Public Information System 1/11/2010

We have so far looked at some public information systems. Some of them are Mobile phone technologies, videoconferencing technologies, teleconferencing technologies, telecommuting systems and digital television.

Others include traffic control systems, security systems, public transfer information systems

Your task is to get an article or examples on any of the three above. Example is " find out the types of traffic control systems, how do they work, what are their impacts and outline some ethical and social issues related". (20 Mins). Make brief notes

Share your findings to each 20 minutes.

Case Study Activity 28/10/2010

Give a brief description of the assigned term using different sources research. Explain how the IT System works and how it connects to the Case Study. All useful information regarding the system should posted in the blog for others to read. You will then post atleast one question each after reading the reaserched work, probing them on their findings. Also ensure that you respond to any question addressed to you. Give examples where possible.

Gary: RSS Feeds

Atiya: Domain Name System

Sajni: Payment Merchant Account/ Shopping cart software

Immaculate: Web content management System ( Web CMS)

Tasin: Site Traffic Anlysis

Arts, Entertainment & Leisure

For each of the assigned activity, describe the different forms, impacts and related issues from using the technology and post your finding on this blog.

Rishad & Nafisa: Digital Art: including electronic music, interactive visual art and desktop publishing.

Salima & Gary: Film: digital effects, characters and animations.

Tasin & Immaculate: Live arts: Digital effects, choreography, lighting, marketing

Terry & Atiya: New media:DVD,CD VR, stereolithography

Sajni: Broadcast media : Digital radio, and TV, e-news, e-magazine and books.

Personal and Public Communication :lesson 3,6 &7

Evaluate (which means describe, give some advantages and disadavantages, give practical examples, describe limitations and strengths, give your opinion and suggest any solutions) the tasks assigned. Post your responses in the blog and question the responses of the others. Ensure that everything is your own research and all your referenced sources are provided at the end. (the work will be assessed)

Atiya
What are some of psychological consequences of people being in permanent contact

Gary
the ethical considerations of control as a result of using communications technologies.

Sajni
the social impacts on health of the use of mobile devices.

Terry
the effects on personal productivity of personal communication devices

Immaculate
the social effects of telecommuting

Nafisa
the social effects of widespread use of teleconferencing and video conferencing.

Tasin
the social impact and the ethical considerations of : Distance learning and digital entertainment

Salima
the social impact and ethical conderations of : global media and public information systems.

Rishad
the social and environmental impact and ethical considerations of telecommuting.

Case study HL only: 7/10/2010

Give a brief description of the assigned term using different sources research. Explain how the IT System works and how it connects to the Case Study. All useful information regarding the system should posted in the blog for others to read. You will then post atleast one question each after reading the reaserched work, probing them on their findings. Also ensure that you respond to any question addressed to you. Give examples where possible.
Gary: Cascading style Sheets CSS
Sajni: Gantt chart/Project management tool
Tasin:MySQL / SQL languages
Immaculate: Pay per click advertising
Atiya: PHP language

Personal and Public Communication 4/10/10

For the task below each student will be assigned a key terminology for this topic. Your duty is to describe the terminology by doing some research and post you findings on this blog. You will then read information posted by the rest and post atleast a question for each posting. Each question addressed to you should be responded by posting.

Rishad
Describe technological convergence.

Terry
Describe Virtual conferencing

Gary
Describe teleconferencing

Immaculate
Describe Videoconferencing

Atiya
Describe Web 2.0 Technologies

Tasin
Describe telecommuting

Salima
Describe Push Technology

Nafisa
Describe Pull Technology

Sajni
Describe Digital TV