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=A) Overview=

Overview Presentation

====Wireless Connectivity is Vastly changing the world. With it we are able to have such a larger amount of portability and we now can call people to tell them anything. Say if we didn't have wireless connectivity we wouldn't be able to call someone to ask for directions mid drive. We would have to go all the way back to our home/hotel. Imagine if you couldn't find your way home. Wireless connectivity is something that makes our lives easier. Our world is beginning to revolve around this wonderful phenomenon.====

**Wireless connectivity **

==== This somewhat new topic to the world is constantly changing and improving. There's emerging phones, ipods, pads, etc. These are all competing with each other, especially the two large phone companies. Android and Apple. We are starting to get phone connection, and also internet connection in the most remote places. When before, we didn’t even have wifi on phones. ====

====This connection is so much more advanced than when phones came out. Android and HTC are constantly improving their connection and usability on their phones to compete against apple, while they come out with new iphones. This emerging connection is broken down in to two types of service. Wifi, and reception. Mainly, wifi is being used more for internet; not calling. Reception is used for making calls and texting. ====

====While Wireless Connectivity is related to cool phones, it is also related to ways to communicate with each other. In the past, we communicated just by talking face to face, writing letters, or even talking with rich people through the famous brick. Nowadays, we have much more useful, fast, and maybe even free options available. We have E-Mail, I.M, texting, calling, SMS, video calls, Skype face time, and much more cool things.====

= = = = = **B) Current News**  =

In this day and age we expect nearly everything to be wireless- our phones, our computers, the appliances we buy, even how we learn. But to the world being wireless is so much more than just teenagers gossiping over the phone. Now being wireless can save lives, there is equipment that can check your oxygen levels, blood pressure and weight in the comfort of your home and wirelessly send the data to your nurse. If anything is off, the nurse can just call; this method of checking in has reduced ER visits nearly 50% for some cases and it reduces medical costs dramatically. There are scientists that are working on a wristband that can monitor cravings and behavior of drug abusers and when their cravings are at their highest the wristband wirelessly sends a signal to a smart phone as an alert in real time.

Wireless connections can also help hold business together- not just lives. There are now ways you can conference people form five different countries at the same time without leaving an office. With web-cams and Internet access you can communicate and see each other without having to drive or fly countless hours, spend valuable money and making an impact on the earth. People can keep in contact with the touch of a button. Text messages are fast and easy so people can know at the moment without having to call someone. We are able to talk to people and make agreements like never before with wireless connections.

Quadriplegics who have no way to move their arms and legs are able to move their wheelchairs on their own thanks to a retainer that will register the movement of their tongue and allow the wheelchair to move in that direction. We can pay with our credit cards, use coupons, show our memberships, all through our phones. There are ways we can monitor our heat, air conditioning, and lighting, then wirelessly regulate them; saving us money and energy and creating less CO2 emissions. No one knows what will come next, but right now there are amazing things that make our lives easier everywhere in daily lives.



=Areas of Impact=

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C) Education
Technology plays a huge part in today's society. The wireless technology we have today lets us take everything we need anywhere- this creates a whole new world for us. We can especially see this in our schools. There are more districts every day that are making their schools wireless; now anywhere throughout a school students and administration can access the wireless devices that are needed to promote education. Students in all academic levels benefit from connected learning environments and the interactive educational experiences that let them share ideas and communicate with other students and their teachers. For example, in K-12 and primary school classrooms 1:1 laptop initiatives and online learning have quickly gained popularity due to their ability to improve student performance.

 Elementary schools are creating a whole new experience for their students. Elementary schools throughout the country are letting students use lap tops for educational purposes; students are have fun working anywhere in the class room and there is no need to be wired up to Internet connection cables. The students who have come to appreciate this new experience are middle schoolers; and even more, high school students. Middle and high school students get the opportunity to bring laptops and personal devices to their school. They can do their essays, projects, homework, studying and anything else they need anywhere their school day takes them.

 When they need to research for a class or finish up a projector essay, they can easily access it from their devices without the need of getting up and moving to a stationary desktop. This strategy makes it easier for students and their teachers. In addition, when laptops were given to high school students in Mooresville, the district’s graduation rate went up eleven percent, there was a fifteen percent increase in met proficiency standards, and the drop out rate went down. Wireless connectivity is a necessity that makes the lives of students easier by having the world at their finger tips, and it allows their teachers to expand the school outside of the classroom.

Of course there have been some controversial talks about putting routers in schools so that the students to have unlimited Internet access. Being able to have this is a huge privilege. Some say that we are giving these students to much freedom to work with unlimited Internet access. Having this connection to the Internet in our schools may be too tempting. Students may be on sites they are not supposed to be on, but this is controllable. Of course there are still ways for students to be doing and seeing things they are not supposed to. But besides this, wireless connectivity for schools gives the education system a giant leap forward.



D) Government, Politics and Employment
Wireless Communication provides a powerful platform for political autonomy on the basis of independent channels of autonomous communication from person to person. The communication networks provided by mobile telephony can be formed and reformed instantly, and messages are often received from a known source, enhancing their credibility. the networking logic of the communication process makes it a high-volume communication channel, but with a considerable degree of personalization and interactivity. In this sense, the wide availability of individuality controlled wireless communication effectively bypasses the mass-media system as a source of information and creates a new form of public space.

