MSU-MAET TOP TEN
Class of 2007
10 - Skype is a MUST HAVE!
9 - Email can ALWAYS distract you from what you SHOULD be working on.
8 - Websites should be finished in your head before you start on the computer.
7 - Just when you think you know everything about a software, someone has a TECH TIP that you never knew!
6 - You'll learn more from your cohorts/professors than you could ever teach yourself - SO ASK QUESTIONS!
5 - If you don't USE IT, you'll LOSE IT!
4 - Potatoes (in any form) are NOT brain food!
3 - You'll be married to your computer, but CAFFEINE will be your secret affair!
2 - You'll realize that you spent over 540 minutes on a 59 SECOND video, but you'll still be proud of what you did.
1 - Trying to be compelling takes more brainpower than writing a 55 page single spaced ARP!
Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Sunday, 8 July 2007
pre-ARP Presentation
As I finalize my presentation, I feel that I am not doing it justice. The mass amount of time and effort that went into this year-long project is impossible to explain in only 10 minutes time. I am struggling with which aspects of the project to focus on, and while to leave on the side. I wish I could convey a more rounded summary of my efforts, but I will have to settle for grinding down the edges as much as possible. I am excited to share the project with my cohorts and professors and to get feedback and possibly share more about what I was able to do because of my ARP. I feel that despite the lack of concrete quantitative data the project was a valuable learning experience and a huge success.
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Transliteracy throughout History
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/images/flash_projects/john-morph.html
This is an excellent example of the development of Transliteracy from the BEGINNING. We think of transliteracy as from the current books to what the future will hold, but transliteracy has been going on for YEARS to some extent. Watching this flash really made me think the of past and how writing in general has developed throughout the years. There have been so many developments that really "REVOLUTIONIZED" the process of creating and reading text throughout history. I'm sure at every point that a new way was introduced, civilization thought that it couldn't advance any further! This website has shown me where we've come in the last 2000 years, it will be amazing to see where we will be EVEN 20 YEARS from now.
We're not really changing HOW we read, we're just changing WHERE we read.
This is an excellent example of the development of Transliteracy from the BEGINNING. We think of transliteracy as from the current books to what the future will hold, but transliteracy has been going on for YEARS to some extent. Watching this flash really made me think the of past and how writing in general has developed throughout the years. There have been so many developments that really "REVOLUTIONIZED" the process of creating and reading text throughout history. I'm sure at every point that a new way was introduced, civilization thought that it couldn't advance any further! This website has shown me where we've come in the last 2000 years, it will be amazing to see where we will be EVEN 20 YEARS from now.
We're not really changing HOW we read, we're just changing WHERE we read.
Sunday, 1 July 2007
iImage Reflection Questions
1. Give a one sentence description of the idea.
" No Child Left Behind emphasizes the score but forgets the student."
2. Describe the experience of the idea
I wanted the viewers to feel the despair and abandonment that is happening to students in today's public schools systems after implementing No Child Left Behind. The students scores are higher than before, but at what cost. Teachers are pressured more and more to focus on the standardized test where a portion of the school funding is decided, but are told "not to teach to the test." More time is taken away from the beginning of the year which teachers should use to get to know their students, learn their strengths and weaknesses and begin to form positive relationships that will set the tone for the rest of the year, in order to prepare for the test which is given in October, only one month after returning from summer vacation. The girl in my iImage is a representation of the felling shared by both students and teachers as more time is spent training for the test than is spent on the individual student.
3. Describe the design of the i-Image
My thoughts behind the iImage after reading the article about design, was to create the girls face as the focus, appropriately in the middle. I then wanted to surround her with the terms of NCLB. To give it a sense that she was visibly upset by the invasion, I placed a few words very close to her but not to disrupt her face and the anguish it presented. I hoped that the eye would work its way left to right around the head reading the terms that were surrounding her and getting a sense of why she was so miserable. Finally the eye is to loop back to her face where it follows the path of the tears down directly to the altered logo "No Child LEFT."
" No Child Left Behind emphasizes the score but forgets the student."
2. Describe the experience of the idea
I wanted the viewers to feel the despair and abandonment that is happening to students in today's public schools systems after implementing No Child Left Behind. The students scores are higher than before, but at what cost. Teachers are pressured more and more to focus on the standardized test where a portion of the school funding is decided, but are told "not to teach to the test." More time is taken away from the beginning of the year which teachers should use to get to know their students, learn their strengths and weaknesses and begin to form positive relationships that will set the tone for the rest of the year, in order to prepare for the test which is given in October, only one month after returning from summer vacation. The girl in my iImage is a representation of the felling shared by both students and teachers as more time is spent training for the test than is spent on the individual student.
3. Describe the design of the i-Image
My thoughts behind the iImage after reading the article about design, was to create the girls face as the focus, appropriately in the middle. I then wanted to surround her with the terms of NCLB. To give it a sense that she was visibly upset by the invasion, I placed a few words very close to her but not to disrupt her face and the anguish it presented. I hoped that the eye would work its way left to right around the head reading the terms that were surrounding her and getting a sense of why she was so miserable. Finally the eye is to loop back to her face where it follows the path of the tears down directly to the altered logo "No Child LEFT."
JumpCut video trial
Jumpcut was a new application for me. I found many frustrations while trying to work through it. First of all I forced myself to read the directions - Geetha would be proud! I watched the "training video" first, which seemed very simplistic and short, then I read through the entire users guide taking notes along the way. It seemed rather easy, and proved the same, the only problems I ran into were picture sizes. I had HUGE pictures saved, and at first used those files, but they took forever to upload. So I had to go back and resize those pictures. It was easy for me b/c I knew how, but I can see someone with NO experience trying this for the first time, becoming impatient and giving up. Audacity was easy to use for me as well, b/c I've been using it throughout the school year, but again, with no experience, someone might have a hard time figuring out the self narration and importing it into the program. The timing of the pictures and the effects seemed easy enough to use. The title got me a little confused as I tried to add it at the end and it automatically placed itself at the end of the presentation, so I just took it off at the last minute. I'm not happy with my final product, but again we were told it was a rough draft. I obviously would refine it and create a more seamless version if we were to follow through to a final product. It definitely helped me think about the story board and the assignment due on Monday. Now it's just about taking what I've pieced together and revising it to become something I'm happy with. AKA. Take the "crap" and make it something "good."
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