NETWORK GROUPS WEEK: Five
DATE: 23s – 27th May, 2022
CLASS: JSS 2
SUBJECT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LESSON TITLE: NETWORK GROUPS
SUBTITLE (IF ANY): Search engines
PERIOD: 1&2
DURATION: 80 minutes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
- Identify different network groups.
- List out different search engines.
KEY VOCABULARY WORDS: application software, system software
RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
BUILDING BACKGROUND/ CONNECTION TO KNOWLEDGE: As a result of the previous studies on the internet environment making Students are familiar with the internet and its environment
CONTENT: NETWORK GROUPS
Network Groups
Network Groups also known as Newsgroups are means of connecting people with common interests through the internet. There are two types of newsgroups:
Mailing list
Newsgroups
Mailing list
An electronic mailing list is a special usage of email that allows for the widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list, a list of names and addresses as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or costumers, but typically refers to four things: a list of email addresses, the people (“subscribers”) receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (e-mail messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single e-mail address that when designated as the recipient of a message to all of the subscribers.
Types of Mailing List
One type of electronic mailing list is an announcement list, which is used primarily as a one-way conduit of information and can only be “posted to” by selected people. This may also be referred to by the term newsletter. Newsletters and promotional emailing lists are employed in various sectors as parts of direct marketing campaigns.
Another type of electronic mailing list is a discussion list, in which any subscriber may post. On a discussion list, a subscriber uses the mailing list to send messages to all the other subscribers, who may answer in a similar fashion. Thus, actual discussion and information exchanges can happen. Mailing lists of this type are usually topic-oriented (for example, politics, scientific discussion, jokes, contests), and the topic can range from extremely narrow to whatever you think could interest us. In this they are similar to Usenet newsgroups, and share the same aversion to off-topic messages. The term discussion group encompasses both these types of lists and newsgroups.
Newsgroups
Newsgroups are also called UseNet. A newsgroup is a discussion about a particular subject consisting of notes written to a central Internet site and redistributed through Usenet, a worldwide network of news discussion groups. Usenet uses the Network News Transfer Protocol(NNTP).
Newsgroups are organized into subject hierarchies, with the first few letters of the newsgroup name indicating the major subject category and sub-categories represented by a sub-topic name. Many subjects have multiple levels of subtopics. Some major subject categories are news, rec(recreation), soc(society), sci(science), comp(computers), and so forth (there are many more). Users can post to existing newsgroups, respond to previous posts, and create new newsgroups.
STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES:
Student Activity I: Teacher leads by asking the student to define and explain the network group.
Class Activity II: Teacher explains the meaning of network group.
Activity III: Teacher leads by explaining the key vocabulary in the class such as mailing list, and newsgroup.
Activity IV: Teacher will summarize the topic and make the necessary correction to the learner’s discussion.
ASSESSMENT (EVALUATION) & WRAP-UP (CONCLUSION): Learners will provide answers to this question to check their understanding of the topic.
ASSIGNMENTS: What is computer ethics?
HOD/VP’S COMMENTS AND ENDORSEMENT:
RECOMMENDED FILE SHARING: LESSON NOTE
