1) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.
Answer:this is the state of being separate from religion. For instance, eating and bathing may be regarded as examples of secular activities, because there is nothing inherently religious about them. Saying a prayer, worshipping and attending Sunday School are examples of religious (non-secular) activities
2) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.
Answer: www.ten.com.au, www.channelnine.com.au, www.yahoo.com.au, www.skynews.com.au, www.abc.net.au
3) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.
Answer: HMAS sydney discovery
An expedition by a group of people trying to solve the HMAS Sydney mystery in the indian ocean just off the coast of western australia has led to success. The group of people found the HMAS sydney and its allie the kormoran. The kormaron is a german vessel that was set out to destroy the HMAS Sydney. In the end both of the vessel were destroyed and all the sailors on board went with it. Finally they found it and now families of the sailors can be at peace.This is a link to a story by channel 9 news:http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=73056
March 26, 2008
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Journal:
Q1) What will you achieve today?
Answer: We will write some questions we can ask the actors when we are going to interview them
Q2) How will it be achevied ?
Answer: It will be acheieved by us writing down the questions
Q3) What are you responsible for the group?
Answer: Designing the website
Q4) Tasks completed this lesson:
Answer: We made the questions
March 26, 2008
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Journal:
Q1) What will you achieve today?
Answer: We will discuss on the presentation of the website
Q2) How will it be achevied ?
Answer: it will be achieved by the group members talking to each other
Q3) What are you responsible for the group?
Answer: Designing the website
Q4) Tasks completed this lesson:
Answer: We disscussed on the other features that must be added onto the website
March 18, 2008
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1) Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program?
Answer:The net alert program is a program that the Australian government has set up to tackle internet related crimes against children. It also stops children from being put under pressure by anonymous people.
2)Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?
Answer:To protect children aginst the dangers of the internet and how it could effect anyone at any age.
March 17, 2008
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Yesterday we watched a video called kanyini.
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The movie is about a man explaining how the white people took him away from his family because he was a half caste.
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The movie is about how the aboriginal people lived when the white people were there.
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It explains the hardships the aboriginal people had to endure while the white men had control over them.
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The movie tells us that the aboriginal people had no clothes.
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The movie kanyini is a documentary.
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In the documentary it mentions that the white people killed many aboriginal men and they raped many aboriginal women.
March 13, 2008
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1) Define the term ‘wired generation’. Answer: The ‘wired generation’ is a generation that spends most of their time on social community sites such as myspace,bebo and MSN.
2) Provide examples of FIVE different social community sites. (Create hyperlinks).
Answer: www.myspace.com www.bebo.com www.facebook.com www.ninemsn.com www.wordpress.com
3) Choose ONE of the list above a describe why it is used and how it could be misused.
Answer: www.myspace.com : myspace is used for making new friends it can be misused by people cyber bullying other people.
March 12, 2008
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Q1) What will you achieve today?
Answer: the things that I will achieve is to start on the website
Q2) How will it be achevied ?
Answer: It will be achieved by the group going on the website and design the rest of the website.
Q3) What are you responsible for the group?
Answer: I am responsible for organising the design of the website and uploading the information on to it.
Q4) Tasks completed this lesson:
Answer: We have finished the design for the header in the website and we have completed the general information part in the website.
March 12, 2008
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March 6, 2008
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Journal:
“A multimedia system is an information system that combines at least TWO to THREE types of media, such as text, hypertext, audio, images, animations and video”.
1.) Provide a description and an example of each type of media listed above.
Answer: Text- Text is the main part of any document or file. e.g. there many different types of text types such as an exposition or a narrative. Audio- Audio is the sound that is used with another media type or on its own, Animations- animations are images that move sometimes animations are combined with audio to make them more effective, Video- a video is a visual representation of a series of photos played at 24 photos/frames a second, video is used not only in presentations, it is used as a form of entertainment, Hypertext- hypertext is a way of organizing your writing material, it is a link that takes you to another page, it could lead you to a video, audio or image.
2.) Outline THREE problems with the design of the following power point slide.

Answer- 1) There is to many words 2) The words are going to be to small to ready when it goes onto a projector & 3) The picture takes up to much space.
March 6, 2008
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Journal:
Q1) What will you achieve today?
Answer: The things that i will achieve this lesson are to start the website our group was assigned.
Q2) How will it be achevied ?
Answer: It will be achieved by the group designing the website on the computer.
Q3) What are you responsible for the group?
Answer: I am responsible for the design of the website.
Q4) Tasks comnpleted this lesson:
Answer: We have started the website.
March 4, 2008
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