Blogs VS Forums

Blogs are about sharing your opinion and views on things and other people reading them and people can follow and comment and agree with you, or type back what they think about the post you have made, these posts will stay on your blog until you read them.
Forums are a discussion about views or opinions and often turn into an argument and have more faster feedback, posts are still kept in the forum post until you go back on the forum and read it.

Email VS Instant Messenger (IM)

Electronic Mail or E-Mail is a way of sending a letter electronically through a computer anywhere in the globe across the internet and the recipent will read it whenever they check there email inbox.

Instant Messenger or (IM) is a way of sending a message straight away between two computers fast with only half a second of a delay, this is a way of having a conversation with another person while they are online, unlike email when they have to look at there inbox to send a reply.

MMS - Multimedia Messaging Service

MMS is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability which only allowed exchange of text messages up to 160 characters in length. The most popular use is to send photographs from camera-equipped handsets, although it is also popular as a method of delivering news and entertainment content including videos, pictures, text pages and ringtones.

Group Work - Video Editing/Planning

Deadline today, we had to show our video edited or unedited to Julian, unfortunately Nick was absent again and missed the whole lesson, therefore we had nothing to show Julian.. Sucks to be us haha now our highest grade can only be a merit.. oh well atleast thats decent enough. Apart from that group work is going well, we  have our website planned out and just need to make it now, things are looking up.
After that we did a photoshop session with Julian we learnt how to make 3D Text and different tools and shortcuts in photoshop, it was very interesting and I enjoyed it a lot.

GPRS - General Packet Radio Service information from others Blogs

GPRS is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication systems part of the Global Systems For Mobile Communications. The service is optional to users in over 200 countries around the globe.

Group Work - Recording

The Recording went well we got a couple interviews although we couldnt ge any student to interview they all said no. We have a few decent shots and hope to have a decent edited video to go on our website that we yet have to create.

3G

3G or International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 or (IMT2000) better known as 3G or 3rd Generation. It is a connection that allows any mobile phone to access video, audio or any communications through a mobile broadband. The applications you can access on 3G are Mobile TV, Video on Demand, Video Conferencing, Tele-Medicine or Location-based services. The 3G network currently covers 93% of the UK population. The 3G services are designed to offer broadband cellular access at speeds of 2Mbps and be generally fast for all users that use it.

A Map showing the use of 3G in the USA

WAP - Wireless Application Protocol and GSM - Global System for Mobilers

WAP  is an open international standard for aplication-layer network communications in a wireless comunnication enviroment. Most use of WAP involves accessing the mobile web from a mobile phone, it was first released in 1999 with mixed reviews across the world with it being a huge success japan however failing to impress uk citizens until 2003/04 where it sparked some interest in the uk, WAP however has died out with phones providing HTML instead.

GSM is a second generation digital mobile cullular technology using a combination of frequency division multiple access and time division multiple access (TDMA). GSM operates in several frequency bands: 400Hz, 900Hz and 1800Hz. On the TDMA side, there are eight timeslots or channels carring calls, which operate on the same frequency. The standard was joinly deeveloped between European adminstistrations under Groupe Speciale Mobile in the 1980s and introduced commercially in 1991. Unlike other cellular systems, GSM provides a high degree of security by using subscriber identity module sim cards and GSM encryption.

Student Discussion Forum

I have just used the student discussion blog and it was the first time i've used one, went quite well posted a few replies although I didnt make a post myself, enjoyed it being able to chat to others and found it to be quite fun.

The W3C

The W3C was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee.  He left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the Internet.

Group Planning - Digital Communications

We are now in our groups, we have planned out what and when we are going to record. Each member of the group is going to do each task and we will have everyone having a go at everything, The idea is too get some camera shots of Weymouth College and interview the staff. After we have our video we will attempt to make a website that will have a layout of the Weymouth College campus and include a edited version of the video that we have shot, the websites aim is to promote the college.