The road map for 333

The course syllabus for the communication class 333; music video can help or enhance my abilities in the field. The syllabus is well design course explanation of the class as well as few pointers on how to blog and set up a podcast. In this day and age as students seeking professional recognition and employers, setting up a blog with intelligent, educated ideas and opinions and sound research will make it easy for employers to see us a leaders of the industry. It is not enough to have a degree but also have work to back that degree up so to speak. Our blogs and research papers should be work that an employer can see and admire; to show them *I didn't just fly by through school. * In the syllabus it says:

"This course is for anybody interested in electronic communication, video production, and cultural criticism. COMM 300-level courses are, for the most part, practical, hands-on and intellectual, critical-thinking courses.  The course projects are designed to help the aspiring media professional use words, imagery, and sounds more efficiently and effectively, particularly to further social causes and aims. " (pg. 8)     

With this helpful information one can develop their abilities with video and sound. 

My hope for this class is to be more knowledgeable about the connection with sound and video, sound can create and make a visual aspect to something better or something completely different.  

The syllabus says: 

Objectives

1. To study the ways music video illuminates 

Cultural experience

2. To learn how to produce video in music video style

Outcomes

By the end of the course students should have an understanding of the history and relevance of music television and music 

Video, popular culture, representation, and postmodernism.

By the end of the course students should have the ability to produce music video and discuss the techniques used.

 The guidelines of the syllabus create stable and profound work from the students; work that they will be proud to show employers. The link below has a few music videos that are examples of music videos I would like emulate for this class.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/21/monday-inspiration-brilliant-music-videos/ 

Tap for Tablets

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. "
Mike Davidson 

Tablets are leading the portable venture of technology and apps throughout the world. The first tablet was made around the 1980's but back then they were known as pen computers. It was in 2002 when Microsoft renamed them as tablets, the first portable tablets with windows software in it.  Although windows started to use tablets it is arguably that apple cause the trend of tablets with the Ipad. 

Apple took the lead with tablet technology with apps, music, wifi, etc. All other technology manufactures such as Dell, Asus, Samsung, Acer and more started their own brand of tablets to compete with the Ipad.

Now its 2012 and apple came out with the Ipad Mini a smaller, lighter tablet with all the Ipad power it in it. What really gives the IPad the lead in tablets are apps. Because of the apple store, Itunes, app store, IPad is winning the race in tablets in the market right now.

Although apple has the edge it is not stopping Microsoft with keeping up with them. They recently came out with their new tablet the Microsoft Surface.  With competition on the rise, the market with the tablets for the holidays may change the outcome. While I believe that the Ipad Mini is a bit redundant in the case its just a smaller Ipad and a bigger Iphone without celluar service; there is no denying it is one of the better tablets out there right now. With the Surface, it may change the that all in entirely. 

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Reading Level

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
Maya Angelou


Reading is an essential for a child's education and to develop their reading skills. With the digital age taking over, reading is becoming more evolved than it was in the past decade. With E-books and  kindles reading has become a more portable and easy to access other books through WI-FI. The program Reading Rainbow was a television program that aired on PBS. It was the third longest kids program ever to be on PBS right before Sesame Street and Mister Rodgers. Currently the executive producers and host LeVar Burton launched a new revamp website that contains old re-runs of the show. Burton believes that by doing the this it can rekindle the spark of reading into today's youth. While I grew up with the show I can say it was fun and it did help me learn words, how to pronounce certain words and helped my interest of reading.  I believe with LeVar Burton in that this show should still go on and the website is a good idea, if it helped me read it can help any child. 

The show may not be on the air anymore but with the website now launched it may make a comeback.




















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Tech Annoyance

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Technology  has become a necessary tool for our everyday lives. With the rise of social media tools and apps we fall to the mercy of technology one way or another. As technology rises so does the problems with it. With every advance it takes there's always seems to have a problem or bug that needs to be improve in the next version or update.

In the link above it talks about several pet peeves on certain technology. I can fully agree with most of the items listed above. One in particular is Captcha. Although I understand the use for it, I still do not like it. Seems to me that it does not really suppress hacking but rather slows down or just annoys users that forgot  their password.

Credit Card Machines, QR codes, phone recognition are all annoyances that one must deal with if they want to further its uses. While the idea is a good one and its sole reason is to benefit others it still has that tick that makes it almost unbearable.

I understand the difficulty of machines, if Terminator, IRobot, The Matrix have taught me anything is that machines/technology can be a great asset to humanity but it can also a pain to deal with. 











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Social Media Today

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in  really good place." Mark Zuckerburg, CEO & founder of Facebook.

In a time where social media is all around us, there have been a drop of a few that uses social media. According to this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200880/A-THIRD-U-S-population-refrains-using-Facebook-Twitter.html

There are people in the world, at least 1/3 of the world that refuses to use Facebook or twitter. A survey was taken to find a deeper answer to why some don use any social media.

It seems a lot are afraid of hackers that may potentially steal one's identity. While hackers and viruses are potential threats, many people also just do not want a Facebook or a Twitter, While I have Facebook I do not have a twitter or Myspace account. Some people do not wish to set up or create an account or maybe do not even know how. One reason why the decline of accounts could be that the social media era is coming to a close, maybe within the next few years a new social media idea will rise.

Working hard

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha

Technology is ever growing, much like a tree it needs to grow and develop. When it was time to upgrade to a new phone I decided to get the Samsung galaxy s2, I have been waiting for so long for this phone, I heard only amazing things the phone. just like many I did not question where this amazing piece of technology came from, where it was created, what materials, how many work on, etc. This article reports that the Chinese labor watch found six Samsung factories with "several labor abuses." The article continues to say that
the abuse includes unpaid labor, forced ans excessive overtime hours, and physical and verbal abuse. it is stated that workers would work for 12 hours straight and that there was discrimination based on age, gender and personal  appearances.

Apparently Apple has a similar article, It seems as we strive to better phones, mp3 players, television, anything we sometimes lose our humanity. The sad truth reveals itself, that although we are evolving through technology but old work ethics stay the same. At what cost does it take to pay for a better device, apparently it takes several factory workers and their rights 

Both articles are hard to intake but actions are being taken against these crimes. Does this make consumers feel a little better? Maybe, it is more than business and money, its about our humanity.



http://gizmodo.com/5940903/report-worker-abuse-and-underage-employment-at-six-more-samsung-factories

Samsung vs. Apple

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Bill Gates.




 The quote above relates to the topic: Samsung vs. Apple court case by how simply Bill Gates said it himself; A device can be wonderful with the right operation and efficiency. In the case of Apples IPhone versus Samsungs smart phones have caused a lot of inefficiency to the consumers. Apple won the court case against Samsung, however that won't necessary stop the company from further advancing their phones. Some may argue that Samsung did not copy the IPhone, but it is with a lot of hard evidence in the court room it is hard not to see Apples viewpoint. 

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/25/editorial-engadget-on-the-apple-vs-samsung-ruling/  

In this articles it covers the wide opinions of software developers or people in the business. While some may agree with either party, my opinion is this: Whether Apple is right or Wrong, ideas from an innovative idea will always be manipulated, upgraded or studied to make it better. It has been done in history and will continue to do so as long as people have the desire to take one step closer to advancing technology. 
 






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