Social Networks in Prezi

Welcome again to my blog with this new post. We're starting the third term and I have a lot of work for these easter holidays, but I'll explain you what we're doing in computing, as usual.

We have been made to make a Prezi presentation about Social Networks, which we are used to use every day.

Prezi is a webpage where you can login and make 3D presentations with cool transitions, very dynamic and original. When you set a background you travel through it and through each frame, with visual attraction, and you can add almost any kind of document. It is also interactive; you can go anywheree in the presentation.

As this program works through the Internet you can access your presentation whenever you need it, but you can also download it for your PC (paying, but you have a free sample period).

I leave here the link to my Prezi, I wish you like:

http://prezi.com/lmych4lpn8sq/social-networks/

And if you don't have Adobe Flash Player or your computer doesn't let you see it, you can also watch it here or here.

See you next post and have a good holiday time :)

GIMP II

Good evening people :) Last month I posted something about GIMP. Well, this time I'll continue explaining some of the things we've been learning about this program.

This month we've been asked to do a poster about D. Juan Tenorio's play that is to take place here at Juanelo Turriano and an image of a face in a fruit. Doing this we have learnt to use better GIMP. For example, we've worked with "colours". For the poster I've posterized each layer, and I've added brightness and saturation to Doña Inés and Don Juan.

We've also learnt how to fuse two layers between them. It's as simple as selecting the later cape of those you want to fuse at the Image's Layers Window and change its "Mode" from normal to the one you think that looks better. You can change the transparency where the percentage is or modify colours in the top bar, in the colours' tab. When you get used to using it, it becomes very easy and amusing.

I hope you liked my images and you learned with my explanations. I recommend you to try GIMP because it's a very interesting program, and why not to try new things? See you next post ;)

GIMP

Hello again, it's weeks since I last posted something, isn't it? Now we're working with "GIMP", an image editor, at computing. We've already learnt how to cut part of a photo and put it on a background. We've used an image of ourselves to place it where we'd like to be. Here's its explanation and the final result:

1. START

Open both the background image you want to use and the image of you clicking Archive and Open for each one, and start working with the image of you.

2. SELECT THE FIGURE YOU WANT TO PLACE SOMEWHERE

If you have a plain background, choose the Colour Selector (mayús+O), and click the right button, Select and Invert.

If you have well defined outlines choose the Wand (U), and Select the figure.

If you have a difficult image choose the Scissors (I), define the outline and when you close it, do double click inside it to Select the figure.

3. PASTE THE FIGURE ON THE BACKGROUND

Click the right button on the figure and then click Edit and Copy. After that, start the background image and click again the right button, Edit and Paste. Before you do anything else, you should start the Image's Layers Window (ctrl+L) and, on the right button, click New Layer, to avoid it to anchor to the background.

4. MODIFY THE IMAGE

Once you have your figure(s) on your background you can do with it (or them) whatever you want. At first you should adjust the sizes with the Scaling Option (mayús+T), and then you can change perspectives or improve the outlines and some more options with the Tool Box (ctrl+B). When you place your mouse on the icon of each option it shows you a small explanation of what it can do.

My edited image:

I hope it was useful and you liked, if you want to know I placed myself at the European Modern Art Museum (MEAM), in Barcelona, which I'd like to visit someday. See you ;)

Computer Networks

Hi everybody :) How is this term going? In computing we've started studying computer networks, so I'm going to explain you a bit.

# What's a computer network?

It's a set of interconnected technological devices which can share data, resources, information and services between them and allow economising and improving management.

# What kind of computing networks are there?

- According to administration: P2P(Peer to Peer) or Client-Server

- According to size of the area: WAN(Wide), MAN(Metropolitan), LAN(Local) or PAN(Personal)

- According to connection mean: Wired, wireless or mixed.

- According to topology: Bus, star, ring, tree, mesh or VPN(Virtual Private Network)

# What characteristics do computer networks have?

- They communicate computers through a protocol with unique numerical addresses called IP addresses, with four groups of numbers between dots and between 0 and 255.

- Each network device has a network card with an unique MAC address assigned by the manufacturer which works as interface between the device and the network cable, that can be a twisted pair cable or an optical fiber cable (faster and better communicator).

- Some devices as the hub, the switch or the router control the network traffic or distribute data between the network devices.

