Week 13 Tute 10:00~12:00

I really want to say thank you very much to our tutor Chris who always care about all of the students, even nealry finish the class he still asked everybody Does anyone have any questions? This is my first year so I feel very shy and afraid to speak out loudly but he gives me lots of confidence. Thus, I am not afraid to do the presentation.

I have been learning a lots of knowledge from this course that I didn't have any ideas about the communication and new media, but now I got many knowledge and how to do it, such as Mobile phone, Photoshop, Search engine and so etc? Mobile phone is my essay topic; I through it was easy topic to find any resource when I read this topic but I was wrong, because some resource were already been too long time ago thus it hasn't update yet, that why it was really hard for me in doing this topic. Finally I found a book which I need. I learnt things from this subject and I don't think its too easy >.<

Photoshop is a really amazing technology program which you can changed your photo becomes any look you like such as light skin, light background, focus on the face or add some pictures. I really think this is a very smart creative that make people more looking good but also can make people ugly for fun. And it appears special efficacy also can make fake photo; it is really interesting technology, right!! Search engine is really useful for me, not only can use Yahoo search engine, and Google search engine. I get more chose la?I think this course is very interesting for me. Especially I really like in doing weekly task. I feel weekly task is good for me, because I am a lazy person, thus if all the tasks put together I can't finish it properly and quickly. By the way I really like to say that thank you for all of the teacher and classmate?and I hope we can have same subject in next term and good luck to all of you. Have a nice university life ^O^­­

Week11 Tute 10:00~12:00

I think this is a very useful and excellent tool when it comes to handing large amounts of important figures for calculating difficult formula and creating graphs such as rates of population, income’ s rates and etc. I have already used Microsoft Excel and feel it does very help me to figure out the percentage of graphs. Simply I just type each name into cell A1, B1, C1 as peter, Julia and James and then type the following amount for each cell. Followed by the spreadsheet is looks like all figures out in the amazing document. It’s very easy and simply for the business document and clear to see the each customer profile and information.
Furthermore, we don’t need to calculate any hardly formula such as benefit, total and gain. For example, it’s simply just enter the following formula like =B2*C2 and then press enter then automatic I have got the correct benefit number. And some company might be gain, might be loss.
I really like to have a graph in my report because it is easy to understand what the research resource in each year increased or decreased which you can see very clear in the graph and looks very professional report. It also very helpful software for the Business Company in doing their presentation.
This program is very useful for student who doesn’t know how to figure out the graphic and calculating to the accuracy in gain or loss. Before I know this software, I felt it’s very hardly to recognize all of the steps which need to key in the name or the number into the cells and then turn into the graph. But finally I got it and handle it at good way…

Week 10 Tute 10:00~12:00

Complete the Exercises below, and then write a report in your blog about your experience doing the exercises; were there any problems? What were your solutions? Did you find it too simple, or was it confusing? Can you see how this software might be useful to you?

Nowadays, Microsoft Word is a universal word processing program. I did follow up from the instruction and step by step. I found it’s very useful tool in doing our report, assignment and resume and easier to figure out the processing and save our time. The good way is I don’t need to organize any segments and any number in my documents. In exercise 2, those functions such as bold, italics; underline and bullets which always let people are focusing on the main point. For example, name of university, author name, reference and emphasis words.
In Exercise 3, it’s very hard to find the functions due to Chinese words thus I have to translate it and tried to find the right one but in this step also made me confused and have stopped for nearly one hour then finally I found the right one. I am so happy lol… I also found it will easy to write memos, articles and then fix the wrong sentence.

Simply I just write a letter or a job letter without any company name, job title, address, first name and contact number. After set up all of the basic functions which automatic into the empty place. Once you have to set up the letter for different company, then this function will be useful tool.

I do think Microsoft World 2003 is very easy and useful program thus people should know all of the functions and to use it and you will find many different from the smart creation and also save our time to set up the report spot and some one said that “money is time” accordingly don’t waste this good program and I do thanx someone who made this program, smart . I hope it will be more upgrade and easier.

