Photoshop

Photoshop is a program I have had learned from a year at TAFE in Sydney a couple of years ago so I have had a bit of experience in using it. These two are examples of what I learnt how to do.
the gray and white photo turned into colour is my favourite thing to do but i still need a fair bit of practice. i did this to a photo of my grandparents who died before colur photos were available and gave it to my mum for her birthday one year.

scavenger Hunt

First ill give thhe answers to the worlds oldest riddles:

1. The largest pumpkin is 990 pounds.

2. The quickest way toi contact Grant Hackett is by e-mail.

3. A giraffes tongue is between 18 - 20 inches.

4. Ontology is a theory relating to the natuure of all living beings.

5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was a short film entitled Transfer in 1966

6. The Hacker Manifesto was written January 8th 1986.

7. Only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now specifically reserved for fictional use, with the other numbers having been released for actual assignment.

8. On a ferry.

9. Watch gonna do about it by Rev Black and the Rockin Vicars.

10. The Black Assassins

A search engine is like a directory that finds web pages with a common word typed in by the user. Once the word is typed in, the search engine looks over every single web page for that common word. The sites that are ranked according to how much is payed by the producer of the page. Who ever can afford the most gets a higher ranking. The amount off times that keyword is used displays the results differently. Google is the biggest search engine and has just bought YouTube for $2 billion and is now being sued by Viacom for supposedly breaching copyright laws.


I am planning to do my essay relating to the Internet and how it has effected the schooling and education industry. I have found, through the library database, a few books that will give me grounds for comparison over a gap of a few years and a general overview of what is available to students and teachers.

In regards to the mailing lists, I have found that the best mailing liosts are those that are run through the big and well known companies such as television stations and large media outlets. large companies such as Yahoo7 have many different groups that can be accessed through simple navigation by clicking on the topic area that usits the user.

My Relation with New Comunication Technologies

Communication technologies such as the Internet have become an everyday part of life as a uni student. The internet has helped me enrol in university from Sydney simply by clicking a few buttons on a key board so technically I have used the internet to communicate with people I have never met.

Being from Sydney and moving to the Gold Coast to study at Griffith, I left all of my family and friends behind to start a new life here with my girlfriend. With my whole network of friends’ hours away, I was forces to utilise communication technologies in order to keep in contact with them.

Apart from the obvious telephone, I found chat rooms such as MSN Messenger and online poker rooms are a great way to maintain connections. Being able to chat directly to someone without paying for a phone call is a great relief for the typical uni student budget. Technologies such as these make maintaining friendships a lot easier and cheaper.

A few of my friends have recently returned from a 12 month stint overseas. E-mails made constant communication and updates quick and easy.

The biggest influence to use such technologies was distance between the people I was speaking to. I think using these technologies to interact with people you have never met is different to meeting people in person. Without face to face interaction, a personal connection is missed and a face cannot be put to a name. I have been using the technologies for many years and will keep on using them as long as they are available.



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Welcome

Welcome all, to the first and definitely not last post of my small part of cyber space. For the next few months, I will be posting the very best parts of the lectures for New Communication Technologies. Along the way I will post pictures or videos of random crap that I find on the internet that amused me.

First off let me start by saying why I am doing this course. The reason I am here is because I am currently undertaking a bachelor of Communication with a major in digital video. Therefore taking a course called new communication technologies seemed a no brainer. Apart from that I took a class called communication practice last semester which proved useful in gaining new communication skills. The hall that the lecture was hosted in brought back memories of the first university grade exam I ever took. I passed the exam so hopefully that will be a good omen. The first lecture was pretty basic. We mainly got told what we will be doing in the course and then ran through a basic definition of what exactly technology is and what constitutes ‘new’ and ‘old’. My general belief is that ‘old’ technology is that which has a newer version and ‘new’ technology is that which is the new or latest version.

The other surprise I got from the lecture was that we will be using Photoshop within the course. I was pleased to hear this because I have had some experience with using Photoshop before

This photo just made me wonder where he ended up.