This week has been all about adding more and more elements to my curation. I have a lot of the format down, its all about adding more information at this point. I also added a new link called mediocre hairstyles for ones that aren't really hard but ones that are also not super easy.
The most interesting hairstyle I have so far is called the knotted braid. I had never seen this before until I watched the video and I thought it was really cool, and very different. It is a little bit hard but totally worth it because it looks so cool!
This biggest obstacle I am going to have to overcome is organizing this. Sometimes I am not sure what category I should put a style in. Also, when I tried adding another link it did not go to the top and it looks like it is under the Welcome tab so I am going to have to figure that out. Another obstacle I need to face is finding enough elements that I think are worthy to be in my curation.
The next three steps in the process of making this curation include the following things. The first one is that I need to add a lot more styles. I have about fifteen elements right now so I need to find ten more. The second step I need to make is putting more hair products on the welcome page to help viewers get started with healthy hair. The third step I need to take as of now is tell the story I am trying to tell in the welcome page. I need to figure out how I am going to do that.
One suggestion I have for this project to run more smoothly is to have more class time to work on it. It is the last week of high school so I am going to be honest, not a lot of us are doing work now so it is hard to keep up. I still have ten more elements to work in and I only have a week. I also think we should've had deadlines for requirements of the curation, that would prevent people from procrastinating.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Curation Progress Report #2
This time around I have a lot more sorted out in my curation. A lot of the questions that I had not yet answered yet, I have figured out this past week. At first I was confused because I didn't know how I should separate the links and how I should categorize them. I came up with a brilliant idea to make three links, one with beginners hairstyles, moderate hairstyles, and advanced hairstyles. This way I do not have to put all of the braids onto one link, and all the other hairstyles onto another link. This also makes it easier for the viewer to navigate the sight, say she just needed a quick hairstyle she woud go right to the beginners link and she would be good to go within minutes!
The most interesting link I have so far is the waterfall and ladder braid combo. I had heard of the waterfall braid before but I never really understood how you should do it, and I had never heard of a ladder braid before this. I stumbled upon a youtube video that did a how to on this braid. The video was very easy to follow and it taught me how to do this braid by just watching once! I think this braid is the most unique style I have so far.
The biggest obstacle that I need to overcome is really telling a story through these hairstyles. As of now I am explaining each hairstyle and what someone might use it for and what they are feeling that day. I am not sure if that is the best way of doing it right now but hopefully I can come up with a more creative way of telling my story through the hairstyles.
The next three steps of my curation include the following things. Gather more hairstyles and do more research to find new hairstyles. Right now I think I only have eight so I need a lot more. Another thing I have to do is put more information on the welcome link. I started putting good products for your hair on that page so I can probably add more to that. The final step that I need to take is editing the descriptions I have written for each hairstyle.
One thing that is not working in my curation is that I am having difficulty formatting the pictures. It will only let me put pictures in that are in a certain size and it will not let me put two pictures side by side. Other than that everything is going smoothly!
The most interesting link I have so far is the waterfall and ladder braid combo. I had heard of the waterfall braid before but I never really understood how you should do it, and I had never heard of a ladder braid before this. I stumbled upon a youtube video that did a how to on this braid. The video was very easy to follow and it taught me how to do this braid by just watching once! I think this braid is the most unique style I have so far.
The biggest obstacle that I need to overcome is really telling a story through these hairstyles. As of now I am explaining each hairstyle and what someone might use it for and what they are feeling that day. I am not sure if that is the best way of doing it right now but hopefully I can come up with a more creative way of telling my story through the hairstyles.
The next three steps of my curation include the following things. Gather more hairstyles and do more research to find new hairstyles. Right now I think I only have eight so I need a lot more. Another thing I have to do is put more information on the welcome link. I started putting good products for your hair on that page so I can probably add more to that. The final step that I need to take is editing the descriptions I have written for each hairstyle.
One thing that is not working in my curation is that I am having difficulty formatting the pictures. It will only let me put pictures in that are in a certain size and it will not let me put two pictures side by side. Other than that everything is going smoothly!
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Curation: May 8th
This week I have accomplished a lot of my curation. It was difficult getting started and trying to figure out how to use the google sites. Once I finally picked a layout and theme that I liked I got started! I have put a little onto to the home page but not a lot because I am not sure what that page should consist of. I also did not want to put anything that I wanted to go over in another place on my home page. Although it may seem that I do not have much in my curation, I do! So far I have worked on the braids for the most part but I still have a lot to add.
The braids link has the most information on it so as of now I would have to say that it is the most interesting link. I found a lof of great how-to videos which I think viewers are going to find very interesting. Even though I already knew how to do so many braids before I started this curation, doing more research, I have learned how to do a lot more complicated braids.
The biggest obstacle that I need to overcome would probably be how to organize my curation. Braids is such a broad category that I still can not decide if it should be it's own link. Also, there are so many other hairstyles other than braids but not a broad category for those. Hopefully I can come up with a solution to this. Another obstacle I need to overcome is figuring out what I should put on the home page to get viewers intrigued by the curation.
