SS1 Third Term Computer Studies Lesson Note – Application Areas of ICT

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WEEK 5

TOPIC:  APPLICATION AREAS OF ICT

CONTENT: ­

1. Application areas of ICT: teleconferencing, video conferencing, telecommunication and networking, tele-computing, messaging, information search
2. ICT based gadgets: Mobile phones, computer sets, television sets,
3. Operation of ICT-based gadgets.

SUB-TOPIC 1: APPLICATION AREAS OF ICT

ICT can be applied in the following areas namely:

Teleconferencing: A teleconference is a telephone meeting held between two or more locations through a telecommunications system. Technical terms like telephone conferencing, phone conferencing and audio conferencing are sometimes also used to refer to teleconferencing.

In a teleconference, audio-only or audio-video data can be transmitted via one or more different telecommunications means, such as telephone, computer, television, radio, telegraph and teletypewriter.

Particularly, internet teleconferencing includes video conferencing, web conferencing, internet telephone conferencing and augmented reality (AR) conferencing.

Teleconferencing is an interactive group communication between three or more people in two or more location through an electronic medium. This is made possible by the provision of land line telephone and GSM network.

It supports the conference by providing both the video and voice, so that you can absolutely see the person when you are listening to the communicator.

Teleconferencing is capable of transmitting the data during the conferencing either using traditional PBX systems or VoIP

Video Conferencing: Video conferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmission. It has also been called visual collaboration and it’s a type of groupware. Videoconferencing (or video conferencing) is the conduct of a video meeting among two-person or more people in separate places by means of computer networks to transmit both audio and video data

video conferencing supports the conference by providing both the video and voice, so that you can absolutely see the person when you are listening to the communicator. It offers VoIP services.

It can also enable you to share more information like files, applications, whiteboard and etc.

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