what we achieved last week:

last week i started my magazine front cover and finished my magazine and website research.

what we achieved last week:

last week i continued looking at my magazine and website research comparing the two other competitors in the same criteria as my magazine.

what we achieved last week:

last week we continued our magazine research looking at our competition and what we like about there magazine and website designs.

what we achieved last week:

last week i completed my DCM list and began to research which magazine i would like to create and compare other magazines of that genre.

DCM'S

DCM’S

Email:

Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. Originally, email was transmitted directly from one user to another computer. This required both computers to be online at the same time, a la instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Users no longer need be online simultaneously and need only connect briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

IM:

Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time direct text-based communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared software clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet. More advanced instant messaging software clients also allow enhanced modes of communication, such as live voice or video calling.

SMS:

Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of phone, web or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers. The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging as well as the user activity itself in many parts of the world.

Bulletin Boards:

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users, either through electronic mail or in public message boards. Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other.

Discussion Forums:

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user and/or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

Weblogs:

A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Newsgroups:

A usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations. The term may be confusing to some, because it is usually a discussion group. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to read newsgroups. Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet (see main article) newsgroups continue to be widely used.

Internet Telephony:

Internet telephony differs slightly from VoIP (Voice over IP) in that it specifically involves interconnections with the traditional PSTN, either in that a call is made between a PSTN phone and an Internet phone/program, or that the Internet is used to haul a call that's going from one spot on the PSTN to another over the Internet. VoIP need not transit the public Internet, but Internet telephony both does, and interacts with the PSTN. Internet telephony Technology that converts analog speech signals into digital signals and routes them through packet-switched networks of the internet. These signals bypass the traditional circuit-switched networks used for telephone calls and thus escape the long-distance phone charges.

Video Conferencing: A videoconference or video conference (also known as a video teleconference) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies, which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of groupware.

Videoconferencing differs from videophone calls in that it's designed to serve a conference rather than individuals. It is an intermediate form of video telephony, first deployed commercially by AT&T during the early 1970s using their Picture phone technology.

Audio Conferencing: A conference call/audio confrence is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen in to the audio portion of the call. The conference calls may be designed to allow the called party to participate during the call, or the call may be set up so that the called party merely listens into the call and cannot speak. It is often referred to as an ATC (Audio Tele-Conference).

what we achieved last week:

last week we continued our photo challenge and my team won woo, and started our DCM's list.

This is a screen grab of my inbox on my hotmail account, to obtain this image by holding down Shift + apple + 4 to have a grid appear to grab my screen grab.

This is another screen grab of a new email, which you use when creating a new email to send to friends or business. I obtained this photo using the same technique as before, by holding down Shift + apple + 4 to have a grid appear to grab my screen grab.

This is another screen grab of how to add an attachment to your email to send documents or pictures to a friend or business associate. I obtained this photo using the same technique as before by holding down Shift + apple + 4 to have a grid appear to grab my screen grab. 

This is the last screen grab to show what the new message should look like after your attachment has been added to the message, and as before I obtained the photo by holding down Shift + apple + 4 to have a grid appear to grab my screen grab.   

what we achieved last week:

me and the majority of our class presented our power points to Rhys and i must say we were all pretty good so everyone gets a thumbs up :)

my powerpoint/advert for xbox:

http://www.slideshare.net/stevec14/rhys-powerpoint

What We achieved last week:

I completed my power point and started to prepare who to present it to the class and audience.

what we achieved last week:

last week I completed the two DCP'S and made an in depth power point on one of the two DCP's i had previously researched.

What we achieved last week:

last week we picked two of the DCP'S from the last week and researched  them in more depth and explained how businesses used the DPC'S and how they made money from them and how the public use them and for what purpose they used it for.

we also looked at what were their strengths and weaknesses and usefulness to the public.

VOIP:

Strengths: there are many strength when using Voice Over Internet Protocol. For instance I suspect for most people who have relatives abroad it is a good easy and its usually free way to stay in contact with them without running up a huge and unnecessary phone bill. Voice Over Internet Protocol also allows you to speak to your friend or relative for as long as you wish without charging you anything at all. 

Weaknesses: as well as having many strengths do come a few weaknesses as well. As you are communicating over the Internet when using a Voice Over Internet Protocol, there could be some interruption because of bad connection, and if there is too much interruption with your connections you may loose your connection or may not even be able to connect at all.

Practicalities: Voice Over Internet Protocol is a very practical way to stay in touch with friend, family or even a business associate, as long as you both good connections with each other its just like being on a phone just usually with no cost depending on which site or format of VoIP you use.

Usefulness: Voice Over Internet Protocol is a very useful to communicate with other people, for example if your friends phone is turned off or engaged you can send messages through your VoIP site or programme you use to speak to people online to let them no you want to talk to them. Obviously its not as useful as a mobile phone as a use of communication whilst on the move or out, although Voice Over Internet Protocol Is good whilst at home so you could never really see it converting from normal calls to VoIP at least not for now anyway.

Public and business usefulness: Voice Over Internet Protocol is very well used now all over the world more than you might think. It may not be used extremely well through online applications such as Skype, but it is used astronomically over online gaming and Xbox 360 have made a very successful business through this. Xbox charge £39.99 for Xbox live for one year, which primarily allows you to play and speak to other people online and even speaking online in groups of people not just one to one. Billions of people have used and still use Xbox live at this £39.99 charge, which has created a very viable business for Microsoft.

You can also see Businesses using Voice Over Internet Protocol when speaking to business associates abroad or even just to discuss business deals through programmes like Skype to save on the price on calls, which can go back into the business.      

What we achieved last week:

last week was our first lesson with Rhys and we started with a powerpoint explaining what the course is about and what will be doing this year.

we also created our Blogger account if that wasn't obvious to you, as i am writing on it.  

after we designed and created our Blogger accounts, we researched all the DCP'S and had to find their definition and what they do.

DCP'S

HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers. HTTP is a protocol based on HTTP. It is intended to improve page and object retrieval performance when web servers suffer server side congestion. Examples of server side congestion include the Shoemaker-Levy, Slashdot and flash-crowd effects.

WAP: Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is an open international standard for application-layer network communications in a wireless-communication environment. Most use of WAP involves accessing the mobile web from a mobile phone or from a PDA.

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication. A network which generally covers a fairly broad geographic area and which offers customized travel, financial, reference and commercial information to smart-phone subscribers.

3G: The Third Generation wireless digital standard for high-speed voice and data networks with maximum transmission rates rated at millions of bits per second (Mbps);

MMS: MMS is a service developed jointly together with 3GPP, allows users to combine sounds with images and text when sending messages, much like the text-only SMS.

GPRS: General packet radio service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data service available to users of the 2G cellular communication systems global system for mobile communications (GSM), as well as in the 3G systems. In 2G systems, GPRS provides data rates of 56-114 kbit/s.

BLUETOOTH: Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs). It was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is one form of the Digital Subscriber Line technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide

BROADBAND: a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission.

VOIP: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks.