Scavenger Hunt - Week 4 Tutorial Task

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?

Alan Turing was wearing a gas mask while riding to prevent himself from getting hayfever

-found using yahoo at http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/museum/tour28.rhtm



2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?

Bill Gates birthday is on the 28th of October 1955 found using yahoo at http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-gates

Bill gates sold his first program at 17 found using yahoo at http://www.zimbio.com/Bill+Gates/articles/19/PROFILE+Bill+Gates

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?

It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 in London found using yahoo at http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/worldweb.htm

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?

6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?

9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?

Media link lecture 5

This video is very funny it pays out how people have fights through things like youtube comments to each other and the terms used, but it has some language so if swearing offends you don't watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos&feature=PlayList&p=tFZnpTzVqIo

Lecture 5

This time we learnt all about social media and networking. we learnt how virtual communities changed from people just talking because they have similar interests to people only talking to their friends and people they know on msn, facebook, myspace etc. We also have individual identity on the net. This term refers to how you represent yourself on the net through your comments, convo's and profiles and various social networking sites. When the internet first came out it wasn't vary popular due to the belief that only computer nerds used it, compared to now in society its considered alien to not have the internet. But the only problem with all these social networking sites is the terms and conditions of joining them, is your information safe once you post it? that's something you should consider

My use of communication technologies

I've used communication technologies as far as i can remember the first being the home telephone then i got a mobile when i was 13 then came msn, then myspace. Myspace died and was replaced by facebook and now I'm addicted to it, I'm not a big twitter fan, but i had to get one for news and politics because it was part of the assignment to tweet about the assignment. I heard about such technologies because well their existence is common knowledge really , I just knew about them because everyone uses them so naturally i used them as well. Your privacy in using these things is up to how much you choose to put out there, well facebook is in stalker mode so everything you do all your friends will see, so what you reveal is up to you. All my friends on facebook are people i have spoken to or met at some stage, you don't just add randoms to facebook , its not like with myspace. With facebook your revealing a lot more personal information. If you do have friends on the net that you've never met, they are not your actual friends, in my opinion reading words on a screen is not any form of a relationship. People that get attached to these Internet "friends" are attached to the idea or image of the person that has been created, not the actual person themselves, and that image that has been created might not even be real.

facebook off

watch this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvepYYNjfBk&feature=fvst its pretty funny. It's a fake movie preveiw of how these two guys fight over the same girl by stealing each others identity's on facebook.

Lecture 3

In this lecture we learnt about film work. When making a film you have to use, as my News and politics lecturer would say, the 5 W's and H - who, what,when,where, why and how. There are many shots used in filming for different purposes. There's the close up which can be used to help show facial expression . The medium shot which allows for the character and action to be on the screen at the same time and it helps answer 'what'. Long shot sets the scene and answers the question of 'where'. 'When' is indicated by things such as daylight and the fashion they're wearing it helps assess the time period the scene takes place. Big close ups on characters facial expressions help indicate what a character is thinking answering 'why'. 'How' can be explained through the use of a series of medium close ups or close ups. We also learnt than when the first films were made that they weren't very creative at all being clips of boring mundane things such as a man sneezing. The first TV was shown in 1939 and blockbuster's only began in te 1970's.

Lecture 2 media reference

This is the picture of an old dinosaur sized IBM computer

About me

Hi, my name is Tanya and I am currently studying a bachelor of communications, majoring in journalism and writing at Griffith University. I am currently in my first year of the course. I just turned 18 this year and still enjoying the clubbing life, I find it much more fun than house parties. I have one parent- my mum and one sister and a nephew, I also have three pet cats that sometimes drive me up the wall. .My main hobby is reading, I'm a pretty big book worm and I worked at a public library for 2 years so I had a lot of access to books. Currently I am addicted to facebook, used to be myspace but myspace is old and boring for me now , there's much more to do on facebook. Well its basically a gossip tool really, but finding out what everyone's up to is what makes it interesting, anyway that's just some basic info on me, catch ya later.

Lecture 2

Charles Babbage was the inventor of the first digital computer, but it was more mechanical than electronic. Computers first started to be produced commercially in the 1950's but they were for only government and military use. The first PC called O was released in 1975 but it didn’t do much other then sit on a desk. The company Apple was then made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Companies Microsoft and IBM then started on the computer business. While IBM focused on creating PC system as a whole Microsoft just focused on the software of the computer. The companies chose to work together creating a PC named DOS 1.0, they also created windows, which made the market troublesome for Apple. The term cyberspace came about which meant anything contained on the internet.

Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple

Uploaded on Flickr June 28, 2008 by gabemac

Cocaine Jesus video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxN1T5ErFyA If you want a bit of a laugh you should watch this vid, its pretty funny.

Tanya