Final essay

Mobile phones

Mobile phones have rapidly changed over the past few years. It made life more convenient, allowing people to talk to each other wherever they want. At the last count, there were more than 13 billion mobile phones in the world. (Woodford 2006: p28~29) They use the latest digital technology to send and receive text messages, data, photographs, videos and even television, as well as voice conversations. Many modern mobile phones are more like a computer than an old style telephone. Inside the mobile is a small microprocessor chip linked to a radio transmitter and receiver. It allow us to do the amazing thing your normally do on your computer. For example access to internet, sending the e-mail, watching life television etc.
How does mobile phone work? Who is the inventor of the mobile phone? Why mobile phone is so important to our life? What mobile phone is been change to from old time till future?On my research of this essay I will do a comparison with new and old mobile phones and also discuss some future technology. I will start with the history of the mobile phone.

These early mobile telephone systems can be defined from earlier closed radiotelephone systems which were used by police at that time. It is carried them in the police cars. To make calls, the police officer contacted a mobile telephone operator. Then the operator sent the call to the nearest radio station and transmitted the call to another police car. However such a device is very heavy and run off of the host vehicle's 12 volt electrical system very quickly. (Wikipedia 2007) Until 3rd of April 1973 Dr. Martin Cooper, who was a general manager at Motorola and the inventor of the mobile phone, made the first analogue mobile phone call to his rival Joel Engel, head of research at AT&T Bell Labs, while walking the streets of New York City talking on the first Motorola DynaTac prototype. It was large compared to today's Mobile phone. The Motorola DynaTac is 22.8 cm long, 12.7 cm wide and weighed around 1.2kg. ( Wikipedia 2007)

After the first mobile phone Motorola DynaTac prototype is out in 1973. It took another ten years to refine the working of the analogue mobile phone. In 1983 the 1 G (First Generation Wireless Telephone Technology) Motorola DynaTac 8000X was sell on the market and the different between Motorola DynaTac prototype and Motorola DynaTac 8000X was old one weighed around 1.2kg and new one weighed around 0.8kg. It makes more possible to carry around. On the old 12 function keypad they modified nine more function keys which were:

* Recall .
* Store
* Power
* Clear
* Function
* Lock
* Send
* End
* Volume
They also put in the new display screen using red LEDS which show limited in what information it could show. The bigger improvement were on the battery, it can last the call time up to 35 minutes and standby time up to 10 hours. (Wikipedia 2007)

In the 1990s, second generation wireless telephone technology mobile phone systems such as GSM and CDMA began to be introduced. The main different to the previous mobile telephone systems is that the radio signals use in 1G networks are analog, while 2 G networks are digital. 2G also improved network capacity, voice quality, size of the mobile phone, provided new international roaming services and still continues to use cellular technology and operates in the 800~900 MHz band ( Digital 21 Strategy 2004) This change was possible through technological improvements such as more advanced batteries and more energy efficient electronics, but also was largely related to the higher density of cellular sites caused by increasing usage levels. GSM stand for Global System for Mobile Communications. It is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. GSM service is used by over 2 billion people across and more than 212 countries. (Wikipedia 2007) The best thing about GSM is so many country using GSM System which makes international roaming very common. Roaming is defined as the ability for a mobile customer to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive data, or access other services when traveling outside the home network, by means of using a visited network. It offers the convenience of a single number, a single bill and a single phone with worldwide access to over 210 countries. (GSM Association 2007) For CDMD (Code Division Multiple Access), that separates subscriber calls from one another by code. As a result all available CDMA frequencies can be used in every cell, which increasing the total number of available voice channels and the system capacity. (Mymobilephone Pty Ltd 2000-2006)

To meet the growing demands of subscribers, rates required for high speed data transfer and multimedia applications mobile phones. The new age third generation wireless telephone technology (3G) was develop for providing the ability to transfer simultaneously both voice data and non-voice data (For example video telephone). The main difference between 2G and 3G is how fast data can be sending and received. Using a software called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), which support 1.8 Mbps, 3.6Mbps, 7.2Mbps and 14.4Mbps in downlink.( Muratore 2001: p1~9) Nowadays 3G can send data up to 10 times faster than the rates of 2G, which means that more able to downloading information, access to internet, exchanging email, multimedia messaging, watching life television and mobile TV. (Telstra Network Information)

In the future the 4G (Fourth Generation Wireless Telephone Technology) will be a fully IP-based integrated system of systems and network of networks achieved after the convergence of wired and wireless networks as well as computer, consumer electronics, communication technology and several other convergences, that will be capable of providing 1Gbps with high security.( Kyun; Prasad 2006: p12~13) It offer us new experience on any kind of services at anytime, anywhere, at affordable cost and all in one billing.

