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

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

4. ICQ?ICQ?ICQ?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.

5. 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. Make a Guess!

6. 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.

7. 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 Yair Goldfinger (26, Chief Technology Officer. ) He is the chief creator of ICQ.

8. 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 Who created ICQ?

9. 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. Photo source:http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/904 Enjoy yourself in the ICQ world!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. 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

18. Activity Two Some Facts about Cyberspace

19. 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

20. What hazards might internet users encounter in the cyberspace? Health ThreatHealth Threat –Getting fat on their bellies and thighs –Heart diseases –Headache… Photo source: www.chime.com/ fleagirl/belly.jpg www.mbay.net/~bodypart/allery_3/gallery_3.htm

21. 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.

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