Week 1 - Tutorial Task (Me, Myself And I)

Hello :) My name is Crystal Ginn, and I am studying a Bachelor of Communication at Griffith University on the coast. I am a Christian, and I enjoy singing at the top of my lungs; often in 'off-pitch' just for the fun of it so I can annoy my siblings when they try to actually sing well! haha But I can actually sing, and I enjoy it very much. I've only been a Christian for four years so far, but really only this year I've tried to knuckle down, learn more about Jesus, try to follow His example, and to familiarise myself with the Bible! :) My aim is to try and be as much like an ideal Christian as possible, so through me I can show Jesus' love to you! :)

In relation to this course I am studying; New Communication Technologies, I am hoping to further my computer skills, learn more about technology, and basically have a rather cruisy class. But I doubt that will happen unfortunately.

I am looking foward to this semester, as I am still in my first year of uni and in my second semester. Through my 'Bachelor of Communication', I hope to major in 'Marketing' and 'Communication and Media', and be a travelling advertising advisor to big companies. I hope to do a big advertising campaign with one company for a certain period of time, and move on to another. I like change! The two subjects I am most looking foward to this semester, are 'Intro to Music Programming and Production' where I basically make music from scratch, and 'Communication Performance' where at this stage, we are learning how to operate a news room studio. They sound fun!

Till a later date, I am signing off...

Crystal xx

Week 5 - Tutorial Task

Today I am answering the seemingly unecessary questions below with information not found in Google or Wikipedia. As this is getting me to use other search engines.

Where was the first University established and in which year?

According to the site that I clicked on, it’s not a 100% fact. Some say that it's Bologna, others say the Karuine at Morocco, and still others say the Al-Azhar of Egypt. Apparently there is no Archaeological evidence to back up these theories. However, Takshashila or Taxila has been proved to have been the international seat of learning where students from as far as Babylonia (Iraq), Greece, Syria, Arabia and China came to study. The university could accommodate  up to 10 500 students and was the Harvard or MIT standard university at that time.

--------The site's url that I used to gain this information is <http://bdheritage.info/blogs/entry/What-is-the-First-University-ever-established-on-this-earth>[Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing (As it is a different search engine that I'd personally never use unless I had to, as is my current sitation) the phrase, 'the first ever university established?' and clicked on the second link, which was the first link that wasn't wikipedia or a question/answer site.--------

What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play?  Can you name a couple of their songs?

Stephen plays the keyboard for his band, Black Assassins. The names of the first ten songs off the bands site are, ASIO, Azaria, Barricades, Beggin' The Bullet, Death Comes To Townsville, Death Take Me Now, Drugs, Fear & Loathing In Toowomba, FMFMD and Going To The Wedding.

--------The site's url that I used to gain the name of Stephen Stockwell's band name and instrument is <http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Stephen/default.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011] and after that I went on the band's actual site and looked at their lyrics option, and that gave me a list of the songs names that they'd created<http://www.blackassassins.net/Lyrics.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011].  I found this site by typing into Bing the name, 'Stephen Stockwell' and clicked on the top link, which was a sort of bibliography for him.--------

What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
I'm not sure if the above picture is the biggest machine in the world, but it definately is the world's largest ship ever constructed. It weighs a whopping 564 763 tons. Although I don't know how much it cost to build it, I'd say a lot.

--------The site's url that I used to gain this information is <http://www.bukisa.com/articles/40463_worlds-largest-machines-ever-built> [Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing, 'the biggest machine ever made' and clicked on the link below the pictures.--------

Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?

I couldn't find this :S I tried Bing, then Bieber's actual official site, but with no luck.

Week 5 - Response to Content

I'm so upset, because I wrote so much and then the STUPID computer removed all of it without saving automatically as it usually does!!!!! ARGHHHH!

