Journal 9

Digital media is basically electronic media. I describe digital media is media that can be accessed from the internet. Some forms of media include music, images, videos,emails etc.

Like all technology, it evolves over time. The internet seems to be growing at a rapid rate. About 10 years ago, the internet was spectacularly slow and it wasn’t vey popular amongst the population. Today, the internet is much faster and millions of people use it.

Digital newspapers are quite popular because

• They’re free of charge
• They are always there, so forgetting to buy a newspaper on one day isn’t a problem
• You can find what you need, in a coventional, printed newspaper, people are bombarded with information and things they don’t necessarily need.

Journal entry 6

Today in class, we conducted an experimient which we get to observe the reaction of an acid with metal carbonates.

We tested sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate and calcium carbonate with nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.

Most of the results were the same. For every single experiment, we also had to test it with limewater and holding a match inside the test tube

The results were similar, the match would always blow out because carbon dioxide gas was being produced inside the test tube and the limewater didn’t have much of a reaction either.

The sodium bicarbonate was the only metal to have a big reaction, it was bubbling, fizzing and a sudden temperature change.

Journal entry 4

Today in class, we conducted an experiment which was about different metals reacting with different acids.

We were given 3 different acids: hydrchloric, sulfuric and acetic and 4 different metals: iron, magnesium, zinc and aluminium.

We only managed to test all 4 different metals in the hydrchloric acid. There wasn’t much of any reaction or ‘pop’ we were hopinf for. The magnesium was the only metal in the hydrochloic acid to even react. The magnesium immediately bubbled when the match was held over the test tube.  We did not get to finish the rest of the expriment and the class ran out of matches.

Some safety issues: everyone should be careful with what they are handling with, what chemicals they are using because some may cause serious burns.

Journal entry 7

A person’s conscience is like a voice in our mind that tells us what to do, how to act or what decisions we should or should not make. Our conscience could have ‘two sides’, usually being completely different to eachother. Someimes, our conscience can arugue with ‘eachother’, therefore its sometimes hard to make a decision.

The way I see how the conscience works, the conscience has two different side with two different ideas. The conscience tells us to think before we act. Its like a debate between the two, they present their ideas to the person and then the person acts.

The Church teaches us to follow our conscience because it is the better choice and it also helps when facing moral dilemas

Jounal entry 6

Moral maturity is marked by the depth and consistancy of moral judgement. Moral maturity is a requirement in the person who is to apply a body of knowledge or a skill to the solution of a problem, or to the understanding of a situation. The development of moral maturity is a process that will take a long time.

The 25 year old man can be reguarded as having a lack of moral maturity because he did not have a self conscience when he resisting arrest from the police and stabbing them.

Morality is concern between good and evil or right and wrong; immorality is the opposite: morally objectionable behavior. 

His actions were bad and evil and where not according to what we would call good but was what we would call bad.

Journal entry 3

Today, we had finally saw our corrosion experiment that we had done about three weeks ago.

The results weren’t too suprising. As I had predicted in my hyporthesis, the iron nail in the water was corroding. The nail was a rusty orange and the rust had sank to the bottom of the test tube. The iron nail in the silica gel showed no sign of corrosion, the silica gel also remained the same. The iron nail in the empty test tube also showed no sign of corrosion.

The only suprise for me was the iron nail in the oil. The nail was completely rusted and the oil had some of the rust floating around. In my hypothesis, I predicted that the nail in the oil would not corrode because the oil would preserve the nail. This just shows that oil can corrode iron.

Journal entry 5

Countries that have banned internet are: Maldives, Tunisia, Belarus, Libya, Syria, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Myanmar/Burma, Cuba, Turkmenistan and North Korea.

The image shows a flag of China, the Youtube logo, The Dhala Lama and ‘banned’ in big font. To me, I think it means that Youtube is banned in China because Youtube may have some content that may be offensice to religion or to the country’s authority.

• http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Banned-In-China-Other-Services-Available-Again-68750.shtml
• http://www.pr-inside.com/youtube-banned-in-china-r488178.htm

Different countries ban the internet for different reasons and purposes. The common reason why countries have banned the internet is because there is material that is considered subversive and pornographic.

• http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=1990
• http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1227008
•  http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/04/1969118.htm?section=justin
• http://www.feedsfarm.com/article/a8fea749df3dc705514e19e962ea5ba71750df4d.html
• http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-223646_ITM

If the Australia government had banned the internet, learning, communicating, etc would be much harder. In today’s society and with new technology, people tend to rely on the internet for many reasons. Mainly because its cheap and its very convenient.

Learning would be harder, the only other resource that could be easily accessed is books, but even then, the book aren’t regulary updated and the information may be old. Communicating would be worse, calling people by phone is quite costly and inconvenient. Sometimes, you might have to end mail and packages which is very costly. Shopping would not be impacted too much, unless people are used to shopping over the internet.

Overall,  I think we should keep the internet as it is a great service and resources for millions of people.

Journal entry 2

So far, our research is going ok. We have done some research, but we still have a lot left to research. For research, I think the research would be very easy because the topics we need to research are easy to find and the research is easy to understand and are quite straightforward. The problem is, I’m not to sure about how much research is required and that whether it has to be printed and placed in our folders.

I do not know much about imovie because I don’t use the Macs that often and I’m not a big fan of them. I have use imovie once before and I do have some idea of how to use it. I think the movie is going be the hardest part of the project. I’m not sure how the project needs to be present but I’m assuming we have to make a movie.

Journal entry 3

We did a corrosion, precipitaion, combustion and decomposition experiment

The corrosion experiment would take a while because we will be observing how the iron will be corroded during a period of 3 weeks.

The precipitation was quite quick and easy. We had to mis 2 different, clear soloution together. The solutions reacted immediately. There was cloudiness and soon after, there were insoluble solids apprearin at the bottom of the test tube.

The combustion experiment was quite fun. The experiment required us to burn some magenisium ribbon in a flame. The magnesium quickly burned up. It produced a vey bright flame.

The decomposition experiment took some time. It required us to seperate a substance into 2 other substances. We heated up some nickle carbonate and a gas was transferring into the limewater. The limewater changed into a very faint purple colour.

Journal entry 3

Secular means that its an atheist society. Its non religious, there is no God and God is pushed to the outer limits of society. An example of this society is Russia and China. Because they are ran by a communist government, there is no freedom in religion.

Non secular means the opposite. The non secular society is religious and the do have a God. An example of this is Poland. They are a very religous soceity, this is evident because they celebrate many religous holidays compared to the other nations in the world.

• http://au.news.yahoo.com/
• http://ninemsn.com.au/
• http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/
• http://www.smh.com.au/
• http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sunday/

“Six people hit by drunk driver: police” This report was about a drunk man in his mid 20’s running over 6 people (5 men and 1 women) in his car because he was angry about an argument he had before. The 6 people were taken to hospital and are fine.