Thursday, October 2, 2008

Muddiest Point, Readings, and Comment all in 1 post.

Muddiest point (Week 6):

My muddiest point for this week concerns Homework 4 which is due on Tuesday, October 7. I think I understand that our video is recorded by Jing on our desktop or any piece of software that we choose. My question is to whether our instructional video needs to have audio (i.e. us talking/instructing), or if that is an optional feature.



Thoughts on Readings for week 7:

My main interest was on the internet article from HowItWorks.com. That website is extremely useful, not just in IT related material but if you need tips on how to do/how anything works. With myself being a Computer Engineer and loving to take IS classes, I didn’t need the website to tell me how totally awesome the internet is. After reading Digital Divide articles for the last homework, it’s so amazing at the gap in knowledge from person to persona bout things like the internet. It’s hard when you think about it, to comprehend how a piece of information can go from your fingertips to someone’s eyes half way around the world in a matter of mere seconds. For anyone that thinks the internet is just a fad and they don’t need to learn it (older generations), one statistic just needs to be shown to understand the size of the net. That is that we are currently using IPv4 IP addresses which can account for say a little over 4.2 BILLION different addresses! Now the kicker, We may be at some point going to run out!!! That is why we the IPv6 has been created to be its successor. Its address space is enormous that would provide us with ten billion billion billion times as many addresses as IPv4!! The internet my friends, is mind boggling.



For Zhen: Comment for week 7:

I commented on Nicole Plana’s topic of RFID technology as well as the other posts there. This is in the General Discussions section of the Discussion Board.

1 comment:

Daqing said...

to your question about the assignment, i would prefer you to have audio since it is natural and easy to include an audio part as part of the instruction.