SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAMME COMPUTER NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

The UKQA 2072, or more commonly known as, the ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) For the Community is one of the extracurricular courses that offers campus students to bring up healthy engagement to the society in the aspect of computer and internet installation for the society. The Computer Network Maintenance Management Program is one of the initiatives to promote UTM students to make welfare work in human capital development and to strengthen the relationship between campus citizens and schools. Selection of locations at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultanah Engku Tun Aminah (SMK SETA), Johor Bahru was chosen because of the community's need to improve the network infrastructure of the computer to access the internet. This program aims to provide wireless and hotspots in selected classrooms and the teacher’s lounge available at school to promote and aid the teachers in creating better teaching instruments in the class. In addition, this program is implemented for knowledge sharing in applying existing ICT knowledge to technical skills in cable network installation and Wi-Fi installation to school communities. This program applies the concepts and principles of computer networks for the knowledge in the information technology world to create ICT-literate communities and expose knowledge sharing to school children on how to install a computer network cable. The implementation of this program is run for two days on April 14th 2018 and April 17th 2018. On April 14th, replacement of broken routers in the teacher’s lounge, cable management on the messy UTP cable at the back of the teacher’s lounge and cable replacement and management on RJ-45 and the router in the selected classroom. On April 17th held a knowledge sharing program on computer network cabling and installing wireless hotspots to school children. In conclusion, with this partnership program involving UTM and the school, it can foster the spirit of schoolchildren to venture into information technology more deeply and this program can nourish attitudes and interest in ICT knowledge sharing. Students can also apply how to communicate with the community to make the program successful and get the opportunity to develop working skills in a group that demonstrate leadership skills in an organization in the development of community activities.