RSS Feeds

1) Define RSS Feeds:
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a format that distributes news and other web content. A feed is when you put that content into RSS and send it to other people or websites.

2) What goes in the feed?
Audio, music, texts, videos and images. The feed contains a list of items that is identified by a link to the content on your site.

3) What can a feed do for you?
It allows you to see content without going to the website. Once you subscribe, the content comes to you.

4) How is a feeds different from email?
Feeds provide more information than an email. Emails are personal and meant for only you to read, however, a feed is not personal and can be read by anyone.

5) How do people read feeds?
To read RSS feeds, you send out the content and subscribers read it using newsreaders.

6) How do people find the feeds you want to subscribe to?
By using search-engines.

SYNOPSIS - Term 2 assessment

Our video is a documentary about chocolate. It informs the audience about the history of chocolate, Aztecs and their relation to chocolate, nutritional info and slave labour. It is a video that can be viewed by anyone, but it is mostly suitable for people aged about 10 and above. I, Sandy, and my group members Andy and Rena hope this video is enjoyable, as well as informative at the same time.

Broadband ?!

1. What is broadband?
Broadbans is a type of data transmission in which a single medium can carry several channels at once. Broadband technology can transmit data, audio, and video all at once over long distances.

2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?
Bandwidth is measurred in megabits.

3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?
Broadband is about 40 times faster than dial up.

4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?
A broadband connection transfers information at a rate of at least 2 megabits per second, a standard narrowband transfers info at the rate of 56 kilobits per second.

5. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?
An advantage is that it provides tru media such as video, voice and data without the delay a narrowband incurs.

SYNOPSIS - Term 2 assessment

In this terms assignment we are asked to do a video on a topic of our choosing. Rena, Andy and I decided to do ours on chocolate... yeah, I know it's a weird topic, but we didn't have any better ideas. It's aimed at, well, everybody, and teaches us facts about chocolate that we might not have known about before.

We have included an intro, history of chocolate, Aztecs and their relation with chocolate, slave labour, Nutritional information, the states of chocolate and the outro.
By the way, I'm doing history of chocolate and the outro :-)

Terms relating to audio files

Stereo - Reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound.
Channel - A path over which electrical signals can pass.
Track - A song.
Frequency - The number of times a sound vibrates per unit of time. Frequency is expressed in hertz (Hz), a unit of measurement equal to one cycle per second.
Hertz - The hertz (symbol: Hz) is a measure of frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per second.
Decibel - The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of measurement.
Wav, mp3, aiff - Wav is the file extension of an Audio for Windows sound file.
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression.
Aiff, or Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.

MoViE sLiDe ShOw!

This is my movie slide show... and it is really, really short:-)

AUDACITY MUSICVIDEO!!!

HELLO!!! Yeah, so this is my first blog for this term, hope you like it...

Oh yea, I'll tell you what I did later, if that's OK....