Tute week 5 task

This weeks tasks is going to be a fun for me personally because my favourite hobby is photography. I love taking photos and looking at photos. I would have taken my own photos for this task but i dont have my camera on me at the moment so i googled these photos. These photos that i have picked to add to my task are quite good and represent the themes very well.

This image is representing the theme "friends". It is of two eldery women by the looks of it and has the word friendship written in it. I think the photo represents the theme of friends because these 2 women may have been long time friends and they are still together as friends in old age.

This theme is representing the theme "high-tech".

I found this photo in a google search. It is a photo

of a robotic arm and in my eyes is very high-tech.

This image is representing the theme "news". I found it on a google search. I think it represents the theme of news because the image is of a woman news reporter on air and you can see the CNN headlines underneath her.

This image is representing the theme of "summer". I found this photo from a google search. It is of a beach obviously in summer with people sunbaking and swimming which is representing summer.

This image is representing the theme of "unconventional". This photo is again off google and is of a wedding cake, lol a conventional wedding cake would be the little groom and little bride on the top of the cake. But this photo is very unconventional at the peak of the cake is a mountain with snow and trees on it and the bride is on the top pulling her groom up with a rope lol i thought this was quite a funny photo and very unconventional for a wedding cake.

This image is representing the theme of "university life". I found this image on a google search. What i liked about this image is that its not just one there are 4 images in it and they all represent the different aspects of university life like the top left is study top right is transportation/ social life of university and bottom left is the sport side of university and the bottom right is the social scene of university.

week 4 tute task 1

Well this is my attempt at doing the 1st task for week 4. I had a bit of trouble on what I am actually going to do my essay on i wasnt sure what we were aloud to do it on, but after reading what adam wrote on the blackboard today (Select a topic that interests you, but it has to be related to new communication technologies. Basing it around a particular technology can be an easy way to think of a topic), iv thought of a topic to do :) thank adam. I am very into music and sound so i thought I would do my essay on technology related to music and sound such as ipods, cd players, old record players. Also in doing my essay on that particular area of technology I want to add a kind of history or timeline of all these pieces of technology to show the beginnings of were music and sound orginated from to the ipods of today. I still have to ask Adam if this topic is ok to do then i will start looking up books and articles.

Week 4 tutorial tasks 2A and 2B

Hi all im starting off this post with part 2A of the tasks because its the most fun :)

For Q1. i used yahoo to find the answer. The weight of the worlds most biggest pumpkin is 1502 pounds. Q2. I went through mooter and found that the quickest way to contact grant hackett would be to send a hero message through BigPond Sport. Q3. I went through AltaVista and found that the length of a giraffe's toungue is around 22 inches long and has black with pink dots on it. Q4. I used a9 and found that the word onotology means the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such. In my own words i would say it means science or something to do with science. Q5. I used hotbot and found that David Cronenburg's first feature film was Shivers in 1975. Q6. I used askjeeves and found that the Hackers Manifesto was originally written in 1986. Q7. I used AOL and found that the reason why hollywood films have phone always starting with 55 is because there use to be a code to dial numbers and due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen.Q8. I used ALLTHEWEB and found that the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes is by Ferry. Q9. I couldnt find the answer to this question. Q10. I used yahoo and found that Stephen Stockwell played in the band the Black Assassins.

2B

What is a search engine? A search engine is somewere where you can go to search for anything.
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet? They rank the stuff you searched for by the words you typed in the best match sort of thing.
who, or what, makes one page more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results? Im not to sure on that I herd once that you had to pay a fee to be added in the top 5 of a search but im not to sure.
what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others? My fav search engine and most used would be GOOGLE because its quick and easy to use and the most well known.
Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately). No i couldnt find anything.

Week 3 Lecture

The Birth of the Computer- its amazing to think that the computer has been around for so long even if it didnt look the same or didnt do the things it can today. The computers origins came from adding machines and Charles Babbage during the 19th century designed machines to calcualte and print mathematical tables. Although Charles was the 1st inventor of the first digital computer, it was mechnical rather then an electronic device, but he did sketch the logical structure of the modern computer. It wasnt until during the 2nd world war that Alan Turing began the work required for the development of the computer to me that took a very long time to actually have the first working computer. And it wasnt until the 1950s that the public could buy IBM computers. Today anyone could walk into a computer store and buy many different brands of computers and many different types of computers not just the home based computer but laptops and so on. I think that computers have come along way from where Charles Babbage started and today companies like IBM and Microsoft are still developing new computers and new hardware so in my eyes the life of the humble computer will never die.

Own Experiences with New communication

I mostly use the internet and my mobile phone to communication with my family and friends. I also use my ipod to listen to music. People my age have grown up with all this new communication technology, 99% of teenages have mobile phones and even 10 year olds now have mobiles. I have friends that I have met off the internet that I have never met and Iv even found distant family members that iv never before off the internet. I just met my 2nd cousin that i found on bebo.com. I dont think it is different to knowing people in person and talking to people on the net. They are still friends its just that you may not see them in person. I personally have been using these new communication technologies since i was about 13 years old, which is an old age nowdays because i know of 9 and 10 year olds that have ipods and moblie phones already. My older sister bought me my first mobile phone on my 13th birthday for "incase of emergancy" lol and at the time I thought yes this is cool and the phone was a brick compared to the mobiles today lol and back then i could last with $20 prepayed for a whole month now i need $230 a month, because a mobile phone is now used as a social thing a way of communcating to friends and sending photos not only for emergencys. Before i had my ipod I use to listen to my music on a portable CD player and it was heavy but now all i use is the ipod which weighs nothing at all and theres no need for cds. Technology has changed for the better in that department i think because i love music. Also another development in technology is the digital cameras still and moving. I have a passion for photography and film making and when i was younger i had an analogue wind up camera and today i have 2 digital still cameras and 1 digital movie camera. They are much more easier to use i believe and the best part about them is that you can see the footage and the photos seconds after you have taken it. I believe technology has changed for the best especially in the camera, music and phone department.

The 1st and 2nd week Lecture and tute

Hey Im jamie and im 19, in my 2nd year at uni. I love soccer and photography. That is one of the reasons why i chose this course. I think this course is one of the more interesting courses at university because technology is forever changing and we all need to be taught new things. In the 1st week lecture i was mainly interested in the Geneology of Old Technology from print to television. Its amazing how far we have come from print being the 1st communication to make information available to now having computers in nearly every househould, throughout the world. During the 2nd week lecture I actually enjoyed watching La Jetee, at first I thought oh no subtitles and an old film, but when it got into it i started to get more and more interested because I personally love films about time travel and photography. To see that the film was made by still photographs was quite interesting and reading the subtitles after all werent that bad :). Im now in my 1st tute for this class and my tutor is Adam. So far iv enjoyed this tute, it's layed back but at the same time Adam still gets us to do the work that has to be done. So thats about all for now.