Creative ICT – Year 8 Lesson 10 Uploading Work

Starter Downloading Music…..Illegal or Not?? Question My teenage son downloads music, movies and games using a 'torrent' program. Could he be breaking the law? I've read horror stories about parents being forced to pay huge fines for their children's copyright infringement online... Answer Torrenting is in the news a lot, usually attached to a horror story about someone getting fined a bajillion pounds for downloading some music or movies that way. Well, there's a reason for that: it isn't the most legal method of getting digital media in the world.

Starter Downloading Music…..Illegal or Not?? What is torrenting? Put simply, torrenting is a form of file sharing. It requires the use of a special torrenting program to download movies, TV shows, games, music, programs, and all kinds of other things by splitting the file with other users. A file is split into small chunks of data which don't mean anything on their own. Each user who wants the file has a different chunk. They download it, then share it with the rest of the peers who don't have it yet, and download all the other data chunks from those peers too. When you've downloaded them all and put them together, a complete file is formed.

Starter Downloading Music…..Illegal or Not?? According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) 30 billion songs were illegally downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Illegally downloading music has had a significant impact on the music industry resulting in a loss of profits and jobs, and changing how music is delivered to the masses. Music sales in the United States have dropped 47 percent since Napster first debuted in 1999. The availability of free music has cost the music industry $12.5 billion in economic losses. To recoup some of these losses, the music industry has filed lawsuits against individuals. In some cases, individuals have been sued for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Downloading illegally: Downloading has become easier since the whole world together has become connected… The first copper cable, 2,500 miles long, was laid across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858, after many difficulties including storms and cable breakages For each mile of cable, 133 miles of wire was needed Total weight was one ton per mile Put in pic of worldwide connections

Undersea Internet Cables How it looks now… Click for website

Bandwidth But how much data and information can you actually send? Bandwidth = The amount of data that can be carried at a time Think of it like pipes carrying water. The bigger the pipes = the more water it can carry e.g. the bigger the bandwidth of wires = the more data can be carried

Connection Speeds Measured in Mbps (Megabits per Second) Run a speed test: www.speedtest.net

Upload vs Download Speed Why is your download speed so much faster than your upload speed? Internet providers give priority to downloading because most users spend far more time downloading (e.g. music, video, websites, games) than they do uploading.

Lesson Aims (WALT) We are learning to: Explain techniques and skills use to produce products in ICT Present work in an interactive digital portfolio Upload completed digital portfolio for assessment

Design Journal Why is it important? The ‘Design Journal’ is the work that will be marked as your ‘assessment’ evidence for this module. Very important that you have... Completed it with evidence of products made Explained what you have done Formatted it suitably for people to view (Colours, Fonts, Design, Animations)

Design Journal Example ‘Design Journal’ Teacher will show you this now... Animations used Design used Completed pages Interactive buttons

Finishing ‘Design Journal’ Today’s Task 1 Instruction 20 mins! Finishing ‘Design Journal’ 1) Check that pages are completed with evidence for all your ‘Products’ and ‘Extension Tasks’ 2) Customise your ‘Design Journal’ Format pages using ‘Design’ and ‘Animation’ Personalise ‘Welcome’ and add ‘End’ page Make presentation ‘Interactive’ (See ‘Extension Task – Interactive Design Journal’) Level x - Description

Uploading ‘Design Journal’ Today’s Task 2 Instruction 5 mins! Uploading ‘Design Journal’ Log onto LearnCoombeDean -> ICT -> Year 8 -> Creative ICT -> Lesson 10 Select... ‘Upload completed ‘Design Journal’ Level x - Description