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ASSIGNMENT #5
By: Sarah Tisdale

2015-16

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Table of Contents
Assignment #1 ..................................................................................................................... 2
Assignment #2 ..................................................................................................................... 3
Assignment #3..................................................................................................................... 5
Assignment #4..................................................................................................................... 6
Bibliography ........................................................................................................................ 8

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Assignment #1
In assignment #1, I had to create a website on either Weebly.com or Google sites. I had chosen to
create it on Weebly.com. I had to create an About Me page as the home page, and had to talk a little
bit about myself, and my trip that I went on with my grade to Strathcona.

A clip from the home page of my website

Link to the home page of my website: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/

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Assignment #2
For this assignment, I made a survey on Survey Monkey2, about the use of internet and social media,
in which my class participated. All of my results are from my class taking the survey. Then, with the
information that I had collected, I created graphs using Microsoft Excel. I also had to post the graphs
to one of the pages on my website3. Shown below are the graphs:
Survey Graph 1

Survey Graph 2

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Link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YFWRNTV

Link to the page with the survey graphs on my website: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment-2.html

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Survey Graph 3

Survey Graph 4

Survey Graph 5

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Assignment #3
For assignment #3, I had to record the amount of time I spent on electronics throughout the course
of one week. I then had to create a graph, showing that data, in Microsoft Excel. I also had to post the
graph onto one of the pages on my website4. The graph and the data table of my electronic usage are
shown below:

Electronics Usage Graph 1

Laptop
(School/Home)
Television
Phone

Monday
rd
Nov. 23
1 hour

Tuesday
th
Nov. 24
1.5 hours

Wednesday
th
Nov. 25
3 hours

Thursday
th
Nov. 26
1.75 hours

Friday Nov.
th
27
4.5 hours

Saturday
th
Nov. 28
2 hours

Sunday
th
Nov.29
7 hours

1 hour
4 hours

0.5 hours
3.5 hours

2.5 hours
3 hours

1 hour
3 hours

3 hours
4 hours

1.5 hours
6 hours

0.5 hours
2 hours

Link to the page with my electronics usage graph on my website: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment-3.html

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Assignment #4
For this assignment, I had to research the history of something related to electronics I chose the
history of the television. After researching, I had to create a power point showing the history of the
television, using short notes and pictures however, I had to have a detailed script, as I presented
this power point for my class. I also had to post a link in which a person on my website could
download said power point onto one of the pages on my website5. The following is a copy of my script
for this assignment:

[What it is]
When most people hear the word television, they mainly think of the television sets that present them their favourite
shows with a few clicks of a remote control. However, television is much more than that.
Television is an electronic system used to transmit images and sound over wires or through space by converting the
images and sound into electrical waves, which are converted back to visual images and auditory sounds that are
shown on the screens of our television sets.
[What it's used for]
The television can be used for different purposes, one of which is for your own entertainment. Television
entertainment can come in many forms, such as cartoons, movies, sports, and reality shows. However, television isn't
only used for entertainment -- it is also used for news, so people can know what had happened in their own local
area, or even around the world, at a specified time every day; or for advertisement, so companies can show off their
products and get their brand names out into the world.

There are 5 main different types of television: mechanical television, electronic television, colour television, digital
television, and smart television.

[Inventor of the mechanical television]

The mechanical television was invented by many people, however, one of the most important was a Scottish inventor
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named John Logie Baird. He was the first to successfully transmit a television picture on October 2 , 1925. Baird
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gave the first public demonstration of the mechanical television in his laboratory in Soho, London on January 26 ,
1926 for the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times. Baird also developed the first colour system, using
mechanical techniques, in 1928.

[How the mechanical television works]

Back to the mechanical television, the mechanical television uses rotating disks that have holes in them, at both the
transmitter and the receiver. Both the disks are rotated by a motor, when broadcasting or receiving. When
broadcasting, the camera would be in a completely dark room, and the only light source would be the bright light
which was placed behind the disk, which would be rotating. A lens in the front of the disk focuses the light onto the
Link to the page on my website containing the power point download: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment4.html
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person or object that is being televised. The light that hits the subject, is reflected into a photoelectric cell, which
make the light rays convert into electrical impulses. These impulses travel over and through the air, until they reach
the receiver, and the receiving disk starts to spin at the same speed as the broadcasting disk. The image is then
viewed on the other side of the receiving disk, usually through a convex (aka magnifying) lens.

