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Friday, September 21, 2007

Hey

Today Sarah told me that she added some links to the main page of gadgets and ports. And it really looked good to me. Today is the deadline and to me i have done the best i could been a newcomer to the whole thing. I double checked my links and evrything seems to be fine. I have overcome most of the problems I encounted and well hope it all goes well and I get a good mark. Overal the whole thing looks really good and I would like to thank my group because they helped me alot when I came. I really like our page and it could be easily used and accesed and could be easily understood by anyone. The images and links stand out alot and the colour and everything looks good.
Hope we get a good mark
Sharleen :):):):):):):)

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Since I wasn't there when the assignment was handed out, at first I did not have a clue as to what I was supposed to do. When I was allocated to the Group that was doing Gadgets and Ports I was feeling better.
Problems that I faced were reallynot big major problems but all the same I faced them. Firtly I did not know create a blog or a wiki, because I my old school we never did these type of stuff. Jess helped me make a blog and wiki. As I started to get information I wasn't so sure that I got the correct information and I was worried if they were worng so i did not post my information straight away!! I also had to be sure that the information was correct in everyway and it had to be relating to the topic. Once I added my information it was OK. Mr. Lennon also told me that certain information was not needed so I deleted it!!
After feeling comfortable with my information and I was sure I was getting it right, I started postign pictures and then slowly addign links and horizontal lines.
I hope I do alright for this assignment because I really tried my best as a new student.
Sharleen

I am now serioulsy lost as to what i have to do further but I thought I will do a bit more on the background information on our group.

I am doing the introduction to Gadgets and Ports. As in my previous entries I have mentioned what a port is but i haven't exactly mentioned what a gadget is. Well a gadget is a device that has a highly useful definite practical purpose and function. Gadgets are most of the time more useful that normal technology and tend to be unusually designed!

Today I seperated the page in Gadgets using a horizontal line and then Ports and after that how they were related. Then I also put a heading called External Links and under that i put the links that I did.

Overall my group has done an excellent job in my opinion and now we have to see our results.

Monday, September 17, 2007

I linked Microprocessors on www.ist94.wikispaces.com to http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559091/Microprocessor.html. I also linked the page to http://computer.howstuffworks.com/serial-port.htm. This page shows how different types of ports work. I created internal links to the rest of my group and I created this as an external link to encarta.msn.

Most of the ports have pins on them, which do seperate functions when the device has been linked. If any of the pins are damaged the port won't transmit or recieve data the same way. For example a serial port can have a 9 pins, in which one would make sure whether the modem is connected to the telephone line while another pin would make sure computer recieves the information that the modem sends. These are all explained in the second link above.

Hello
Everyone seemed to be really shocked when we were told that our assignment is due this week. Anyway I got a new picture on ports on a recent computers and as i guessed they have become smaller and increased in number!! They have also become more useful!! The USB ports have increased and there are four in the back now. Comparing the two pictures on the wikispaces a LAN port seems to have been added and the Dial-up port does not seem to be there. Anyway Hilda is working hard on the Flash Drives and seems to be adding information everyday. Sarah is working on the Blackberries and Jess is doing the Graphic Tablet. I would have added this earlier but I wasn't really sure on it.
Sharleen