2nd sem midterm

• Think before you post - Every post should be considered carefully, a status update that is inappropriate, rude, embarrassing or offensive may haunt you forever
• Protect your online persona - privacy setting should be watertight
• Respect other people - think before you post or tag others in embarrassing photographs
• Unfriend with caution - Your timeline may be clogged with updates from little-known "friends," but it's best to cleanse by muting rather than risk offending by unfriending
• Socialize when sober - drunker rants, impulsive messaging, heartbroken outpourings
• Cover your tracks - Be cautious of check-ins if you have fibbed to friends or colleagues about your plans
• Status-change with certainty - Only update your relationship status when you are 100% sure of the union/split/ reunion
• Save the bad stuff - The public nature of Facebook makes it unsuitable for conveying sensitive or bad news
• Keep it private - when contacting people directly, avoid posting on someone's wall
• Do I even know you? - Remember, you don't know all your Facebook friends that well
• Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the way people communicate with his patent on the telephone in 1986
• Radio allowed sound and information to be broadcast to an extremely wide audience
• Television was introduced to the public in 1946, even though it had been experimented with since the late 1920s
• Philo Farnsworth, 1927 - over the following decades, television became the predominant source of communication to a wide audience, and it changed the political and cultural landscape forever
• Charles Babbage was the "Father of Computer"
• Martin Cooper conceived the first handheld mobile in 1973. And brought it to market in 1983
• Alexander Bain - inventing the first technology to send an image over an wire (late 1843)
• Pager was invented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross (Al Gross)
• 1959 it was named PAGER by Motorola
• 1974 the Motorola's Pageboy! was introduced
• Clarity - can come through focused approach and needless to say, depth of knowledge
• Completeness - each sentence that you write or speak should be complete
• Conciseness - speak or write to an extent demanded by the circumstances or the situation nothing more or nothing less
• Confidence - show it by adopting correct postures and tone
• Correctness - what ever you say should be supported by data, quotes, or proper references
• Courtesy - try to be polite but still be authoritative in your approach
• Telecommunication 


  Is a compound of the Greek prefix tele - (meaning "distant"), and the Latin Communicare (meaning "to share")

  The transmission of signal over a distance for the purpose of communication - began thousands of years ago with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, America and parts of asia
• History of Communication

  1. Cave Paintings
  2. Petro Glyphs
  3. Pictograms / Pictographs
  4. Ideograms
  5. Writing
  6. Alphabet
• Technology 


  From Greek word, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand

  Is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization
• Electronic Communication - passing of information from one individual to another using computers, fax and phones
• Technology used in communication

  1. 1947 - cellular phones
  2. 1958 - Communication Satellite
• Academic dishonesty - it is intentional participation in deceptive practices regarding one's academic work or that of another
• Fabrication - inventing data or results and reporting them as if they were real.
• Plagiarism - it is the use of another author's words or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment
• Cheating - intentionally deceiving others by providing false information or misrepresenting oneself or one’s work.
• Collusion - working with other students on an assignment when the instructor has explicitly stated that such collaboration is not allowed.
• Forms of Academic Dishonesty

  1. Cheating
  2. Academic Misconduct
  3. Bribery
  4. Misrepresentation
  5. Fabrication
  6. Plagiarism
  7. Collusion
  8. Conspiracy
• You commit plagiarism if you :

  • Deliberately Claim another person's work as your own
  • Carelessly mis-acknowledge a source
  • Fail to acknowledge a source
• Intentional Plagiarism:

  
  

  Verbatim plagiarism - it is quoting word for word without citing the source or using quotation marks .
• Unintentional Plagiarism:

  • Direct-quote overuse - it is copying word for word from different sources, but enclosing them in quotation marks and citing the sources.