Thursday, April 28, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Chapter 5: The Electronic Book
Observations.
The presentation was about the use of the e-book and how it is becoming a part of our everyday lives. The Prezi starts with the quote "They are writing in and on the world". This quote was a theme for most of the Prezi when the presenters showed how writing has changed over the years and how there is a desire to make a big information keeper. The overall message that I took away from the Prezi was that we are moving toward all the information that we are looking for being online. There weren't any weak spots in this because it was clear and came to a full circle at the end.
Infer.
The main points is that we are moving towards e-books being more prominent. The presenters did make a comment regarding libraries and whether they would stay around and I believe that they will always stay around. It was a very good in the fact that it progressed through the history and effectively showed the remediation of writing through time.
Questions.
1. Is the book going anywhere?
2. Are libraries still necessary?
3. How fast is the e-book supposed to take president over the physical book?
4. Has Bolter changed his opinion since publishing his e-book?
5. Is there a general rejection of the e-book?
6. Would people be willing to go to the e-book over the library?
The presentation was about the use of the e-book and how it is becoming a part of our everyday lives. The Prezi starts with the quote "They are writing in and on the world". This quote was a theme for most of the Prezi when the presenters showed how writing has changed over the years and how there is a desire to make a big information keeper. The overall message that I took away from the Prezi was that we are moving toward all the information that we are looking for being online. There weren't any weak spots in this because it was clear and came to a full circle at the end.
Infer.
The main points is that we are moving towards e-books being more prominent. The presenters did make a comment regarding libraries and whether they would stay around and I believe that they will always stay around. It was a very good in the fact that it progressed through the history and effectively showed the remediation of writing through time.
Questions.
1. Is the book going anywhere?
2. Are libraries still necessary?
3. How fast is the e-book supposed to take president over the physical book?
4. Has Bolter changed his opinion since publishing his e-book?
5. Is there a general rejection of the e-book?
6. Would people be willing to go to the e-book over the library?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Chapter 4: Breakout of the Visual (The one that my group did)
I feel like the Prezi that my group worked on accomplished a lot as far as giving information and talking about where internet writing is heading. Besides our presentation being about the breakout of the visual, we showed how the visual has evolved with writing these days. The clarity of the presentation may have been lost a little bit with how short things were. Everyone in our group explained every term and part of the presentation adequately.
The only thing that i wish that we would have improved upon is the amount of visuals we used. I think we didn't use enough visuals, especially during my part of the presentation. The use of visual in a presentation ion the Breakout of the Visual only seemed to make sense. More visuals would allow us to explain and show exactly what we meant. I feel like our presentation was made clear enough though, but this could have improved our presentation.
Overall, I though we did fine.It was fun in my opinion and I like the idea of moving through the writing space. It was an effective way of presenting the breakout of the visual.
The only thing that i wish that we would have improved upon is the amount of visuals we used. I think we didn't use enough visuals, especially during my part of the presentation. The use of visual in a presentation ion the Breakout of the Visual only seemed to make sense. More visuals would allow us to explain and show exactly what we meant. I feel like our presentation was made clear enough though, but this could have improved our presentation.
Overall, I though we did fine.It was fun in my opinion and I like the idea of moving through the writing space. It was an effective way of presenting the breakout of the visual.
Chapter 3: Hypertext and the Remediation of Print
Observations.
The presentation was very cooperative in the fact that all three of the presenters worked together on almost everything. They had points that they did not agree on and they also had points that they all touched based on. It did feel like a repeating exercise every once in a while during the Prezi, but that was understandable in there Hypertext presentation.
Infer.
The main points of this chapter are mainly about the trees of information that can be found online. I recall that they said the closest thing to Hypertext is an index. During the Prezi one of the overall things that the group seems to be getting at is that Hypertext essentially makes everything easier. They also featured the negative in the way hypertext is not giving people as much freedom as they think they are being allowed.
Questions
1. What makes hypertext important?
2. Is hypertext a medium that will change how we write in general?
3. Does the use of hypertext as a product suppose to offend?
4. Does hypertext make other forms such as indexing obsolete?
5. Is the remediation of print meant to be a way of changing everything?
6. Although hypertext is prominent, is special in the way it s addressed?
The presentation was very cooperative in the fact that all three of the presenters worked together on almost everything. They had points that they did not agree on and they also had points that they all touched based on. It did feel like a repeating exercise every once in a while during the Prezi, but that was understandable in there Hypertext presentation.
Infer.
