Chapter Two

In this week's reading, i found it intersting how we have come so far with technology these days. Our means of communication with others all the way across the world, and even with our scientists in outer space is incredible. The communications network that has been created was set to share data, information, software, and hardware through a collection of computers and other specialized equipment. All of the components of the communications network have certain jobs that help the network to run: the two computers are used to send and receive data, the communications devices send and receive data, and a communications channel is what the data is sent through.
Although i couldnt list and describe them all, there are so many more terms and components to the communications network that help to run the program. But the communications network was designed because when the computers were first invented, they were stand-alone devices and they only operated on their own. This program made it possible for communication to be available through emails, text messages from phones, and more.
In this weeks reading, i also learned that the www sites are generated off of the name of the company or label that wants to make a page and then a numeric address and domain name are created. I found it necessary for me to read chapter two because i have found out why the addresses use .k12 or .edu, which is because the users or information on the websites are school-related. I am an elementary education major and i feel that i can use all of the knowledge that i can get about computers because children are full of questions and i need to be prepared with some answers for the future.

week four

Eme 2040 so far has been a major help to me; Every week, i seem to find something new that i've never learned or heard of before. As i read through chapter four this week, there were so many terms and phrases that i read and i did not have a clue on what they might have meant or could possibly be used for. I'd never heard of a motherboard or an optical disc, but the reading clearly helped me to understand how basic and user-friendly these two items were. I learned that the motherboard is basically a ciruit board that the components of the computer reside in. As for the optical disc, its just a fancy, general term to call cd's, dvd's and so on; you know, the flat, silver, round things that have lately been being abandoned due to the new mp3 invention!
There were also a few terms that i heard of but never knew what they really meant, or forgot which tasks they really performed. There were also some terms that i'd heard of that were abbreviated but i didnt know the full name and function of. The CPU is an excellent example of what i am talking about. I hear teachers and students that are technologically up to par saying things like CPU and RAM but i had no idea that they were key components of computer functioning.
My favorite part of this weeks lesson was learning how to use inspiration. This program is the most unique program ( as far as programs that are useful to teachers ) that i have seen thus far! It allows you to come up with themes and so many aspects of the themes as you branch off into your lesson, or what ever else you may have chosen to create a page on! It is great. The only thing that i found difficult was actually coming up with the information to put into the page because i really didnt have a lesson at hand to branch off from, so it was totally up to me to come up with a topic; in my case, that just makes things ten times harder because i work better when i have guidelines to follow.