I thought it was a new learning experience in the classroom where at first I was having a big hurdle to jump over. I was never into getting into the internet communication with blogger or tweet or any of those. In fact, I only had 1 hotmail account before the class started that I have rarely used since early high school (which I still do not use very much). However this class has broadened my perspective on the good ways in learning more about all the other ways to use the internet. There is such a broad source of information that anyone can gather good information on the internet. So why not try to use this as a classroom for learning. Initial ways on explanation of how to use the program for beginners could be more step by step. But after I did a few assignments as requested in a repeating fashion, I was able to catch on to how the system works. After I got the hang of it I did like how it was set up.
With the ability to see your progress, what you are working on, and what is coming up, the main way the sight is built is rather quite good. I do think that 3D game lab could be a good future learning classroom for students once they learn how to use the program. It is quite forward with how we can take a new direction for the next generation for a classroom. Any time we can do more with a broad access to so much information at our fingertips, I am all for.
Roy Forrest HUM101
Sunday, July 22, 2012
My thoughts on evolution
Why I Believe In Evolution,
I think that evolution is a reasonable source of data that could give us the reason of how we came to be in the world that we are living in today. I believe in God myself too, not saying that I understand everything about this world myself, but couldn't evolution be the answer to how and not the answer to why.
I grew up learning and dealing with quite a bit about geology from rocks and minerals, along with fossils and other past time creatures that lived on the planet. My father was a geologist, so I was able to trip over boxes, and boxes of different samples of many of earths various elements and various fossils. The past can reveal a lot about where everything came from, along with good knowledge that evolution could be a viable explanation for things. As most people that understand the study of earth, there is one good example to show how we can judge what we are able to study in the earths time, the deeper we dig, the further into the past we can see or go.
I think that evolution is a reasonable source of data that could give us the reason of how we came to be in the world that we are living in today. I believe in God myself too, not saying that I understand everything about this world myself, but couldn't evolution be the answer to how and not the answer to why.
I grew up learning and dealing with quite a bit about geology from rocks and minerals, along with fossils and other past time creatures that lived on the planet. My father was a geologist, so I was able to trip over boxes, and boxes of different samples of many of earths various elements and various fossils. The past can reveal a lot about where everything came from, along with good knowledge that evolution could be a viable explanation for things. As most people that understand the study of earth, there is one good example to show how we can judge what we are able to study in the earths time, the deeper we dig, the further into the past we can see or go.
As scientists have been doing so for years, we have been able to obtain information from samples of the earth that can give us a idea of where we could have been built up from.
This is another example web-sight where another shared similar examples to what I can agree on some of the ideas of evolution.
I have always been fascinated with paleontology and geography. It has always broadened by perspective on the view of the world whenever I am driving on the highway and happen to pass a rock formation or hill or mountain that has been blasted or dug into to make way for a highway. Just looking at the different layers in the ground has always fascinated me on how they were possibly formed or created to settle in that way and how long they have been like that until it has been revealed by digging it up for my passing eyes on the highway to see.
One very good thing that I have learned over the years is that no-one really knows everything except for god. That is also another thing that drives me into learning about many things. So I can have the experiences and known knowledge on such things to understand a possibility on where we might have come from. Not to an absolute answer of a yes or no, but a closer understanding by placing a few more pieces of the life puzzle together for our understanding.
I too have what I would like to say a respectable religious background in the LDS church. I also see that god does things for a reason beyond our understanding. But that is something that I do believe that he has left us these clues for us to broaden our perspective in the drive for understanding where we live and what has happened in our past. I do believe all that the Bible and Book of Mormon has taught us and I do also like to understand much more about all points of view. It helps me come up with a better conclusion for myself for whatever answer I might be looking for, wether I know, or know not what that answer is.
Roy Forrest HUM101
(William Brown group partner)
Why I don’t believe in evolution.
It stems from mostly personal experience but I do have ways of portraying it logically.
I have to look at it in a way, that if god does exist then there has to be a reason that we are here. Then I see that I have to find a propose to be here.
I have to look at what is written about the creation of earth from the beginning can a being create plants and animals and humans?
In our day and age we can play with and change some DNA we have even in the most crudest of ways caused mutations through radiation and chemicals. We may not understand it yet but we can. We also have a understanding of molecules and how they work theoretically also enough to know how to break them apart in some fashion. When the bible says that god created man from the dust of the earth what could that be? Molecules? Are they not really the dust of the earth?
What are we as humans looking to do? Are we not trying to create things, make things better, live longer, and understand more make our bodies impervious to sickness? If aloud to we could probably make most of those things happen but we are bound by morals that stop us from doing those things. Because right now our knowledge is limited to a point.
Lets now look at what some of the things we do know lets take for instance DNA that is past from parents to children we can see that dna can even have a say in how a child thinks and acts take for instance a child born to two parents that are fluent musicians that child can have a disposition to want to learn music and may even find it easier to learn than let’s say a child that is born to parents that are both doctors. Through our understanding we know this to be true in some circumstances.
Now that I have explained a little of how I think I will go back to the beginning. If anyone believes that there is a god. There must be some reason to us being here. Now I said a lot of how I believe is based off personal experience. When I first had children I wanted for them to understand what I understood right away I wanted them to know through my experience what I have learned to keep them from making the same mistakes I made so that they would be able to have the time of their lives to make themselves even better than what I had. Inherently I feel that most people that have children feel the same. We know what works and what doesn’t work and we want to have that pasted on so that they can learn more.
