Triple Troll Attack

The three individuals I had in mind when doing this assignment were Steve Jobs, Douglas Engelbart, and Peter Norton. They have made significant contributions to personal computing. The person in the image is Douglas Engelbart. The quote is actually from Steve Jobs, but is attributed to Peter Norton.  

This assignment was really enjoyable. I found an image of Douglas Engelbart. I saved it as a Paint file. Then, I clicked on the A (Home tab) for the text box. I placed the quote and the person's name in the text box. After saving the file, I uploaded it to Blogger. I used black for the font color of the quote because I thought it would look good on a grey background (the wall in the background), and used blue for person's name hoping to add some color to the black-and-white image.   

Response to "We Are All Artists"

In the blogpost titled "We Are All Artists", Tim Owen (pen name "Timmmmyboy") discusses his understanding of the arts and creativity. As per the title of his blogpost, he believes that every one of us is an artist.

Timmmmyboy discusses some important ideas related to creativity. Some of his main ideas are that creativity is not inherited and that practice improves and makes perfect. This is because one learns to be an artist (for example) and because artists (particularly designers) work diligently on designs and to ensure that aesthetics and functionality coexist with each other. His other idea that practice improves and makes perfect holds true because beautiful works of art and beautiful designs are beautiful because the artists (painters and designers, respectively) worked diligently until they could master every small, minute detail.   

Another important idea he holds is that one is creative in difficult and uncomfortable situations. Basically, creativity is about finding an extraordinary solution to daily problems, and about finding novel approaches to deal with everyday situations. 

I personally feel that desire and need are the keys to creativity. That is the desire and need to find new and rather extraordinary solutions. Furthermore, I feel that, in a sense, we are artists because of our expressive abilities. However, we are not always artists. This is because creativity is an important key to being an artist. We are creative when we want to find solutions. Perhaps, it can be said that we are all artists especially when we want to find solutions. 

Midterm exam

The Digital Storytelling movement, also known as DS106, uses digital tools to enable individuals to tell their stories on the Web in a compelling and engaging manner. There are various approaches to storytelling. This blog post seeks to discuss the web approach of Digital Storytelling.

The Web approach of Digital Storytelling uses technologies such as Google Maps, Google Search, and others to enact narratives. Other techniques employed include using a picture or video of a pet in a particular situation, and trying to narrate one's own personal story using the picture or video.

These are the links to the three blogs:

http://meritnews.education.wisc.edu/post/2011/09/28/Storytelling-Through-Digital-Media.aspx

http://www.netsquared.org/blog/trenton/center-digital-storytelling-listen-deepl

http://socialmediatoday.com/heatherwhaling/336787/digital-storytelling-30-social-tools-create-sharable-memorable-stories

Image: Digital Storytelling 2011 welcome screen  by digistorytellin through CC licensing

Blog post 2

After the first blog post, we basically continued with our Daily Shoot assignments and discussed about social media and pop culture. Pop culture (short for popular culture) includes music, movies, gadgets, fashion, social networking sites (SNS), and other forms of amusement and communication that have mainstream popularity on a large scale. Social media includes social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Mixi. SNS have become very instrumental, particularly in business. They are used for important purposes such as promotion and market research.

pop culture

Pop culture (short for popular culture) includes music, movies, gadgets, fashion, social networking sites (SNS), and other forms of amusement and communication that have mainstream popularity on a large scale. The aforementioned factors (music, movies, gadgets, SNS, others) are included in culture because they become a central part of daily life and personal needs.

Popular culture differs with individual needs, personal preferences, as well as one's ethnicity, age, and financial situation. For example, children would love Tom and Jerry, while adults would would like movies such as Avatar. SNS such as Facebook and Mixi, however, are popular with individuals of different ages. Smartphones, including the iPhone, happen to be widely popular with the middle-class, and are continuing to increase in popularity and use. Japanese people, regardless of age, would like Anime such as Doraemon and Naruto. In the United States, children as well as adults would like Dexter's Laboratory.  

re: the history of the Internet in a nutshell

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/

This article covers key events as well people and organizations involved in the history of the network that is today known as the Internet.

The Internet, as we know, is the global network of interconnected computer networks. It actually began as a project by the United States Department of Defense to enable researchers across the country to collaborate at various sites. Those "various sites" were universities and research laboratories across the United States.

Data over the Internet is transmitted into bundles called packets. ARPANET was the first network to use packet switching technology. On October 29, 1969, Stanford and the UCLA connected for the first time, thus becoming the first hosts on the network that is today known as the Internet.  

E-mail and the @ mark actually started in 1971. It was the work and implementation of programmer Ray Tomlinson. In 1973, the first overseas connection was made by ARPANET between the University College of London. The "breakthrough year" was 1974 due to a proposal to link networks similar to ARPANET into ""inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP)." (http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/)

Later, the World Wide Web (where commerce and considerable transmission of information takes place  today) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991.

The Internet has indeed revolutionized the way we communicate, find information, as well as conduct business. Social networks like Facebook and Mixi allow users to have and communicate with as many friends as possible free of cost! The Internet is definitely a benefit for society as it helps in quick access to knowledge, as well as facilitating the learning of languages. Communication technologies like Skype and Yahoo Messenger turn out to be cost-effective for businesses as people can communicate with those in their contact list free of cost! One individual can also communicate with more than 3 people at the same time! Due to the aforementioned reasons, the Internet is definitely a benefit for society.     

CIS Fall 2011 - Week 2

Hello World!

This is my first blog post ever! It is now the end of Week 2. We discussed Mendel's Law of Genetics, as well as the history of the Internet.