Wireless Connectivity has allowed some people to be able to work from their homes. Some of the main reasons why some people work out of an office is that they can work anywhere, decide when they work and when they don't, and it could be that there are fewer distractions working at home then working at an office. Wireless Connectivity has allowed government agencies to work together by allowing resources to be shared faster. It has also allowed Police and firefighters to communicate with each other through radio and other equipment during emergencies. Wireless Connectivity has had a huge impact in places of work; this is because it has allowed members to transfer and share work much quicker. It is also easily accessible and many users can have access to the connection at the same time. Wireless is being adopted for many new applications such as to connect computers, to allow remote monitoring and data acquisition to help provide control and security and to provide a solution different environments where wires may not be the best implementation.

Wireless Connectivity has really changed the world of employment. There are so many jobs opened up to us because of it, but there are also so many jobs limited because there are so many new machines and equipment. People these days can earn a great amount of money by just staying at home and working off of there computers. We have so many jobs that involve phones, computers, and just basically technology. Our government has used technology so much to communicate with other countries and to keep laws enforced. I think that without wireless connectivity that it would be so much harder to win an election and keep up with politics. So many politicians rely on their mobile devices that if they did not have them they would not do very good at all. The world of Politics, Government, and Employment have greatly been increased because of Wireless Connectivity.

Wireless Connectivity is used throughout many different areas of Government from traffic signals to Military intelligence. Traffic signals now communicate with each other by using radios. They do this to keep traffic flowing as fast as possible. The Military uses Wireless connectivity through satellites. These satellites can be use foranything from spy surveillance to troop communications. Depending almost exclusively on imaging capabilities, spy satellites have been orbited by the hundreds to gather military intelligence or information about terrorist activities.Visible, Near-Infrared; Thermal Infrared, and Radar sensors are applied to gathering information about ground targets and activities of national security significance. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|(1)]

E) Arts, Entertainment and Leisure
Wireless connectivity has become a very important part of our society, it is one of the most used things daily.. It plays a huge part in our education, entertainment, and every day lives. Most entertainment we have today is thanks to wireless connectivity, or WiFi. Actually for example, Facebook has become one of the biggest websites. Why? Because of wireless connectivity. People from all over around the world have the opportunity to post pictures, feelings, and comment on other people’s pictures, all again thanks to wireless connectivity. There are so many other examples like Xbox Live. Xbox Live enables the gamer to play and compete against other people around the world. One more example can be Netflix. Netflix enables you to be wherever you want to be and still watch movies and TV shows. Wireless Connectivity has come a long way. It started with just the first phone and now it has reached smart phones. One product that has severely enhanced the progress in wireless connectivity is the iPhone, from Apple Inc. Without it the iPhone we would not have been able to come up with MobileMe. MobileMe transfers all your music, videos, documents, and data to another device right at the moment it is saved or purchased if you are logged onto the same account on another device. Without ideas like the iPhone and Xbox Live we would not be where we are today. The world of Wireless Connectivity has just begun. ]] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">

F) Science, Environment, and Health
Wireless connectivity also affects our advances in science and health. Companies all over the world are using wireless health innovations to better manage chronic conditions, preempt disease and improve the lives of the elderly and under-served populations around the world. One way that wireless connectivity is affectung out health includes Fitness giant, Nike, recently introducing its Nike+ FuelBand, a wristband that uses Bluetooth technology to automatically sync with your smartphone to let users easily track and analyze physical activity. A new technology that allows wireless signals to be sent and received simultaneously on a single channel has been developed by Stanford researchers. By measuring performances of such a system in a real-world city-centre environment, the researchers were able to characterize how likely these 'virtual' deployments were to actually make things better for the end user. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluetooth v4.0 with low energy technology gives any device, from a static data-collecting sensor to a laptop or tablet, the ability to connect, share and distribute information in real-time. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IMS Research forecasts more than 60 million Bluetooth enabled sports, fitness and health monitoring devices will ship between 2010 and 2015 including over 17.7 million heart monitors, more than seven million sports watches and over two million speed and distance monitors. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now wireless technology is really helpful to these fields but did you know it is bad for your health. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There has been studies that show that devises that gives us the access to wireless connectivity is harmful. Most houses are equipped with routers that provide us with wireless connectivity, but those routers are giving off electromagnetic waves that run 24/7, unless you turn them off when not using it, that harm us physically. Those waves has caused problem of the heart, brain, and other body in our bodies. Of coarse this does not happen right away. this is only when you are exposed to these rays a very very strong level and exposed to to much of it. For example laboratories with high frequent radio waves that run 24/7. So when you are not using your router turn it off, especially at nights.

= Video Artifacts =

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Students may work individually or with member of their team to make a 1-3 min. video about their topic for 100 points extra credit. Upload the video to Schooltube and embed here.// = References =

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">** A) Overview: Stephen A. max torresLogan Cote **
 * B) Current News:Alexis C. Stephen A.Logan Cote **
 * C) Education:Alexis, C. Brett Bialik Raul marquez **
 * D Government, Politics and Employment: [|Mike Ghazar] max torres **
 * E) Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure: Jacob Moffat Hailey Hanes [|Mike Ghazar] **
 * F) Science, Environment, and Health: [|Ruby Ortiz] Hailey Hanes Raul Marquez **

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 * Content Editor: Maximiliano Torres, Stephen Adrian **
 * Image/Graphics Editor: Jacob Moffat **
 * Discussion Monitor: ** __ **Raul Marquez** __ __ ** Mike Ghazar ** __
 * Presentation Editor:Alexis Candito **
 * RSS Editor:Hailey Hanes, Logan Cote **
 * Mind Map Editor: B//rett Bialik// **
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