Thursday, March 19, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Investigation
We are going to be using a online website that allows you to create a avator. After we create it we will put it on animoto so we could play it as a video.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Final Evaluation

a) How well does your product work? Does it do everything that you said it would do and does it do it well?
- Yes my product works , most of the things that i said i would include are included , put before i was planing to put less pictures but now my project looks better with more pictures.
b)How well did you work at each stage of the design cycle?
- I worked quite well , i followed most of the instructions and i organized my product in the correct was and i included many information and pictures and videos.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Client meeting
Climate change
Climate change means the variation in the earth global climate or in regional climates over time.
It describes changes in the state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the earth forces from outside (e.g. variations in sunlight intensity) or, more recently, human activities.
The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the past it has
altered as a result of natural causes. Nowadays, however, the term
climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our
climate which have been identified since the early part of the 1900's.
The changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted
over the next 80 years are thought to be mainly as a result of human
behaviour rather than due to natural changes in the atmosphere.
The greenhouse effect
is very important when we talk about climate change as it relates to
the gases which keep the Earth warm. It is the extra greenhouse gases
which humans have released which are thought to pose the strongest
threat.
There has been debate over the cause of rising global temperatures.
Some argued it was a natural fluctuation, whilst others that it was
caused by human activity. This debate is now over.
In February 2007, an international panel of experts (the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) concluded:
- Global warming is occurring.
- Increase in global temperature is a result of human activities.
- Given
current trends, temperature extremes, heat waves, and heavy rains will
continue to escalate in frequency. The earth’s temperature and seas
will continue to rise into the next millennium.
These
climate change effects are due to an increase in greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere. The main gases are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide and fluorocarbons, principally from the burning of fossil fuels,
forest destruction and agriculture (rice field cultivation and the
keeping of livestock). Water vapour in the atmosphere also plays a
role.
The scientific community often talk about global
warming potential. This relates to the warming effect of a greenhouse
gas in relation to the measured effect for carbon dioxide.
This
web site, and most other sources of information on global warming,
looks only at carbon dioxide. It is the major greenhouse gas produced
by humans, which is having the single greatest effect on climate
change.
The graph below shows the link between increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global temperature change.
The increase in carbon dioxide is largely due to the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) over the last two centuries.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Untitled
A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard (e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management,
leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss
depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the
disaster, their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability".[2]
A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas
without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas.
The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Investgation
Communication is so important because if there are any earthquakes every body can move from the country and be safe. Also you can use computer and radios to help get to all people quickly.
What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami?
the communications that have been used during the radio and internet and newspaper wacky tacky and text message .
What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
Food , shelter , safety, and clothes
What information can be created before the emergency? What information needs to be communicated during the emergency?
When is the emergency is coming, how bad it is , during the emergency you can tell were is the best place to be during the thing.
What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?
Some software and some hardware are facebook google ask flickr youtube yahoo messenger