Reference
(Book) Mennen, Andrew (2005) The complete guide to mobile phones Relianz communications Pty Ltd Australia
Muratore, Flavio (2001) Mobile communications for the future John Wiley & sons LTD England
Kyun, Kim; Prasad, Ramjee. 4G Roadmap and Emerging Communication Technologies. Artech House.
Worth, Richard (2006) T he telegraph and telephone World almanac library Canada
(Internet) GSM Association (2007). About GSM Roaming http://www.gsmworld.com/index.shtml (accessed 10/05/07)
ITU (2005). About mobile technology and IMT-2000 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/imt-2000/technology.html#Cellular%20Standards%20for%201G%20and%202G (accessed 10/05/07)
Mymobilephone Pty Ltd (2000-2006). FAQ http://www.mymobilephone.com.au/index.php/item/259 (accessed 12/04/07)
Digital 21 Strategy, The Government of the Hong Kong special administrative region (2004). 3G - Connect to the future http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/knowledge/3g_intro.html (accessed 10/05/07)
Telstra Network Information, What is 3G? http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/3g.htm(accessed 05/05/07)
Wikipedia (2007). History of mobile phones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones (accessed 12/04/07)

Week 8 Tute 10:00~12:00

What is the most important activity been part of my life, that is ※MSM§ which easy to communicate and sharing any photos with your family and friends. My father always chatting with me and use webcam in every holiday from Taiwan. There are some things about this smart program.
MSN is the world＊s largest provider of free web-based e-mail. With the MSN, you can send and receive messages from any computer/Internet receiver connected to the Internet. You can use MSN at home, school, and Internet caf谷, a friend＊s house or any other computer in the world with an Internet connection. You also can receive any download file from your friends.

It is the first time I managed to visit 3D chat room which looks very interesting cartoon program and seem to be like a computer game with chat room. Not like a regular chat room. In the first step you have to register your nickname and then make your own image girl who has hair color, eye color, clothes and shoes. I was very excited about to know the virtual world and create my own character. I have also checked the instruction to help me how to build your own place better. You can decorate your place as pretty and pink pink, haha my favorite color lol ^____^.

This is very powerful virtual reality experience I even seen before and interesting to let us create our own place in incredible 3D worlds which special from other users.
I tried to register into the 3D chat room then I found it really exciting things happened , my character (girl) is waiting for me to press the moves, moods and expressions, woooo＃I am very excited to try all of the control key ^^b. There are server moods such as happy, sad, laugh, grooving mood, bashful mood, old mood and even say ※what going on§. I think this program is very powerful chat room that special virtual reality which totally different from traditional chat room as MSN. That is very good experience ^________^

Week5 Tute 10:00~12:00

Direct form this picture, you can tell there are three people talking to each other. They all try to pass out what they thing on the issue they talking about. That is all the communication about.

This online game is about car racing, people can compete with real people and also people can pick a character whatever they want. The characteristic of the game is in the game people can use some traps or weapons to attack people when characters approach you during the game.

He is a very nice Australian classmate, his name is Mitchell who at the same course with me. We also took this photo in our working experience in front of classroom. He always said that “Chiao-ping” is a very small girl who always smile and happy every day. My best friend Mitchell has a short memory because he remembers my name but forget my nationality all the time >
Mobile phones became part of people’s life because of the sharp people can carry it out easily. People have been developing more new functions in mobiles such as mobile phone camera, blue tooth, and the mobile phone internet etc, so more people start using mobile phone.

This photo has shown our Taiwan’s president, Chen Shui-bian who make announced for the independence-leaning Taiwanese leader. He also refused the Chinese people come to visit Taiwan and import any products from China. And ever, President Chen remains committed to uplifting the nation by continuing to pursuer political reform and consolidates democracy, promote human rights, strengthen environmental protection, and encourage sustainable development.

My best friend Queenie and I took this photo in front of our classroom during our working experience. We were studying Hospitality at TAFE on Brisbane campus. After few moths, we always doing our group meeting and helped each other then we became a very good friendship. She comes from Hong Kong and now living in Brisbane. She is a very shy girl but doesn’t matter because I am a very talkative and easy going girl.

Week 4 Tute 10:00~12:00

It was taken by Me, on the left side was my sister, on the middle was my best friend, on the left side was my brother. Why I chose this photo, because it was my best friend last day in Gold Coast. He is working in Canberra now, but we still keep in touch.

P.S: My sister also in Taiwan now, she went back last Thursday. So sad.

