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Respond to content week 9

tutorial task week 9: Essay!

I have already made up my mind of what question and topic my essay will contain. The task I have chosen is: What is communication? Do whales communicate? Do birds? Do atoms? Does DNA communicate? What would you suggest as the limits to communication? When does a failure of human communication occur?

My topic for this task is how communication can be so much more than language. Communication can b.e so many things, it can be written it can be verbal. It can be visual it can be audible. I want to find out what is the most common form for communication, not just for us human, but for all living organs on the earth. Can humans once in the future understand a dogs barking. This is some of the topics I will research throughout this essay. This again is something I think I will find very interesting to research. I know as always it’s going to be challenging, however that’s the way I like it. I could go for a safer topic that I know more about, on the other hand this will give me some new aspects of communication and how communication works all over the world.

tutorial task week 8: Video Finished!

My video is finally finished!! The progress has been very fun. My video mostly exists of still images, text and audio. The images is images I have been taking with my IPhone, the audio is YouTube clip I have been recording with my IPhone. I have also edited some of the footage with a app on the IPhone, so basically all the tools I have used is my computer and my IPhone. To editing this video I have been using Windows Movie maker. I had some problems when I was uploading the audio, the file was an m4a and was not recognized by windows movie maker. To fix this problem I downloaded free software called AVS audio converter, so I converted the audio files to wma files. Since I used a free software a little voice comes in in the audio and says AVS audio, this is what I talked about earlier when I talked about hidden commercial in free software downloads. I uploaded the video trough YouTube and share it from my blog from there. I found this task very interesting and have been enjoying working with it. I will say I own this production, the audio I used was free content and not copyrighted. The video will be posted in my next blog post. Feels really good to finally cross the goal line and enjoy the feeling of being finished!

Respond to content week 8 : Copyright

Respond to content week 7 : Wikipedia and Facebook

In this week’s tutorial task it’s a couple of things who is on the discussion plan. First of all is how Wikipedia is useful.  I think Wikipedia is useful because it covers almost everything, it is not a reliable source since anyone can go in and edit there. However it is a very good info place and it’s a good place to get basic info. To make Wikipedia most useful you get the info you need from Wikipedia, then you research it more to find out if that is really reliable. I personally have never edited anything at Wikipedia however I can’t imagine it would be very hard. 

The number two topic on this week’s agenda is why Facebook work. Facebook is now one of the biggest social Medias. There are more than 800 million active users on Facebook (Facebook, 2011). The reasons this social Media have worked out so good is many. Some of them are: Easy to stay in contact with friends and family. Meet new people (dating/flirting) maybe one of the biggest group of people using it. Easy to monitor friends and see what people are doing. I thought it would be difficult to delete your Facebook account, however I found it very easy. I found three ways. The easiest is the one I am going to share with you. All I had to do was sending Facebook an email saying that I wanted to delete my account permanently. And as easy as that my dogs profile was gone forever. My dog has never forgiven me…

Refrences

Facebook. (2011, 9). Facebook. Retrieved 9 2011, from www.facebook.com: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

tutorial task week 7 : The school geek is doing great!

The new life as a school geek is going great, I am working more efficient and better than ever and I don’t suffer from the big guilt that was building up because I did not have time or energy to do my school work. My short clip film is coming closer to an end, and the project is even more fun that I predicted, I have filmed and edidet three different ideas already and I are still not sure if I want to go for anyone of those yet. The opportunists are so many! So far I found my equipment good enough, haven’t encored any problems yet, and the camera is better than I predicted.

So with my new positive experiences of actually have time and do my school work properly I can’t say it better than this T-shirt logo.  “Be cool! Stay in school!”

PS I just ordered that shirt! :D