Reflecting on the course I feel that this course had a nice pace. It didn't move too fast or too slow. the course material wasn't overly easy nor overly hard like other classes.
I learned a lot from this class. I have also become more adept with the use of the computer and internet for academic purposes too.
The incorporation of Vista in the class made me at least give it a chance. Vista is a great idea. Centralizing a class and all its work for the semester on an easy to access and navigate web page is a remarkable idea. vista does however seem to contain some bugs which made class difficult when it was down.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Arguement Reflection
Reflecting on the argument web project I feel that It was a lot like the mulitmodal report project. The main difference was it required more research and writing. Despite it requiring more work it seemed easier than the multimodal report. Maybe that is due ot being more proficient with dreamweaver or that the topic for he argument was near exactly the same as the multimodal aside from the change of going from an informative project to a persuasive project.
I had no problems with dreamweaver this time around and found the whole process to be much simpler and easier. I would change maybe again the same thing that making it look prettier with side bars and other such nifty feature. That would require more intimate knowledge of dreamweaver which I sadly do not possess.
I had no problems with dreamweaver this time around and found the whole process to be much simpler and easier. I would change maybe again the same thing that making it look prettier with side bars and other such nifty feature. That would require more intimate knowledge of dreamweaver which I sadly do not possess.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Argument Claim
My claim is that mmorpg's are much more helpful than detrimental to oneself. MMORPG's bring many like minded people together in an environment where they can live out fantasies, socialize, and interact with each other on a daily basis. Playing mmorpg's one can meet people from all over the world speaking many languages, and with translators understand people who sleapk other languages.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Mulitmodal Report
the mulitmodal report was a different report. Yet, at the same time it was very familiar. I have worked with all the aspects of the report before. Before though I had just worked on them separately. It was definitely something new and a little difficult to learn how to take what I already knew prior projects that only focused on a single media and mash them all together into one cohesive manner to complete the mulitmodal report.
I feel my audience is the typical audience of my peers. The purpose of the project was to inform people about mmorpg's through various forms of media combined into one solid report. I feel my design was simplistic. I am not graphic artist and lack talents to make anything much more complex than what I have already produced. Organization for the most part on my part seemed adequate. I realized in a portions throughout creating the report that I had things going in mismatched ways. Through some trial and error I was able to make it look and read organized.
I am oddly most proud of my system of links at the bottom of each page that allow one to link to other parts of the report. It gave me the least trouble and came out perfect right on the first try.
If I had more time I would have probably worked to make the general design a little better. It would take hours of trial and error for my novice graphic arts skills. The report in a graphcial art sense I would like to make better had I the skill.
Research for the report was fairly difficult. There weren't many articles on my topic that were of only a several page nature most of the articles were at least 10 pages. This led me to sifting through numerous articles trying to see if it had any relevance. Then sifting through the entire text for a line or two to use for an in text citation.
I feel my audience is the typical audience of my peers. The purpose of the project was to inform people about mmorpg's through various forms of media combined into one solid report. I feel my design was simplistic. I am not graphic artist and lack talents to make anything much more complex than what I have already produced. Organization for the most part on my part seemed adequate. I realized in a portions throughout creating the report that I had things going in mismatched ways. Through some trial and error I was able to make it look and read organized.
I am oddly most proud of my system of links at the bottom of each page that allow one to link to other parts of the report. It gave me the least trouble and came out perfect right on the first try.
If I had more time I would have probably worked to make the general design a little better. It would take hours of trial and error for my novice graphic arts skills. The report in a graphcial art sense I would like to make better had I the skill.
Research for the report was fairly difficult. There weren't many articles on my topic that were of only a several page nature most of the articles were at least 10 pages. This led me to sifting through numerous articles trying to see if it had any relevance. Then sifting through the entire text for a line or two to use for an in text citation.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Research Topic
The current plan for my major is a major in chemistry. So I thought it would be appropriate to choose to research the vast amount of technologies in the chemistry field. There are all sorts of technologies in the chemistry field. the wide range of technologies is so vast I honestly can't comprehend right now many of the technologies out there since I just haven't been exposed to them.
Chemists use the basic chemistry equipment such as beaker, Erlynmeyer flask, Bunsen burners, test tubes, and of course the calculator. There is the more advanced stuff such as electrodes, vacuums, and spectrometers to name a paltry amount of technologies. Advancements of course always being made giving birth to even more new technologies in the varying fields of chemistry and many cool amazing things could come of such new technologies.
Chemists use the basic chemistry equipment such as beaker, Erlynmeyer flask, Bunsen burners, test tubes, and of course the calculator. There is the more advanced stuff such as electrodes, vacuums, and spectrometers to name a paltry amount of technologies. Advancements of course always being made giving birth to even more new technologies in the varying fields of chemistry and many cool amazing things could come of such new technologies.
Reflection
Upon reflection of my hypertext essay I feel my audience was a bit narrow. I don't really think that many people would be interested in internet privacy issues sadly. Despite the huge effect a lack of internet privacy could have on the internet itself. Informing people of the issues of internet privacy are important. It never starts with major jumps in taking away privacy. Privacy is always taken by little itty bitty chunks being taken away over a period of time. My purpose was to obviously get the message out about steps taken by companies and the government, although not the government in this case, to take away our digital freedom.
The design of my hypertext essay was simple admittedly. The organization of my essay I feel was organized well topic-wise, but I think amongst my the text in the separate sections I had some over lapping information. By that I mean somethings were said in one topic them mentioned again in another. The presentation was clear. I tried to make it as simple and as effective at getting my point across as I could, as to not confuse persons traversing my essay.
I am proud of how well I was able to succinctly I was able to get my message across. I am usually loquacious. If I had more time I would have made the arrangement of text more appealing to the eye. Possibly add in a picture or maybe put in bulleted lists in stead of just standard in text lists with a lot of commas. If I had greater technical knowledge I would have designed a better layout.
The research for this topic was fairly easy. It article has been circulated around the internet already. There are also a plethora of websites about internet privacy and this particular issue with Facebook and Beacon. Many people have responded to Beacon, negatively I might add. the 50,000 plus signers of the moveon.org petition.
The design of my hypertext essay was simple admittedly. The organization of my essay I feel was organized well topic-wise, but I think amongst my the text in the separate sections I had some over lapping information. By that I mean somethings were said in one topic them mentioned again in another. The presentation was clear. I tried to make it as simple and as effective at getting my point across as I could, as to not confuse persons traversing my essay.
I am proud of how well I was able to succinctly I was able to get my message across. I am usually loquacious. If I had more time I would have made the arrangement of text more appealing to the eye. Possibly add in a picture or maybe put in bulleted lists in stead of just standard in text lists with a lot of commas. If I had greater technical knowledge I would have designed a better layout.
The research for this topic was fairly easy. It article has been circulated around the internet already. There are also a plethora of websites about internet privacy and this particular issue with Facebook and Beacon. Many people have responded to Beacon, negatively I might add. the 50,000 plus signers of the moveon.org petition.
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