IT

• The Digital Age is a period when the computer and internet were introduced, caused by the rapid shift from traditional industry to computerization all the way to artificial intelligence, which was brought by the Industrial Revolution.
• These technologies enabled people to communicate information easily and rapidly, leading to Digital Technology becoming prevalent and widely used around the world.
• ICT has the power to transform society and is defined as a group of interrelated technologies (electronic devices) for accessing, processing, and disseminating information.
• ICT is a system of electronic network activated through a complex hardware and software systems linked by a vast array of technical protocols.
• The term ICTs has been used to embrace technological innovation and merging in information and communication, transforming our world into information or knowledge societies.
• The development of a society mostly depends on the access to information.
• Despite ICT’s massive potential, the current global information outburst has surprisingly little impact on development activities and access to practical information for rural communities, local people, and forefront development workers in developing countries.
• The emergence of Internet, World Wide Web, mobile cell phones, digital television, and several other new electronic devices pertaining ICT are opening a fresh passageways for transforming the way we live, work, learn, communicate and also provides a strategic opportunities of diverse and significant social and economic benefits to people across the globe.
• Images can be captured by optical devices such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
• Images may be 2-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or 3-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram.
• Symmetrical Balance is when the order of elements are evenly allocated on both sides of pages, with the visual weight distributed evenly, either vertically or horizontally.
• Organized information is more likely to read and is more likely to be remembered.
• Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain.
• An Image is a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
• Graphics are visual representations of data made on a computer and is displayed on a computer screen or monitor.
• Asymmetrical Balance is when the order of different objects of the same weight on each side of the page, creating an artistic and different intensity on one side of the page.
• When there are several elements, add white space.
• The Hybrid Graphic Novel is a form of visual storytelling.
• Proximity is the act of arranging related objects together and moving them physically close to each other to create less clutter and more organized layout.
• The main character in a story can be identified through the story itself.
• Technological Determinism is the theory which strongly believe that technology shapes the culture, values, social structures of a society, with technological innovation being the cause of the social progress.
• Removing color in your image or desaturating the color of the image.
• Flickr is one of the oldest image hosting sites that also offers editing features, and allows album creation with a maximum storage of 1TB.
• Basic Image Manipulation started with one picture.
• imgur offers media sharing capabilities through a unique link, doesn’t affect the quality when uploading an image, and is popular for Memes.
• Hosting Platforms include imgur, a free image hosting site that doesn’t require an account, and Google Photos, developed by Google and one of the most used image hosting sites.
• Google Photos provides automatic backup and sync of photos from your gallery through your Google account, easy organization and editing of photos based on tags and categories, and unlimited free storage for Android smartphones.
• Photobucket is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community dedicated to preserving and sharing the entire photo and video lifecycle.
• Combining text, graphics and color in your layout.
• Imageshack offers unlimited storage space as long as it is less than 25mb, allows you to create albums, make tags and set your own privacy settings.
• Instagram allows its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.
• Social Constructivism is the theory that humans play a main role in shaping technology rather than technology shaping society, with humans controlling the technology.
• Adding multiple elements in your layout.
• Adding background to make your image stand out.
• Instagram is an online mobile photo and video sharing, and social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app.
• Technological Change refers to the various changes in technology that lead to an increase in the productivity of labor, capital and other production factors, with technology being the most powerful means of wresting power from nature in all possible ways.
• The "Internet of things" ( IoT ) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it, with the potential to impact how we live and how we work.
• Cameras and microphones studded around your home are watching and listening to you.
• Current trends in information technology are advancing so rapidly that new developments are quickly replacing current projections.
• Learners will be able to evaluate existing websites and online resources based on the principles of layout, graphic, and visual message design.