What makes me tick.
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Week 2: Advent of the Internet
A brief overview of how the Web became what it is today.
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Week 3: Tutorials
A response to a MED130 blog prompt, this post is a list of six tutorials focusing on basic function of free, cheap, or bundled software for editing and manipulation of photos, videos, and audio.
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Week 4: Digital Footprint
Who are you on the Internet? Search throughout the interwebs for your digital identity. Archive your findings with a method of your choice. Write a blog entry about what you discovered and link to your archive. Materials should be traceable back to you and not persons of the same name.
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Week 5: End-User Innovation
Response to the Time Magazine article “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live”.
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Week 5: Storytelling
For this weeks blog you must search the interwebs for good information / advice / tutorials on conveying a story (narrative) online.
Create a short annotated collection of these resources (3 to 5).
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Week 6: Make a Prompt
Write a post about just about anything, and include external media.
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Assignment: Group Blog Topic
Our pod’s topic: A news article over the Cardinals post-season.
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Week 7: Blogger Turned Activist
Take a stand and make an informed, fact-driven case.
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Week 9: Conglomerates
For your blog prompt this week you will be selecting one of the big conglomerate web presences listed below and work up a profile on them. In order to do this you should get a little background on the company/entity, then speak to how they have grown over time.
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Week 10: 30 Days
Trying something new for 30 days… what’s it going to be?
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Week 10: Memes!
After lurking reddit for years, I tried my hand at a meme mashup.
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Week 11: Portfolio (Materials)
Begin gathering materials for your blog’s Portfolio page/section.
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Week 12: Occupy
Discuss the Occupy movement, what it stands for, and take a stance.
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Week 13: Lies, Lies, and More Lies
Dive headfirst into the common root of misappropriations and falsehoods: lies themselves. At the heart of every example of photo, misappropriation, propaganda message, or digital reworking lies a message.
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Digital DNA
I decided not to display actual time (because the numbers scared me), but instead broke down percentages of types of content relative to what device on which they were consumed.
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Week 15: Synthesis, Part 1
A look at social networking, their users, and what they mean for the evolution of the Web. (Part 1: Research)
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Week 15: Synthesis, Part 2
A look at social networking, their users, and what they mean for the evolution of the Web. (Part 2: Synthesis)