Week 12 Muddy-Telecommunications and Internet

This week we discussed Telecommunications and Internet.

There was so much information in this ek that it started getting actually kind of muddy, but I tried to keep focused. There were a lot of technical terms such as User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber To The Home (FTTH), and many many more that they all started to run together. The best thing that I read though, was about Amdahl's Law which stated: A system's speed is always determined by the slowest component. This of course is pretty much common sense, but I think  that it is easily forgotten especially when people are out shopping for the latest and the greatest thing. Think about it. What good is a smartphone that is labeled with the speed of 4G LTE, when the service is not even offered in the area? None at all according to Amdahl's Law, as your performance will be based not on the phone's capabailities, but the capabilities of the service that you have.



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Another cool term which I learned was cybersquatting, which means to acquire a domain name that refers to a firm, individual, product, or trademark, with the goal of exploiting it for financial gain. The practice of doing that is illegal in many countries, and ICANN even has a dispute resolution mechanism in place for such events.

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There was so much information in the readings this week that my eyes started crossing at every term or acronym that I came across, I will definately need to re-read much of this material in order to get a better grasp on what it all means. Even though the material is not above me, it is just so much at one time that it starts to get confusing. I hope to forecast a clear blog next week!!

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Week 5: Muddy With A Chance of Clear-Presentations

Well I titled this week's blog: Muddy With A Chance of Clear-Presentations.
This week's information was about presentations, some of it showed what to do and some of it was about what NOT to do. I have been doing PowerPoint presentations for years now. Many of them were just for fun and some were for school or work. I know now that many of my presentations would be banned, as they broke probably every copyright rule and had so many animations and such, it would leave you dizzy. In time, I did begin to scale my presentations back but after this week's lesson I know it will take a lot of constraint to try to use what I learned in my next presentation.
Which will not be like this:

PowerPoint Created by: Christopher Ondrako, 2012

This little example I just mad for this blog, as I don't have any real examples on this computer. But still many can get the point. And I just learned how to embed the presentation into my blog using Windows Live-SkyDrive. Now back on point, for the most part the information seemed kind of common sense, I saw some crazy examples of what not to do in PowerPoint and other things that opened my eyes to things that I need to fix myself. Such as the animations and such. I too was one of those who thought animation really gets the attention of the viewer.When all it really is, is a distraction.

One thing that I learned, but is still muddy, is the use of infographics. I haven't really seen these types of graphs before this class and think they are very intriguing, though kind of confusing and too cluttered much of the time.

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Basically, what I took from this week's lesson is, "Less is More." I mean of course the slides shouldn't be blank, but still they shouldn't be cluttered and fill with non-essential items that don't pertain to the presentation. Important "Do's" are to Format and Style the presentation to make it appealing. Use a clear and professional font type, and use colors and themes that gel very nicely with the message being projected from the presentation.

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Week 1: Muddy-Fair Use/Copyright

So...

Week 1 is in the books, and so am I. Being that this is my only class this semester, I am able to spend my time and energy solely on this material, enabling me to even go in depth with the additional readings and resources. This week I got right in to my blog, I had a nice photo that I took while on vacation and embedded a link to a website that promotes the place that I had traveled to. Needless to say, after posting my blog and submitting the link to the class. I was instructed that my post was fine as a practice post, but not as coursework. So, back to the drawing board I went, I actually should have read all the instructions before jumping right into it. The biggest misunderstanding I had was the attributions of graphics, videos, and photos. So I did nothing to attribute my photo, which would have taken away from my grade if it was not just a practice post.

Still, I am determined to get it right and learn what I need to know about copyrights and fair use. It is still fuzzt on what I can use and when and where I can use things. Even after going to the Creative Commons website I am still unsure of when I have permission to freely use something or not. But I will continue to research this until I know for sure!

Even when i go to Flickr and do an advanced search, I am still not sure whether an image may be used or not. There is just so much information out there that at times it feels too overwhelming and I get confused, mostly because I tend to overthink things.

Here is a little short I found on YouTube:

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Well off to week 2: