1. Why is communication so important during an emergency?
Communication is so important during an emergency because it is the only way to let other people who could help you know that you are in trouble. You could risk your life if you have no mean of communication. For example, if you are stuck under furniture after an earthquake, you could call from your phone to tell the police to help you out of there.
2. What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters such as The China Earthquake, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, the Asian Tsunami? Please give examples and explain what they do.
Cell phones, radios, television, walkie talkies, laptops and the most common one- shouting was used in communicating during these natural disasters. All these things told people what happened and provided them with the latest news, also they used them to survive and get rescued.
3. What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
Where people are, what's happening, who is it, and the context of what was happening before the incident.
4. What information can be created before the emergency? What information needs to be communicated during the emergency?
You should tell the ambulance what was happening before the emergency, such as what the patient's symptoms were and what he did and ate, etc. The information that needs to be told during the emergency is what is happening now and how it happened and also at what time.
5. What hardware and software in required to be able to communicate online?
Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogs and other social networking sites. Also the news (Yahoo, MSN, CNN, etc). RSS feeds can also work for this situation.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
HTML Basics Review
1) Define HTML:
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a type of computer language that is used for files that are posted on the internet and viewed by web browsers.
2) Explain the process of viewing the HTML source code for an HTML Web page:
-You right click and it comes up.
3) Explain how you must save HTML pages:
You have to type the document's name such as: 'mywork' and add .html after it. It should look like this: 'mywork.html'
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a type of computer language that is used for files that are posted on the internet and viewed by web browsers.
2) Explain the process of viewing the HTML source code for an HTML Web page:
-You right click and it comes up.
3) Explain how you must save HTML pages:
You have to type the document's name such as: 'mywork' and add .html after it. It should look like this: 'mywork.html'
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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