Podcast Assignment

Songs

Say-John Meyer

Whatcha Say- Jason Derulo

Only exception- Paramore

Soul To Squeeze- Red Hot Chili Peppers

Dreams- Fleetwood Mac

Mmmm Whatcha say

Mmm that you only meant well,

Of course you did

Mmmm whatcha say

wha-wha- what did she say?

(x2) say what you need to say….

…Even if your hands are shaking

And you faith is broken

Even as the eyes are closing

Do it with a heart….

Heart

And I watched

As he tried to reassemble it….

…You are the only exception…

…Maybe I know somewhere

Deep in my soul…

Soul to squeeze

Well all the love from thee

With these dying trees I scream

The angel in my dreams

Dreams of loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad

In the stillness of remembering what you had

And what you lost

When the rain washes you clean you’ll know

You’ll know, you will know

You’ll know

The mixed five songs are all about love and the diffuclties of love, so I decided to mix them with that theme in mind. I wanted to portray this in a mixture of different music genres.

Flat Classroom Student Summit

I learned about Workflow software and how it helps us collaborate from different spots around the world by using wikis and information websites on the internet. Workflow software is a popular tool that can help people build up a large quantity of information easily and with another person. By learning this I realized that not only use workfow software, i use it everyday in fact. I enjoyed the feeling of being able to work with students who were as dedicated to the project as I was. The biggest challenge however was working with the less dedicated students and how they rarely communicated with the other members of the group. I would think that adding required check in posts in discussions would create an incentive to look at what the group has put together.

The Keynote of the FlatClassroomProject 2011

After watching the Keynote for the Flat Classroom Project I was asked to answer questions:

1.)I think that the title is "Big Little Classrooms" because no matter the size, everyone can communicate with the internet making their classrooms big on the internet but having the small class group all at the same time.
2.) The students in the Hawksdale group used things such a skype, elluminate and other instant messengers to communicate around the world.
3.) Anne Mirtschin uses video chats and instant messegngers, along with twitter to gather guests to talk and to teach through videos to her students
4.) I believe her thoughts on having a better learning experiance on the web. It just functions better to learn from real live people what their culture is from them, not from a text book that could have been written two decades ago.
5.) to make real time connections can enable someone on a project to collaborate with a partner thousands and thousands of miles away without waiting for someone to respond in their time period or their class time. With video chatting and such you can get information right away, get progress done faster, be productive in the means of instant communication.

The World is Flat, Folks.

So being introduced to the world is flat concept changed my idea of global economics via the Flat Classroom Project. This focuses on the concept developed by Thomas Friedman that the economic playing field is flattening out. Its becoming even for countries like India and China who are in the eastern hemisphere and are starting to control the economy of the world like America has, like Britain has. He describes it as such. The first version of the world economy took place in 1492 to the early 1800s and was focused around country economy. The second version took place from the early 1800s to the year 2000 and focused around large company economy. The last version has taken place since then and focuses on individual growth in the economy.

Next were the iron rules of business. The first always being: Do something or someone else will. Really it says take advantage of the ideas you have before someone else has it and takes all the profit for something that you had an idea for. The second rule is your biggest competition is yourself. You need to create new ideas and make them fast because that will be your economic downfall. The third and last rule: Learn to communicate like the rest of the world does or you’re getting nowhere. People have learned to communicate a certain way with each other and if you can’t do that then it’s going to be a tough economic road for you.

The Flat Classroom Project worries me with how much we are going to have to rely on the internet and trying to communicate efficiently with each other. Are times zones going to matter? Are there hints and tips on how to connect to a person you feel like is away from the group?

Harry Potter in 99 Seconds

I do have to say that this is my new favorite video on youtube. Its involves little spoilers for the series, creative liscense and techniques involving posting yourself in the same video. I also recommend that you look at this artist's resume of videos, one including a paper beatebox. When some people have too much time on their hands, they make bad videos. This guy is not one of them.

OneNote with Microsoft

With digitools we have explored the functions of Microsoft OneNote. The functions are quite similiar to Evernote, although this is a program that comes with the Microsoft Enterprise 2010. I was introduced it through the class by my teacher, and quite frankly, I like it. Its very handy and it doesn't take a lot of computer knowledge to use it so many people could understand and work together on it.

It comes with many functions including writing in tables without having to bother with text boxes. There are also digital functions such as clickable checkboxes and versatile icons. I like Onenote and would like to have the ability to use this program during class. Another convienant function is that you can type anywhere on the page. This is nice because you can label diagrams and photos. My favorite function is the screen clipping button. While on the internet you can find a picture and if you want to have just the picture but not the website around it, you can click the screen clipping button and crop that picture right from the internet into your notes, with a citation. This would be easy to use when researching a topic and needing to citate everything.

So between OneNote and Evernote, I like Onenote better. Just so many functions that we can use to better our note taking in the digital future. I would strongly recommened checking both out, though. Evernote is a website that requires a log in and it saves all your notes to their database. Everyone you allow can view them, and they can be shared onto sites like Facebook and Twitter, even a better way to help classmates or buisness associates use your knowledge.

Why I Spend Much Time On the Internet

As my mother will tell you: I spend way too much time on the computer. It may seem pointless, but I do get some things done. I look up things to research, music to listen to, and terms that I may need.




www.Deviantart.com- it may sound rather "deviant" as the title may suggest, but it was created as a free posting website for aspiring artists to get their art out onto the web and hopefully get discovered. But nowadays the site is used for submissions that connect people thorugh favorite topics and "fanart" of their favorite series. I use deviantart to see what other people use as inspiration and hopefully be inspired myself. But I also use it for humor because as the site grows, it's used for more humorous and comical ideas.


www.wikia.com- This website is like a wikipedia for all the information on specific subjects. I can look up a video game and and company and the site will lead me to information on characters, plot, and develpoments in new games. I can look up a person and get link to all the books or movies that they have worked on.


www.youtube.com- I of course use the popular website to find the song that I heard on the radio and absolutely needed to hear again. This gives me the ability to find out what everyone is talking about when Lady Gaga has "gone too far again" with her latest video and see exactly what everyone means. It also helps me browse through the songs on albums that you don't hear on the internet so that instead of the thirty second preview you get on Itunes, you can hear the whole song then decide if the whole album is worth it.


So if this is wasting time, I guess you have your opinion, but I'm curious about what websites other people spend so much time on, so tell me please.