Its late and I can't sleep again, so I can at least try to be productive. I've recently been watching tons of indie films. I just finish this one called O'Horton a Russian drama, about a recently retired train-engineer and I swear there was a constant 5 minutes of silence between conversations. I mean I appreciate the significance of body language and non-spoken messages but at least make them entertaining. I want my 90 minutes back.
* tangent *I think I'm too negative in these blogs, but would anyone really find it entertaining to listen to me go on and on about how great puppies are.
Now to try and somehow relate what I've said to my class........Okay, I think I got something. Many of the presentations in our class are very dry, they seemed to have missed the train on the whole entertaining thing. Even my own group's presentation was kind-of dry. I think in order to have a successful presentation you have to entertain your audience especially the current generation who is constantly engulfed in a firestorm of information. Just think if Al Gore didn't have a scissor-lift would anyone care about global warming; don't worry I'll answer for you, No!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Blog From 2 am
Thursday in the early moments of the day I remember that its been too long since I've vented into cyberspace. So, let the healing begin.
I tend find my blog to be an shameful form of self-promotion and I feel like I sell just a little bit more of my soul/ideals down the proverbial river every time I post something new. I feel like I'm participating in something I find destructive where I'm just adding to the overload of information where my voice is just yet another ignorable sound amongst the deafening chaos.
Now that that's out of the way. I do feel better. Lets get to the good stuff. Last week in class we discussed Wikis. I personally as well as some other guy, who will remain unnamed because I don't know his name, presented the topic of Wikis to the class. The highlights for those who weren't there: I was slightly embarrassed when I showed a video in our presentation that was the same video that was for homework. There was about a good five minutes of awkward technical difficulties, but I felt went unnoticed since most people were surfing the web. Our group showed examples of wiki-web-formats such as ehow.com a web page that gives step by step process to just about everything. I enjoyed the overall class it was very entertaining and informative.
I tend find my blog to be an shameful form of self-promotion and I feel like I sell just a little bit more of my soul/ideals down the proverbial river every time I post something new. I feel like I'm participating in something I find destructive where I'm just adding to the overload of information where my voice is just yet another ignorable sound amongst the deafening chaos.
Now that that's out of the way. I do feel better. Lets get to the good stuff. Last week in class we discussed Wikis. I personally as well as some other guy, who will remain unnamed because I don't know his name, presented the topic of Wikis to the class. The highlights for those who weren't there: I was slightly embarrassed when I showed a video in our presentation that was the same video that was for homework. There was about a good five minutes of awkward technical difficulties, but I felt went unnoticed since most people were surfing the web. Our group showed examples of wiki-web-formats such as ehow.com a web page that gives step by step process to just about everything. I enjoyed the overall class it was very entertaining and informative.
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