[Who invented the electronic television/what it is]

There were also many contributors to the invention to the electronic television; however, an American inventor by the
name of Philo Taylor Farnsworth made many of the crucial contributions for the development the all-electronic
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television. Farnsworth demonstrated the first image dissector on September 7 , 1927. He called the device an image
dissector, as it converted the individual elements of the image into electricity one at a time. Farnsworth also created
the image oscillate (a cathode ray tube), which displays the images that were captured by the image dissector. It
seems to me that the electronic television is an image dissector, which breaks up the image into electricity, which
travel through the air, until the image is displayed by the image oscillate.

[Who invented the colour television]

As mentioned earlier, John Logie Baird also developed the first colour system in 1928. Later, in 1940, CBS was the
first to create a system in which an image was transmitted in each of the three primary colours of light: blue, red, and
green.

[How the CBS colour system worked]

A wheel with segments of red, blue, and green were rotated in front of the camera, in the broadcasting studio, while a
similar wheel was rotated in front of the television screen at the receiving end. Both colour segment wheels rotated
the same speed, much like the disks used in mechanical television. It seems that CBS had gotten its idea for their
colour system from the mechanical television.

[Digital television]
Not one person really invented digital television it was really just a transition from analogue television.
Analogue television was the original television technologies mechanical and electrical televisions that used
analogue signals to transmit video and audio. Digital television is contrast to the channel separated signals of analog
television as the video and audio transmissions are digitally processed and have multiplexed signals. The transition
from digital television to analog television started around the late 2000s, and governments worldwide decided on the
due date of the shutdown of analog television to be around 2010. At first, people were hesitant towards digital
television, but digital television started to slowly get popular, and more households were converting to digital
television.

[Smart television]
With the transition to digital television, more innovations had to chance to be made, such as smart TVs. A smart
television is a television set with the ability to access the internet as well as features from Web 2.0. Smart TV is also
an example of technological convergence between computers and TV sets. Technological convergence is when
technology changes, different technological systems sometimes evolve toward performing similar tasks as quoted
from the technological convergence Wikipedia page. Smart TVs are also different from the functions of a regular
television set, as smart televisions also provide internet TV, online social media, over-the-top content, on-demand
streaming media, and home networking access.

Thank you

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Bibliography
Title Page:
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Background Image: http://serg-casper.ru/wpcontent/uploads/2014/11/346614_sinyaya_chernaya_uzory_1920x1200.jpg

Assignment 1:
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http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/

A clip from the home page of my website (home page of my website): http://stisdale.weebly.com/

Assignment 2:
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http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment-2.html

Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YFWRNTV

Survey Graph 1: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/7175122_orig.png

Survey Graph 2: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/9263582_orig.png

Survey Graph 3: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/2598809_orig.png

Survey Graph 4: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/7548931_orig.png

Survey Graph 5: http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/6086076_orig.png

Assignment 3:
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http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment-3.html

Electronics Usage Graph: http://stisdale.weebly.com/uploads/6/5/9/3/65939995/3516590.png?1448857393

Assignment 4:
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http://s-tisdale.weebly.com/assignment-4.html

History of TV (research websites):

Early Television Museum. (Accessed 2015, December). Early Color Television. Retrieved from Early
Television Museum: www.earlytelevision.org/color.html
Early Television Museum. (Accessed 2015, December). Mechanical TV: How It Works. Retrieved from
Early Television Museum: www.earlytelevision.org/mechanical_tv.html
Merriam Webster Dictionary. (Accessed 2015, December). Television. Retrieved from Merriam Webster:
http://beta.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/television
Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). Analog Television. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television

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Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). Digital Television. Retrieved from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television
Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). John Logie Baird. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). Philo Farnsworth. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). Technological Convergence. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence
Wikipedia. (Accessed 2015, December). Television. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

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