Week 4. Information systems

For the beginning of the class, we had ice-breaking session, that was very interesting as we attended in group in this class. for the beginning of the class, we began to talk about what is system in general. According to the information which were given to us, system is  a set of elements or components, set of Components working together to achieve a common set of objectives, systems have inputs, processing mechanism, outputs and feedback. 
According to the definition, information system is a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination and decision making in an organization.


After that we had discussion about what kind of role does the Information system play in our live and what is the connection with Information System? That discussion, made our knowledge in this area more stronger.
After that we talked about basic components of the Information System. they include hardware, software, database, telecommunication, internet, network and the last two are procedures and people. people play role in managing, running, maintaining and programming in the system.

In the next class, we were given task. Namely, using the Internet, we should search for information on the use of information system in any of organization. Additionally, we have to discuss on how does the organization use technology to accomplish its goals. In order to this project, we spent a lot of efforts and at the end. we decided to do research on library called "The library of Florida University.

Following is the picture of the University 

That was a real experience to search the library