The world wide web (WWW) or simply called Web is the best thing that has happened to us and our students. Although online population is expected to reach 2.2 billion, compared the world's whole population, it still represents a fraction. The early part of this blog is meant for those who have not yet enter the world of web. However the later and most part of the blog is for anyone who cares to integrate web into her personal and professional life and harness it for personal, professional and social benefits.
Web is a new reality and it comes with its own terms and conditions. The current and future role that web is expected to play in our life is but growing. Web is walloping into every traditional human endeavors and many of them are moving them to web platform. e.g. Traditional education is become online education. The choice for most of us is not whether or not to plunge into web but how soon. Having said that, in this blog I would like to list the most common seven acts a user will perform on the web. These acts not essentially sequential and some user may not carry one or more act at all. ( for instance starting a blog ).
Act 1: Establishing Identity on the web:
Although it is possible to use web without actually migrating into it , using search engine etc, any longer plan to integrate web into one's scheme of things begins by establishing an online identify for an individual or business user. The following are the 3 ways in which one can do that
- creating an email id
- creating a blog
- creating a own web site
I can explain the above as follows.
- Creating an email id is like staying in a PG in new town when you move there for the first time. Staying in a PG gives an address so that people can reach you. Email account creates serves exactly the same purpose on the web: it provides user an address so that others can reach her on the web. ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com is my web identity. It is the least a new web user needs to start exploring the web. Practically having email is has become a necessity. Almost all systems such as online examination expect user to provide her email id as part of registration process. Some of the well know e-mail providers include hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo many more
- Creaing a blog represents a next stage of establishing web presence. Among other things, blogs help user to establish presence by means of publishing. A blog not only identifies the author but also about his his voice among the online crowd. Two of the most famous blogging service providers are blogger, wordpress.
- Creating web-site is the ultimate self-identification act. Usually enterprises and serious net users and professional buy a domain name and build a site on that. There are free site services such as Google Sites. However the standard practice is to get a paid domain name ans establish web site.
ACT-2 Communicating on the web
ACT-3 Discovering Resources
ACT-4 : Publishing and Sharing
ACT-5 Collaboration
ACT-6 : Networking
ACT-7 : Professional Presence
