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Healthy Computing
Do’s and Don’ts when making adjustments for:
Keyboard:
If you don’t currently use an adjustable keyboard/mouse tray, consider attaching one to your surface.
Make sure the height of your keyboard allows you to keep an “open angle” with your arms.
If your keyboard is lower than the desk surface, tilt the back edge of the keyboard slightly [...]
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For activity 23 I had to read a document titled Hypermedia and answer the following questions:
Define the term Hypermedia.
Hypermedia is a feature of hypertext enabling the user to link to audio and video files, as well as other blocks of text, within the same or other web pages
What are Web 2.0 technologies?
Web 2.0 is a [...]
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For activity 21 I had to scan read the following articles in order to answer the questions below:
An introduction to copyright
Fair Dealing
Public Domain (Wikipedia) & Public Domain (Monash University)
Open Source
Creative Commons
Questions:
1. What is the purpose of Australian copyright laws?
Copyright law creates incentives for people to invest their time, talent and other resources in creating new material [...]
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In Activity 23 I had to read a document titled Systems Specifications and answer the following questions.
What is the purpose of an operating system?
To control the hardware and software within a computer.
List three common operating systems.
Microsoft®
Windows®
Mac® OS
Describe the purpose of the Central Processing Unit.
If a computer was a car, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) [...]
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For Activity 23 I had to read a document titled Digital Convergance and answer the following questions.
What is Digital Convergence?
When technologies become; smaller, cheaper, and more powerful it is possible to combine them into a single piece of portable equipment. This combining is know as convergence.
The combining of two or more technmologies to form [...]
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The brief for activity 9 reads: You have been contracted to create a logo for a new social networking site called MySphere. Develop a logo for MyShpere. Your design should use colours and styles of current Web 2.0 design.
Below is my MySphere logo. I created 2 designs. The first was only words with the world inside [...]
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In Activity 14 I had to create a composite image using Photo A and Photo B from bellow.
Photo A:
Photo B:
Composite Image:
To create this composite image I moved the student from Photo A to photo B using Adobe Photoshop CS3. I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to outline the student and then pushed Ctrl+C on the [...]
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Activity 19 - Networking
1. __________ cable consists of slender glass threads surrounded by insulation and cushioning material that carry signals at very high speeds.
a. Unshielded twisted pair
b. Coaxial
c. Fibre optic
d. Shielded twisted pair
2. Which LAN topology connects all nodes to a central hub or a switch?
a. mesh
b. star
c. bus
d. ring
3. What are the acronyms LAN [...]
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For Activity 12 I had to write an audio script answering the questions bellow:
Is it ethical to download and copy portions of music CD, or an entire music CD, from the Internet? Why?
Answer:No, It is not ethical to download and copy portions of music CD’s or an entire music CD from the Internet. If it [...]
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For actvity 8 we had to find an image of an advertisement that I think has been deliberatley manipulated and then answer 7 questions.
The image I found:
1. Describe what you believe has been changed in the image.
This picture is more than obviously edited. The girl in the image is definatly superimposed. The light shining on [...]
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