The next three steps that I need to take include the following things. First, I need to look up more braids and how-tos for those. My second step is thinking of hair styles other than braids and figuring out a category for that. The final step I need to take is organizing all of the information in a way that it tells a story.
I think that this project is set up fairly well. The only complaint I have is that is still confuses me as to what a curation is. I know we have been shown a lot of examples but is it essentially a mashup of common topic? Other than that I think it is a very cool idea for an assignment, especially because the topic is something you enjoy.
The braids link has the most information on it so as of now I would have to say that it is the most interesting link. I found a lof of great how-to videos which I think viewers are going to find very interesting. Even though I already knew how to do so many braids before I started this curation, doing more research, I have learned how to do a lot more complicated braids.
The biggest obstacle that I need to overcome would probably be how to organize my curation. Braids is such a broad category that I still can not decide if it should be it's own link. Also, there are so many other hairstyles other than braids but not a broad category for those. Hopefully I can come up with a solution to this. Another obstacle I need to overcome is figuring out what I should put on the home page to get viewers intrigued by the curation.
The next three steps that I need to take include the following things. First, I need to look up more braids and how-tos for those. My second step is thinking of hair styles other than braids and figuring out a category for that. The final step I need to take is organizing all of the information in a way that it tells a story.
I think that this project is set up fairly well. The only complaint I have is that is still confuses me as to what a curation is. I know we have been shown a lot of examples but is it essentially a mashup of common topic? Other than that I think it is a very cool idea for an assignment, especially because the topic is something you enjoy.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Carry It Forward: Innovating to Zero
When I think of Bill Gates I think of Microsoft Word and how he was the richest man in the world. Although this is what he is most known for, I discovered him covering a topic much different from technology. Recently, I wrote a paper and did a presentation about Bill Gate's project involving CO2 Emissions. His goal is to have the CO2 emissions down to zero by 2050. He said is may be a miracle, but it is a miracle that is totally possible to achieve.
The stuff Gates brought up was very interesting to me. I never really thought our environment was that big of a deal right now, but it is! Like he said, the government should be putting in more research funding to help this cause. To be honest, I do not go out of my way to recycle things or reuse them. It was never on the top of my mind.
It should have been. His TED Talk has made me realize that I need to make my contribution to the environment.
I am going to start by making sure my family recycles more, or simply use reusable water bottles instead of plastic ones everyday. I want my children and my grandchildren to be able to experience the planet I did, so that is why I need to do my part. The outcomes that Gates presented really stuck with me. To have crops failing and people starving scares me. I do not want that to happen. I want to make a difference.
Like Bill Gates said, this not on the top of the governments to-do list, and it was not on the top of mine either. It is now. I am going to make a change with my habits of recycling, reusing materials, and reusing things. Gates made a huge impression on me and changed my outlook on this topic very much.
The stuff Gates brought up was very interesting to me. I never really thought our environment was that big of a deal right now, but it is! Like he said, the government should be putting in more research funding to help this cause. To be honest, I do not go out of my way to recycle things or reuse them. It was never on the top of my mind.
It should have been. His TED Talk has made me realize that I need to make my contribution to the environment.
I am going to start by making sure my family recycles more, or simply use reusable water bottles instead of plastic ones everyday. I want my children and my grandchildren to be able to experience the planet I did, so that is why I need to do my part. The outcomes that Gates presented really stuck with me. To have crops failing and people starving scares me. I do not want that to happen. I want to make a difference.
Like Bill Gates said, this not on the top of the governments to-do list, and it was not on the top of mine either. It is now. I am going to make a change with my habits of recycling, reusing materials, and reusing things. Gates made a huge impression on me and changed my outlook on this topic very much.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Metacognition: MashUp
When I think of a mashup, I think of a collage. To me, mashup means a lot of things randomly put together. I never knew there was a way of doing this other than in a collage. This assignment introduced me to a new way of doing this. The assignment was so new to me that I did not understand how I was suppose to construct this mashup.
Picking out the theme was pretty easy for me. I knew the assignment required five reflections from the in class responses. I also remember writing a lot about solitude in my reflections. The concept of solitude also really intrigues me because I still do not one hundred percent understand it. There were a lot of quotes that stood out to me about solitude, so finding quotes from Letters to a Young Poet was very easy.
Although I had already selected the quotes, I had no idea what other elements to put in the mashup, or how to incorporate them. It was very difficult to find a place to start with this mashup. I kept re-reading the rubric, yet I was not sure how to get a decent grade on this assignment because I have never done anything like it before. Then, I realized something about this assignment.
There is no right answer.
The project started making more sense to me. It was meant for us to explore our creativity and use the books we have read and the other various elements we chose to connect them with the theme we selected in the beginning. There was no right way to do it, because everyone can interpret a connection in a different way. So thats when I just went with what I thought made sense. Although it may not make sense to someone else, it makes sense to me so I think I ended up putting these various elements together in a meaningful way.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Mash Up: Solitude
Solitude:
"It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, spring forth"-Maria Isabel Barreno
1. A man stands there just now, absently emptying his pockets and weeping. Without reason, his friends have abandoned him.
