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Made Up Exam Questions

Mon, 28 May 2007 03:48:13 GMT

The Singapore Government in planning to give the whole country free Internet access. They are having trouble with bandwidth as people are downloading and pirating software, music and video’s illegally. They are now worried and are trying to decide whether this Internet access should only be for educational purposes or if they should block things as they wish. They are also planning to create a central warning system for emergencies.

1. Two methods of connectivity so laptops/desktops and mobiles can connect to one central network?

2. Describe the different wireless protocols and pick the best option for this and describe why?

3. Explain how two connectivity methods would work and list the advantages and disadvantages?

4. Discuss the problems and policy issues the government might have?

Exam Questions Answers

Mon, 28 May 2007 03:46:49 GMT

1. Identify two kinds of /network failure/. *[2 marks]*

• The cable, which provides connectivity, might be torn because of serious weather conditions or natural disasters.
• Server or router failure.

2. Describe the technical requirements for Internet connectivity and the computer hardware needed to be able to participate online in a virtual world clinic. *[4 marks]*

AGP Card – This is important because virtual worlds require a lot of graphics and video processing power.

Bandwidth – This is essential, without sufficient bandwidth it is not possible at all to use virtual worlds.

RAM and Processor – A certain amount of speed and a good amount of RAM is also necessary for virtual worlds.

3. Explain how a meeting with a doctor could take place in a virtual clinic. *[4 marks]*

Specialized computers with equipment so that pulse, pressure, etc. can be fed Into the computer directly so that the computer can process the data and display it to the doctor over the internet. A lot of bandwidth is required because of massive data such as high resolution images and video conferences with the doctor. Custom Made Software is also required.

4. Discuss concerns that people might have with the widespread use of virtual clinics and the policies that the government would need to develop to protect both the doctors and the patients using this technology. [10 marks]

People might worry about fraud identity. Some people don’t like technology and might be afraid or hate it. The patients might rather prefer going to a human doctor. The government would have to make several policies such as

Reflection/Evaluation

Tue, 22 May 2007 03:52:10 GMT

ITGS Reflection/Evaluation

We started a collaborative project with five schools around the world located in China, America, Australia, Bangladesh, and Austria. The project was known as the horizon project, it was based on a report compiled by the horizon report of 2007. The project was based on the fastest developing trends this year. My topic was Mobile Phones and my topic had discussed several major social and ethical issues. Mobile phones deal with several issues such as reliability, many phones made with Symbian OS or any other operating system crashes. Many companies have phones that crash and are not reliable; this has been seen increasingly in the Nokia Nseries, which is referred to as their multimedia computers.

Mobile phone manufacturers should regularly find out ways to improve reliability on their phones and provide firmware updates, which improve reliability and security. Phones today do have viruses and they have to be stopped so antivirus companies are offering software for mobile devices and the companies which make phones have to address the issues and then only give out devices because for most people their mobile phones are the most crucial things in their lives.

There is no anonymity and privacy when using a mobile phone because if anyone calls someone they can see the number and the government can monitor any call as well as hear. If people start to use the Internet to make VOIP calls on their phones they can prevent someone else from hearing. Mobile phones have some equality of access because mobile phones can be bought starting at thirty dollars to a few thousand dollars but they all give one similar feature to everyone. Regular GSM phone calls, but the more expensive phones have more advanced feature’s like video calls, email, high speed internet.

Globalization of mobile phones has taken place worldwide everyone around the world have cell phones it is the largest electronic market in the world. In the entire year of 2006 Steve Jobs showed in his keynote that only 40 million dollars of gaming consoles were sold in the year and 65 million portable music players were sold and 200 million computers were sold but mobile phone had 957 million units sold. So it is a large growing market with still more room for growth.

Policies and Standards is another issue, all companies and content providers do not support the same file formats for audio, video, phonebook data and notes. So if someone ever wants to change phone brands it is difficult to transfer all the data. Some phones support mp4 or 3gp video formats so all phones don’t have the same standard. Mobile phones are a great advantage to help people to socialize. More interaction through technology allows us to communicate more effectively. Machines help the way in which people interact and make everything more efficient. It does make us interact with a machine but regardless mobile phones give humans the accessibility to communicate and socialize with other people.

I think the horizon project is a great idea just like the flat classroom project. It quite amazing that five countries around the world working all the time on the same project. The project should set an example for other classrooms all over the world. We did have some problems, mainly bandwidth shortage. If we had fast internet we could be video conferencing and using elluminate throughout our project to collaborate. Other problems such as less collaboration or communication caused a lot of confusion. If I ever do a project similar to this I would use the telephone to make sure there is no communication gap at all because of Internet problems in Bangladesh.

Finished with horizon project

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:03:30 GMT

Finally I am finished with the horizon project and my video is above

http://www.youtube.com/v/cb7CXcQhqRI

This was one of the best projects we have done

http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/

15th April

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:13:35 GMT

Today in class we started to make our introductory recordings for our horizon project. I also found a very good video relating to UMPC's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_FS2TiK3AI

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Task 3 - Agreement or Privacy Policy

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:46:16 GMT

http://www.holyokelibrary.org/Internet%20Agreement.htm

-This policy was created for the benefit of the internet users of the public library.

The stake holders are:

- The users, because they are the ones who have to follow the policy.
- The library, they have to make sure the policy is being followed.
- The government, who decides what is allowed or not.

The policy mainly attempts to address

- That the user using the internet is responsible.
-Destruction of or damage to equipment, software, or data belonging to the Library or other users;
-Disruption or unauthorized monitoring of electronic communications;
-Unauthorized copying of copyright-protected material;
-Violation of computer system security;
-Unauthorized use of computer accounts, access codes, or network identification numbers assigned to others;
-Violation of library usage policies and regulations;
-Harassment of other users;
-Libeling or slandering other users;
-Violation of another user's privacy.

Policies and Standards

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:46:37 GMT

Task #1

ISO (International Standards Organization) is the International Standards Organizations. They do not create standards but (as with ANSI) provide a means of verifying that a proposed standard has met certain requirements for due process, consensus, and other criteria by those developing the standard.

# ISO/IEC 8613 Open Document Architecture
# ISO/IEC 8632 Computer Graphics Metafile
# ISO/IEC 9579 Remote database access for SQL
# ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system
# ISO 9899 C programming language
# ISO/IEC 9945 Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
# ISO/IEC 10179:1996 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)
# ISO 10279 BASIC programming language
# ISO 13406-2:1002 Part 2: Ergonomic requirements for flat panel displays
# ISO/IEC 14882 Programming Languages — C++
# ISO 15000 Electronic business eXtensible Markup Language ebXML
* ISO 15000-1:2004 Part 1: Collaboration-protocol profile and agreement specification (ebCPP)
* ISO 15000-2:2004 Part 2: Message service specification (ebMS)
* ISO 15000-3:2004 Part 3: Registry information model specification (ebRIM)
* ISO 15000-4:2004 Part 4: Registry services specification (ebRS)
* ISO 15000-5:2005 Part 5: ebXML Core Components Technical Specification, Version 2.01(ebCCTS)

Portfolio final articles

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:13:52 GMT

I now have two articles which im going to pick as my final portfolio piece.

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6150127.html?part=rss&t

http://news.digitaltrends.com/news_printerfriendly12303.html