Friday, 21 October 2016
Monday, 18 April 2016
Typosquatting
Read the
following article about attacks on websites from the Computer act!ve
magazine:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5qF09rR54MrV1pmZEpGRmVKUms
Answer
these questions:
- How would you describe the concept of typosquatting? (look for it on the internet).
- Which country does the mistaped domain refers to?
- Which operating system is affected at the time this article was written?
- What do they recommend to avoid typing your usual adresses incorrectly?
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Collaborative work
Imagine that you work for a travel agency and you are offering an end of ESO trip to a school. Prepare the following three documents (in Google Docs):
This work will be made in groups of 2 or 3 students (one will be the owner of the document, the rest can edit).
Send also an invitation to edit to inforsanjuan@gmail.com.
Deadline: 30 April 2016
- a text document, addressed to the parents, with the basic information (price per student, dates, buses to/from the airport, etc.)
- a spreadsheet with the calculations for the final price; you have to include, at least, five basic formulas and a percentage.
- a presentation for the students, with all the places to visit and the programmed activities.
This work will be made in groups of 2 or 3 students (one will be the owner of the document, the rest can edit).
Send also an invitation to edit to inforsanjuan@gmail.com.
Deadline: 30 April 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Tipography
Read this article in WIRED magazine:
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/canadas-new-typeface-unifies-the-countrys-many-languages/#slide-2
Answer the following questions:
Send your work to the usual email address.
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/canadas-new-typeface-unifies-the-countrys-many-languages/#slide-2
Answer the following questions:
- If the United States had a national typeface, could it be the Highway Gothic? Why?
- The new Canadian typography unites the Latin characters of French and English. Why does the article mention these two languages?
- When was the first Latin character typeface created in Canada? Why was it transformed in the late 1990s?
Send your work to the usual email address.
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