Timeline

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Weekend
Week 1	N/A	Finalize what I am studying	Research Topic with a basic idea of what I am studying – Put onto blog	Research Background, how has it changed  Blog	(Non Relevant) Finish OSA	(Non Relevant) Finish OSA
Week 2	Research Finalize Fridays notes and facts, and update Blog	put facts together ideas to start my essay Blog	put facts together ideas to start my essay Blog	put facts together ideas to start my essay Blog	put facts together ideas to start my essay Blog	put facts together ideas to start my essay Blog
Week 3	Find ideas for my movie and model Blog	Finalise ideas for my movie and model Blog	Make plan for movie and model Blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Continue with Presentation work – Blog
Week 4	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Work on movie and model post photos as I go blog	Start essay
Week 5	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog
Week 6	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Work on essay Blog	Collaborate all work	Touch up all work
Week 7 Maybe be overseas	Touch up all work	Touch up all work	Check my work with partner/teacher/parents	Finalise work according to partner/teacher/parents	Finalise work according to partner/teacher/parents	Presentation work and drafting essay Continue Blog
Week 8	Print photos/things to make my stand look good. Laminate. Start evaluation to post on blog.	Work on evaluation	Work on evaluation	(should be finished) Continue if needed	(should be finished) Continue if needed	Project Due
Week 9	Present    :)

Brief explanation of hieroglyphs

The hieroglyphic system used in ancient Egypt had between 700 and 800 basic symbols, called glyphs. This number grew in the last centuries of ancient Egyptian civilization, because of an increased interest in writing religious texts. Egyptians wrote hieroglyphs in long lines from right to left, and from top to bottom. They did not use spaces or punctuation.
Egyptian glyphs are divided into two groups: phonograms, which are glyphs that represent sounds, and ideograms, which are glyphs that represent objects or ideas. The Egyptians constructed words by using a combination of the two types of glyphs. Readers must generally use both phonograms and ideograms to determine the significance of a word or phrase.
Phonograms represented the sounds of single consonants and combinations of consonants. A phonogram that represents the two consonant sound (on the right) and (on the left) is:

The Egyptians did not write vowels, so it is impossible to know exactly how they pronounced hieroglyphic texts. When speaking, they may have expressed vowel sounds to distinguish various words that, in writing, look identical.

Why were hieroglyphs used

The ancient Egyptian word for hieroglyphs, literally translated as "language of the gods," indicates their importance. Priests used hieroglyphs to write down prayers, magical texts, and texts related to life after death and worshiping the gods. When preparing their tombs, many people had autobiographies and hieroglyphic guides of the after world written on the surfaces of tomb walls and on the insides of coffins. The Egyptians believed that these texts helped guide the dead through the afterlife.

The use of hieroglyphic inscriptions was not limited to religious purposes. Civil officials used them to write royal documents of long-term importance, to record historical events, and to document calculations, such as the depth of the Nile River on a specific day of the year.

The Egyptians also used hieroglyphs to decorate jewelry and other luxury items. They carved the symbols into stone or wood, and incised or cast them in gold, silver, and other metals. They painted hieroglyphs on various surfaces, sometimes putting down simple figures in black ink, and other times using detail and bright colors. Occasionally artists carved semiprecious stones or rare woods into hieroglyphic shapes and then inlaid them into walls or pieces of furniture.

Funny Communication History Comic

A funny timeline of communication, the time changing on each line. Line 1; face to face talking.

Line 2; Posting Letters.

Line 3; Telephone.

Line 4; Email/Social messaging with internet slang :P (:=two eyes, = mouth with tongue poking out)

References (Will be updated often)

http://library.thinkquest.org/5729/

http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickencommunication.jpg

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiero1.htm

Communication/Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Communication/Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Main Focus Questions

·         How it started

·         How it evolved

·         Why it evolved

·         Modern communication i.e. Facebook twitter and Skype

·         Body language

Timeline focus points

·         3000bc The Eygyptians created a picture laungage called hieoroglyphics

Eygytia hyrogliphics were basicpictures combined together to form a sentence, hieroglyphic writing islike a picture puzzle. Ancient eygyptian writing has over 2000 hieroglyphic charactors, they could represent the objct or they could represent the sound.

·         105ad Chinese began using paper and ink

·         450ad Asia used block printing

·         1539ad Mexico began using the first prnting pressin the western hemisphere

·         1665ad The London gazzete was the first English newspaper

·         1844ad Samuel morse transmitted the first public telegraph message

·         1876ad Alexander graham bell invented the telephone

·         1906ad First wireless communication of human speech

·         1985ad Television began to broadcast in stereo