Information Communication Technology 8: Exploring The World Wide Web
Information Communication Technology 8: Exploring The World Wide Web
Information Communication Technology 8: Exploring The World Wide Web
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY 8
EXPLORING THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Student’s Name: _________________________________________________
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Course Description
ICT stands for 'Information Communication Technology'. Everyday usage of digital technology
includes when you use a computer, tablet or mobile phone, send email, browse the internet, make a
video call - these are all examples of using basic ICT skills and technology to communicate.
In this module, you will identify common properties of solutions using different methods. You will also
learn how to report the amount of the components in a given volume of solution. Towards the end of the
module, you will investigate the factors that affect how fast a solid dissolves in water.
This Module has 1 Lesson. The Lesson has the following parts.
Learning Outcomes
Content and Performance Standards
Pre-Test
Firm up
Make Meaning
Deepen
Transfer
Assessment
To get the most from this Module, you need to do the following:
1. Begin by reading and understanding the Learning Outcome/s and Content and Performance
Standards. These tell you what you should know and be able to do at the end of this Module.
2. Find out what you already know by taking the Pretest then check your answer against the Answer
Key to be provided by your teacher.
3. Do the required Learning Activities. They begin with one or more Information Sheets. An Information
Sheet contains important notes or basic information that you need to know. After reading the
Information Sheet, test yourself on how much you learned by means of the Self-check. Refer to the
Answer Key to be provided by your teacher. Do not hesitate to go back to the Information Sheet when
you do not get all test items correctly. This will ensure your mastery of basic information.
4. Demonstrate what you learned by doing what the Activity directs you to do.
5. You must be able to apply what you have learned in another activity or in real life situation.
6. Accomplish the Assessment provided for you to know how well you performed.
Learning Outcomes
PRE-TEST
Do it with GENYO. A pre-test activity will be sent to your GENYO accounts. The activity
instructions will be given by your teacher.
FIRM UP
Activity 1.1 Graphic Organizer
Direction: Write the words that come to your mind when you hear the word “Internet”. Place your
answer in each circle.
Intenet
Direction: Read the information sheet 1.1 . then, answer self check 1.1
Information Sheet 1.1 Study the short history timeline of the internet with some of its important
milestones.
1969- first ever instant message over the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network) from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s laboratory was sent to the
University of Los Angeles- California (UCLA) to the second node network at Stanford University
(SRI).
1974- the word “internet” first appeared in print in the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA)- published request for comments on the Transmission Control Protocol/
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) document. TCP/IP is a new set of communications and networking
protocols for managing data transmissions of the system. Nowadays, it remains integral to the
internet.
1983- the Domain Name System (DNS) was invented wherein site names because easy-to-
remember with names endings as .gov, .edu, or .mil.
1985- the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the construction of ARPANET’S biggest
upgrade: the NSFNET, a command hub of five supercomputers that served as highways for all
data traffic.
1990- Time Berners-Lee invented HTML, a text browser and graphical user interface (GUI)
BROWSER. He also established the first successful communication between a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and a server via the Internet. These successful inventions make
up the web pages as we know them today. Lee also came up with the term “World Wide Web”.
1991- NSF initially allowed commercial industry to use the Internet.
1994- a new world of ecommerce was born through Amazon by Jeff Bezos.
1995- the National Science Foundation ceased funding the Internet and leaving it a completely
self-sustaining industry. Sun Microsystems first released the most popular Internet programming
language today which is Java.
MAKE MEANING
The world wide web (www) or web, is an information space where a collection of interlinked web
pages can be accessed via the Internet. WWW. Allows millions of web pages to be accessed instantly
with a click of a button. These web pages can include text, colors, sounds, pictures, and videos. The
web has three fundamental technologies that serve as its foundation:
o Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): the markup or formatting language used to create
pages on the web. HTML5 is the fifth and latest version of HTML standard.
o Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): it is a communications protocol. It is used to send and
receive web pages and files on the Internet and the foundation of data communication for the
World Wide Web.
o Uniform Resource Locator (URL): this is a kind of “web address” that is unique and is used to
identify resources on the web. The URL can be found in the address bar at the top of the web
page. The illustration below is an example of a URL.
DEEPEN
Activity 1.2
A URL can also be a series of numbers that works in the same way as the standard URL. Let’s go
ahead and try. Launch your web browser and type the numbers below on your web address bar.
Google: 103.233.36.167
Facebook: 31.13.70.36
TRANSFER
Activity 1.4 Discover the use of the World Wide Web
Invite six internet users and conduct an interview. The respondents consist of two students, two
working individuals, and two family members, ask them why they use the web, and how they have
benefited from using it.
Activity 1.5 Searching for the Right Web Page
From the results of your interview, list at least four reasons why people are using the Internet.
Place the reason in the first column. Use the internet to search for web pages that are related to their
reason of their usage. Place the name of the web page in the second column and the web page’s URL
in the third column. See item number 1 in the table below as an example.
Reason Web page Name URL
a. Ordering of food Jollibee http://www.jollibee.con.ph/
b.
c.
d.
e.
ASSESSMENT
Do it with GENYO. The Assessment will be sent to your GENYO accounts. The activity instructions
will be given by your teacher.