2. In solitude I remain
With absolutely nothing to gain Perhaps in time I will be strong
You see! Solitude is not my favorite song
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4. At its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it.
5. A crazy thought just occurred to me. Babies are essentially in solitude. They can not talk to anyone, and they are alone with their thoughts. Sometimes I wonder what goes through a babies mind, or even what went through my mind when I was a baby.
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7. Solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves.
8. In my opinion, solitude would be very lonely. I cant even imagine what I would do with myself if I was kept in a room, alone, for a certain amount of time. I think I might go crazy if that were to happen to me. Not being able to talk to anyone would be terrible! I feel like everyone needs someone just to keep them company and avoid solitude.
9. I sit in my chair
And filled with despairThere's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad
10. But with your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
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12. And if the body speaks, it is the speaking only of so many levers and forces. The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
13. Your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance.
14. It is impressive that Rilke can find it in himself to admit that he pushes things and other people away from him. For all that I know I am not aware that i push people or things away. Then again, I can not be so sure because like Rilke said, he did not realize this habit of his until after he was married. I wonder if I do push things away from myself to stay in solitude.
15. It is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along, the most unworthy...
16. Sometimes I feel alone, but then I realize I am everything but alone. I just had to realize that I have the strength to be able to handle solitude. It takes a lot of courage to accept solitude, well at least it does for me. Solitude does not mean to be alone, it means to be alone with your thoughts. While sometimes I have thought that I was alone, I was just coming to terms with the meaning of solitude.
17. Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult
18. The solution solitude can vary from person to person but I can tell you what I think the solution for me was. Learn to live with it, and experience your thoughts. I think being in solitude is very similar to what we are doing at this very second. We are left alone with our thoughts to write what comes to our minds. That is just how being in solitude may feel, just alone with your thoughts.
19. It had occurred to her while sitting there that everyone she would encounter in her life from now on would be a stranger.
1. Lightman, Alan. Einstein's Dreams. New York: Random House, 1993 (29)
2. Chidi, Sylvia. In Solitude
3. Ipod nano. Google Search
4. Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Random House, 1984 (9)
5. Personal Reflection
6. The Forgotten Art of Silence and Solitude. Google Search
7. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (69)
8. Personal Reflection
9. Ellington, Duke. Solitude
10. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (44)
11. Many Paths. Google Search
12. Lightman, Alan. (20)
13. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (8)
14. Personal Reflection
15. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (54)
16. Personal Reflection
17. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (67)
18. Personal Reflection
19. Wiggins, Marianne. The Shadow Catcher. New York, 2007 (77)
Thursday, February 21, 2013
iMedia: Chevrolet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0
Almost every day I will sit down and watch a little tv to relax, just like most americans. I can also say that with watching tv comes annoying commercials. All they do is interrupt my shows. I saw this specific commercial about a year ago.
This commercial was different from the others.
Although it is not recent, I still remember when it would air on tv. When I first saw it I had no idea what this commercial was suppose to be about. The thoughts going through my head were, "Why the heck is there a commercial about a kid dressed up in a costume?" To say the least I was very confused.
At the end, when the car came into the picture, I finally got it. I was still confused though. Why would they even think about putting darth vator in a chevrolet commercial? This never made sense to me until we studied postmodernism and modernism. This commercial is completely postmodern.
After I made the connection to postmodernism, the chevrolet company really reminded me of what we are currently doing in class. Right now we are constructing buildings with limited materials and time. Just like us, Chevrolet does not have all the time in the world to come up with new models of cars; they are always competing against many other companies. Similar to Chevrolet, we are kind of competing against the other groups to see who had the best ideas to construct a building.
Everything is a competition.
During class we have to put all of our ideas together to come up with one solution. We have to be innovative just like Chevrolet. With limited time they always seem to produce high quality products.
This commercial does not only represent postmodernism, but it also reflects on how Chevy is always coming up with new ideas and quickly.
Almost every day I will sit down and watch a little tv to relax, just like most americans. I can also say that with watching tv comes annoying commercials. All they do is interrupt my shows. I saw this specific commercial about a year ago.
This commercial was different from the others.
Although it is not recent, I still remember when it would air on tv. When I first saw it I had no idea what this commercial was suppose to be about. The thoughts going through my head were, "Why the heck is there a commercial about a kid dressed up in a costume?" To say the least I was very confused.
At the end, when the car came into the picture, I finally got it. I was still confused though. Why would they even think about putting darth vator in a chevrolet commercial? This never made sense to me until we studied postmodernism and modernism. This commercial is completely postmodern.
After I made the connection to postmodernism, the chevrolet company really reminded me of what we are currently doing in class. Right now we are constructing buildings with limited materials and time. Just like us, Chevrolet does not have all the time in the world to come up with new models of cars; they are always competing against many other companies. Similar to Chevrolet, we are kind of competing against the other groups to see who had the best ideas to construct a building.
Everything is a competition.
During class we have to put all of our ideas together to come up with one solution. We have to be innovative just like Chevrolet. With limited time they always seem to produce high quality products.
This commercial does not only represent postmodernism, but it also reflects on how Chevy is always coming up with new ideas and quickly.
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