week 8

This weeks tutorial task started off with myself having absolutley no idea what the task was actually asking me to do. When first opeing up the attachment to "week 8" i recognised the few letters msn scrawled across the page, and this is where it stopped. As i continued to read down the page i became more and more confused and apprehensive about what i was indeed supposed to be accomplishing this week. As well as this i realised that i was the only student asking questions so that obviously meant that everyone else was on track and i am the only one who seemed to be perplexed by the idea of 3d chatroom environments such as IMVU and Second Life. After i had finished reading the page, it became apparent that these websites and downloads may not be that hard to understand after all but because of my computer illiteracy (as mentioned in previous blogs) this task would be a little harder than most. I decided to visit the first link; http://www.activeworlds.com. When the first page opened, there were links left right and centre and i was lost already but determied to continue this unknown adventure of achieving what the task had set out for me to do. I soon discovered that it is actually the users that create this '3d website' and build the world and communities and so on. Posted on the side of this blog, is a group of pictures that i have pasted there to show just how large the counterfeit world that the users of this website have built in. I hope that in the near fututre when i have become more acustomed to this "world" of websites, i to will be able to involve myself in this new technology that is creating a buzz within the classrooms and homes of the real world.

week five - photo shop... and happy easter!

This week we had a moderately difficult task as we were told we would be entering into the world of photo shop. Something i was, and still are, extremely unfamiliar with, although my knowledge about the program is growing increasingly the more i use it. To begin with i found a few interesting pictures on the wonderful and ever so useful sight of Google, copy and pasted them on to the photo shop page and began what i thought was an easy tute. However this is where i discovered, to my admiration, that there were not merely a few simple buttons used to create and edit these photo's but more like tens of buttons that i would be using in the future, hopefully to their best ability. after playing around with these buttons i created what i thought was a good but somewhat amusing photoshoped picture of an old Indian man with a green and blue feathered hat and lipstick. I now class myself as the new Picasso. obviously i am joking, as you can see ( by the picture on the left) i still have a significant way to go!

The rest of my week and new communication technology study time was mainly spent on two main goals. Firstly trying to figure out what exactly is going on in the lectures as sometimes i get a little disorientated and perplexed and really do not understand a single thing Steven is talking about until he mentions anything that may be possibly familiar, until i pay attention a little further, only to find out that he was not in fact talking about what i thought he was and is instead going of on some tangent about 1900’s with a man named Ferdinand De Saussure who studied semiotics. a complete different subject to what i thought was a familiar topic. the second goal is further research on my assessment which i have chosen the enigma machine and its relevance to the German war. this is coming along quiet well although i am having a little difficulties with a few items which I'm sure i will figure out soon! so not to worry!

Have a great Easter and see u in a week or two!