The main points of this chapter are mainly about the trees of information that can be found online. I recall that they said the closest thing to Hypertext is an index. During the Prezi one of the overall things that the group seems to be getting at is that Hypertext essentially makes everything easier. They also featured the negative in the way hypertext is not giving people as much freedom as they think they are being allowed.
Questions
1. What makes hypertext important?
2. Is hypertext a medium that will change how we write in general?
3. Does the use of hypertext as a product suppose to offend?
4. Does hypertext make other forms such as indexing obsolete?
5. Is the remediation of print meant to be a way of changing everything?
6. Although hypertext is prominent, is special in the way it s addressed?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
I'm Not Looking
When I was younger my da always used to be the story teller of the family. He would tell stories about being a skilled soccer player or being the best in his class as a way of inspiring me anmd my little sister. One of the main stories he told me was maybe his craziest xsstory. When I was younger I was a little bit of problem child, just a little bit. I didn't get in too mucgh trouble, but I was no anglel. After I got in trouble my father told me a story about how he threw pencils and things at a teacher with his friends once when he was younger. the morale of the story was that he was a little bad hisslef back in the day , but because he was smart he didn;t get into too much trouble. From then in I was pretty good, but if I got inrouble itwas loked over a bit because of the story my father told me.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
How does this electronic space refashion its predecessor? How does it claim to improve on print's ability to make our thoughts visible and to constit
Online print makes for a way of being more creative and expressing how we feel through fonts and colors. The electronic space gives more freedom particularly because of the designs or the things around it. With the prezis it calls for the audience to be more alert with every change and the way it is ordered can give you more of a rush or a wake up. Online writing like prezis can be arranged in a non linear fashion and the use of the electronic space emphasizes this.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Writing Space. Intorduction.
Jay David Bolter's "Writing Space" introduction briefly talked about the development of writing over time. The evolution of text from physical books to electronic books is discussed as being a way of "refashioning the writing space." While electronic books are becoming something is frequently seen, there still is an appreciation for physical text and most author would rather have their works published in a physical book than have their book on the internet. At the end of the introduction section Bolter talks about the writing space expanding to many things besides just print. I agree with Bolter on the the writing space becoming all forms of writing in sorts and it becoming pretty much every arena of writing.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Taylor Mali
Watching Taylor Mali bring expression to his words through movement and watching the words on the scream just doesn't compare. I have more of an appreciation for Taylor Mali's performance. The way he moves and just his whole image brings forth a feeling that watching/reading words can not express. While I understand the use of the reading words and why it is cool, I believe that Mali's expressions and movement and his ability to act out his speech is way cooler.
Response to Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl
I am beyond a little confused to be honest. I read the whole thing and I will now try to decipher two of the sections from Shelley Jackson's "Stitch Bitch: the patchwork girl".
Body Not Whole
This first part sets kind of sets up the whole stitch work of the whole article. At the beginning of this section Shelley Jackson writes about how the body is not really connected. I am not completely sure of what she was getting at, but from what I take from it she was relating it to writing in the way that things are mot all connected to begin with. When Jackson says "The body is not even experienced as whole. We never see it all, we can't feel our liver working or messages shuttling through our spine", I believe she is talking about how writing on a whole is still in small parts and how they can be read separability.
Boundary Play
This section of beings by saying, "We don't think what we think we think." What Shelley Jackson is saying is similar to when a mind changes what you read to make it correct. The boundaries of our mind need to be expanded so we can have more margin for change when it naturally occurs. I guess that we write what makes sense , maybe, because in a way don't think what we think.
The Problem Describing Trees
Robert Hass' "The Problem Describing Trees" begins with a rather stereotypical approach to a normal poem. The first two lines read, "The aspen glitters in the wind
And that delights us." As Hass goes on he continues to describe the trees in the wind in August, but then he hits a sang. His poem literally rejects itself when it says "No." Hass shows that he has hit a snag of sorts and decides that sometimes a poem needs to disenchant us.
And that delights us." As Hass goes on he continues to describe the trees in the wind in August, but then he hits a sang. His poem literally rejects itself when it says "No." Hass shows that he has hit a snag of sorts and decides that sometimes a poem needs to disenchant us.
Monday, March 14, 2011
4 Letter Word Project, Blue
For this project I decided to go with blue. I used blue in a more literal sense and decided to argue that blue is the underlying color of the universe. Through images of the sky, nature, technology, experiences and an eerie song I was able to create a visual argument that supported my thesis. I used onetruemedia.com to create the video montage and I would have to buy my video to upload it or even share a link.
