AKAM Digital Society ASSIGNMENTS: April 2017

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Thursday lesson; 4/5/2017

Watch the following smart homes videos in the link below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJr8QwgLEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAhP1dzPXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hgimhc1ys

What are some of the common concerns?

Read the articles below;
http://www.futureforall.org/home/homeofthefuture.htm

https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/10/smart-homes-of-the-future/

a) Watch the video on smarthomes; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i73n-LTXPIM

i) What are the different technologies / terminologies used in the smart home mentioned by the presenter? (list as many as possible)?

ii) What are the advantages of using the different technologies?

iii) Identify any one smarthome related technology and share any possible problems of using such technologies?

iv) What are some of the recommended solutions to the problems identified?

Post your responses on your oneNote page

b) It has been difficult for people to implement the smart home concept in many parts of the world. How do we bring smart home together?

Read the article below;

Monday Lesson 8th May 2017.

Obtain brief notes on the following;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAesMQ6VtK8

Modem, internet service provider (ISP), bandwidth, download, upload, streaming audio/video, compression, decompression, cache
Features of a browser: for example, bookmarks, visited links, tabs
Adding functionality to a browser (for example, plug-ins)
Data-driven websites: for example, active server page extended (ASPX), personal home page (PHP), CMS website.
Site management: for example, web hosting, uploading, behaviour website marketing.
Other site use: for example, bounce rate, click-through rate (CTR), avatar, profile
Internet Marketing Strategies: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278923
Internet of Things with examples.

What was covered last week;

Differentiated between HTML1 - HTML 5
Introduced the concepts of internet protocols and distinguished between a few of them.
Introduced the concepts of DNS and explained how DNS system works.

Tuesday Lesson 2nd May 2017;

You will be required to make short notes on OneNote on the following terminologies;

The internet
Web
Browsers and some examples
Search engines and some examples
Webpages vs websites
Languages used to build website; HTML, DHTML, Javascript, XML, XHTML, Java, Visual Basic.
Examples of softwares used to build websites.

We will use the following link to Introduce ourselves to the Internet.

https://www.slideshare.net/coastalgraphics/webintro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxcc6ycZ73M

Related notes
- Difference between HTML and HTML 5 http://www.differencebtw.com/difference-between-html-and-html5/

- Protocol summary; https://www.slideshare.net/sanjoysanyal/tcpip-basics

DNS notes; https://www.howtogeek.com/122845/htg-explains-what-is-dns/

https://www.lifewire.com/introduction-to-domain-name-system-817512

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rck3BALhI5c