The
Management Information Systems (MIS) concentration prepares students to excel
professionally and contribute meaningfully to the knowledge or information in
economy of the 21st century. It is the one business concentration
that combines business and technology. It needs someone who understands both
business and technology. As the managers of information and technology within
the organization, MIS professionals bring technology and business together to
deliver information solutions that help organization meet it goals.(source: http://www.sjsu.edu/isystems/)
Information System is a combination of information,
technology, and people’s activities using that technology to support operations
and management. In a very broad sense, the term information system is
frequently used to refer to the interaction between people, data, and
technology. Information System plays a crucial role in business when it comes
to business process and operation. It helps the managers to conduct their daily
activities and functions properly. Furthermore, it helps to conduct activities
like account creating, and withdrawal of money with the help of softwares. It
also supports decision making for employees and managers and strategic decision
for competetive advantages. (source: http://vincentpage.blogspot.com/)
Talking about information means also talking about
HTML. HTML which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the
predominant markup language for web pages. HTML is the basic building-blocks of
webpages. The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose
them into visual or audible web pages. It allows images and objects to be
embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a means to
create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as
headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. Without html, a
website will not be informative, presentable, and cannot be recognized. (source: http://vincentpage.blogspot.com/)
Another
things that are dealing with information are hypertext and hypermedia.
Hypertext and hypermedia refer to web pages and other kinds of on-screen
content that employ hyperlinks. Hyperlinks give us choices when we look for
information, listen to music, purchase products, and engage in similar
activities. They take the form of buttons, underlined words and phrases, and
other “hot” areas on the screen. (source: http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/dfpubs/Farkas-Hypertext%20And%20Hypermedia.pdf). Hypertext refers to the use of hyperlinks or
links, the pathways between nodes, to present text and static graphics. It allows for multiple authors, a blurring of
the author and reader functions, extended works with diffuse boundaries, and
multiple reading paths. (source: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0037.html). It is
the presentation of information as a linked network of nodes, chunks of content, which readers are free to navigate in a non-linear fashion.Non-linear means it encourages a certain amount of
jumping around while linear means we typically experience straight through from
beginning to end. Hypermedia refers to the presentation of video, animation,
and audio, which are often referred to as “dynamic” or “time based” content or
as “multimedia.” In other words, hypertext is text with pointers to other text while hypermedia
is a superset of hypertext that might not display a text file, but might
display images or sound or animations, and combines hypertext and multimedia. (source: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html)
Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of
text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (video), animation, audio,
and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored,
transmitted and processed digitally. Furthermore, a multimedia application is an application which uses a collection
of multiple media sources e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation
and/or video. (source: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html)
Multimedia
can be used for teaching different topics in math, informatics, foreign
language learning, biology, chemistry, etc. There is an immense quantity of web
pages with already made materials that can be used in the classroom and that
cover almost all subjects covered in primary and secondary schools, as well as
the materials for the youngest and the oldest students as well. This shows that
the new technology is not only a technical helping tool, but an educationally
rich source for the teachers and their students. Still, using multimedia in
foreign language learning has advantages as well as disadvantages when it is
applied in the classroom. (source: http://www.pc-os.org/helpful-management-information-systems/)
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