3 Images form Chel White's video that moved me
Cher White's video was simply put, fun. The short dark comedy of the video produced a lot of images that lasted in my mind.
1. The scrambling eyes
The scrambling eyes stuck with me for some odd reason. I can't really put much of a reason behind it. I would say it represents observation when you are trying to come up with something good to write.
2. The hands doing jumping-jacks
Writing can be such a strenuous exercise sometimes. This really stuck out to me because I can find truth in the fact that sometimes my hand literally hurts and other times I need to take a break from the exercise of thinking.
3. The thoughts in a hole
The image of the thoughts going into a hole in the ground is something I can really relate to. Sometimes I try to write a screenplay and decide that this needs to be discarded and I dig up a mental hole and suppress them forever. The image of purposefully suppressing thoughts that are not useful or that you consider flops is just very real to me.
1. The scrambling eyes
The scrambling eyes stuck with me for some odd reason. I can't really put much of a reason behind it. I would say it represents observation when you are trying to come up with something good to write.
2. The hands doing jumping-jacks
Writing can be such a strenuous exercise sometimes. This really stuck out to me because I can find truth in the fact that sometimes my hand literally hurts and other times I need to take a break from the exercise of thinking.
3. The thoughts in a hole
The image of the thoughts going into a hole in the ground is something I can really relate to. Sometimes I try to write a screenplay and decide that this needs to be discarded and I dig up a mental hole and suppress them forever. The image of purposefully suppressing thoughts that are not useful or that you consider flops is just very real to me.
My sentence with no GPS
A sentence starts out like a person driving a car not fully decided on where he/she wants to go. He has no GPS and has decided to go ahead and jump behind the wheel. The driver has may get lost and may end up turning around, but hopefully the driver will continue to drive until he reaches a desirable destination. Whether the driver is on his way to a his final destination or if he is heading back to a previous point of interest he will see some new attractions on the way.
Is this equation correct? Text > Sound
Because I really can't remember when text messaging became so key I do not find it so odd that text is more prevalent than sound in relation to the phone. I feel that sound is more powerful than the text message and creates a more personal relationship than the use of text messaging. Today's form of communication have become less personal. With the all the technology at hand that make everything easy, why not communicate without actually having to pick up the phone? It is only to be expected that as we go forward into the future, watching Facebook take over the world, we will become a less interactive people.
On a more personal front I guess I like texting more because it gives me the ability to ignore or put people on hold without any interaction. It also gives me the ability to be more clever than I actually am. At least 55% of the witty things I say in response to people probably wouldn't have been vocalized. Text messaging is a way of becoming a more suave person without the hassle of actually being suave. It isn't lying though, it is just more the preference for a lot of people.
An argument can be made saying that texting creates a more shared experience between people. Texting can allow people to share little things when they can not make a phone call. Things your professor just said or if you want to keep things down while communicating a message, you should go towards a text. It's no surprise that texting has become the more prevalent use of the phone, we are making it personal to be impersonal.
I Read Billy Collins' Mind
Because Billy Collins' is a pretty big person and has a lot of fans, so he does not have time to answer all of the questions that have been directed at him on these blogs. So as a favor to Mr. Collins I decided that I would answer a few questions for him. After watching Mr. Collins' video I was able to read his mind and come up with a few responses.
1. Was the purpose of the poem for a laugh, or something deeper? From "What's The Word?: Haley's Magnificent Blog of Wonders" aka Haley's Blog
The purpose of the poem was partly for a laugh, but was also partially a commentary on the symbolism of the original author. Veering away from the rather stereotypical nature of most poems Billy Collins decided to not go all "lovey dovey". I was once told that people make rules for art forms and it is the people who take risks in the most tremendous ways who are seen. Billy Collins just wanted to change the rather systematic poem that he had read.
2. How was this helping the original poem? From "Emergency Bowtie" aka Theodore's Blog
The original poem was boring and just another overly-affectionate poem. There was no freedom and there is probably a stasis for all of the poems from the original author. Billy Collins made the audience laugh and made for a more entertaining poetry reading. The comparisons drawn in the "revised" poem are an improvement in the comedic elements and left the normal realm of romantic poetry.
3. Do you think the person who originally made the poem thinks yours is better? From "Stefania's Ramblings" aka Stefania's Blog
The original author knows that this is a better poem. I am not saying that this was just a throw away poem, nut it is not originally creative. He likes it and thinks it was clever and was honored to have Billy Collins turn his love poem into a funny poem.
