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ICTInformation and Communications Technology

Communicating information using technology

Blended learning

E-learning solutions

Traditional classroom practice

ICTInformation and Communications Technology

FINLAND

Teachers: No time to utilize the tools

90%, Computers and internet were available

Students use ICTs at home rather than at school

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ICTInformation and Communications Technology

GERMANY63% of schools have broadband

connection

Computers -> presentation

Students > teacher in use totechnology

ICTInformation and Communications Technology

37.6 MILLIONInternet users as of Jan2014

Only 33% of the country

5 EXABYTESEvery ten minutes

RANK 103 rdICT development

Wordpress

Wordpress

WordPressTimeline

20052004200320011991 1996

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)tag was first introduced. Some of thetags are still being used today i.e.headings (h1 – h6), paragraph (p),types of list (li, ul), and href elements.

HTML

CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets )JavaScript

CSS & JavaScript

B2 Cafelog is a blogging tool fornews and personal use. Theplatform is ran by PHP andMySQL. Contents are dynamicallygenerated from the database.

B2 CAFELOG

WordPress was made because of thediscontinued development of the B2Cafelog. It was entirely the sameconcept but different platform.

WORDPRESS

They added plugins to WordPress toadd functionality to the system. Thedevelopment of plugins wasopened and shared with thecommunity.

PLUGINS

In 2005, WordPress also released a newlook for the administrator dashboard.

THEMES &PLUGIN DIRECTORY

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WordPressStatistics

25%

WHY?About 25% of the world’s websites

Most popular Content Management System

Free and open-source

Register your own WordPress domain

Plugins and widgets directory, downloadable

Better optimized for search engines

Wordpress

Wordpress

TerminologiesSchematics of a website

HEADER

FOOTER

BODY

SIDEBAR

SIDEBAR

The header contains the header image and the menu.

The sidebar contains the widgets. Sidebars can be disabled for full width websites while have the left and/or right sidebars.

The body of the website contains the posts, media contents, and others.

Footer can contain widgets, menu, html codes, and copyright notice.

TerminologiesWordPress terminologies

NAVIGATION

DASHBOARD

POSTS & PAGES

NAVIGATION

WIDGETS & PLUGINS

The dashboard can be considered as the administrator interface.

Posts and pages are somewhat alike. They only differ in how

WordPress displays them.

The navigation or menu of the website serves as a guide for browsing through the pages.

Widgets and plugins extend thefunctionality of the WordPress website.

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WordPressDashboard: Admin Interface

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