Thursday, March 20, 2008
Research
Ahh good old research. We are all familiar with doing research from high school. It usually would consist of getting a topic and having to dig through information from all sorts of places and formulate an educated paper. It seems like I've done so many research papers over the years. When researching, I always do it the same way. I make sure I know the prompt of the assingnment so I do exactly what is asked, I gather relevant information from wherever I can whether its through books at the library or using the internet and google to using the Purdue Calumets' online library and databases. Once I have my info I take out whatever I can use and write it down and cite the exact page where it came from. The last step is writing the paper. This is just simply putting your information in a logical and comprehensive order. I know MLA is used more for liberal arts and creative writting and APA is used basically for papers related to science. We always have to cite information we didn't know about and give credit to the author who did know what he was talking about. We use other peoples work because it proves accuracy and authority when someone reading your paper knows the information say for instance it came from a professor at Yale.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
:Hpertext Reflection:
Finally it's over! So looking back at this assignment I would have to say overall I am pleased. Considering I didn't even know what a hypertext essay was and had no idea how to create one, I would say this first one went ok. When we first began this project, it was fuzzy to me and I wasn't quite sure what our objective was. Once the prompt was actually clear in my head and I knew what we were supposed to do I was on a roll!..and I was having fun doing it.
I think I did a very good job keeping my summary and hyperlinks very clean looking and functioning. Overall I believe I maintained a professional look and feel to my page. I suppose if I had more time and more experitse with dreamweaver, I'd be able to make my site "look" alot cooler. It would just be appearance making it look nicer, not necessarily better content wise. I tried to make sure all the information I put down was clear, understandable, and easy to read for anyone on the web who comes across this. Since this is on the world wide web, that means anyone will be able to access this making my audience potentially huge!! With that in mind, I just tried to sound educated and present myself the best and most professionally I could. I think anyone who comes across this will like what they get, an easy to read, informative,brief little summary about cognitve enhancers with the authors comments on how he feels about this issue.
Thinking about it, I'm very happy with the outcome of this. I know I do a good job of keeping things in general simple and to the point, and thats what I did with this assignment too. I did my best to do what was asked of us.
I think I did a very good job keeping my summary and hyperlinks very clean looking and functioning. Overall I believe I maintained a professional look and feel to my page. I suppose if I had more time and more experitse with dreamweaver, I'd be able to make my site "look" alot cooler. It would just be appearance making it look nicer, not necessarily better content wise. I tried to make sure all the information I put down was clear, understandable, and easy to read for anyone on the web who comes across this. Since this is on the world wide web, that means anyone will be able to access this making my audience potentially huge!! With that in mind, I just tried to sound educated and present myself the best and most professionally I could. I think anyone who comes across this will like what they get, an easy to read, informative,brief little summary about cognitve enhancers with the authors comments on how he feels about this issue.
Thinking about it, I'm very happy with the outcome of this. I know I do a good job of keeping things in general simple and to the point, and thats what I did with this assignment too. I did my best to do what was asked of us.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Life Magazine
Apon first look at this photo, I wasn't quite sure what it was and what it meant. To me, it just looked like a castle. I noticed that it was printed in black and white which told me it was probably from a long time ago and the reason I figured it may be a castle. I'm not quite sure what made me choose this photo instead of all those others, maybe it was because I thought it was a castle! lol I liked the simplicity of the image in the picture which appealed to my pathos. The colors were simple; black and white, appealing to pathos. After reading the caption behinde this picture, i realized it was the first photo to ever grace the cover of Life Magazine. It was a picture of Fort Peck Dam. Pretty signifigant, I mean it is the first ever cover of Life Magazine.
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
Research Topic Proposal
Like I stated on the discussion board, I will be doing question three. This question talks about the positive and negative influences of the Internet/Web-based technologies on society, education, business and just about anything else you can think of. I've been pondering a couple ideas for each positive and negative influences:
Positive influences- internet is great for business-able to trade stocks instantaneously, transfer large amounts of money without ever physically touching it,keep in-touch and even have project partners across the globe; society is able to use the internet to purchase products, participate in discussion boards, able to have a web community; schools have recently started doing online classes- very beneficial for the person who has to work, computers are essential for class...think about what we're doing right now! These are just a few ideas, i have many more
Negative influences- people who know what they're doing can hack into computers and destroy and/or tamper with a business information, fraud is very possible, people use facebook, myspace, and other social networks to perhaps stalk people and be creepy..you can pretty much keep up with someones life if they are the type of person to be constantly updating thier status and posting pictures ect, its possible a distant learning student could have someone take tests for them or cheat some how.
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Positive influences- internet is great for business-able to trade stocks instantaneously, transfer large amounts of money without ever physically touching it,keep in-touch and even have project partners across the globe; society is able to use the internet to purchase products, participate in discussion boards, able to have a web community; schools have recently started doing online classes- very beneficial for the person who has to work, computers are essential for class...think about what we're doing right now! These are just a few ideas, i have many more
Negative influences- people who know what they're doing can hack into computers and destroy and/or tamper with a business information, fraud is very possible, people use facebook, myspace, and other social networks to perhaps stalk people and be creepy..you can pretty much keep up with someones life if they are the type of person to be constantly updating thier status and posting pictures ect, its possible a distant learning student could have someone take tests for them or cheat some how.
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