NUIG Computing Summer School

May 20, 2011

Computing Summer School

Event: NUI Galway’s Computing Summer School
Date: 13 – 17 June
Location: NUI Galway
Time: 9.30am – 4.00pm
Fee: €50

The Computing Summer School offers you a week long hands-on, practical Computing and IT experience. Students on the Summer Event will have the opportunity to do fun, interactive experiments and demonstrations, talk to the lecturers and ask questions, hear about the latest discoveries and inventions, and try out the facilities on offer.

Learn all about IT:

  • Digital Media; combine video, audio, music and graphics to produce your own movie
  • Games
  • Robotics; assemble a robot and get it to obey instructions and compete with other robots
  • Programming; Use of a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web
  • Animation

Book your place:

Due to space restrictions, numbers on the Computing Summer School are limited, so apply early. The event is open to secondary school students from 14-18 years old.

Last date for receipt of applications is May 31, 2011.
A fee of €50 applies to this event.

Find out more:

For more information and an application form see http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/ or ring Tina at 091 493143.

ECDL in Ireland 1997-2011

April 27, 2011

How to embed a Youtube video in Powerpoint

April 11, 2011

As part of your project work in school, you may want to embed a Youtube video in Powerpoint. The following video shows you how to embed a video from Youtube in Powerpoint 2003.

ECDL Exams

February 17, 2011

The dates for your remaining ECDL exams have been added to your Calendar in your Google Apps account.

Log into your Calendar to see the dates for your ECDL exams.

The IF Function in Excel

February 2, 2011

As part of the syllabus for the Module 4 exam in ECDL, you need to know how to use the IF Function in Excel.

The formula for the IF function is:

=IF(condition, true, false)

The following Youtube video may explain it better.

The Power of Social Networking

October 28, 2010

Facebook, Twitter, Blogs,  MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare and many more. You can’t escape social media or social networking.

So what is Social Media?

Facebook is now the largest social media site with over 500 million users worldwide. These are the top countries on Facebook based on the number of users:

1) USA (142M)
2) Indonesia (29M)
3) UK (28M)
4) Turkey (23M)
5) France (19M)

MySpace this week revealed an all new look for their site. You can read about it here.

Twitter is now growing at a faster rate then Facebook and what do you think is the second biggest search engine in the world after Google?

Yahoo or Bing?

Answer: Youtube.

There will be more posts in the next few weeks on each of these social media sites and how you can make use of them.

Domain Names

October 8, 2010
Examples of domain namesThe TY Social Networking class continue to work on their blogs.  You can now view their blogs by going to the class blog. Each blog is listed under blogroll.

Now we need to look at purchasing a domain name for your site. At present, your blog is hosted on wordpress.com. You can see this in the URL of your blog e.g., the URL of the class blog is:

http://tysocialnetworking.wordpress.com

What if you want your web address to be www.tysocialnetworking.com or www.tysocialnetworking.ie?

To do this, you need to purchase a domain name. A domain name is nothing more than the Internet equivalent of a postal address or a telephone number. Every country has its own domain name.

The domain name for Ireland is .ie and the domain name for Germany is .de. You can see a list of all country domain names here.

Can you see which country’s domain is .tv?

The most popular domain is .com which means ‘commercial’ and is the most commonly used domain in the world. While anyone can register a .com domain, there are restrictions on who can register a .ie domain.

There are lots of domain name sellers on the web. An example of an Irish domain name seller is Blacknight. Go to their website and find the cost of a .com domain for one year. Now compare the cost of a .com to a .ie

If your domain name is not available, you can find out who owns it by doing a WHOIS search. Can you find out the owner of football365.com?

You can find out the owner of a .ie by going here.

Some people also make money from registering popular domain names and then selling them on.

As of 2004, according to Guinness World Records, the most expensive domain name sales on record were:

  • Business.com for $7.5 million in December 1999
  • AsSeenOnTv.com for $5.1 million in January 2000
  • Wine.com for $2.9 million in September 1999
  • CreditCards.com for $2.75 million in July 2004
  • Autos.com for $2.2 million in December 1999

But you cannot always  register any domain name you like. A famous case was madonna.com

What browser do you use?

October 2, 2010

Keep your passwords safe

September 24, 2010

This year you have a lot of passwords to remember – Moodle, Google Apps, ECDL eLearning etc.

Where should you keep a record of all your usernames and passwords?

The student journal is not the best place as you could lose it. One good solution is to store them online in a secure location – use Passpack.

Sign up for a free account with Passpack and you can securely store up to 100 passwords.

Go to www.passpack.com

File Types & File Conversion

September 17, 2010

Here is a short presentation on File Types and File Conversion by students in Mr. Askin’s Technology Class.


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