Mobile phones-Activities

	Published by Australian Academy of Science
Activities \| Mobile phones – communications on the go

SOFWeb (Victorian Department of Education and Training, Australia)
- Messages from a distance: The telecommunications revolution – students investigate simple and advanced symbols and systems for sending messages. It introduces electronic devices as essential components of modern technologies.
Uniserve Science (Australia)
- The electromagnetic spectrum – students use the internet to find out how modern communication technology works.
- The digital age – students look at the development of digital technology and how it has become the core of modern communications.
RAD Data Communications (Israel)
- Introduction to digital encoding – explains how analog signals are translated into commonly used digital codes and supplies some translation exercises.
Newton's Apple (USA)
- Satellite technology – an activity on sending and receiving digital images.
- Telecommunications – an activity on optical fibres and an introduction to telecommunications.

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Page updated January 2007.

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