This is what I feel is the main reason that we are here. God put us here to learn to be more like him a being that is perfect and wants his children to be just like him and this is just kindergarten. The human body does have the ability to become perfect. It’s there, we don’t understand it, but we know it’s there.
Bodies change faster than we want to believe. Evolution says we have become what we are now over billions of years I think that if we combine all that we know now we can see that a body can change in just one generation like what we have been looking at in our class i.e. the brain and how it has become rewired in our children to understand electronics. If you have ever watched supersize me we can see two things but only one is portrayed in the movie. What was portrayed in the movie was what we put into our bodes can directly affect our health. But one thing was not addressed was that his body even though at first started to kick back what was taken into it eventually it started to level off he says and talks about that he felt like he was going to possibly die. So he changes the parameters a little to trying to eat the more healthier meals that they provided. We know that our bodies can change to acclimate for the situation. If you watch survivor the tv show the people that were on the show to the end, you can see that in small ways their bodies also changed. Those were instances that were not meant for scientific studies had they had that in mind and people agreeing to step out of the moral boundaries of they could die if we do that then we could have seen even more of how the body works. Now let’s take bulimic’s and how they train their bodies to respond a certain way it may be unhealthy but that is what they do. They go without eating for days than they eat a little and the body does what with that food stores most of it as fat then the person feels fat then change back to not eating the it’s the same process all over. Let’s take someone that is a marathon runner they know that at a certain part of the race there bodies have to go from burning carbohydrates to burning fats it’s the hardest part of the race but they have trained their bodies to do just that and it does it in a matter of minutes. It does take time to train their bodies but it happens.
I think I have shown just a handful of ways that lead me to believe that we are not as old as we think.
Now what if let’s say we are working toward perfecting our bodies what if at some point we eventually do just that like, we can communicate telepathically, we heal instantly and we don’t age. All things that we talk about and are looked at and its also pushed at us in many forms of media. What if that happens? could we not then say lets drop a man and a woman on a planet that we have made habitable and we know through experience what can happen.
I am only telling you just a portion of what I think. I do believe that this world was created and we were put on this earth for a propose. And I do feel that we have a goal of to be like our parent God. Do I understand everything now? I don’t but I think that it is not meant for me to understand everything. Just like I can’t tell my son that the stove is hot and for him to understand what hot is and how heat is used for making food and how our bodies have used that food and how that makes our bodies pass on DNA and so on and so forth. He first has to touch that stove and get burned to understand heat. It is the same with god he gives us time to grow and learn but conflict and separation from each other through distance and cultures stop our growth even faster. If we combine our knowledge instead of I’m right your wrong we can see that its only through conflict that we stop our growth just like how when we put things into it that is foreign it sometimes fights it because it’s not how we have trained it but when we continue to do it our bodies acclimate to it and change sometimes good sometimes bad. I think that when the bible says that the natural man is an enemy to god that it means just that, when we fight it stops our growth to a crawl but then after we have come to a end of the fighting that we have changed sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad.
I would say that to end this I feel that this scripture I have says it all.
All thing denote that there is a god yea even the earth and all thing that are upon the face of it, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a supreme creator.
Ask yourself this, if I, Bill, am wrong what have I done with my life? If I believe that there is a god and follow what I feel is his teachings and do my best in growing and helping my children grow for the better. And if I find that I am right. I think just as when I go and see my father he would welcome me into his arms and I would be happy. But if there wasn’t a god then what have I done with my life but make the world a better place and can still be happy. But the opposite cannot say the same. If I lived a life of eat drink and be marry for tomorrow we shall die. When it happens I guess I will be happy but if I was wrong and there is a God it will be at that point that you might understand what god means when he says “there is a place called hell prepared for you It’s that pit of everlasting burning a hell” or to make it simple, to know for eternity that if you had just lived a life with god in it. That is a hell in itself to have regrets for eternity. I think I will play the game that is a win win not a side that has a win lose.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Movie Poster Comparison, Roy Forrest
TRON & TRON LEGACY:
THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO
THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO
One of my favorite remakes that I felt the story did the main plot justice is the movie TRON. Even though it is in a way a continuation of the story where the main character of the new movie is the son of the main character in the first movie.
Original movie TRON (posted left) New release movie (posted right)
Some of the first impression of colors uses was very futuristic and cyber like technology that was able to attract the attention of something new and advanced where an adventure would take place inside a computer. Then the biggest differences between the two is the advancement in computer editing and computer graphics imaging.
- On the older poster, the colors were a broad spectrum of a rock star era where music video's were a big hit with lots of visual color effects. This tends to use the silhouette super-imposed with highlighting background light that shows our heros in a glorious and incredible glowing light. This shows a new form of presence and abilities that would send the viewers imagination soaring in its own story plot-line. In doing so, I see how I can be able to see how the entire story plot is built up to this moment in the poster.
- On the newer poster, a mist-like world of technological advances were the entire picture is a technological mystery where a bright beam of light is beginning to engulf our heros. Background shows many things as well to describe the event happening. The worlds ground in the poster is showing what the computer world is built on. Where the movie termed it as "The Grid". It is also showing a few chapter story plots in the background as well, such as the light train and the digital city. It is also pointing out the hero characters in their futuristic light suits in a world that is filled with light and darkness.
