E-Learning
	This seminar is hosted Arellano University in Manila, last February 2004 and conducted by some people from Infocom Prepaid Internet Cards. The speaker lecture us about the importance of using Internet as a tool in our day to day activity including communicating with others and  doing our research in the internet.

	The speaker deliver the seminar like a crossword puzzle game where we are the one who will choice the correct answer to the corresponding questions. Through this we will first take an intelligent guess before the speaker will reveal the correct answer and expound about the details of it. He discusses mainly the statistics of the internet mostly websites. This includes which is the most popular e-mail provider, which is the number 1 searched on the internet, how many words does a typical internet user use on searching. There are many things that are discussed through this seminar and most of the audience that would benefit is the beginner and novice internet users, as this would teach them some techniques on making the internet more useful.

	One of the topics discussed on the seminar is about Google. The number 1 search engine in the internet. This search engine has a lot of other features including Google Groups, this enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments. Another is google image search which has database indexes over 150 million images from the web. When you search on a term, say "hawk," it returns a page of 20 small images, called thumbnails, which when clicked take you to the original image. Since no search engine is capable of looking at an image and saying what it is, and since no one is willing to take the time to look at 150 million images to see what the content is, the search engine simply searches for your term in the file name of the image. For example, if you search on "hawk," you'll get images titled "hawk.jpg" and "hawk.gif." Some of these are indeed pictures of hawks, but you also get a wide range of images that aren't birds. These include aircraft with the name hawk, a Native American in a headdress, an athlete that's a member of a team called the hawks, and more. Still it's a useful tool and can be a quick way to find images. The search results not only give you a thumbnail view of the original image but also information on the image size and the Internet address of the web page where the image was found. When you click on the thumbnail, it brings up a page that has a larger version of the thumbnail in a top frame and the original page in a bottom frame. As with the regular Google search engine, you can tweak the preferences in several ways, for example, setting it so that it returns 100 thumbnails per page instead of 20.

	The most popular email service is yahoo mail which has the following advantages and services. With Yahoo! Mail, you have access to your email from any Internet-connected computer in the world. Whether you are at a cafe, in a library, at work or at home, with Yahoo! Mail, your email address is the same and your account is accessible from all locations. In addition, you can use your Yahoo! Mail account to access mail sent to your other email accounts (such as a work or home account) by using our External Mail feature. You will be able to keep your Yahoo! Mail account as long as you continue to use Yahoo! Mail. Your address will be the same even if you move, leave school, change Internet Service Providers or jobs. 4MB free storage, Lots of space at no charge, with the option for power users to expand their mailbox up to 100MB. Spamguard, a proprietary system is intended to radically reduce the amount of spam you receive in your inbox. SpamGuard is designed to direct most spam to your Bulk Mail folder, to help you better manage your mail. Another feature is the virus scan, this feature offers Yahoo! Mail users a fast, free and effective anti-virus tool to protect them from known viruses sent and received via e-mail file attachments. Virus scan is seamlessly integrated into Yahoo! Mail, and automatically scans all outgoing e-mail file attachments such as documents, spreadsheets, zip files, presentations and executable files. People can also choose to scan incoming e-mail file attachments

	More topics have been discussed including when is the time where the internet is most busy and it is Mondays as explained people from work and school has not opened their internet connection during weekends so internet traffic is accumulated. As a contrary Sundays are the least traffic on the internet, mainly because most people are at rest or having their family time. I could say that this seminar is a great for us IT students and professionals alike where we spend most of our times on the internet, its nice to know the statistics and the demographic. And they gave us a free internet card too! 

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E-Learning
Hosted by: Arelleno University
Sponsored by: Infocom Prepaid

Submitted by:
Jeffrey Victorino
CS 430
Fri 4:45-7:45 PM