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Documentation hw

Posted on December 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The video I have seen, I’ve used. It is a very helpful video and the commentary is good because the video contains jokes and give people a comfortable vibe from the narrators. They go by each step and show you a close to accurate way to complete the task. It may not explain how to use the character, but it is a video for mostly people who play the game or know about the game. Also this video can be watch more then once if you need a refresher on how to do it. Since it is a video game and a video it is easier to show a task because there will be less explanation.

 

http://youtu.be/g9csWmFeWes

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H.W. 9 by Reno Abraham

Posted on October 17, 2012 by | 2 comments

Reading the article “How a Search Engine works” was really useful and the way the search engine would find that specific information you want. The search engine is very technical and the way the writer explain it was not what i thought it was going to be . To see that there so many concepts of is really amazing and to understand it would take a huge amount of time to get how it works. There tips of getting better results if you want to be specific, and some of the tips that I never consider like using ” not ” in finding more sources and eliminate the ones that are not useful .

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Homework #8

Posted on October 10, 2012 by | 1 comment

After watching the ” A Fair(y) Use Tale” it explains that a person can’t use a article or an idea with out credit till after it enters the public domain. Which can then be accessed by anyone. Now it would have to take a 100 years just to be put into the that domain some also may never enter the domain. I think that a 25 year limit would make more sense or at least to where that information is now a common knowledge amongst people. The thought will ever work especially in this day in age because people are more concerend in making money off anything they possible can instead of information being used freely by the public which all information is intended for. The argument to where you shouldn’t have to give credit to the writer/author shouldn’t be a big deal so a person has to write/type a few more words, that i think should be left as a rule since so many people would just use their ideas instead of their own.

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Posted on October 7, 2012 by | 2 comments

Copyright was defined as a “contract between authors and society” in the video Copyright: Forever less one day. This law of copyright was constructed in 1710 , here society can not copy from any authors work or remake it for they have control over their work for a limited time (25 years). I understood better for what copyright law meant when the example of wanting to remake the harry potter book, this book was published in 1998 having copyright protection which can not be used yet for any remaking. This was a good idea because it gives the right of authors to control over what they have done, & giving them also the privilege to keep their recent work out there for a limited a time before any other author wishes to remake it.

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H.W number 7 Reno Abraham

Posted on October 6, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Plagiarism have been a problem for writers and learner and the thing is that plagiarism is just very confusing and difficult to describe. When I read an article that relate to plagiarism I noticed that they tell what plagiarism is but they don’t tell you what is not plagiarism or give you an example(got the idea from the article Plagiarism: a Lie of the Mind paragraph four). I do believe that plagiarism is wrong and if the person did it intentionally then that person should be punish. Also I don’t entirely agree with the statement from the article where the author stated that plagiarism is bad and it prevent you from learning I mean paraphrase is using your words to describe what you have learn but others believe that paraphrase is also part plagiarism. The only thing that I do understand about this article that if you use your own words then someone else words then you is unlike to get caught for plagiarism.

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Homework #7

Posted on October 4, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Plagiarism is such a huge deal and the access to it can be easy to get to. Some high school students and even college students would plagiarize peoples work just so they don’t have to do the given assignment. Now a days teachers can find out if something has be plagiarized with machines or just looking up some of the sentences on Google. Plagiarism has also been caught in book writers where they say they had written a book and got it from personal experiences but in reality they actually took that story line and idea from another book or person.

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homework #6

Posted on October 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Facebook went through a lot of changes since it had first started. Facebook was first intended just for college kids and just like every social media site little kids tend to take it over thus changing the main idea for a site. The privacy setting have also changed, but as I use Facebook I’ve never touch them because i really don’t post things I don’t want to be posted. The problem people have with their privacy is that they don’t keep it private and just post it for the entire world to see, but once someone they don’t want to see it they complain that there is no privacy.

 

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Homework #5- Joey

Posted on September 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The common crafts video on social media was a great way to explain the idea of social media through example. This video was easy to see and very short, it showed how social media has its big corporation and small markets.  It also explained how every market had there on share of distribution which is the same in social media, every blog or website gets there own share of views and people see their opinions.  Also showed how every person has a say in that they could express what they thought about while they read the blog or newspaper website. The article  “Linked Data gives people power” showed how in the internet people could help others in many ways, it could be just by comments or rating.  It told us how citizens helped make a map of dangerous bike routes just by putting in reports of where accidents have occur to help future cyclist.

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Homework # 4- Zine

Posted on September 12, 2012 by | 1 comment

From reading the 3 links, i have come to a conclusion that all zines are strictly made as a smaller “Mood Board”. Companies always liked to make zines even tho they bring back low profit and most people think its a waste of money. However if presented and showcased correctly a zine can do your campaign a great service but to have a decent zine, you have to look up good examples and really understand a zine’s purpose. In the creative thinking link that was posted i think the author said it best when he stated ” If we are interested in understanding the world, we need to ask serious questions about the institutions that teach us about that world.” That statement can also be related to zine’s in a way where, if someone wanted to make a zine that was worth making then they have to understand why and how a zine works and what people look for in a zine. That is the big difference in between making a Mood board and a real professional looking article that looks like its straight out of a newspaper.

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Homework #4 Alternate press/Zines

Posted on September 12, 2012 by | Leave a comment

There are many forms of press used in today’s times and some are removing others in the process. Some people enjoy reading the news, now since you can access the news straight from your computer at home a person no longer needs to leave their house to get information. With this can slowly decrees the amount of newspapers being distributed, but the online subscription would increase. The same goes for books as well because instead of carrying some heavy book they could just download a pdf straight to their Ipad or tablet and read on a light weight device.

For Zines I believe that they do have a place in this world of today. They are usually a small designed book with information about what ever the author feels is necessary and wants readers to read about. With zines being in mainstream circles people can get more of an audience to read them and can continue to pass the word around.

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