Nowadays, Mp3 player has become very popular in the world because of the special feature and size. The most attractive fact is the size of the Mp3 player; peoples can put it in the packet or hung it on the neck and it’s very easy to carry out to anywhere, why I chose this one, of course is PINK.
www.unefilledulimmatquai.ch/?p=733

At the same day we went to the beach, as you can see that it was a beautiful day. Many people were playing on the beach, they wore swimming suit but only us wore a lots of clothes. Looks very hot, right

Is Me,I asked my friend Tommy to took photo for me. Actually I want to took photo in the Japanese classroom but we didn't have break time so we only can took photo in the outside

Why this news attract me, I have learnt from news that we should concerned about people who live in a poor country.
http://tw.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=news&prssweb?&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&x=wrt&meta=vc=&fr2=tab-web

I found a unconventional photo from Yahoo image, I looked for while until I found one website the title is laptop and than I click that photo which so funny. I think this person feel really heavy and don’t want to have this laptop anymore. Ha Ha

http://homelf.kimo.com.tw/a95885354/05.jpg

Week3 Tute 10:00~12:00

2a
1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
Weighing in at 1,502 pounds, a pumpkin owned by a Rhode Island farmer may set a new world record for the biggest pumpkin in the world.
http://www.wayodd.com/new-record-may-be-set-for-biggest-pumpkin-in-the-world/v/5402/

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?

3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
A giraffe's tongue can up to 22 inches long.
http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/projects/2-eb/zoo/shizukat.htm

4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
The director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within")
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
The Mentor+++
Written on January 8, 1986
http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?

30 years ago or more when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc.
Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen.
http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers
http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1965.htm

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band Black Assassins.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
2b
1.What is a search engine?
A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/search_engine.html

2.How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061016-112712

3.who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?

4.what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
My favourite search engines are Google, Yahoo. Yahoo search engines is my first know how to do research's engine and Goggle search engine was my friend told me this is a good search engine which is better than yahoo. Therefore now I use both of them to do my research.

5. Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).

http://www.intrapromote.com/case-studies.html

http://www.havenworks.com/news/search/

Week 2 Tute 10:00~12:00

Hello everyone this week I am going to discuss about my own experience with communication technology. There is TV, mobile phone, Internet, PDA and so on.

Nowadays, TV has been become a part of our life. People can’t stay at home without TV because we usually get all of Information from TV such as advertisement and news. The another amazing invent of the society is mobile phone, mobile phone is not like past time, it has been changed, now we can watch TV, listen to Mp3 and get into the internet. By the way I don’t really like it because I like watch anything with big screen, so I still like use a computer with big screen. Then, you know what I am going to talk about that’s right?As I mention last week I come from Taiwan. I usually go back to Taiwan once a year, so I have to keep in contact with my parents. I always remember when I studied English language course in Australia, my parents phoned me once a week because it was a long distance call, so it was cost a lot of money. The wonderful thing is from this year, we found out how to use the Internet phone and the Web camera which is convenient and useful. Now we can talk and see my parents on the internet all the time. The most important thing is the internet phone is FREE. I stuck on internet very much. Ok it is a little story .Of course, the Internet is not only like this. Additional, PDA is a useful technology of today’s society. PDA has navigation
system which can help people to find right destination, thus people will never get lose.
Finally, those technologies help people very much though it often cost a lot of money.

Week1 Totorial 10:00~12:00

This is my first year study in Griffithy and I never though university can be this big.
On the first day I couldn't find my class and don't know where can i find help which made me feel so lost.
After one week everything fall in place. It's my first time learn to use map to find my classes and it's not road map Can u believer that! ha ha

I come from Taiwan, live with my sis and bro. My sis's just finish her marketing degree from Centre Queensland University this year and she is going back to Taiwan the end of this month, i feel sad. My bro is studying diploma of Business Studies in the Southport TAFE at the moment.

I taking 3 courses in this semester which are Introductory Japanese Intor to Japanese Culture and Society and New Communication Technologies . I really like Japanese course I want to go to Japan for travelling as soon as i get a degree of Japanese Arts
I hope i can All PASsssssss .

On my free time I always use Internet chatting with my friends but in this course I learn how to create weblog which I can tell my friends to visit my weblog and share my university life with them, also they can leave message on my weblog sharing their life with me. Weblog is not like individual chat it's like many to many chat room. However I feel free to write or chat on Internet but in the real life I feel shy speak to everyone but i want to make a lot friends,Cheer up Chiao-ping~~^^