COM 125: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET

For COM 125's final week, I did a "show & tell" session on a topic that I recently discovered — mixed reality. The presentation was a short introduction to the topic, so I'm going to be presenting a further in depth glimpse into what mixed reality has to offer. I have always been interested in technological advances that looked straight out of a Sci-Fi movie. With mixed reality, we now seem to be one step closer to bringing worlds like that of Blade Runner to life. The term "mixed reality" can be used as an independent concept or to classify the spectrum of reality technologies (known as the  reality–virtuality continuum ). What we'll be focusing on for this post however, is that independent concept. Mixed reality is the result of blending the physical world with the digital world, to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. It takes place not only in the physical ...

What is Internet Security? It involves establishing rules and measures to use against attacks over the Internet. The Internet is often an insecure channel for exchanging information, exposing it to threats of intrusion or fraud, which can be done in various ways: 1. Malicious Software: A computer user can be tricked or forced into downloading software onto a computer that is of malicious intent. Such software comes in many forms, such as viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, and worms. 2. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks: This is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. This generally consists of the concerted efforts to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Attackers commonly target cloud computing environments like organizations and governments. 3. Phishing: This is an attack which targets online users for extraction of their sensitive information such as username, password and cre...

This week's blog post topic is video production, so I decided to upload a video I did for a past Communication module 😊 This video was my first time using video editing software, and I have to say: kudos to YouTubers, film & TV editors because video editing ain't easy! It was many grueling hours of frustration, re-watching the same raw footage over and over again, cutting footage and piecing them together repeatedly, trying all the special effects available ― all just to produce one 5 minute video. And without further ado, here's the video:

Up until the early 2000s, education occurred only in a classroom of students with a teacher who led the process. Physical presence was deemed as the most effective way to teach, and any other type of learning was questionable at best. Then the Internet happened, and the rest is history. E-learning has since then become a rapidly growing industry, all the while constantly evolving to accommodate the various technological advances that have occurred since. There is a plethora of different e-learning tools, and the good ones are able to be facilitated from virtually anywhere, bridging geographical gaps and increasing convenience of accessibility.  E-learning also offers the ability to share material in all kinds of formats such as videos, slideshows, word documents and PDFs. And with the invention of live video recording and instant messaging, conducting webinars (live online classes) and communicating with professors via chat and message forums have also become a possibilit...