"First Quarter Knowledge in 

         Information and Communication Technology"

                       Freshies, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors life at Ilocos Sur National High School. Many things I've learned in every subjects. Like the subject ICT, its all about information and communication technologies. Since grade 8, I've learned on how the computer works and parts of it, parts of a Microsoft Word and the use of it and how to use the Microsoft Excel. In 3rd year, I've learned on how to use PowerPoint, how to make movies, how to use a Microsoft Access and etc.
                       This 4th year life, first grading period, all I've learned about the ICT subject was the Internet timeline about the years, developers and was developed by the developers. I've learned when Sputnik was launch (1957-1960) ; 1st paper on packet switching by Leonard Kleinrock (1961) ; MIT introduces the Galactic Network Concept by JCR Licklider and W Clark (1962) ; more studies came out on computer networking and packet-switching (1964-1966) ; first design paper on ARPANET by Larry Roberts (1967) ;  first four nodes: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, U California Santa Barbara and University of UTAH (1969) ; fifteen nodes (1970-1971) ; e-mail was born ( 1972) ; first international connection to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORWAR or norway (1973) ; TCP/IP protocol was developed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (1974) ; Elizabeth II, Queen of United Kingdom, send out a e-mail (1976) ; emoticons :-) and :-( by Scott Fahlman used in e-mail (1979) ; 1st virus attacked on ARPANET (1980) ; Domain Name System (DNS) introduced the number of hosts breaks 1000 (1984) ; Computer Emergency Response Team Formed (1988) ; Tim Berners-Lee of CERN develops the concept of hypertext (1989) ; actual release of the World Wide Web (www) by CERN (1990-1991) ; Internet Society (ISOC) was chartered L Janvary (1992) and when the Philippines connects to the Internet (1994).
                        I've found also what's the meaning of Internet; its major components; how web servers and browsers worked together; data types; multimedia and parts of it. I've learned also on how to use blogger for us to share messages, letters, videos, pictures and more that are happening in our daily lives. I've learned also the meaning of blog; types of it such as personal blogs, corporate blogs, question blogging, by media types ( vlog, linklog, photoblog, sketchblog, tumbleblogs, MP3 blog, phlog) ; by device (mobile blogging) ; by genre (political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs, legal blogs, splog) ; community cataloging (blogosphere) ; blog search engines (bloglines, blogoscope, technorati) ; main parts of a browser (toolbar, address bar, web page, downloading indicator) ; a browser fetch the web page from a server by a request ; page address is contained in the HTTP request ; protocol is a set of rules that defines the format of the data packets and the semantics of their use ; domain name also referred to as the web site's "address", the domain name pinpoints the location of an entity on the web : levels of domain name ( 3rd level domain, 2nd level domain, top level domain (tld) ) ; top level domain examples (.gov- government agencies, .edu- educational institution, .org-organizations, .mil-military, .com-commercial, .net- network organization, .bit- business ; portfolio of metrics (# of visitors, # of posts, # of comments, # of inward links, geographical distribution of of users, # of feed readers, # of aggregators) and etc.
                          There are no problems that I have encountered this first quarter, but there were challenges that I had overcome while gaining our lessons. In the first lesson, it was hard for me to memorize directly the internet timeline, afterwards I reviewed this as much as I want to memorize, then the result was better 'cause I had memorized the dates, the discoveries and the developers. It was hard for me also to understand about the types of blog, I decided to read what our teacher gave us about blog for me to know all the details about blogs. And I address this by annalizing our lessons so that I can understand what's the importance and uses of our lessons.
                          Our eyes are in front because it's more important to look back. Don't dwell on thing in the past. Learn from them and keep moving forward. Move on it's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book. Just turn the page. I'm hoping that this next quarter, I will learn more things about ICT and  more discoveries in this subject.