1. Was the purpose of the poem for a laugh, or something deeper? From "What's The Word?: Haley's Magnificent Blog of Wonders" aka Haley's Blog
The purpose of the poem was partly for a laugh, but was also partially a commentary on the symbolism of the original author. Veering away from the rather stereotypical nature of most poems Billy Collins decided to not go all "lovey dovey". I was once told that people make rules for art forms and it is the people who take risks in the most tremendous ways who are seen. Billy Collins just wanted to change the rather systematic poem that he had read.
2. How was this helping the original poem? From "Emergency Bowtie" aka Theodore's Blog
The original poem was boring and just another overly-affectionate poem. There was no freedom and there is probably a stasis for all of the poems from the original author. Billy Collins made the audience laugh and made for a more entertaining poetry reading. The comparisons drawn in the "revised" poem are an improvement in the comedic elements and left the normal realm of romantic poetry.
3. Do you think the person who originally made the poem thinks yours is better? From "Stefania's Ramblings" aka Stefania's Blog
The original author knows that this is a better poem. I am not saying that this was just a throw away poem, nut it is not originally creative. He likes it and thinks it was clever and was honored to have Billy Collins turn his love poem into a funny poem.
Monday, February 28, 2011
It Gives You Wings
Moving:
1. The almost fast paced intro that parallels Red Bull its self.
2. The explanation of the title of Red Bull.
3. The personal experiences relayed to the reader in the paper, such as when the author went online to visit the Red Bull Site.
Not so moving IMO:
1. The flow of the paper was not great. The sentences and paragraphs for that matter have a choppy rhythm to it.
2. Repetitive.
1. The almost fast paced intro that parallels Red Bull its self.
2. The explanation of the title of Red Bull.
3. The personal experiences relayed to the reader in the paper, such as when the author went online to visit the Red Bull Site.
Not so moving IMO:
1. The flow of the paper was not great. The sentences and paragraphs for that matter have a choppy rhythm to it.
2. Repetitive.
Apple's iPod
The Moving:
1. The stats offered at the beginning of the paper were cool.
2. The detail oriented description of the iPod classic.
3. Highlighting the uses of the iPod, which make it superior.
Not So Moving IMO:
1. The long conclusion.
2. Lack of a connection to the reader.
3. After a little bit, it became a very technical and programming oriented paper.
1. The stats offered at the beginning of the paper were cool.
2. The detail oriented description of the iPod classic.
3. Highlighting the uses of the iPod, which make it superior.
Not So Moving IMO:
1. The long conclusion.
2. Lack of a connection to the reader.
3. After a little bit, it became a very technical and programming oriented paper.
Friday, February 18, 2011
A few questions.
1. Was the original poem to stereotypical for you?
2. Were most of the metaphors used to say that this is not your love?
3. Was your delivery of the lines used to invoke a comical response?
4. Was this changed in some respect to the original author?
5. Based on the metaphors, do you consider yourself to be better than your supposed love?
6. Do you see romantic poems as more comical than as an act of love?
2. Were most of the metaphors used to say that this is not your love?
3. Was your delivery of the lines used to invoke a comical response?
4. Was this changed in some respect to the original author?
5. Based on the metaphors, do you consider yourself to be better than your supposed love?
6. Do you see romantic poems as more comical than as an act of love?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Why I did my paper the way I did it.
1. White paper
2. Size 12, Times New Roman
3. Portrait Mode
4. No Work-Cited
5. 8x11 Paper
6. Double-Spaced
7. Black colored font
8. Single sided
9. Two staples in the corner
10. 1 inch margins
When I was asked why I made my paper in this format I thought to myself that it was generally how I was taught and I wouldn’t dare do it any other way. But, after thinking about the reason I would use them, I actually thought to myself I would prefer to stay in the format that I used. The format is not only what most teachers and professors ask for; it is the easiest way to do it after establishing a pattern and uniformity. While it is good to be creative is good most of the time, there are other ways to be creative rather than visually making a paper look stunning.
1. I used White Paper because it the standard. Also by making your paper white I think it would let your paper do the talking. The colors could get in the way of the message that you are trying to convey through your essay.
2. Like the white paper size 12, Times New Roman font is a standard and keeps the focus on the points. While changing font’s can be acceptable and there will not always be a loss of message it makes fair when it comes to the length of your work.
3. I didn’t even really know about portrait mode. I was told I was that my paper was in this mode, so I guess it is in portrait mode.
4. I really felt like I didn’t need a work-cited for this particular paper and I felt like I didn’t have sources. I did use another person’s blog, but I made note of that in my paper.