As you can see, a lot of similar things are present between the two posters. The TRON logo is positioned in the same area along with the similar hero position and posing. The logo on the two have changed quite a bit where the new one is presented in a neon soft glowing outline and the original is a metallic, digitally etched in bold steel like feel with a shadow effect. Of coarse the main pice is the disc that each hero is releasing into the light are identical as well.
Some alterations were made to the re-make to appeal to todays trends of culture, such as how the female is posed differently than the original, and the background is revealing much more of the story than the original poster does as well.
Movie previews have turned out to be quite different as well such as the new version of viewing for the re-make, 3D. Original bottom upper-right, re-make bottom left.
Works cited:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/10/20/tron-legacy-poster/
http://planetphotoshop.com/tron-graphic-effect.html
Works cited:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/10/20/tron-legacy-poster/
http://planetphotoshop.com/tron-graphic-effect.html
HUM 101 Roy Forrest
Digital Divide section 3 Roy Forrest
HUM 101 Roy Forrest
Digital Divide Section 3, 4 Article Selection,
Nomadicity
This chapter is talking about the ease or readily accessibility of being able to have a home entertainment center at your fingertips. Instead of being confined to a home entertainment center that would be very difficult to move around for your entertainment. It is now a portable way of being able to have your entertainment on the move such as a laptop computer, even a cell phone can stream movies or play your music along with many other options of entertainment. This has also changed the regular older technology by combining such a large amount of different entertainment systems into such a small package. Older technologies such as cd players, beeper, Palm Pilot, internet access, and numerous other things. This tends to also become a distraction in some places such as theaters. Commonly you are asked to turn your cell phones off while watching the move. There are also some ideas of devices to block mobil phones are going to become ready for restaurants and theater owners.
Wikipedia and beyond: Jimmy Wales's sprawling vision
Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia who lives in a simple grandmother like home near St. Petersburg, Florida. He seems to be on top of his game with him keeping in touch with the average routine of a teenager going to normal stores such as Starbucks, mall shopping, and others as well. Wales is mentioned as an Internet rock star. He was in the list of 100 most influential people of 2006. Wikipedia dominate a lot of Google search results, which in turn is what it is about with the ability for free encyclopedia where anyone can edit something. Even though he says he has no rich guy status, he is still able to see and hang out with people like the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the Virgin CEO Richard Branson's private island is where he likes to hang out too. He still tries to play it low key even though he has a strange amount of power since he has changed the way people extract information form the web. One issue with Wikipedia is the accuracy of information that is searched, they are not always 100% correct, it is a collaboration of ideas from many people to say it is true (from the web sights point of view that is).
Judgement: of Molly's gaze and Taylor's watch
This chapter is about a very young little girl that was climbing bookcases and yanking toys off shelves for her normal daily routine. While she was hugging a teddybear and having all these toys to play with, she was then really gazing at a TV show with an image that caught her attention. It was a Sesame Street show that caught her attention.
A University of Massachusetts professor went on talking about a way of studies for heart rate, eye tracking, and other things to understand what is going on when television is being watched by viewers. One thing that was found was people are not as glued to the screen as people might think they are. On average, both children and adults look away and at the TV up to one hundred and fifty times and hour. Only if the look lasts fifteen seconds or longer are we likely to watch for up to ten minutes at a stretch, which is also called "attentional inertia" (John E. Richards and Daniel Anderson). Many things can deter us away from being interested in watching something such as if it either too fast or too slow, our attention slips away. But what attracts us normally is the content can be challenging for us.
A Dream Come True
This chapter is talking about the internet's character. Web 2.0 is a term for the participating culture that has become a social reality. No person, fact, or event is beyond anyones grasp. This applies to any online experience that allows the user to help create, edit, or revise content viewed on a website. Interacting with other users, sharing pictures, music, notes and many things. Some "old" media news organizations like Time is frightened by the internet, claims of "old" media's impending irrelevance that its "person of the Year" in 2006, it put a picture of a computer screen on the magazine's cover with the word "You." Then it went on to celebrate the new digital democracy with Web 2.0.
College students used to be the most active people of society. The ones that often protested war, racial bias, social policies. If corruption or injustice occurred in the city or town where they went to school, they took to the streets to demonstrate or march with locals to stand on a picket line. Now they seem to tremble before the internet's truth-eliding, boundary-busting juggernaut.
Digital Divide Section 3, 4 Article Selection,
Nomadicity
This chapter is talking about the ease or readily accessibility of being able to have a home entertainment center at your fingertips. Instead of being confined to a home entertainment center that would be very difficult to move around for your entertainment. It is now a portable way of being able to have your entertainment on the move such as a laptop computer, even a cell phone can stream movies or play your music along with many other options of entertainment. This has also changed the regular older technology by combining such a large amount of different entertainment systems into such a small package. Older technologies such as cd players, beeper, Palm Pilot, internet access, and numerous other things. This tends to also become a distraction in some places such as theaters. Commonly you are asked to turn your cell phones off while watching the move. There are also some ideas of devices to block mobil phones are going to become ready for restaurants and theater owners.
