the sky. Therefore viewers can look up anytime and they will able to see the latest updates on what is going on.  I use BBC weather everyday just so I can be papered for the weather. To have the opportunity to know what weather will be on the next day is really useful especially if you want to plan a holiday or you know sure what you should wear, all depends on the weather.

Real Time

Real Time is a set of technology which store information and enable users of Internet to receive those information as soon as they are published. This helps the users to know exactly what is going. Most successful and well known “Real time web” in 2012 is definitely Facebook’s newsfeed and Twitter. I will also be looking at different websites which are using real time service like; weather, train timetables, news services and traffic reports.

Blogger
In early 90’s internet forum software called “WebEx”, have created a running conversation on a corkboard. The modern blog developed from online diary where people were commenting on their personal lives/ experience they been through a specific day. Justin Hall is known as the earliest blogger. In 1994 “Wearable Wireless Webcam” was invented this software was allowing people to post their videos and pictures.
It’s the 2012, now days “Blog” are used as a person profile. People are expressive themselves by writing up there memories, maybe their hobbies what they are interested in most of the time the blogger is just telling his day then the blogger not much of a change apart for the fact that blogs are much easier to use and anyone can how it. You have to remember if you publish your blogger it can be view by anyone. Not only private people are using the blogger but also business, it is very easy way of advertisement, but it is really affective?
There are a lot of different web browsers who are allowing you to create a Blog. Some of them are created just for blogs. For example “Tumblr” or “Twitter” all you do it posting new posts where you are, who you with, what you doing there is not online private chats, once you post everyone can see it.
I don’t have my personal blogger but I’m using one for school. Although I have a friend who has one and she loves it, it a nice way of telling people what are your interest and meeting people who are interested in the same thing as you are. I also see a blog as it is a nice way for people who aren’t really social to have an opportunity to open in front of a people they don’t know. 

Social networking

First social network was invented in 1994 was called “GEOCITES”.

 With out Social network it wouldn’t be as easy as it is now to communicate around the world. Social networking explode into one of the biggest industries of our time.  Social networking are like Facebook or Twitter. Social network is made to share information with your friends like what we eat, where we shop and what are we watching on television. Not only that you can share these information but also they are provided with online service which helps you to chat with your friend whenever you want to it’s like a mini IM, you can also now have a online video chat.
Social networking has took a very big part of people life I personally think, e communities are very addictive and people don’t think really about time while they using it, but on the other hand some people have a problem to open in real life and when they’re on such a network  service they can finally be their self.

IM (instant massaging)

IM is existing since 1990. It’s a form of a communication by internet. If only a person downloads this application to him PC or other devices, is able to use it. IM is usually used by teenagers to chat with their friends. It can be a chat between two people but also if they would like they can make thing called conference which then contain more then two people. IM it’s basically a real-time online chat. IM can be updated, at the beginning it was only a peer-to-peer conversation then more than two and now you can also have a voice chat or video chat. It’s amazing how technology has moved on it very short period of time.
We have now a lot of different IM’s although some of them are more known and some of then are rarely used. There’s just few business that actually using the IM most of them prefer email.

I personally was using one of the IM when I was 14 so that was 4 years ago, I don’t really remember how it happened that I’ve stopped but I reckon it was because technology has come up with a lot of different ways how I could communicate with my friends but before it happened I remember spending so much time online talking to my friends. It was the easiest, the quickest and the cheapest way to have a long chat with friends. Some of my friends still have the IM but then are not using it as often.

E-mail

E-mail has been invented in 1965 by Louis Pouzin, Glenda Schroeder and Pat Crisman, although this service was only working between 2 people using the same personal computer but there was no e-mail address just then. In 1971 e- mail has been develop by Ray Tomlinson from then on e-mail could be sent to people on different computers. Ray Tomlinson also invented sign “ @ “ to separate user name from the website name.
E-mail is the most widely used Internet application. There’s a fair chances that now most of the people YOU know between the ages of 15 and 65 have and use an e-mail. For all of its popularity, e-mail is often used ineffectively. People are setting up emails to be able to set up some other network service. 
E-mail is also inexpensive. By this I mean it allows you to send a message to more than one person, and also it save you time plus it’s free you can use it when ever and wherever you want only if you have a wireless.
By using e-mail your communication can be edited and even spell check so there’s no mistakes in your spelling, before a recipient will read your massage.
You can send email to more then one person at once. It saves you so much time. Can you imagine sending the same email to few people at the same time but you would have to type in everything again and again? Email is very understandable and friendly so we don’t have to waste our time.
Email is an effective communication service for business and private use but it also has some disadvantages.

Email is more often used by business to communicate although it’s the easy and quick way of communication the problem is that e-mail massages can be misunderstand fairly easily. That’s why it’s very important to put the case in very easy words. As it is not face-to-face conversation or a phone call.
Also another disadvantage of email is the fact that by email attachments you can transfer a virus into your personal computer; if it’s a business cooperation it might not only effect one PC but also other PC’s. 

2012, these a day’s e-mail is not use as often there was a time when e-mail was used by everyone and it was the main social communication between two or more people. Although it is important to point out if you want to set up new account for a example “Facebook” account you have to be provide with an e-mail because e-mail is the main massager service for example if you forget your facebook password you might ask to resent the password to your e-mail. I personally don’t use e-mail, most of the e-mails I received are ads my email is full of advertisements. This is the easiest way for the business to communicate with customers online. I personally don’t read these massages but if a customer knows the brand and is interested in what the business has to offer, I’m sure they would read it.

Introduction

Online Services

Online services do you know use of every online service? If you do I hope I will help you find out more.
We will be looking at variety of online service like: Communication, Social network, E-comers, Entertaining, Search, Education and Real time. I will try and collect as many information as it’s possible to give you a good idea what each of these services are working on and what they are really.

We will be looking at;

Communication:
e-mail,
IM (instant massaging), 

SMS,
social networking,
blogs