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 :)