Wikipedia and beyond: Jimmy Wales's sprawling vision
Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia who lives in a simple grandmother like home near St. Petersburg, Florida. He seems to be on top of his game with him keeping in touch with the average routine of a teenager going to normal stores such as Starbucks, mall shopping, and others as well. Wales is mentioned as an Internet rock star. He was in the list of 100 most influential people of 2006. Wikipedia dominate a lot of Google search results, which in turn is what it is about with the ability for free encyclopedia where anyone can edit something. Even though he says he has no rich guy status, he is still able to see and hang out with people like the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the Virgin CEO Richard Branson's private island is where he likes to hang out too. He still tries to play it low key even though he has a strange amount of power since he has changed the way people extract information form the web. One issue with Wikipedia is the accuracy of information that is searched, they are not always 100% correct, it is a collaboration of ideas from many people to say it is true (from the web sights point of view that is).
Judgement: of Molly's gaze and Taylor's watch
This chapter is about a very young little girl that was climbing bookcases and yanking toys off shelves for her normal daily routine. While she was hugging a teddybear and having all these toys to play with, she was then really gazing at a TV show with an image that caught her attention. It was a Sesame Street show that caught her attention.
A University of Massachusetts professor went on talking about a way of studies for heart rate, eye tracking, and other things to understand what is going on when television is being watched by viewers. One thing that was found was people are not as glued to the screen as people might think they are. On average, both children and adults look away and at the TV up to one hundred and fifty times and hour. Only if the look lasts fifteen seconds or longer are we likely to watch for up to ten minutes at a stretch, which is also called "attentional inertia" (John E. Richards and Daniel Anderson). Many things can deter us away from being interested in watching something such as if it either too fast or too slow, our attention slips away. But what attracts us normally is the content can be challenging for us.
A Dream Come True
This chapter is talking about the internet's character. Web 2.0 is a term for the participating culture that has become a social reality. No person, fact, or event is beyond anyones grasp. This applies to any online experience that allows the user to help create, edit, or revise content viewed on a website. Interacting with other users, sharing pictures, music, notes and many things. Some "old" media news organizations like Time is frightened by the internet, claims of "old" media's impending irrelevance that its "person of the Year" in 2006, it put a picture of a computer screen on the magazine's cover with the word "You." Then it went on to celebrate the new digital democracy with Web 2.0.
College students used to be the most active people of society. The ones that often protested war, racial bias, social policies. If corruption or injustice occurred in the city or town where they went to school, they took to the streets to demonstrate or march with locals to stand on a picket line. Now they seem to tremble before the internet's truth-eliding, boundary-busting juggernaut.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Unpopular Culture by Roy
Hunger Games is a Bad Taste Movie
I have to think that the new hit movie "Hunger Games" is a very bad movie for kids, or even adults to watch. I watched the movie in the theatre with some of my family. We heard about it and heard it was a good movie to see, turned out to be quite morally sour to my taste. Its a story about a futuristic world that a very wealthy culture is now basing their entertainment on watching a tournament about kids that the age range from 9 to mid teen years. In the tournament they, in short, brutally kill each other off to win the games, and traditionally only 1 person survives in this hunger games competition.
Gladiator, 300, Braveheart, and many other battle type movies are and have been for the most part been based on historical perspective. It has always been great storytelling about brave courageous men and women beating the odds. But when I watch a horrible depiction of wars and battles, there are no "children" that are forced to enter into a battle for their life for peoples entertainment in this fashion. These movie stories have battle strung men that have lived their lives, are willing or have a drive to battle for a great cause for themselves, their country, families, or any other motivation to go to war; or to try to get out of a war fighting.
I strongly think it is really low for movie makers to make such a movie, I really don't think it is a good moral teaching movie. Kids killing other kids for a rich communities entertainment; and watching that kind of story plot in the movie was in my opinion, very bad taste for a movie plot. There is enough bad idea violence in movies, why bring kids into it.
This little clip is one way that I really felt about the movie to the T.
I do kind of see this movie as a joke at this point because of how ridiculous the plot is. Even though they have all that technology and everything else. They still are worried about being popular and getting good ratings. Even if there a very long shot possibility for a time where people were swept into this type of world and are forced to endure this type of life, I do not see how you can end up walking away from the movie theatre feeling better about yourself.
Roy Forrest
Monday, July 9, 2012
Roy Forrest Everybody Googles
My first thing that I tried worked in finding the web-sight that shows the letter from using the main name on the letter of : Mrs. Henry M. Robert It shown the letter in a pic format that shown it as the first one shown did. File copy of letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to president general of the DAR.
I was able to find the map under the search of: ap newsfeatures background map jailed, which brought up the Virginia Memory Library of Virginia. I first tried looking under just ap newsfeatures which did not bring it up, then added jailed, then added background map which worked right away for on the top of the page.
I was able to see a lot of documents where this one was able to show not just the document, but a typed out version of the police report. I found it on the search using J. F. Blake police report document and the second question on the list brought up the sight. It took me forever to find even this credible websight that shown documentation on the actual paper letter document.
The house of representatives roll call I used the search under the the options menu on google and clicked on images and then typed the search under house of representatives 1964 roll call which brought the picture up right away on the very first picture of the search results on the web-page.
I was able to find the map under the search of: ap newsfeatures background map jailed, which brought up the Virginia Memory Library of Virginia. I first tried looking under just ap newsfeatures which did not bring it up, then added jailed, then added background map which worked right away for on the top of the page.
I was able to see a lot of documents where this one was able to show not just the document, but a typed out version of the police report. I found it on the search using J. F. Blake police report document and the second question on the list brought up the sight. It took me forever to find even this credible websight that shown documentation on the actual paper letter document.
