Question: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an extended term for information communication technology (ICT) which stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

The term "ICT" is also used to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management.

However, ICT has no universal definition, as "the concepts, methods and applications involved in ICT are constantly evolving on an almost daily basis." The broadness of ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form, e.g. personal computers, digital television, email, robots. For clarity, Zuppo provided an ICT hierarchy where all levels of the hierarchy "contain some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications". Skills Framework for the Information Age is one of many models for describing and managing competencies for ICT professionals for the 21st century. 1. What does ICT stand for?
2. Does it have one definition that covers everything?
3. Why not?
4. What does ICT stress, as an extended term?
5. And what else?
6. What things are included in that integration?
7. How does that relate to users?
8. What else can ICT refer to?
9. Is there something else involved with that convergence?
10. What?
11. What kind of incentives apply to this convergence?
12. What is an example of that?
13. How quickly do the variables of ICT change?
14. What sorts of things does the broad description of ICT pertain to?
15. Like what?
16. Any other example?
17. What?
18. What did Zuppo provide?
19. Did all levels have something in common?
20. Related to what? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Information and Communications Technology
2. No.
3. The concepts, methods and applications are constantly evolving.
4. The role of unified communications.
5. Unified communications and the integration of telecommunications.
6. Computers and necessary enterprise software,
7. Allows them to get to, store, send, and change information.
8. Convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks.
9. Yes.
10. It's through a single cabling or link system.
11. Economic.
12. Cost savings due to no telephone network.
13. Almost daily basis.
14. Any product that will involve information in a digital form.
15. Personal computers.
16. Yes.
17. Digital television.
18. An ICT hierarchy.
19. Yes.
20. Technologies that facilitate the transfer of information.

Question: Vanilla is my best friend. She is a lovely girl with two big, beautiful eyes. But she always hides them behind a pair of black glasses. One day, though, I nearly ended our friendship. I remember that day clearly. We were sitting in class. The teacher was giving us our results for a Chinese test. I had done badly. I felt so sad that I wouldn't talk to anyone. At lunchtime, I even stayed in the classroom alone. Suddenly, I heard a voice. It was Vanilla. "You look very unhappy," she said. "What's wrong?" I looked up at her, but said nothing. I knew Vallina had got a good mark in the test. I thought she was making fun of me. I stayed silent , but Vallina didn't go away. She kept asking me questions: "Is it because of the exam? Do you want me to show you the right answers?" I looked away from her. When I looked up again, Vanilla had gone. And so had my exam paper! I didn't know what to do. I looked everywhere for me paper, but couldn't find it. In the afternoon, Vanilla came up to my desk and gave me my exam paper back. I looked at it and got a big surprise. Vanilla had written the right answer next to every one of my mistakes. My face went red. Vanilla had been trying to help me all along. How mean I had been to her when she was being so nice. I wanted to hug her, but all I did was to hold her hands and say, "Thank you." That afternoon, Vanilla and I walked home together. I felt so happy that I had to thank her again. We were still best friends. 1. is Vanilla a boy?
2. is she mean?
3. what's she like?
4. what is she hiding with glasses?
5. what color are the glasses?
6. what did the teacher give them?
7. did they both do well?
8. who did well?
9. and how did I do?
10. did I tell anyone?
11. how did I feel?
12. what did Vanilla ask?
13. what did I think she was doing?
14. was she?
15. where did the paper go?
16. what did she do with it?
17. what did I want to do to her?
18. did I?
19. what did i do instead?
20. and say:? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. no
2. no
3. lovely
4. two big, beautiful eyes
5. black
6. results for a Chinese test
7. no
8. Vanilla
9. badly
10. no
11. sad
12. What's wrong
13. making fun of me.
14. no
15. Vanilla took it
16. wrote the right answers on it
17. hug her
18. no
19. hold her hands
20. Thank you

Question: CHAPTER IX

THE FOOTBALL MEETING

In a few days Dave felt as much at home as ever. Nearly all of his old friends had returned to Oak Hall, and dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 were filled with as bright a crowd of lads as could well be found anywhere. In the number were Gus Plum and Chip Macklin, but the former was no longer the bully as of old, and the latter had lost his toadying manner, and was quite manly, and the other students treated them as if all had always been the best of friends.

It did Dave's heart good to see the change in Plum, and he was likewise pleased over the different way in which Macklin acted.

"I never thought it was in Gus and Chip," he said, privately, to Roger. "It shows what a fellow can do if he sets his mind to it."

"It's to your credit as much as to their own," declared the senator's son. "I don't believe Gus would have reformed if you hadn't braced him up."

"I wish I could reform Nat Poole."

"You'll never do it, Dave--but you may scare him into behaving himself."

"Have you met Guy Frapley, Roger--I mean to talk to?"

"Yes, in the gym., where Phil and I were practicing with the Indian clubs."

"What do you think of him?"

"I think he is fairly aching to become the leader of the school. He was leader at Laverport, and it breaks his heart to play second fiddle to anybody here. He and Nat are as thick as two peas. They tell me he is a great football player, so I suppose he will try to run the eleven--if the fellows will let him." 1. Who was one person who returned to Oak Hall?
2. Name another?
3. What kind of manner did Chip Macklin used to have?
4. Was there a change in Gus Plum also?
5. Which dormitories are mentioned in the story?
6. Was Dave pleased?
7. Who did he speak to about Gus and Chip?
8. What position did Roger's father have?
9. Does Roger think Dave should get credit for Gus?
10. Why?
11. Has Roger met Guy Frapley?
12. What was he doing when he met Guy?
13. Who was he with then?
14. Where was je?
15. Who does Dave wish he could reform?
16. Does Roger think he'll succeed in it?
17. Was Guy Frapley a leader before?
18. Where?
19. Is he good at football?
20. Who is he thick with? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Gus Plum
2. Chip Macklin
3. toadying manner
4. no longer the bully as of old
5. Nos. 11 and 12
6. Yes
7. Roger
8. senator
9. yes
10. He didn't believe Gus would have reformed if you hadn't braced him up."
11. Yes
12. practicing with the Indian clubs
13. Phi
14. in the gym
15. Nat Poole
16. No
17. Yes
18. Laverport
19. Yes
20. Nat