The document discusses various forms of electronic communication including email, podcasting, chatting/instant messaging, discussion boards, texting/SMS, blogging, the iPhone, Palm Pre Phone, and Blackberry. Email allows sending messages to anyone. Podcasting distributes audio or video files online. Chatting/IM immediately displays messages between users on services like Yahoo and AIM. Discussion boards include forums, blogs, polls, and file sharing. Texting sends messages between phones. Blogs display chronological user postings and comments. The iPhone integrates cellphone, media playback, and web browsing capabilities. The Palm Pre and Blackberry are smartphones with touchscreens, keyboards, and messaging abilities.

1. Electronic Communication Kristie Zothner Pd. 4 E-mail: [email_address] To use email, you can type a message and send it to anyone you want.

2. Podcasting Podcasting is a series of audio or video files that are distributed over the internet. 2 uses: -audio -video

3. Chatting/ IM The transmission of an electronic message over a computer network using software that immediately displays the message in a window on the screen of the recipient. 2 uses: yahoo, AIM

4. Discussion Board The system includes discussion forums, blogs, calendars, polls, questions and answers, picture galleries, file shares, classifieds, keyword advertising, subscriptions, ratings, social networking, and even artificial intelligence.

5. Texting/ SMS The service provided by a telecommunications company for transmitting text messages. 2 uses: you can send a text off almost any phone

6. Blog A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings. 2 uses: to ask questions or discuss topics

7. iPhone A smartphone from Apple that integrates cellphone, iPod, camera, text messaging, e-mail and Web browsing. Data and applications can be sent to the phone wirelessly or via Apple's iTunes software, which is used to organize music, videos, photos and applications

8. Palm Pre Phone The Palm just debuted its long awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touch screen, with a center button down below and touch sensitivity all down the face -- the lower part is for "gestures." A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a portrait orientation, and you can flip the phone on its side for accelerometer-sensed widescreen browsing.

9. Blackberry The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known smart phone BlackBerry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services, was released in 2002.