Week 3

Treasure hunt!! Nooooo but I'm so tempted to google the answers. I will try my hardest...

-HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language!
-It is used on the internet!
-It was first used in 1991 (I looked that up)
-Word press uses XHTML 1.0 (I actually already knew this)
-Insert image code: (I looked that up)
-HTML code for Arial font, size 12, dark grey:

Simple content text ready for control.

Week 2

Discuss the reading by David Bell ‘Why Cyberculture’ (2007).

A few ideas for your discussions:

Bell uses the phrase ‘material storytelling’ (2007: 5) in discussing the relationships between us and technology. Do you feel that your relationship/history of interactions with technology could be presented in this way?

Much discussion surrounds the ‘digital divide’ (2007: 5-6). Find a definition for this. Bell suggests that in order to deal with ‘clusters of connotations’ in our material stories, we often are ‘invisibilizing those people on the “wrong side” of the digital divide’ (2007: 6). Agree/disagree?

The digital divide can refer to the gaps and silences between individuals, house holds, businesses and geographic areas at different socioeconomic levels with regard to both their opportunities to access information and communication technologies and to their use of the internet. (Thanks Wiki!)

I agree with Bells statement that we are often invizibilizing people on the wrong side of the digital divide. People who do not have access to participating in cyber culture are left out of the loop. Demographics who don't follow main stream trends, have different values and principles, and it is these principles that are often invisible to the growing culture that is manifesting through the Web.

Today's growing facets of popular culture form well around trends and societies formed via the web. It's almost as if our world is evolving via technology and the internet, and those who don't have the resources to be connected with the rest of the world, are being left behind and forgotten.

Week 1

Write your thoughts on the article ‘Blogging to Learn, Learning to Blog’ by Jean Burgess.

I could personally relate to the article by Jean Burges as I have done numerous courses where blogging has been a a component of assessment. Burges believes that Weblogs are incumbent upon educational institutions to support students in developing literacies and competencies that are appropriate to the technological and social environments in which we all now work. I find this attitude to blogging to be very true. In order for creative arts students in particular to be engaged and interactive in their line of work, being connected via the web has become imperative. So much content is now being shared and dispersed through social networking tools such as Blogger, and in order for students to be learning, they need to be in touch with Internet culture.

Have you used a blog before? If so, why? Do you think blogging is a form of creative expression?

Find a blog that you like which you think is ‘effective’.

I have used a blog before! But only for uni assignments in the past. I do however surf around different blogging sites. I think blogging is definitely a form of creative expression. It is an easy free way of collecting and publishing any of your work. I have come across some great blogs over the last few years. One in particular is the blog 4thandbleeker. A friend posted me the address on Facebook, I clicked on it and saw that it was an old friend that I went to primary school with blogging. It was her modeling portfolio. She travels around the world modeling on different continents and always has interesting photos to look at! I'm surprised at how many followers she has reeled in as well!

www.4thandbleeker.com