POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

PowerPoint is a presentation software package which you can easily create slide shows. Trainers and other presenters use slide shows to illustrate their presentations.

PARTS OF MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

The Microsoft Office Button

In the upper-left corner is the Microsoft Office button. When you click the button, a menu appears. You can use the menu to create a new file, open an existing file, save a file, and perform many other tasks.

The Quick Access Toolbar

Next to the Microsoft Office button is the Quick Access toolbar. The Quick Access toolbar provides you with access to commands you frequently use. By default, Save, Undo, and Redo appear on the Quick Access toolbar. You use Save to save your file, Undo to rollback an action you have taken, and Redo to reapply an action you have rolled back.

The Title Bar

The Title bar is located at the top in the center of the PowerPoint window. The Title bar displays the name of the presentation on which you are currently working. By default, PowerPoint names presentations sequentially, starting with Presentation1. When you save your file, you can change the name of your presentation.

The Ribbon

1 Tabs
2 Command Group
3 Command Buttons
4 Launcher

You use commands to tell PowerPoint what to do. In PowerPoint 2007, you use the Ribbon to issue commands. The Ribbon is located near the top of the PowerPoint window, below the Quick Access toolbar. At the top of the Ribbon are several tabs; clicking a tab displays several related command groups. Within each group are related command buttons. You click buttons to issue commands or to access menus and dialog boxes. You may also find a dialog box launcher in the bottom-right corner of a group. When you click the dialog box launcher, a dialog box makes additional commands available.

Rulers

Rulers are vertical and horizontal guides. You use them to determine where you want to place an object. If the rulers do not display in your PowerPoint window:

1. Click the View tab.
2. Click Ruler in the Show/Hide group. The rulers appear.

Slides, Placeholders, and Notes

1 Slide
2 Placeholders
3 Notes

Slides appear in the center of the window. You create your presentation on slides.
Placeholders hold the objects in your slide. You can use placeholders to hold text, clip art, charts, and more.
You can use the notes area to creates notes to yourself. You can refer to these notes as you give your presentation.
Status Bar, Tabs, View Buttons, and More

1 Status Bar 6 Vertical & Horizontal Splitter Bars
2 Outline Tab 7 Minimize Button
3 Slides Tab 8 Maximize/Restore Button
4 View Buttons 9 Close Button
5 Zoom

The Status bar generally appears at the bottom of the window. The Status bar displays the number of the slide that is currently displayed, the total number of slides, and the name of the design template in use or the name of the background.
The Outline tab displays the text contained in your presentation. The Slides tab displays a thumbnail of all your slides. You click the thumbnail to view the slide in the Slide pane.
The View buttons appear near the bottom of the screen. You use the View buttons to change between Normal view, Slider Sorter view, and the Slide Show view.

Normal View

Normal view splits your screen into three major sections: the Outline and Slides tabs, the Slide pane, and the Notes area. The Outline and Slides tabs are on the left side of your window. They enable you to shift between two different ways of viewing your slides. The Slides tab shows thumbnails of your slides. The Outline tab shows the text on your slides. The Slide pane is located in the center of your window. The Slide pane shows a large view of the slide on which you are currently working. The Notes area appears below the Slide pane. You can type notes to yourself on the Notes area.

Slide Sorter View
Slide Sorter view shows thumbnails of all your slides. In Slide Sorter view, you can easily add, delete, or change their order of your slides.

Slide Show
Use the Slide Show view when you want to view your slides, as they will look in your final presentation. When in Slide Show view:
Esc Returns you to the view you were using previously.
Left-clicking Moves you to the next slide or animation effect. When you reach the last slide, you automatically return to your previous view.
Right-clicking Opens a pop-up menu. You can use this menu to navigate the slides, add speaker notes, select a pointer, and mark your presentation.
Zoom allows you to zoom in and zoom out on the window. Zooming in makes the window larger so you focus in on an object. Zooming out makes the window smaller so you can see the entire window.
You can click and drag the vertical and horizontal splitter bars to change the size of your panes.

You use the Minimize button to remove a window from view. While a window is minimized, its title appears on the taskbar. You click the Maximize button to cause a window to fill the screen. After you maximize a window, clicking the Restore button returns the window to its former smaller size. You click the Close button to exit the window and close the program.

I N T E R N E T

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a mother of all networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, organizations and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.

HISTORY OF INTERNET (BASED FROM WIKIPEDIA.COM)

The concept of data communication - transmitting data between two different places, connected via some kind of electromagnetic medium, such as radio or an electrical wire - actually predates the introduction of the first computers. Such communication systems were typically limited to point to point communication between two end devices. Telegraph systems and telex machines can be considered early precursors of this kind of communication. The earlier computers used the technology available at the time to allow communication between the central processing unit and remote terminals. As the technology evolved new systems were devised to allow communication over longer distances (for terminals) or with higher speed (for interconnection of local devices) that were necessary for the mainframe computer model. Using these technologies it was possible to exchange data (such as files) between remote computers. However, the point to point communication model was limited, as it did not allow for direct communication between any two arbitrary systems; a physical link was necessary. The technology was also deemed as inherently unsafe for strategic and military use, because there were no alternative paths for the communication in case of an enemy attack.

