Mobile phones – communications on the go
Activities
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.
Page updated January 2007.