The house of representatives roll call I used the search under the the options menu on google and clicked on images and then typed the search under house of representatives 1964 roll call which brought the picture up right away on the very first picture of the search results on the web-page.
Reading Quest 4
HUM 101 Roy Forrest
Reading Quest 4 from "The Digital Divide"
Section Two - Social Life, Personal Life, School
---- Identity crisis
This chapter is based on how we are becoming more and more dependent on newer and better technology or computer use in our lives. The cultural virtual world is also something that has progressed over time that is now more abundant on how to, in a sense, describe yourself on the internet. It is also talking earlier on metaphorically on how the way the system is set up is comparing it to a human body and how it copes with things in a health sense. Such as anti body things to help fight off bad things entering it. Some people also get the feeling of online personal feelings such as if they cross a boundary that they are not used to they can feel uncomfortable, they can feel relief, and even finding self satisfaction. The communication has become very stylized on the personality that people take part in the conversations they have.
---- They Call Me Cyberboy
This chapter is talking about the earlier days where he was talking about the new thing that was hitting the computers in the late 1980's called the internet. The people that knew him at the time were unable to understand what he was really talking about and ended up calling him cyberboy and meaning it in a bad way like an insult. He also went on talking about how Macintosh soon became a central way of getting high like hippies on drugs, where they spent their waking hours doing this. They were in a sense some of the first computer aged nerds in his description. They would always try to recruit new comers to their world to convert them to this new world. Eventually big corporations wanted to use this because they liked how they needed to stay ahead of the curve in the world and wanted to keep in touch with public relations. It became a marketing paradise.
---- The People's Net
This chapter is describing the ways that people are really loving the internet for how we spend our time on it really backs this comment up as well. In this chapters figures, the amount of time spent for people using the internet is on average 20.2 hours looking at internet sites in March 2001, which was a gain from 15.9 hours the previous year, and 12.8 hours the year before that. So we are spending more and more time on the computer. People are now using the internet not just for communication, but for purchasing and shopping for products online where there are more than 100 million Americans doing this now. It seemed that the government dubbed the internet as a research project that soon became alive to the public that became confusing in a good way.
---- Love Online
This chapter is describing the close relationships of people meeting online. He talked about his own personal life with how his son used the internet to meet a girlfriend. The writer had similar experiences where he would meet someone somewhere for school, but after they left the camp. They would not really keep in touch after they left each other. This form of communication for his son, he was able to meet someone online in a place that he was not having as much luck with the ladies in his normal life. So it built up to the point where they spoke of going out even though they were very far away from each other. Her father screened her phone calls but did not pay as much attention on what she was doing online from her computer. Eventually the son did have phone communication with the father asking permission to see her.
Reading Quest 4 from "The Digital Divide"
Section Two - Social Life, Personal Life, School
---- Identity crisis
This chapter is based on how we are becoming more and more dependent on newer and better technology or computer use in our lives. The cultural virtual world is also something that has progressed over time that is now more abundant on how to, in a sense, describe yourself on the internet. It is also talking earlier on metaphorically on how the way the system is set up is comparing it to a human body and how it copes with things in a health sense. Such as anti body things to help fight off bad things entering it. Some people also get the feeling of online personal feelings such as if they cross a boundary that they are not used to they can feel uncomfortable, they can feel relief, and even finding self satisfaction. The communication has become very stylized on the personality that people take part in the conversations they have.
---- They Call Me Cyberboy
This chapter is talking about the earlier days where he was talking about the new thing that was hitting the computers in the late 1980's called the internet. The people that knew him at the time were unable to understand what he was really talking about and ended up calling him cyberboy and meaning it in a bad way like an insult. He also went on talking about how Macintosh soon became a central way of getting high like hippies on drugs, where they spent their waking hours doing this. They were in a sense some of the first computer aged nerds in his description. They would always try to recruit new comers to their world to convert them to this new world. Eventually big corporations wanted to use this because they liked how they needed to stay ahead of the curve in the world and wanted to keep in touch with public relations. It became a marketing paradise.
---- The People's Net
This chapter is describing the ways that people are really loving the internet for how we spend our time on it really backs this comment up as well. In this chapters figures, the amount of time spent for people using the internet is on average 20.2 hours looking at internet sites in March 2001, which was a gain from 15.9 hours the previous year, and 12.8 hours the year before that. So we are spending more and more time on the computer. People are now using the internet not just for communication, but for purchasing and shopping for products online where there are more than 100 million Americans doing this now. It seemed that the government dubbed the internet as a research project that soon became alive to the public that became confusing in a good way.
---- Love Online
This chapter is describing the close relationships of people meeting online. He talked about his own personal life with how his son used the internet to meet a girlfriend. The writer had similar experiences where he would meet someone somewhere for school, but after they left the camp. They would not really keep in touch after they left each other. This form of communication for his son, he was able to meet someone online in a place that he was not having as much luck with the ladies in his normal life. So it built up to the point where they spoke of going out even though they were very far away from each other. Her father screened her phone calls but did not pay as much attention on what she was doing online from her computer. Eventually the son did have phone communication with the father asking permission to see her.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Reading Quest 3
---- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
This chapter section talked about how people have just begun learning the new learning ways for students of today. The ways that these new students are learning is now in the digital age of for this next generation. Not only are the younger age people that have been growing up in the digital years are learning how to cope with how to learn new things, it is also very important for the older age group as well. The older generation seems to be more stead fast to hold on to old ways of learning, they also do not fully understand the new concept of learning through other means such as TV or video games. In fact, there are video games out that teach students in a few areas like math, engineering, and so forth.
