lunes, 8 de junio de 2009

BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE

BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE
Alvaro





First of all is important to say that communication is between a transmitter, who needs to send a message and a receiver, who the message is sent to.
It is always important to do a research or to analyze something located into the context to get a more objective approach.
This presentation wasn’t done with the idea of talking about technical and professional definitions of the different ways of communication. It was done thinking about how the ways to communicate has been developed throughout history with the idea of sending a message in a more direct and fast way.
Smoke signals: Made with smoke columns that gave different messages depending on the color, intensity and shape. It was used to sending fast messages across long distance. We still use smoke signals to make public that a new Pope has been chosen.
Sound from drums and horns were used with the same proposal in past times, sending messages about someone was arriving or warning about an event.
Carrier pigeons: were used to send messages to cover long distance. It probably was one of the first moments that human beings tried to use the sky for their necessities.
Drawings: Drawings were used to let messages and to tale stories through generations and time.


Even though the printing had already been invented in China in 1041, it was until 1450 that printing was improved by Gutenberg who was able to create letters with different and specific sizes to print on sheets. This advance allowed replacing handwriting books by printed books.








In 1854 Antonio Meucci invented the telephone such as we know it today, but it was patented by Alejandro Graham Bell.










Between 1850 and 1900; Popov, Tesla and Marconi made improvements contributing to the development of the radio. Probably the highest success of the radio is the possibility to reach a bigger market with fewer budgets.
In 1900 Constantin Perski introduced the first concept of television talking about transmission and reception of images in motion.






In 1936 the first computer was being built, using an area of 167m2 and with a weight of 27 Ton. Usually that computer needed about one week to process some information. With the invention of the computer, there were needed to connect computers to each other with the idea of sharing information and in the 1980s that technology started expanding around the world.
In the 1990s the World Wide Web was introduced and it allowed the access to more information and supporting the fast development of the global economy.
Nowadays there are a lot of great inventions that try to combine the different kind of ways to communicate. Gadgets with tv, radio, internet access, messenger that make easier the communication.


We need to understand those gadgets and inventions as ways to communicate in a world of globalization, of technology, of consumerism. But probably something unimportant for us is the best way of communication for others.


And we need to understand that probably the most important gadget to communicate something would be a gadget that translates what the Earth, the Nature and the Environment need to say to the mankind.






WORD FROM BODY LANGUAGE

Alvaro

Assail: asediar / assailed by: assediado por
A tug: tirón
Earlobe: lóbulo de la oreja
Rotten: podrido
Sponge: esponja
Sponger: Someone who takes too much without doing anything in return
Sneaky: chismoso, soplón
Pansy: mariquita
Hang around:esperar

missladyboys.com by Prisilla

Who is the boy and who is the girl ?














All them are guys ...
Take care when you go to Thailand
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The answer is ALL THEM are men .





domingo, 7 de junio de 2009

Who really invented the internet?


By Alejandra Vargas

Sometime, when we talk about internet creator a big question comes: Who really invented the internet: CERN or the US military? It was maybe someone else?
The answer it easy: it was Tim Berners-Lee.
Twenty years ago, he handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal".
At that moment Sendall said: "Vague, but exciting” and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward.
This scientist wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
The following year, the World Wide Web was born and it changes the world forever and ever.
Tim Berners-Lee is from England and he studied at Oxford University in 1989. Berners-Lee invented an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at the European Particle Physics Laboratory of The European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
Now, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT's CSAIL where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.

See more information: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Web-en.html

viernes, 5 de junio de 2009

Homework For Tuesday, June 9th

Student Book Pg. 141 - 9

Research a stolen invention, summarise and blog the story in your own words. No copying and pasting!!

Translation List 66 - "For" Vs. "(In Order) To"

Define and blog all the new words in your individual texts on "Body Language" before midday on Monday, June 8th, in preparation for our crossword-making activity the following day, Tuesday, June 9th

MAYA ANGELOU'S' BEST POEM EVER


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
... enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to
... something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.. a youth she's content to leave behind
.... a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to retelling it in her old age
.... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra
... one friend who always makes her laugh
... and one who lets her cry...

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.. a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family
... eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal, that will make her guests feel honored

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
.. a feeling of control over her destiny
... the ability to fall in love without losing herself..

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
... how to quit a job, break up with a lover, and confront a friend without; ruining the friendship

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
.... when to try harder...
and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
... that she can't change the length of her calves, the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents.. that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
... what she would and wouldn't do for love or more
... how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
.. . whom she can trust, whom she can't, and why she shouldn't take it personally

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
... where to go... be it to her best friend's kitchen table.. or a charming Inn in the woods... when her soul needs soothing

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW... What she can and can't accomplish in a day... a month...and a year...

jueves, 4 de junio de 2009

Sizable furniture by Ale and Fabi

Our invention is a kind of furniture that is made of a special recycled plastic that can be expanded or minimized. You can make it bigger if you need it or even make it as small as a piece of paper to carry it in your pocket! It's easy to carry, easy to clean and environmentally friendly.

Slogan: "Make it the size you want"

Brand: Please yourself