5. Do they even make anything other than 8x11 sized paper for printers. I don’t really know about paper, but if we used smaller paper I could easily do 6-7 pages of work. Don’t ask me about larger paper.
6. Double-spacing is also just a standard of writing a paper for a class. Years ago I was told by a teacher that it makes it easier to read and make not on. So I double-space to help the teacher or professor out.
7. Black font. It is kind of like the same as colored paper in regards to taking about what the paper is really about.
8. Single-sided is all I really know how to do as far as printing out paper. I would only do single-sided anyway. I like my full paper to have a heavy thick fell to it.
9. When I was in about 9th grade I was told that stapling a paper twice makes it easier to flip pages and that teachers and professors like it more. I have been following the “Two Staple Rule” ever since.
10. The 1-inch margin is pretty much the same as portrait mode. I would guess they go hand and hand.
2. Size 12, Times New Roman
3. Portrait Mode
4. No Work-Cited
5. 8x11 Paper
6. Double-Spaced
7. Black colored font
8. Single sided
9. Two staples in the corner
10. 1 inch margins
When I was asked why I made my paper in this format I thought to myself that it was generally how I was taught and I wouldn’t dare do it any other way. But, after thinking about the reason I would use them, I actually thought to myself I would prefer to stay in the format that I used. The format is not only what most teachers and professors ask for; it is the easiest way to do it after establishing a pattern and uniformity. While it is good to be creative is good most of the time, there are other ways to be creative rather than visually making a paper look stunning.
1. I used White Paper because it the standard. Also by making your paper white I think it would let your paper do the talking. The colors could get in the way of the message that you are trying to convey through your essay.
2. Like the white paper size 12, Times New Roman font is a standard and keeps the focus on the points. While changing font’s can be acceptable and there will not always be a loss of message it makes fair when it comes to the length of your work.
3. I didn’t even really know about portrait mode. I was told I was that my paper was in this mode, so I guess it is in portrait mode.
4. I really felt like I didn’t need a work-cited for this particular paper and I felt like I didn’t have sources. I did use another person’s blog, but I made note of that in my paper.
5. Do they even make anything other than 8x11 sized paper for printers. I don’t really know about paper, but if we used smaller paper I could easily do 6-7 pages of work. Don’t ask me about larger paper.
6. Double-spacing is also just a standard of writing a paper for a class. Years ago I was told by a teacher that it makes it easier to read and make not on. So I double-space to help the teacher or professor out.
7. Black font. It is kind of like the same as colored paper in regards to taking about what the paper is really about.
8. Single-sided is all I really know how to do as far as printing out paper. I would only do single-sided anyway. I like my full paper to have a heavy thick fell to it.
9. When I was in about 9th grade I was told that stapling a paper twice makes it easier to flip pages and that teachers and professors like it more. I have been following the “Two Staple Rule” ever since.
10. The 1-inch margin is pretty much the same as portrait mode. I would guess they go hand and hand.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Pantene
After watching the 4 minute Pantene commercial I was kind of at a loss for words. At first I found it to be an awesome commercial and a cool piece of film making. The director of this commercial was lucky to get for minutes in opposition to the normal thirty seconds or so that a director gets. This couldn't have been shown on television, but it still was a cinematic commercial. For some reason I could not make the connections to Pantene's hair products. It was still a good directorial effort by whoever directed it.
Wait! That wasn't a good commercial in my opinion. I didn't see the relevance of the commercials story. It was cool what they did with it visually and thing with the butterfly was kind of cool, but in ways it was stereotypical and uncreative. The first thing I noticed was the old man from a far who has been a mentor inspires the girl to play violin. There was also the fact that all the fuss was over classical instrumentation, Asian people have to play a classical instrument. At the end of the commercial when the man ends up in the hospital, we are shown that there has to be a reason for this girl to be inspired. After re-watching the commercial I noticed that the girl did flip her hair a lot while playing the violin and I said to myself "she does have nice hair though".
Wait! That wasn't a good commercial in my opinion. I didn't see the relevance of the commercials story. It was cool what they did with it visually and thing with the butterfly was kind of cool, but in ways it was stereotypical and uncreative. The first thing I noticed was the old man from a far who has been a mentor inspires the girl to play violin. There was also the fact that all the fuss was over classical instrumentation, Asian people have to play a classical instrument. At the end of the commercial when the man ends up in the hospital, we are shown that there has to be a reason for this girl to be inspired. After re-watching the commercial I noticed that the girl did flip her hair a lot while playing the violin and I said to myself "she does have nice hair though".
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