---- Do They Really Think Differently
This chapter section is talking more in depth about the differences in the learning abilities for younger kids or teens, compared the learning abilities for the parents or teachers. They go on talking about how there have been scientific and health studies on the brain that have shown a fair amount of evidence that backs up the research done to show that the brains form differently due to the outside learning environment. Attention spans seem to play a big part in this as well, for the young generation, it is hard to stay focused on a subject that they are not interested in. So they tend to want a quicker way out or more efficient way of keeping their interest. For this reason, they tend to want a quick access to information they want right away in a way that catches their eye, then they take interest.
---- The Internet
This chapter section points out the views on how the internet has affected our information obtaining ability and how we go about it. One of the forms of sustained online activity forms that people use is messaging. Messaging can be sent to most anyone using the internet by sending photos, movies, documents, or even a short message. It was mostly used by professional writers in the beginning, but as the time passed and people became more familiar with the internet, more and more common people were able to use it to their advantage. Communication seemed to change. Since the internet was presented, communication sped up dramatically. Making a very fast communication source for most people and also the accessibility for people became more popular for using this form of communication as their choice.
---- Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture
This chapter was describing the huge affect on the younger generation for their attention towards video games. The mental ability to play a video game has turned out to be complex and in some ways fun. Being able to submerse yourself into a video game is like having yourself go through a real life scenario where you have the opportunity so solve problems and do it in a way where you have to do it to your own satisfaction. This helps since the video game is a visual and audio representation of what you are doing at the time which gets the young generation involved with the video game process. As you are in the video game, you learn to see the world of each different game that is played in different way with your virtual character. When the task is completed, a big sense of accomplishment is felt where they were able to solve the problem. This video game learning is still in question since it is only begun for a new learning method for students and teachers to think about teaching.
Roy Forrest
Information gathered from:
"The Digital Divide" edited and introduced by Mark Bauerlein
This chapter section talked about how people have just begun learning the new learning ways for students of today. The ways that these new students are learning is now in the digital age of for this next generation. Not only are the younger age people that have been growing up in the digital years are learning how to cope with how to learn new things, it is also very important for the older age group as well. The older generation seems to be more stead fast to hold on to old ways of learning, they also do not fully understand the new concept of learning through other means such as TV or video games. In fact, there are video games out that teach students in a few areas like math, engineering, and so forth.
---- Do They Really Think Differently
This chapter section is talking more in depth about the differences in the learning abilities for younger kids or teens, compared the learning abilities for the parents or teachers. They go on talking about how there have been scientific and health studies on the brain that have shown a fair amount of evidence that backs up the research done to show that the brains form differently due to the outside learning environment. Attention spans seem to play a big part in this as well, for the young generation, it is hard to stay focused on a subject that they are not interested in. So they tend to want a quicker way out or more efficient way of keeping their interest. For this reason, they tend to want a quick access to information they want right away in a way that catches their eye, then they take interest.
---- The Internet
This chapter section points out the views on how the internet has affected our information obtaining ability and how we go about it. One of the forms of sustained online activity forms that people use is messaging. Messaging can be sent to most anyone using the internet by sending photos, movies, documents, or even a short message. It was mostly used by professional writers in the beginning, but as the time passed and people became more familiar with the internet, more and more common people were able to use it to their advantage. Communication seemed to change. Since the internet was presented, communication sped up dramatically. Making a very fast communication source for most people and also the accessibility for people became more popular for using this form of communication as their choice.
---- Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture
This chapter was describing the huge affect on the younger generation for their attention towards video games. The mental ability to play a video game has turned out to be complex and in some ways fun. Being able to submerse yourself into a video game is like having yourself go through a real life scenario where you have the opportunity so solve problems and do it in a way where you have to do it to your own satisfaction. This helps since the video game is a visual and audio representation of what you are doing at the time which gets the young generation involved with the video game process. As you are in the video game, you learn to see the world of each different game that is played in different way with your virtual character. When the task is completed, a big sense of accomplishment is felt where they were able to solve the problem. This video game learning is still in question since it is only begun for a new learning method for students and teachers to think about teaching.
Roy Forrest
Information gathered from:
"The Digital Divide" edited and introduced by Mark Bauerlein
My lovemark for a Mac
Roy Forrest's lovemark for a Mac
Growing up, my cousin and their family seemed to always have a Mac computer laptop that they loved it because they never had any serious issues with it. They seemed to never have any virus issues, freezing issues, or having to go out of their way of their day to spend it to try to get anything else that the computer would require to do something that they were doing at the time. Another friend of mine seemed to always talk highly about his Mac computer because of how simplistic it was to use. I especially liked to hear how there were no common issues happening with him either that would slow down my day at the computer where instead of doing what I wished to do, I would spend it trying to either figure out why the computer froze or some other problem that I never really wanted to care about solving. So many hurtles to try to jump over with the PC.
So these were very good examples for me to contemplate on what kind of computer I would consider to purchase. While I was going through the choices on all the different computers that I would be able to purchase, I have gone through a few standard affordable computers growing up. I had heard about a lot of the good things that Mac computers were able to do, what I was unaware of was I was about to find my new love of computers.
