Day 2

The second day in communication technology class was spent learning about the basics of communication. We learnt that communication involves a sender (who encodes the message), the message itself, and the reciever (who decodes the message). The various types of communication include speech, hand gestures, email...etc. I found it interesting to learn that things like an "o.k." hand gesture can be found offensive in foreign countries. I also found it interesting when Mr. Tammik showed us an online article, which talked about how messenger pigeons were faster than the internet in Africa. The last topic covered in class was how to make an effective power point presentation. We read about how the majority of power points were bad due to mistakes with the visual presentation. This knowledge will hopefully help us in our up-coming group projects on the history of communication.