Sunday 7 October 2012

Task 1D - Flickr

Here Are some photos on my Flickr, Have a little look if yo want to :)




TASK 1C- BAPP Starting Out Video


Hey here is my video, I did try filming myself a few times, however I found myself being very cheesey and didn't like watching it so i went for another approach ( which also stressed me out as things kept disappearing somehow!)  But anyway let me know what you all think :)

Saturday 6 October 2012

Task 1b: Professional Communication Technologies


Before reading the first reader, I obviously (like everyone on this course) kept seeing “web 2.0” everywhere and I was like what is this??? Is it going to be something that I have to download to do my work on or something! Whilst reading the reader (and listening to it, I used the tool where you can get your computer to read it to you because I’m sad and get entertained by these things.) I was very surprised when I realized I use “web 2.0” ALL of the time! Starting way back when, when I used “MYSPACE”  and thinking about it I used a lot of “web 2.0” tools then because on MySpace I used to write blogs (people could comment on them underneath) and obviously you could upload, photos, videos, music etc.

When I was reading through I couldn't help but think how much technology and things like social media sites develop from generation to generation. My grandparents are amazed by things I do on Facebook, YouTube and on my phone etc, but then I find sometimes that a 12 year old will be doing something on the computer that I haven’t got a clue how to do. I think that’s because from an early age they spend a lot more time on their computer and smart phones. This led me on to the thought of times when I was 12 and I use to “play out “with my friends and today kids will just sit at home chatting on Facebook. Will social media end up taking over and even if you live very close to someone will you just start having “catch ups” over Facebook and not go out for coffee etc as much?  Looking through other students blogs I found that I wasn’t the only one with this thought, I found Liam Conman who’s blog I found particular interesting on this matter.
One fact that I found a little worrying was: “People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook” 


On a brighter note.... I love social media sites and think they are great (as long as you don’t spend all your time Facebook stalking people. I think they are very good tools to use in the professional world as well because every website you look at now will use them, for example on a local dance schools website it will have a link to their facebook for their students to go on and also you will find videos from YouTube that they linked to their site. That that people can participate on these sites makes you visit them more I feel.
One website that I visit to get “facts” from but have never contributed to is Wikipedia? Does anyone else ever add info to there??

Please comment and share your thoughts on this with me... I hope it all makes sense!! 

Personal Profile (about me) :)



Although I had already I had already wrote my personal profile I thought I would look over other students and see if I could improve mine in anyway way. Obviously to start off with I looked at my CV and thought... how do I write this as a personal profile, as my performance CV is mainly just a list of jobs etc and I’m sure on my profile I didn’t need to write , I’m 5ft 7 with blonde hair and blue eyes. So I just summarised really obviously included where I had trained and what sort of jobs I had done since. Also on my CV I obviously don’t have what I want to do in the future but thought it was important that I included this on my profile. After looking at Jonny Howards  first blog I saw that he had actually wrote notes on what he liked about other people’s Profiles, I thought this was a good idea and did the same. Below are just some of the notes I made.

Ahmet Ahmet : On Ahmets profile he included some of his Credits from his career. I also think that                                                                                           he went in to more detail about his career etc.
Charlotte Murray : Charlotte kept her profile short and sweet however all of the information that you need was on there. Also I like the fact that she ended with a “...” to me that says like “what’s coming next” or something like that.
Michelle Yarwood: I think Michelle’s comes across very friendly and chatty. Her profile gives a good outlook on what Michelle has done and where she is hoping to go.
Liam Pentland: I found Liam’s a bit different to a lot that I had looked at, I found that his gave more of an overview of him as a person and a brief outlook on what he has done.
After looking and everyone else’s i have decided to add change my profile, just a little bit. You can find my original on my first blog and my new one under my about me section. If you have any other improvements I could do please feel free to comment.   :)

Wednesday 3 October 2012

Little Change

Just thought I would make a little change to my blog page, for those that saw my last page it was a bit dark and gloomy. I think this looks my cheerful. I have been thinking of ideas for task C this morning, i'm excited to see everyone's! :)