Since I was used to using a standard PC with all the issues that it was giving me, I decided it was time for me to get a computer that would not give me a hassle. After I bought my MacBook Pro, I was more than in love for what the computer was able to do for me. It has never given me a big reason for me to question my purchase. Since the MacBook Pro, I have also spent my good hard working paycheck on a few more really good purchases where I was more than happy to spend my money on. I bought a iPod touch, iPhone for my wife, then another iPhone for myself, and we now have a very cool desktop Mac with a big screen with great memory and speed that is very useful.
What is the coolest features I love from these of these, they are able to communicate with each other without any hassle. Whenever I get a new app or product on the computer, they are able to communicate with each other. In short, Mac has made my life easier.
I am really love my Mac computer for all the attention I receive in a classroom when I am taking notes or doing assignments. Other people that see me with my Mac seem to be envious and see how wonderful the computer has treated me in all the schoolwork I am able to do. It has been a big part on how I am able to do so much in my life, I also go through so much time spending on my iTunes listening to music and watching sound graphics that look really cool and colorful. I fully enjoy the beautiful screen that shows so much vibrant beautiful colors in such sharp detail that my eyes are in a sense relaxed to the screen. The keyboard seems to be the perfect size for my hand size with also how the keys gently glow underneath the keys. I really love my Mac, it has made me feel really confident and even cool about how I am when I am on my computer. I am proud to own a Mac, and anyone else with a Mac probably loves their Mac too.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Performance Hall:
Entrance:
- Handy-cap entrance ability
- Cigarette disposal containers
- Trash containers at every door at the entry-way
- Restroom
- Advertisements in the restrooms for upcoming events
- Banners/Posters
- Harry Potter summer of magic
- Singin’ in the rain
- wednesday night is movie night
- Star Trek TNG
- 2012
- Manos
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- National Circus of China
- Glenn Miller Orchestra & the Diamonds
- The Nutcracker
- Judy Collins
- History Plaques with picturesYCF / (Yavapai College Foundation) Plaque
- Concession stand
- Yava Java
- Digital Sign Boards
Back entrance:
- Soda dispensers
- Coca cola
- Pepsi cola
- Snack dispenser
Monday, June 25, 2012
Popular Culture "we're all doomed"
Thesis: Is this all that the media can produce for us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74ZsbKryqg
This Youtube clip is able to portray a wide expansion of popular culture and how there is not as much learn for ability. One of the topic's that he portrayed was a quote from D. Laughey. So I did a search under the google search parameters, and found (http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/dr_dan_laughey.htm).
So I was able to find a good source on D. Laughey.
Another point that he is trying to get across is a twitter fact where you are only able to post a comment with 140 characters or less for a statement. So in a way of how he is saying this is the media is not what to think of, but what to think about. It limits the statements to mere phrases, which directs the attention in that form for a directional thought.
Another quote he portrayed is by G. Debord
(http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/debord.htm)
This is where I was able to find the closest quote where he was able to mention the quote of "The spectacle is therefore not primarily a collection of images but a social relationship between people and mediated images... [creating] a false reality that conceals a world of capitalist exploitation and class division." (G. Debord). In other words, the images are purposeful for the placement of products. This shows the exploitation for capitalist promoted by class division of a trail of promoted wealth.
Just like youtube is able to have people promote themselves for popular gain, status, which are not recreating traditional ideas of how media has been even in the past. Instead of bringing about new ideas where they are portraying the same thing, we are able to see on television. It is just an easier way to obtain these cooking shows, comedy sketches, list is endless for all the information that you are able to obtain from multiple average people that are able to post their comments. Just like commercials, instead of a product, we are sold a different way of viewing the world, lifestyles to strive for, or even dialogs that would effect how we would see or go throughout the world after seeing the clip or reading the comment.
Then the real meaning of the youtube clip comes into play near the end of the clip with a quote by M. Strangelove "Capitalism's system of meaning production is not confronted with a highly decentralized communication system that treads meaning as public property."
So as she is explaining this, she is explaining the ability for common people to send out a voice to the known world. For the people that want to have a say in their community since they were unable to do so before. This ability is enabling common people to comment with a computer. In doing so, it was able to get a voice out for political uprisings.
Roy Forrest HUM 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74ZsbKryqg
This Youtube clip is able to portray a wide expansion of popular culture and how there is not as much learn for ability. One of the topic's that he portrayed was a quote from D. Laughey. So I did a search under the google search parameters, and found (http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/dr_dan_laughey.htm).
So I was able to find a good source on D. Laughey.
Another point that he is trying to get across is a twitter fact where you are only able to post a comment with 140 characters or less for a statement. So in a way of how he is saying this is the media is not what to think of, but what to think about. It limits the statements to mere phrases, which directs the attention in that form for a directional thought.
Another quote he portrayed is by G. Debord
(http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/debord.htm)
This is where I was able to find the closest quote where he was able to mention the quote of "The spectacle is therefore not primarily a collection of images but a social relationship between people and mediated images... [creating] a false reality that conceals a world of capitalist exploitation and class division." (G. Debord). In other words, the images are purposeful for the placement of products. This shows the exploitation for capitalist promoted by class division of a trail of promoted wealth.