This is some of the information I can give you as abstract, but this is a broad topic so you'd never stop learning about computer networks. In addition, we continue developing IT's daily, so there's an infinite world of surprises and advantages for you to discover. Have a great weekend and see you at next post ;P

More curiosities about IT

Hello again! How did you begin the new year? I wish you've started well because we have to better the world this year ;)

Today I want to show you some videos about some curious things that have been happening these last years about Information Technologies and others. They're a bit long but very interesting, I think, and you can learn of them. The first one is an actual video about what's happening now and how we've arrived here, and the second one is a bit older but if you watch it you can check what has changed and what hasn't. Both of them will show you how fast the world has changed, for better and for worse, and they'll make you think. Enjoy them.

 

QR Codes

New year's coming soon so Happy New Year(: Today I'm telling you about QR codes;

# What's a QR (quick response) code?

This is a square module with bars and points on its area and a framed square in each corner but in the right bottom corner. It encodes stored information you can access rapidly.

# How is it used?

When you catch a code with an app in technological gadgets with its camera, it searches the information on it and shows you (as a link, message...), in a quickly way.

# What's its storage capacity?

They can storage as maximum 1,817 characters from the Japanese Alphabet Kanji/Kana; 4,298 alphanumeric characters; 7,089 numeric characters or 2,953 MByte as bynary or data. They have between 7% and 30% of error correction.

# What's its origin?

Denso Wave (Toyota) created these codes on 1994 to register and manage their spare parts for vehicles in a high speed. Later, with mobile phones they got common, specially in Japan.


I hope it was useful and I wish you a happy new year's eve and a better year than 2013, because 2014 has to be great. Kisses and hugs to everyone <3 See you.

Phubbing

Now, another curious actual fact that's happening nowadays. I'm sure you've suffered, done or seen it but you don't know;

# What's "phubbing"?

This is the fact of underestimating people, not heeding them and being rude, because of using smartphones and any kind of technological gadgets all the time; for example, using your mobile phone while someone is talking to you or in a meeting or lunch. It's usual in young people, because children aren't educated by society in that aspect and it's more and more usual.

# What's its origin?

This word, appeared in 2007, it's the combination of phone and snubbing, and it started to be used with the use of smartphones, to describe that kind of behabiour. It was popularized by the Stop Phubbing campaign created by McCann, which was part of a promotion of the Macquarie Dictionary of Australia.

Now, you know a bit more about technological vocabulary :P Happy holydays and have a nice day!

Selfie

Hello again at Christmast time (: Today I explain you a curiosity about an actual thing we're used to see but we don't know. Here it goes, enjoy it and your holydays.

# What's a "selfie"?

A selfie is a self-portrait photo, usually taken in a slightly tilted manner with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone, which is usually used to be shown in our profiles on the internet. In 1839 an American pioneer in photography called Robert Cornelius took a photo of himself, taking the first selfie.

# Why did this word originate?

In 2002 an Australian internet forum (ABC online) published this word for the first time, relating a situation colloquially. 

On MySpace, at the beginning, were often used flash-blinded self-portraits, usually taken in front of a bathroom mirror, but then with Facebook they started to be well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance. Then in 2009 they were also very used on Flickr. 

They appeared the front-facing cameras and apps like Instagram which facilitate this kind of photos, and this word became more used. 

By 2013, the word "selfie" was incluided in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and announced as the "word of the year", whith an Australian origin.

DJ Tenorio Theatre Brochure

Hi everyone, and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!! I wish you're having a very enjoyable and relaxing holiday and Christmas day.

Today I'm showing you the last thing we did before holidays, that last days of hard working at high school. I's a brochure for the play that is to be performed in our high school soon. If you're interested you can read it and you can attend it.

Have a nice Christmas Day :)

Computing Memories

Hi! I greet you for the fourth time to show you the third project we've made at computing. This time it's a presentation about Memories in computing (RAM & ROM), in which my partner Paula and me have explained a bit them and some types of them. We hope you like it.

I leave here the presentation and the link to my partner's blog, to visit her too.

Have a nice day, and a nice week!

Paula's blog: www.paula4bc.blogspot.com.es

Computing Memories from Carmen Bueno Iglesias

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You can also watch it here.