The film Rubber, produced in 2010, is an alternative story that follows the adventures and journey of a car tyre. The scene is introduced in the first act to different angle shots of chairs, and the film heavily used the rule of thirds. This is a very artistic way of filming. The car tyre is then introduced, and we see it 'learning to walk' so to speak. With it's wobbly and awkward rolling, we imagine it to be like a baby foal or deer, seeking to use its new legs and walk. This tyre finally learns how to roll by itself, and we sort of gain a small attachment to the object. That is until it tests its skills, and just by concentrating, can blow the heads off other objects, animals and humans. Using screenplay structure (Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011), the storyline adds to the scene before and after it, and progresses in a chronologically pleasing way, so that we follow the storyline better. The film is almost in real time, in that each scene is a long drawn-out one.

As the tyre doesn't speak throughout the film, the subtext (Sharda 2003) is determined by the music that was used to gain support and sympathy from the viewers.
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 - Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011, viewed 23 August 2011, <http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/subtext.html>
 - Sharda, N 2003, 'Combining the Art, Science and Technology of Multimedia with The Multimedia Creation Circles Paradigm ', The Melbourne University, Victoria, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 0-8. 

Week 4 - Tutorial Task

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Week 3 - Tutorial Task (Part 2)

When I first began high school, everything was new for me. I'd never had an 'msn' account, and didn't have any sort of social networking site running in my name. However as I started finding out what other pre-teens were doing, I then created an msn and was able to easily converse with them with meaningless and stinted conversations. And example of such a conversation would consist of needless annotations and glittery animations of words such as; lol, kool, brb etc.

 Is MySpace old now? 

* .....or another one you can think of?

.... What will the future "cool thing" be  once facebook is old skool... ?medium that has faded from popularity – like the BBS or Usenet or the original AOL or Compuserve --- please use at least 2 references Explain what the technology/medium was, what kinds of things people did with it, what was the number of users at its peak, why did it fade away?    Did it influence the way we use technology today?

Week 3 - Response to Content

Week 2 - Tutorial Task (Part 1)

I chose the above video from YouTube merely by just typing the most obvious phrase into the search bar: 'New Communication Technologies'. I mean how much more related to the topic can you be? :) So I clicked the first video that came up, and upon watching it, I didn't really like it. haha So in the recommended videos to the right,  I clicked on the then most eye-appealing video to there, and clicked away. The creator of this video is extremely creative, and had put much effort into making a stop-motion film which consists of cut-out paper versions of communication instruments over the ages. I shall give a breif list of the communication instruments shown in the video:

• Firstly, is the physical yelling as was restricted to that of the stone-age man (...according to the video. I would have also included smoke signalling).
• Then comes the letter. This was the main form of communication for centuries.
• Next is the morse code system. This was used in telegraphs and s.o.s' between sinking ships and the mainlands/other vessels.
• The type writer is then introduced. This was the first form of the computer, and a less-manual form of writing letters. Women generally were the most dominant users of this machine.
• Then comes the rotary dial telephone with their finger wheels. (However, the person who created this video neglected to mention the original telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.) 
• Straight afterwards in the video comes the finger pad telephones.
• The mobile phone is introduced...in big-brick style.
• Then making a jump between the big-brick mobile phone with an antenna, the video creator jumped straight to an iPhone Touch. I believe there have been quite a FEW models in between. The Nokia brick phone been one of these, with additive COLOUR COVERS as technology advanced. Also the flip-phones and slide phones. Then (as I now have) came the mini-keyboard phones (eg. Nokia E71 that I have and the Blackberry etc.).
• The creator of the video then put up the icons of the current most popular social-networking internet sites out there; facebook, twitter, myspace and bebo.
• The next image is a laptop, which then evolves into an iPad, which the creator has cleverly typed (in cardboard letter stop-motion style of course) on the iPad, 'what's next?'

I think this video well summerises how communication technology has changed over the years. 

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The following link that I've provided, is a how-to page that is incredibly detailed on how to select certain facebook friends to either see or not see your status', photos, etc. The page goes into detail, showing step-by-step pictures so you can easily follow along. <http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/modify-private-facebook-account-fans/ [Accessed 7 August 2011>

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