Week 9 - Essay Crunch Time

The Comp Lab this week was focused on completing the essay due on Friday Week 10. I found out that I had too many words in my essay, and that I cannot use Wikipeida (:o) so I had to find the actual references that Wiki used and put them into my reference list.

The lecture on Friday was actually quite good. Jason Nelson was the guest speaker and he talked about Cyber Art, how you can be creative on the Web. He showed us some of his work and explained alot about what he does and how the internet works.

As for what happened in my life, the Roosters finally got their 1000th victory, they are the first and only club so far to record that number of wins. They beat the Dragons on ANZAC day 18-4 and it was good stuff.! :)

Week 8 - Internet Field Trip

For Week 8 we had to go on a internet field trip and find some innovative and interactive websites, though there were no specific instructions on Learning@Griffith.

The website I found was the Way Back Machine which is a website that stores the archives of almost every website on the internet so that you can visit pages from years ago.

Decision Made

I have come to a final decision on what my final essay for New Comm Tech is going to be written on: The video game console wars.

I have know this for a while, but today I am starting so it is official.

I ran this by my tutor and he said that it would be a good idea, but I have to be critical about it.

My basic outline of the essay will be to show the history of the so called 'console wars' and how it has evolved to what it is today, a multi-million dollar fight between congolomorates Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

I am starting my essay today (Thursday 19 April) even though it isn't due until week ten as I have ALOT of other work I will have to do in that period.

Thats it for now.

Week 6 - Photoshop

Graduating university, the asperation of all uni students, this is my representation of uni life.

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This is high-tech, the newest video game console from Microsoft, the Xbox 360, it incorporates all the newest gaming technology, which is why it represents high-tech.

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This picture represents friends well, as it is me with my mates at a party during the week off from uni.

I do not know the model of the camera used to take this picture, I will edit this post when I find out.

Current news issues seem to revolve around the war in Iraq, which I why I used this picture to represent news.

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The beach represents summer time, hence why I have a picture of the beach to represent summer.

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Unconventional. How many times do you see a puppy dog dressed up in flowers? I think that is pretty uncoventional, don't you?

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Week 6 - Photoshop

This week we have to get some photo's that are not modified in Photoshop at all which represent or communicate;

- Friends
- High-Tech
- News
- Summer
- Unconventional
- University Life

Once we do that we have to write a short summary for each photo explaining why we believe that the picture represents the theme chosen.