Third Hardware Activity - Summary

Follow these steps:

- Create a new text file with the OpenOffice Writer
- Write in 2 or 3 lines, the function of the following hardware elements.
- Save it as "Third Hardware Activity"
- Upload it to your Google Drive account

The hardware elements are:

1. RAM

2. Power supply

3. Microprocessor

4. Chipset

5. Expansion cards (at least 3)

6. Motherboard

7. BIOS memory

8. CMOS RAM

9. Ports (the most used)

10. Hard disk drive

11. Solid State Drives (SSD): advantages and comparison to HDD

12. Input peripherals (make a list)

13. Output peripherals (make a list)

14. Input/Output peripherals

15. Optical memories (capacity comparison)

Fourth hardware activity - Questions

Fifth hardware activity - Questions

Take a look at this video, it's a 'time collapse' video. I think you'll like it.


Skateboarding Time Collapse: Shot with the Lumia 930 from Microsoft on Vimeo.

Outstanding, isn't it? Now take a look at how it was made. You'll find that there is a lot of work to do.... but is not the result worthwhile?


Skateboarding Time Collapse shot with the Lumia 930: Behind the Scenes from Microsoft on Vimeo.

Photo editing and retouching

During the next weeks we'll work in editing photographs.

We'll basically use two programs: Gimp and Photoshop.

• Download and install Gimp from HERE .
• You can download a free trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 (The trial period begins on the first day you launch the software and continues for 30 days) from HERE.

GIMP TUTORIALS

• GIMP
• Another good tutorial
• How to retouch faces step by step

Computer Software in Plain English

Digital Audio - Audacity

Audacity is a program to edit digital audio. We can record, edit and change digital audio files in different formats.

We can create our own recordings and add multiple effects. We can also import audio files in WAV, AIFF, AU, etc.. formats.

Here you have a little on-line tutorial.

Activities with Audacity - Activity 1

We are going to do some easy activities to learn things about Audacity.

Activity 1

Download the following files:

Music

Poetry

We have to hear the poem with the background music. Use the tool "envolvente" to control the volume of the background music. Cut the music if necessary and export the file as a mp3. Upload the file to Divshare and embed it in a post in your blog.

Cloud storage terms of service

You can choose where do you want your files to be storaged. Nowadays, there are some options, such as Dropbox, Box.com, SkyDrive, Amazon CloudDrive, iCloud, Cubby or Google Drive.

But be careful! Dont't forget that everything is shared in this 'cloud'.

In this articles you can read a comparation between some terms of service:

- 1st Article
- 2nd article 

Activities with Audacity - Activity 2

Download the following activities and follow the instructions in the file "To do in Audacity"

To do in Audacity

Audio 1

Audio 2

Audio 3

Music

Once that you have finished the activities, save them as an Audacity proyect and export them as mp3. Upload them to your DivShare account and embed them in one post of your blog.