End of Term Recap Friday, Jan 25 2008

This term we have been finding our footing in the whole IB aspect of the course, and have managed to make it through four chapters of the book and have written one research paper.  The majority of our work with the book was done either with the text itself or with online exercises. The books website has online quizzes and exercises that test you and make sure that you have a clear understanding of what is depicted. Other activities that we have participated in this term are:

-This blog, which serves as both our journals and as a forum for our essays and papers that we decide to write.

-Taken apart a printer, and watched it being put back together

-Made a powerpoint for the school faculty on how to connect the overhead to a laptop

-Saved our English teacher when she forgot how to connect the overhead to a laptop

-Seen our schools main server and learned how they work

-Tried to solve internet connection issues

 -Created YouTube tutorials for Word 2007, and people who have trouble using Word

-Explored the world of Skype and its counterparts.

-Discovered just how unsavvy we are when it comes to technology

-Drank boatloads of Nescafe to keep ourselves awake while writing our research papers.

 Cheers to a new term of more technological learning!!

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Semester Update Monday, Jan 7 2008

So far we have been working on a myriad of projects, all that reach different spectrums of the technology world. Firstly we created videos with CamStudio, a free software program that creates AVI files; then we uploaded them to YouTube. This proved to be quite a long task because the school server was having issues for about two weeks in December. In between all of this we have started our essays for IB, the proposal is in the previous post. This has proved equally as challenging as our YouTube endeavours, because school has been riddled with vacation for Christmas and New Years (though we did not have our term break yet).

 For the essay, I have been heavily researching P2P file sharing systems, especially those that cater to music and file downloading. I don’t really understand the tech part of it entirely but the economics portion of the essay is going really smoothly. Basically we are going to be researching and learning about our respective topics until we reach our term break. There is a lot of research and technology in both of our topics; Kyra’s being virtual learning and mine being the online music industries.

After the term break, WordPress will become a bigger part of the class..

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