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

Case Study: IT systems for Online businesses

CASE STUDY CONTINUATION WORK 30/9/2010

I hope the mind map is a good guide towards your case study research.
In order to proceed with the case study, I have assigned each of you some research work on IT system used in Online businesses. You need to give a full description in your own words and with a variety of research explanations regarding how the IT System works and how it connects to the Case Study. Any useful information regarding the system should posted. This should be posted in the blog for others to read or you can create your own. You will then post atleast one question after reading the reaserched work. Please respond to any question addressed to you.

Gary: Backup strategies / RAID

Sajni: Denial of service attack

Tasin: JavaScript

Immaculate: Search engine optimization / Page ranking

Atiya: Payment options: Paypall, credit card payments / direct account deposit.

AOI Health: Medical Advice on the Internet

For this lesson you are expect to contribute by posting your comment in this blog. The point of discussion is "Medical advice online". It's important that you question any contributions by your classmates. I will be monitoring your particpation.

a) Share some sites that offer medical advice online

b) Describe how these sites are to used and managed.

c) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using some of this sites for medical advice.

d) Share some social and ethical issues arising from using such sites and give examples from research where possible.

Some resources
http://www.yourdiagnosis.com/yourdiagnosis/Machealth/flash_new.html


http://www.justanswer.com/sip/Health/General%20Medical?r=ppcga1Rest+of+WorldHealth&JPKW=medical%20advice%20online&JPDC=S&JPST=&JPAD=6422003763&JPAF=txt&JPCD=20100923&JPRC=1&JPOP=Cass_JCLT-RThealth_Normal&gclid=CI-Kw6reqaQCFd_-2Aod5gHO5A

Communication System Issues

Please respond to each of the following questions by posting your own views in the comments box. You can only comment if you sign in.

a) Define authentication? What do you think are problems of lack of authentication when using the internet facilities?

b)
i) What are the different types of addictions to the internet.

ii) What are the consequences of these addictions?

iii) What are some of the suggested solutions to these addictions?


c)
i) List the different areas where people have over depended on the internet

ii) What are the social impacts of over depending on the internet?


d) List the appropriate behaviour (net etiquette) that we should see when using the internet.

e)
i) Which languages have dominated the internet?

ii) What are the social impacts of English as the main web language dominating the internet?

f)
i) Give examples of Identity theft over the internet

ii) What are the impacts of identity theft ?

iii) List some suggested solutions to these problems of Identity theft.

g)
i) Name some examples of unsuitable material posted over the internet?

ii) What are the different ways used to control access to such materials?

h) What are the ethical issues related to the misuse of internet? In others words who is responsible, accountable, and what are the ethical decision and the consequences of these decisions?

i) Outline the ethical issues related to IT rich and IT poor nations in terms of internet access.

j) Who is responsible and accountable for the successes and failures of encryption usage.

k)
a) What are the different types of systems used in workplace monitoring of employees?

b) What are the benefits and concerns of their use?

c) What ethical decisions should be in place when using monitoring systems?