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Activity One. ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System. Activity Two. Some Facts about Cyberspace. Material Designer : Liu Pei-Chi. Activity One. ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System. I C Q ?. It stands for the meaning of “ I Seek You .”.

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  1. Activity One ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System Activity Two Some Facts about Cyberspace Material Designer:Liu Pei-Chi

  2. Activity One ICQ—The World’s Largest Chat room System

  3. ICQ? It stands for the meaning of “I Seek You.” It provides innovative peer-to-peer(P2P) communication channels, in a straight- forward, easy, and simple manner.

  4. Make a Guess! 1. How many users register in ICQ? Over 150 million. 2. How much time do users spend on ICQ every day? ICQ users are connected to ICQ over 4 hours each day on average.

  5. More Fast Facts # About 800 million ICQ messages are sent and received every day. # ICQ is available in 18 languages. # 70% of ICQ users reside outside of the US, in over 243 countries.

  6. Yair Goldfinger (26, Chief Technology Officer. ) He is the chief creator of ICQ. Who created ICQ? ICQ was created by 4 young Israeli (pronunciation:  iz'reylee) avid computer users, aged from 24 to 27. Photo source: www.bricklin.com/albums/ pcforum2001/faces.htm

  7. Who created ICQ? They founded a computer company named Mirabilis. The first version of the ICQ product was deployed over the Internet in November 1996. Photo source: www.bricklin.com/albums/ pcforum2001/faces.htm

  8. What can users do in the ICQ world? 1. Join a chat room.2. Search an already-known friend. 3. Play games with key pals.4. Create a chat room of one’s own.5. Create one’s own interest list.6. Have interpersonal chat with people with similar interests. Enjoy yourself in the ICQ world! Photo source:http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/904

  9. Common Chat rooms * Movies & TV* Games* Money & Business* Romance* Students* Art & Culture* Computer & Internet….

  10. Choose one and tell your classmates why. Which chat room do you like to join?

  11. How to log in a chat room? Step One Type a nickname you like and then click on the OK bottom.

  12. Here you type in your conversation and click the “send” bottom on the right. Chat room Talk Talks in chat rooms are usually casual, informal and ill meaning-oriented.

  13. How to find a friend on ICQ? Fill in at least one information and then click the “Search Now” bottom.

  14. Search Results Here you can find your friends or people from all over the world to chat with.

  15. Share Your Ideas! • Will you join chat rooms to have a talk with people you’ve never met? Why and why not? • Whatadvantagesmay we gain from joining a chat room? How about thedisadvantages? See useful words about this activity on next page.

  16. Useful Words • Positive:innovative, amusing, novel, informative, fun, worthwhile, …practice my English, make friends with the whole world, exchange different ideas, appreciate various cultures… • Negative:dangerous, improper, risky, time-wasting…be annoyed or harassed by obnoxious key pals, leave your studies behind, fall in love with someone unfamiliar … The End

  17. Activity Two Some Facts about Cyberspace

  18. Words derived from cyber • Cyber café • Cyber marketing • Cyber attack (ex. Hacking) • Cyber crime • Cyber class • Cyber cash • Cyber library • Cyber nanny … Info source: google search, 2004

  19. What hazardsmight internet users encounter in the cyberspace? • Health Threat • Getting fat on theirbelliesand thighs • Heart diseases • Headache… Photo source: www.chime.com/ fleagirl/belly.jpg www.mbay.net/~bodypart/allery_3/gallery_3.htm

  20. Cyber Crimes/Hazards • Hacks, viruses, email spamming (=junk emails) • Illegal obtaining of personal credit information … • Illegal copying, distributing movies, music, software, games… • Drug deals, sex deals … • Easily be misled to pornographic Web sites.

  21. What can we do about those potential cyber hazards? • Write a short passageon this topic. Try to make it about 100-120 words long. The End

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