This document announces a skills upgrading seminar on information communication technology hosted by the Municipality of Imus in cooperation with the Internet Cafe Association of Imus, Inc. The seminar will be led by Gener Luis Morada, an expert in the field of ICT with experience in Israel and the Philippines. The course outline will cover introductions to ICT concepts, online applications, and utilizing virtual PCs. It will also explain the difference between an "IT" practitioner focused on technical details, and an "ICT" practitioner focused on communicating information to laypeople.

1. Municipality of Imus
in cooperation with
Internet Café Association of
Imus, Inc
Skills Upgrading Seminar
on
Information Communication
Technology

2. Gener Luis Morada
 President, Internet Cafe Association of Imus, Inc.
 Country Representative – G.ho.st Inc, Israel
 Gawad Parangal Awardee – Information Technology
2007
 Member, Unified Lanshop Owners of the Philippines
and Computers Professional Union
 Philippine Participant – IOSN-InWEnt Training of
Trainers on the FOSS Toolkit for SMEs – November
4 – 8, 2008 – United Nations Development Fund.

3. Course Outline
Introduction to the world of ICT
Historical Prospective on the Development of
ICT
Concepts of ICT
Online Apps and their Utilization
Concept of paperless office using G.ho.st
Virtual PC

4. Information Communication
Technology
Difference between an “I T” practitioner and
that of an “ICT”
Information Technology Practitioners
often live in a bubble. They are very
much engrossed on the technical
details of technology that they often
forget one thing.

5. The job of an ICT
practitioner is to
communicate
information that
was derived from
the processes in
computing
Data Information
Communicate the results
using layman's terms

7. Understanding ICT in Today's Context
P e o p le W h o w e re
P e o p le w h o h a s th e
b o rn b e fo re 1 9 8 3
“ I ” m e n ta lity
P e o p le W h o s e firs t
P e o p le W h o b e lo n g s
in c lin a tio n is to f in d to th e m a n u a l a g e
in fo rm a tio n in b o o k s
o r a n y w ritte n fo rm Digital
Migrants

8. P e o p le W h o w e re
C o lla b o r a te s w ith b o rn a f te r1 9 8 3
o th e r s in d o in g th e ir
w o rk
People who are used
P e o p le W h o s e firs t to using technology
in c lin a tio n is to lo o k in their daily
fo r in fo rm a tio n
O n lin e
activities
Digital Natives
There is now an ongoing friction between the two groups in terms of whose way of life
should be followed. The challenge is for the digital migrants to adopt the ways of the
digital natives in order to incorporate the 21st century skills that they need to survive in
today's technologically advanced age.

24. The First Computer

25. Pascaline Computer
Blaise Pascal 1642

26. Computer Systems

27. The First Hard Disk

28. First Personal Computers

29. Made Computers User
Friendly

30. Before Windows

31. With Windows

32. First Computers were stand
alone units

33. Moore's Law

34. Internet

35. Changes in the 1980’s
•Development of the PC
•Development of a User
Friendly Operating
System
•Development of the
First Webpage

36. First Web Page

37. Web Page of Today

38. Computers of Today

39. Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.o