Last class, which now, was over a week ago, we received our first project which requires us to research a digital artist and produce a slide show in keynote. The slide show should include information about the artist and what we learned about their specific work. I requested to get Cary Peppermint and from what I have found so far, I really like his work. It is very original and has a strong sense of the natural world. You can tell that he likes to involve nature within his artwork.
I could not get the Delicious link to post onto my blog last week, I apprarently "broke" something while it was trying to load. However, I did post the link onto my blog, the same way I am posting this, as you can obviously see. Anyway, it is extremely helpful how I can access my Delicious account from any computer, whether it's a pc or a mac. Keynote, on the other hand, I have used before in a other classes and find it very easy to use. And I just want to say that my favorite part of keynote is how it gives you ruler lines when you want something perfectly in the middle or you want to line up text or anything. that feature is extremely helpful. More later, I'll update you with some more information and research I find on the wonderful, Cary Peppermint.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
my delicious is broken, con't.
that was for the "adding a gadget" feature on blogger, so i guess i'm just gonna live without one. you can still get to my delicious, it's just not in "link" format, you have to type it in. i wish you all good luck.
my delicious is still broken.
i tried deleting my account and signing up again with the same username and password and it still said it was broken and will not work until fixed. it says something in the XML is unreadable or something. ill try again later.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
9/8
In regards to the question of whether the Internet has augmented or stifled the senses: i would say that it has bone both to all senses. Because philosophically, the Internet has ultimately either helped us or has hurt us, whether it has gotten someone involved in a personal or familial struggle or hasn't aided in the quest to find who built the armature for the statue of liberty. There is a never ending mass of information within each byte of Internet. I like what someone said in class when they said, it's basically the world in a computer. That concept goes along with what William Gibson says in his book, Neuromancer, when he states that cyberspace is unthinkable complexity; because, in itself, complexity is unthinkable, that's why something or someone is complex. I could go on and on, in fact , I'm getting a little overwhelmed with all the thoughts floating, sprinting rather, in and out of my head at this very moment.
The idea of human interaction and the Internet is somewhat redundant because it is humankind researching, creating, etc. everything within cyberspace, which is all being housed by the Internet. However, with humankind improving and advancing within technology, the Internet and computers, themselves are and will continue to be extremely important, for lack of a beater word, in the world we are living in today.
Technology has become such a stronghold for people and the computers and the Internet are extremely influential reasons for this dependence.
Within the very near future, a culture will emerge that is even more dependent on technology than we are now. This is the trend that has been started for a long time now and will just become more and more engraved within the motives and views of people and the culture surrounding each individual. Furthermore, the trend that is becoming more influential and reaching more of the population everyday. Prime example, being grade school students in Africa are able to obtain laptops through different organizations and charities, thus being more in tune and up to date within the world surrounding them. Which, going along with my whole view on this subject, can be helpful or a hindrance.
My final thought: newer, better, faster, stronger, more efficient is all the world is feeding us, it's only in our nature to want more so why wouldn't we? [want more]
The idea of human interaction and the Internet is somewhat redundant because it is humankind researching, creating, etc. everything within cyberspace, which is all being housed by the Internet. However, with humankind improving and advancing within technology, the Internet and computers, themselves are and will continue to be extremely important, for lack of a beater word, in the world we are living in today.
Technology has become such a stronghold for people and the computers and the Internet are extremely influential reasons for this dependence.
Within the very near future, a culture will emerge that is even more dependent on technology than we are now. This is the trend that has been started for a long time now and will just become more and more engraved within the motives and views of people and the culture surrounding each individual. Furthermore, the trend that is becoming more influential and reaching more of the population everyday. Prime example, being grade school students in Africa are able to obtain laptops through different organizations and charities, thus being more in tune and up to date within the world surrounding them. Which, going along with my whole view on this subject, can be helpful or a hindrance.
My final thought: newer, better, faster, stronger, more efficient is all the world is feeding us, it's only in our nature to want more so why wouldn't we? [want more]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"Is Google making us stupid?"
"WE ARE HOW WE READ."
I want to first point out the obvious irony of this article: Nick Carr plainly states that he "... can't read War and Peace anymore... I've lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it." Yet, he writes a lengthy article to of which he must have edited himself, thus showing his capability of reading, comprehending, and following a subject he actually finds intellectually stimulating.
When I read his simple metaphor: "Once I was a scuba diver in sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski" very appropriate to the subject matter. I like this metaphor for two reasons. One: I find this visual representation of his literary history very easy to understand. Two: It justifies a lot of peoples' relationships with the Internet and how easy it is to use or obtain any and all information.
Also, while reading this, I can't help but think about the fact of Americans and the concept of "instant gratification." The Internet is a huge supplier of instant gratification and people find that very appealing. Instant being fast and the Internet having results in 0.12 seconds, according to google.com and searching for information regarding "typos."
"It almost seems they go online to avoid reading in a traditional sense."
Spark notes: exhibit A.