Just like youtube is able to have people promote themselves for popular gain, status, which are not recreating traditional ideas of how media has been even in the past. Instead of bringing about new ideas where they are portraying the same thing, we are able to see on television. It is just an easier way to obtain these cooking shows, comedy sketches, list is endless for all the information that you are able to obtain from multiple average people that are able to post their comments. Just like commercials, instead of a product, we are sold a different way of viewing the world, lifestyles to strive for, or even dialogs that would effect how we would see or go throughout the world after seeing the clip or reading the comment.
Then the real meaning of the youtube clip comes into play near the end of the clip with a quote by M. Strangelove "Capitalism's system of meaning production is not confronted with a highly decentralized communication system that treads meaning as public property."
So as she is explaining this, she is explaining the ability for common people to send out a voice to the known world. For the people that want to have a say in their community since they were unable to do so before. This ability is enabling common people to comment with a computer. In doing so, it was able to get a voice out for political uprisings.
Roy Forrest HUM 101
What else do the NFL coaches look for other than the Wonderlic Personnel Test?
What else do the NFL coaches look for other than the Wonderlic Personnel Test?
http://videos.usafootball.com/video/What-Coaches-Look-for-in-Draft;Jon-Gruden
This is a web sight that talks about drafting for the character style of the player in the majority of the interview clips. Some state the need for having the talent to take the sport all the way. Some say they are looking for talent first. Then there are some that are looking for players that can think on the fly or on their feet. Also players they can trust to make good decisions. Even though it has been a good test to be able to get a basis on what the players can think of on paper, it is not always going to be that same way on the field.
Seems that not only does character play a big part of the coaches decision, it has also not completely been true if you have the character and not the talent. One of the coaches even mentioned "If you can find the guy that would play the game for nothing, then you have the chance to do something special" (Mike Shanahan, Denver Broncos coach).
When I did the search for the Wonderlic test search I came up with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_Test
History of the Wonderlic Personnel Test
http://videos.usafootball.com/video/What-Coaches-Look-for-in-Draft;Jon-Gruden
This is a web sight that talks about drafting for the character style of the player in the majority of the interview clips. Some state the need for having the talent to take the sport all the way. Some say they are looking for talent first. Then there are some that are looking for players that can think on the fly or on their feet. Also players they can trust to make good decisions. Even though it has been a good test to be able to get a basis on what the players can think of on paper, it is not always going to be that same way on the field.
Seems that not only does character play a big part of the coaches decision, it has also not completely been true if you have the character and not the talent. One of the coaches even mentioned "If you can find the guy that would play the game for nothing, then you have the chance to do something special" (Mike Shanahan, Denver Broncos coach).
When I did the search for the Wonderlic test search I came up with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_Test
History of the Wonderlic Personnel Test
Created in 1936 by E. F. Wonderlic, the Wonderlic Personnel Test was the first short-form cognitive abilities test.[3][9] It was developed to measure general cognitive ability in the areas of math, vocabulary, and reasoning.[3][9] Wonderlic created and distributed it as a graduate student in the psychology department at Northwestern University from his home.[7][9] Regarding the time allotted to take the test Eldon F. Wonderlic, in an article released in 1939, stated the following: "The length of the test was made such that only about two to five per cent of average groups complete the test in the twelve-minute time limit."[4]
Originally designed to aid in employee selection, the Wonderlic Personnel Test has also been used by both the United States Armed Forces and the National Football League for selection purposes. During World War II, the Navy began using the Wonderlic Personnel Test to select candidates for pilot training and navigation. In the 1970s Tom Landry, coachof the Dallas Cowboys, was the first to use the Wonderlic Personnel Test to predict player performance.[3] It is still used in the annual NFL Combine as a form of pre-draft assessment.[3][9]
The Wonderlic Test is continually being updated with repeated evaluations of questions.[10][5] Also, beginning in the 1970s, Wonderlic began to develop other forms of the Wonderlic Personnel some of which include: Wonderlic Perceptual Ability Tests, Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam, or the Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test. There are currently 30 tests offered by Wonderlic, Inc.[11]
I did find it quite interesting that they have been doing the test even during WWII to help select candidates for pilot training. So they have many other purposes other than the football selection during the draft.
Monday, June 11, 2012
forrestfire21's gamification for education thoughts
What I think about the gamification for education,
I Think its an interesting approach on reaching people that are computer friendly and think in different ways. That being said, I have been out of the loop of this type of communication where I need to understand all the steps to be able to complete a single assignment. A lot of steps to get to an achievement and taking each step is quite new to me. Even though I am not completely computer illiterate, I think my knowledge is around basic knowledge. I would like to finally get that snap of the finger where it clicked in my head, unfortunately it hasn't quite clicked for me yet. It is a good approach on familiarizing myself and the rest of the class with the different blog adding, sharing, and doing a lot of practice (for me anyway, which at this time is a little slow). I do like the idea of going out of the box for a different approach for learning... once I learn how to do that; that is.
I Think its an interesting approach on reaching people that are computer friendly and think in different ways. That being said, I have been out of the loop of this type of communication where I need to understand all the steps to be able to complete a single assignment. A lot of steps to get to an achievement and taking each step is quite new to me. Even though I am not completely computer illiterate, I think my knowledge is around basic knowledge. I would like to finally get that snap of the finger where it clicked in my head, unfortunately it hasn't quite clicked for me yet. It is a good approach on familiarizing myself and the rest of the class with the different blog adding, sharing, and doing a lot of practice (for me anyway, which at this time is a little slow). I do like the idea of going out of the box for a different approach for learning... once I learn how to do that; that is.
Monday, June 4, 2012
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