2 new videos

This was the group project - Life@UOW - for DIGC101.

This was my own movie that a friend and I made in IPT last year for the HSC. It has a weird title I can't pronounce.

I'm about to start our DIGC101 class. Bye.

Private becomes public

Ok so I mentioned something about blogging in my post for this week's contribution to eLearning and I don't remember what I wrote - but a few days later something very interesting happened. I was at the RTA (I got my Ps! lol that's another story for a different context) and I ran into one of my mum's friends whose son had just recently passed away. I was very close to him because he was like family, we grew up together (and it's also the reason I was away two mondays ago - I was at his funeral). Anyway, long story short I wrote up a little thing about him on my own personal blog and what do you know? Somebody found it (it's actually the first result in Google if you type in Alexander Howes). She was a friend of Alex's mother who lived in America.

Now at first I didn't mind but then my mum who heard about it says "Oh I have to read it!". And then I thought... oh, what about all the stuff I've written on there. This is very much a matter of private becoming public because I always felt that noone is really reading my blog because I must admit-- it's trash. I laugh at myself when I read it but I suppose that was a different me at a different time. I just hope other people know that too...

Sweat Suit

Wow the presentations for DIGC102 were really good (is this blog meant to be exclusively for 101? Not anymore!). Apart from sitting there, bored for 3 hours, they were both had their own style that they brought to the table. But particularly, Chris's group was really well presented - whatever their program was that he used really made it look professional and if that was backed by actual professionals, you'd have me sold. They killed it.

The first group was good too, however it was a bit harder to follow. Renee did very well though and presented herself very clearly. I particularly liked at the end where she jumped in to answer a question and it seemed so professional lol (I can't remember what the actual question was though because you know... I wasn't actually concentrating).

Count them like Feist, 1, 2, 3, 4

This would be the first one of the week, as now David and Chris would like 3 posts a week. I was actually going to write this one after out lecture/tut but I must've forgot (and I spent all day doing the DIGC102 thing).

Ok so this week, we ironically learned about blogging which I left early (thus an excuse for my overall illiteracy in blogging).

Got my marks back for my website analysis which were good I guess, but from looking at others who did their own on Kompozer (e.g. Caitlin) I would definitely like to attempt my own.

Ok I better go, I'm doing my presentation for DIGC102 soon.

Dear Chris + David

I haven't included Digg because I can't login to it. I don't know why, I try to retrieve my password with the "lost my password" form thing that most sites have but it says the email doesn't exist. Then when I try to register with that email, it says that this email already exists.

??

Anyway, I caved. At it's late, I guess once the clock strikes midnight is when you guys could commence assessment.

Group project + website

Just a few updates on where I'm at.

Our group project is almost finished - I have been making it in Movie Maker and it's been a sort of long process having to slice clips, add effects, add subtitles and keeping them all in sync but it's practically done now, I just have to add the credits. The credits are going to be hard because as we have pulled all of our photos from Flickr I'll have to credit each photographer whose photo I took - luckily, Flickr uses a favourite function so I can easily track it down. From there, once the movie is done, I'll save it as a movie format and upload it on YouTube (which I then plan to embed here, Myspace and maybe FaceBook).

For my first assessment, I'll just be using Myspace and this Blogger (& maybe FaceBook) to show my HTML know how. I feel it is equally acceptable as, going off Chris's demonstration of the Kompozer software, there would be better understand of HTML in Myspace & Blogger. Why? Because Kompozer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) application and I feel I would get more of a challenge, HTML-wise, from fooling around with HTML code on Myspace & Blogger. However, after this assessment, I will be using Kompozer to create my own website anyway lol.

Anyway that is all, I glance over a few of the other blogs people have going and I'm thinking - how do you guys type that much?

Group work

So far, our group have just snaked Flickr photos.

Oh right, I should probably explain what we are doing.

Our group is: Renee, Chris B, Myself and ... I don't know about George (Ex-George, he dropped out of this subject I think?)

Well... it's going to be a slideshow of Flickr photos representing a story (or narrative? ... no story) of a studen't day at Wollongong. I've currently done a bit of the slideshow but it's not final as I have to finish up the fonts and hilarious subtitles. From there, we'll upload it to YouTube - how's that for new media mastery?

The beginning of the end , pt. 2

So this is my blog and website - sort of like my new media hub for everything DIGC. I'll try and experiment with HTML on this page as well - blogger lets you experiment with the code of your page even though its a template. I tried out Google Pages for a bit but wasn't impressed (hence the name of the title, I posted there as well).