Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Tuesday, 15 May 2012


PICASA
Picasa is meant to become the “photographs world” within our computer. After learn about how to us Picasa I can organize, edit, share, backup and print our digital photographs. Nowadays, with digital cameras and all, tons of pictures accumulate in hard disks of almost any computer in the world. The thing is how good is a photograph if we don’t know we have it and we don’t even watch it once. In that case, we really need a tool to get things organized managing those tons of picture files. Picasa performs all those tasks for us easily, fast and for free. From the learning there a six main task related sections compose in Picasa there are;
Organize
The first problem is to organize the mess since you already have thousands of pictures that maybe you don’t remember you have and don’t know where they are. Picasa offers you the possibility to create albums to organize them and a cool ability of this software is that allows you to have the same picture in more than one album without needing to have two copies, of course. You can move and change names of the pictures right from Picasa without using the Windows Explorer. You can also rate your photographs with a stars scale system, and protect them with passwords.
Edit
Most people are not professional photographers and it’s very likely that you’re not one. If that’s the case you definitely will need some of the powerful edition tools that Picasa offers. From the basic effects know by almost everybody to the coolest effects you have heard of, are all together in Picasa. There’s no picture than couldn’t be fixed with it. Just to give you an idea, you can change the focus of a photograph already taken. Red eyes correction, colour depth, brightness, contrast and many more tools available.
Share
Two things you want to do with your photographs after taking them: to see them and to share them with friends and family. But as simple as it could sound, not always it is. With Picasa it will be. If you want to send pictures via e-mail, Picasa will prepare them so they are quickly sent and correctly displayed on the recipients’ computers. In addition, you can take advantage of Picasa to help you out uploading the pictures on your own web site, for free. If you want to create a gift for family from your pictures, easily create slide shows from them.
Print
What happen if you want to have a few pictures hanging from your walls? Well, go ahead a print them quickly, easily and with high quality from Picasa.
Backup
When your photographs are said to keep memories that you cannot live again, the value of those photographs is compared with the value of those memories. Of course, you don’t want to lose them. Picasa will help you out creating backup copies.
Create
If you feel creative, go ahead and express yourself with Picasa. You can create movies from your pictures, create slide shows, a poster and even pictures collages.

DATA LOGGING

A data logger is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors. Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer). They generally are small, battery powered, portable, and equipped with a microprocessor, internal memory for data storage, and sensors. Some data loggers interface with a personal computer and utilize software to activate the data logger and view and analyze the collected data, while others have a local interface device (keypad, LCD) and can be used as a stand-alone device.
One of the primary benefits of using data loggers is the ability to automatically collect data on a 24-hour basis. Upon activation, data loggers are typically deployed and left unattended to measure and record information for the duration of the monitoring period. This allows for a comprehensive, accurate picture of the environmental conditions being monitored, such as air temperature and relative humidity. It is common for general purpose types to be programmable; however, many remain as static machines with only a limited number or no changeable parameters. Electronic data loggers have replaced chart recorder in many applications. Besides, by using data logger it will easier to us to get accurate data and so on.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Smart concept reflection


SMART SCHOOL CONCEPT

“Smart School” analysis is one of our assignments for this course. As we know Smart School is a Malaysian education system which learning institution that reconstruct systematically teaching learning and school management in order to prepared children for Information Age. From Smart School analysis I get more information about the Smart School like how it is implemented and so on. Before this I only know it is a school that use ICT in their learning and teaching.
Besides, from our analysis I thing students should have knowledge in the field of ICT because nowadays we see all things in the world just use ICT to do the simple thing. Sometime to find a new information we just click and we will get what we want. As a future teacher I should prepared myself with new knowledge especially ICT because may be for the future students not impossible they a more intelligent than us because they had exposed with ICT when they still a child.