I really enjoyed reading this article. A lot. I become another statistic dealing with the subject of reading and it not being one of my strong suits, let alone, one of my favorite hobbies. I am a lot of those people that psychologists and researchers point out. I skim everything, if I can, "mumble reading," only saying a recognizable word every 30 words or so, as I speed through the media. Although, in my defense, I am reading a lot more nowadays, for recreational purposes. I have to thank Stephanie Meyer for that because it was her Twilight Saga that made me fall in love with the written word again. but, then I fall right back out with an assignment on the character flaws that led to Reverend Dimmsdale's fall in the Scarlet Letter, having to read The Scarlet Letter.
It's horrible.
When I was little and we had the standardized testing in elementary school, I always scored the lowest on the reading comprehension portions, despite the math portions, but that is a whole other battle. Furthermore, I was "diagnosed?" with ADD in, comically enough, my second attempt at fourth grade. I can definitely, without a doubt, see eye to eye with Nick Carr and understand completely why he cannot read War and Peace anymore. It's so clear. I mean, according to Ms. Wolf, my neural circuits really must work hard to translate symbolic characters found in books, etc.
I believe, according to this article and my own personal struggle with other types of learning, a large part of the population are visual learners. (I am a visual learner.) Books and lengthy articles, etc. require our minds to go places that require us to use our imagination, but sometimes, we can't get our brain to go to those places because the stimulation is so weak and "boring." I can read a whole chapter, but not comprehend any of it because I was thinking about that time I ate food off another person's table at that sushi restaurant. That is the story of my life. Therefore, instead, I skim and give my brain no room or chance to think about anything else, because it knows that I will be done the "torture" in a matter of seconds or minutes, as opposed to a lot of minutes or hours.
And like the article states, in one way or another, I don't believe Google is making us stupid, but how much individuals depend on Google and how they utilize their "Internet paths" is not as bright, I don't want to say stupid because there are many things in this world that are worthy of being labeled stupid.
I was just writing whatever came into my mind, thus the sporadic spurts of opinions and information displayed here in an essay-like format.
sea of words < jet ski
I want to first point out the obvious irony of this article: Nick Carr plainly states that he "... can't read War and Peace anymore... I've lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it." Yet, he writes a lengthy article to of which he must have edited himself, thus showing his capability of reading, comprehending, and following a subject he actually finds intellectually stimulating.
When I read his simple metaphor: "Once I was a scuba diver in sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski" very appropriate to the subject matter. I like this metaphor for two reasons. One: I find this visual representation of his literary history very easy to understand. Two: It justifies a lot of peoples' relationships with the Internet and how easy it is to use or obtain any and all information.
Also, while reading this, I can't help but think about the fact of Americans and the concept of "instant gratification." The Internet is a huge supplier of instant gratification and people find that very appealing. Instant being fast and the Internet having results in 0.12 seconds, according to google.com and searching for information regarding "typos."
"It almost seems they go online to avoid reading in a traditional sense."
Spark notes: exhibit A.
I really enjoyed reading this article. A lot. I become another statistic dealing with the subject of reading and it not being one of my strong suits, let alone, one of my favorite hobbies. I am a lot of those people that psychologists and researchers point out. I skim everything, if I can, "mumble reading," only saying a recognizable word every 30 words or so, as I speed through the media. Although, in my defense, I am reading a lot more nowadays, for recreational purposes. I have to thank Stephanie Meyer for that because it was her Twilight Saga that made me fall in love with the written word again. but, then I fall right back out with an assignment on the character flaws that led to Reverend Dimmsdale's fall in the Scarlet Letter, having to read The Scarlet Letter.
It's horrible.
When I was little and we had the standardized testing in elementary school, I always scored the lowest on the reading comprehension portions, despite the math portions, but that is a whole other battle. Furthermore, I was "diagnosed?" with ADD in, comically enough, my second attempt at fourth grade. I can definitely, without a doubt, see eye to eye with Nick Carr and understand completely why he cannot read War and Peace anymore. It's so clear. I mean, according to Ms. Wolf, my neural circuits really must work hard to translate symbolic characters found in books, etc.
I believe, according to this article and my own personal struggle with other types of learning, a large part of the population are visual learners. (I am a visual learner.) Books and lengthy articles, etc. require our minds to go places that require us to use our imagination, but sometimes, we can't get our brain to go to those places because the stimulation is so weak and "boring." I can read a whole chapter, but not comprehend any of it because I was thinking about that time I ate food off another person's table at that sushi restaurant. That is the story of my life. Therefore, instead, I skim and give my brain no room or chance to think about anything else, because it knows that I will be done the "torture" in a matter of seconds or minutes, as opposed to a lot of minutes or hours.
And like the article states, in one way or another, I don't believe Google is making us stupid, but how much individuals depend on Google and how they utilize their "Internet paths" is not as bright, I don't want to say stupid because there are many things in this world that are worthy of being labeled stupid.
I was just writing whatever came into my mind, thus the sporadic spurts of opinions and information displayed here in an essay-like format.
sea of words < jet ski
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