As a response, several research programs started to explore and articulate principles of communications between physically separate systems, leading to the development of the packet switching model of digital networking. These research efforts included those of the laboratories of Vinton G. Cerf at Stanford University, Donald Davies (NPL), Paul Baran (RAND Corporation), and Leonard Kleinrock at MIT and at UCLA. The research led to the development of several packet-switched networking solutions in the late 1960s and 1970s, including ARPANET, Telenet, and the X.25 protocols. Additionally, public access and hobbyist networking systems grew in popularity, including unix-to-unix copy (UUCP) and FidoNet. They were however still disjointed separate networks, served only by limited gateways between networks. This led to the application of packet switching to develop a protocol for internetworking, where multiple different networks could be joined together into a super-framework of networks. By defining a simple common network system, the Internet Protocol Suite, the concept of the network could be separated from its physical implementation. This spread of internetworking began to form into the idea of a global network that would be called the Internet, based on standardized protocols officially implemented in 1982. Adoption and interconnection occurred quickly across the advanced telecommunication networks of the western world, and then began to penetrate into the rest of the world as it became the de-facto international standard for the global network. However, the disparity of growth between advanced nations and the third-world countries led to a digital divide that is still a concern today.

Following commercialization and introduction of privately run Internet service providers in the 1980s, and the Internet's expansion for popular use in the 1990s, the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce. This includes the rise of near instant communication by electronic mail (e-mail), text based discussion forums, and the World Wide Web. Investor speculation in new markets provided by these innovations would also lead to the inflation and subsequent collapse of the Dot-com bubble. But despite this, the Internet continues to grow, driven by commerce, greater amounts of online information and knowledge and social networking known as Web 2.0.

THE USES OF THE INTERNET ARE THE FOLLOWING:
1. EDUCATION
2. TRANSPORTATION
3. GOVERNMENT
4. ENTERTAINMENT
5. COMMUNICATION


BROWSERS USE FOR NAVIGATING WEB PAGES:
WEB BROWSER is a software application used to locate

1. Internet Explorer
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Opera

Photoshop: Virtual Weight Loss in Photoshop! (HD)

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorial... Watch this

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorial

Watch this demo and try to apply it.

D A T A B A S E

A database consists of an organized collection of data for one or more users. It contains records and fields in which fields are represented by the column and records are represented by rows. 

(Below are information collected form Wikipedia.org)

Operational database

These databases store detailed data about the operations of an organization. They are typically organized by subject matter, process relatively high volumes of updates using transactions. Essentially every major organization on earth uses such databases. Examples include customer databases that record contact, credit, and demographic information about a business' customers, personnel databases that hold information such as salary, benefits, skills data about employees,manufacturing databases that record details about product components, parts inventory, and financial databases that keep track of the organization's money, accounting and financial dealings.

[] Data warehouse

Data warehouse archive historical data from operational databases and often from external sources such as market research firms. Often operational data undergoes transformation on its way into the warehouse, getting summarized, anonymized, reclassified, etc. The warehouse becomes the central source of data for use by managers and other end-users who may not have access to operational data. For example, sales data might be aggregated to weekly totals and converted from internal product codes to use UPC codes

Analytical database

Analysts may do their work directly against a data warehouse, or create a separate analytic database for Online Analytical Processing. For example, a company might extract sales records for analyzing the effectiveness of advertising and other sales promotions at an aggregate level.

Distributed database

These are databases of local work-groups and departments at regional offices, branch offices, manufacturing plants and other work sites. These databases can include segments of both common operational and common user databases, as well as data generated and used only at a user’s own site.

End-user database

These databases consist of data developed by individual end-users. Examples of these are collections of documents in spreadsheets, word processing and downloaded files, or even managing their personal baseball card collection.

External database

These databases contain data collect for use across multiple organizations, either freely or via subscription. The Internet Movie Database is one example.

Hypermedia databases

The World Wide Web can be thought of as a database, albeit one spread across millions of independent computing systems. Web browsers "process" this data one page at a time, while web crawlers and other software provide the equivalent of database indexes to support search and other activities.

Advantages and Disavantages of IT Gadgets................

    Laptops, cellphones, i-pods, cameras, net books are all gadgets. It may give us pleasures  and benefits to our daily activities in work and in school but actually it can also brought disadvantages to us.

Some of these advantages and disadvantages are the following:


Advantages of  gadgets:


1. A faster way to search for information (via the Internet)
2. Sometimes a more effective way of learning. (via educational computer programs)
3. Prepares students for the globalized world where computer-literacy is a must.
4. Easier way of communication.
5. Helps students if they have difficulties (homework helpers, etc. )
6. More accessible especially if there are researches to do the following day
7. Gives students recreation.
8. A larger  source of information


Disadvantages:


1. Students tend to be lazy and just depend on gadgets
2. Computer games such as online games divert the students' attention from school.
3. Can be used for procrastination.
4. Distracts students from schoolwork.
5. Students lose interest in their schoolwork.
6. It can be  a way of  cheating other people

J O O M L A....

   Joomla  is a free  and open source content managment system for publishing content on the World Wide Web.  I heard joomla when EITSC offered a free seminars to all IT professors. As I try to install Jooma platform in my laptop, I find it so easy to use and design a web page. All you need is to click and clikc to completely build ur own webpage. You can add more categories and topics. You will learn more about Joomla when boss Ted conduct a seminar and introduce a nwe software..