To be informed is to be able to communicate through technology

        Time passes by so fast; the end of the first quarter is already near. It's tough and challenging but, at the same time, I enjoyed it and, I bet that the next quarter is as challenging as it is now. 

        The lessons I learned in our first week in class are the history of the internet that first started in the early ’60s. The internet continues to grow and broaden as time passes by. In 1972 email was born and, the year 1976 was the first royal e-mail message. By 1988 the internet is an essential tool for communications; however, it also begins to create concerns about the privacy and security of the digital world. New words, such as “hacker” and “cracker” are created. In the year 1994, the Philippines connect to the internet. And in the year 1997, the age of the internet has arrived. I learned a lot of new information on our first modules including, a web page where the web information is stored, a web server which is a computer where the web page files are stored, and a web client are the computers reading the web page. We also tackled the parts of a web browser; the protocol, domain name, directory path, object name, and spot. We also tackled the parts of a web browser; the protocol, domain name, directory path, object name, and spot. The level of the domain name is the 3rd level that helps the network servers locate the address on the internet by narrowing it down to the World Wide Web (www), the 2nd-level domain indicates the Web name of the entity you wish to locate and the top-level domain (TLD) is seen in the suffix of the Web address. It usually indicates the type of entity to which the Web site belongs. 

        In our second module, we learned the different internet services and tools which is the e-mail that can send and receive messages to and from one or many recipients and is also a fast and efficient communication and many more. We also learned the two major components of the internet which are the web browser; an application that allows users to view documents within hypertext content and a web server, a computer that responds to requests from Web browsers. The lesson we learned helped me a lot, especially now that our new normal education is modular and digital which is the data type, such as the text files, graphic files, and multimedia. 

        In the third and fourth weeks of our modules, we learned and made our blogs or weblog. I learned about the different types of web blogs such as the personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, the corporate blogs, question blogging, video blogging, photoblog, linklog, MP3 blog, and phlog. We also learned the parts of a blog, how to use it and also the proper citing to avoid plagiarism. 

        In the fifth week of our module, we recalled the parts of web browser and also got to know the client-Server Computing, World Wide Web Server, Web Server Software, web-Server Hardware, web-Information Architecture, and Web Browser or Web Clients.  

      The sixth week of our modules help me a lot because it gave me a better understanding of how to properly use the search engene like google. I also learned how to search faster which is by indicating a relationship between your search terms, you can help the computer rank the pages in an order that is more relevant to you. You can do this through phrase searching, Boolean logic, pseudo-Boolean logic, and term weighting. 

        In our last modules, I learned that the data rate units are the average number of bits per unit time passing through a communication link in a data transmission system. I also learned that the kbps is equivalent to 100 bits per second, Mbps is equivalent to 1,000,000 bits per second and Gbps is equivalent to 1,000,000,000 bits per second. When in bytes the KBps is equivalent to 8000 bytes per second, MBps is equivalent to 8,000,000 bits per second, GBps is equivalent to 8,000,000,000 bits per second and TBps is equivalent to 8,000,000,000,000 bits per second. I also learned that the bandwidth describes the maximum data transfer rate of a network or Internet connection. It measures how much data can be sent over a specific connection in a given amount of time.

        We are now living in a world full of uncertainties. There are a lot of challenges and obstacles in the new normal. Especially, now that I am learning on my own. There are also times that there are things I don’t understand so I am thankful that our teacher is doing online classes and answering our queries.

        Moving on, I will do my best in answering all the given tasks and strive harder every day. I enjoyed the first quarter of tenth grade and, I hope I will also enjoy the next. 

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