DIGITAL STORY Richard M. Cano

CARTOON ANIMATION Richard M. Cano

The New and The Old

https://plotagon.com/6146

Hohner Accordion

I purchased this  Hohner accordion on Ebay last week and was pleasantly surprised with how well it was kept. I was grateful when I saw this hand-written note inside. The previous owner was very concerned that I would not be satisfied with the purchase because he neglected to put in the bass section of the accordion because he did not know how to put it in. I am going to send him another note letting him know that I was very satisfied with the purchase, and even more appreciative that he took the time to write me a note. I'm also going to tell him that I can place the bass section in myself, as I have experience fixing accordions, and that his accordion is very much appreciated and will be in good care.

Keyhole Effect

I came across this while on Facebook. This is my cousin and one of her best friends. I thought that it was a great demonstration of the Keyhole Effect used correctly. This image is eye-catching and says a lot about my cousin just through her eyes. I'm glad that I came across this image by happenstance.

Company Laptop

As I was sitting in my office, I realized that I would be lost without my company laptop. I tend to do everything on it now. Since I'm always working, I do school work and navigate the web at the same time. I'm glad they assigned it to me the first day I started working.

VIDEO CLIP AND LEARNING CONTEXT Richard M. Cano

Technological Convergence

According to wiseGEEK, “Technological convergence is the process by which existing technologies merge into new forms that bring together different types of media and applications.” This video can be used to show how technology has changed things like communication, hardware, and entertainment. Some questions could be asked about technological convergence such as, “What are the driving forces that push technology to advance itself and converge into different forms of technology? What other technological convergence do you see on a daily basis that was not shown in the video?”

This video on technology convergence shows how technology is changing our world and advancing our capabilities. It also shows how people and organizations are changing the way they accomplish things such as advertising. There is, however, an underlying message of which we should be aware, if not wary. This video begins with this message in mind by asking “Are you ready for the future?”

This video forces a discussion about how much convergence is too much convergence. In the video, many niceties are depicted as to technological convergence to the point that the year 2025 doesn’t seem like an impossibility to have nanotechnology implanted within our blood cells. However, this may be pushing it too far. I believe that a great conversation over technological convergence would be to enlighten ourselves as to whether or not this is convergence or simply technology taking over so to speak.

wiseGEEK. What is technological convergence? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-technological-convergence.htm

Digital Media of Everyday Life and Education

Here's a documentary by PBS that I found while looking for a video for our Video Clip Learning Context assignment.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1797357384/

My School Bucks

I never realized how useful this My School Bucks app was until I realized that I was watching the history on this app. This app gives me the option of funding my child with lunch money. It also gives me the option of viewing the history of where the money is going. Big deal! It wasn't until I wondered if my daughter was actually eating at school. Everyday, there is a 40 cent deduction when she eats lunch. That is priceless. Knowing she is eating everyday when I can't be there to feed her gives me a sense of relief.

Freeplay Music

A repository of royalty free music.

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.aspx

VIDEO SLIDESHOW Richard M. Cano

New Project

I am grateful for this new project that we are about to start. Our lead developer came in from Colorado for this project. We had a few meeting and went out to lunch and for a drink. This is the only time that we really get to know each other. More importantly, I am grateful for the fact that I will still have a job for the next 5 months. Also, I'm thankful for my education and skills that help me keep it.

Packages

I received these packages today. I'm hoping that it will be the start of a new hobby of mine. I went on eBay and purchased an accordion bellows and a tuning kit. I plan on learning how to tune my own accordions. This is not very common amongst accordion plays here in San Antonio. I'm grateful that I finally got started purchasing the materials that I need since I have been trying to do this for years now.

SCREEN STRUCTURE IMAGES Richard M. Cano

Teens vs Adults and Social Media

I came across this article from my Google Alerts. donah boyd explains how teens use social media differently than adults. They rarely use linking and speak to only a handful of friends through their accounts. It also mentions her new book that I am going to purchase.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/240184/teenagers-dont-use-social-media-to-share-links-says-microsoft-researcher/

http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Emoticons

I think that it would more difficult than it already is to understand each other in messaging and text-based conversations without emoticons. Emoticons are a quick way to tell people how you feel, rather than using many words. I think from this picture you can see that we understand exactly what other is saying.

Cell Phones

I am grateful for cell phones. I was able to do so much today because I didn't have to be tied down to my desk. Furthermore, I did a lot from my desk because of my cell phone's capabilities. If I had to be on this dinosaur all day, I would get much less done. This thing doesn't even have the Internet. It's hard to believe the size difference.

RSS HOMEPAGE AND ALERTS Richard M. Cano: Protopage

http://www.protopage.com/socmultimedia

Protopage is an online RSS Reader that allows you to keep all of your RSS  feeds in one place. It is hosted on the cloud, so you can access all of these feeds from different mobile devices. The link above is an example of a Protopage Homepage; this is my homepage. In addition, I have created Google Alerts for similar interests as those in my Protopage Homepage.

Here is a list of those alerts:

Communication Social Media Research	Only the best results	Once a day
Media Design Tutorials	Only the best results	Once a week
Photoshop Photography Design Tutorials	Only the best results	Once a day
Social Media Boundary Management	Only the best results	Once a day
Web Design Tutorials	Only the best results	Once a week

 

"Narrate, Curate, Share"

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/08/10/How-Blogging-Can-Catalyze-Learning.aspx?Page=2

I've actually heard these terms in conjunction before. "Narrate, Curate, Share" does a great job at depicting the true meaning of what blogging is all about. Aron Barlow wrote a book on this same subject, and the idea that you are a storyteller as a blogger resonates through his book; you are a storyteller in the new public sphere.

Barlow, A. (2008). Blogging America: The new public sphere. Westport, CT: Praeger.

As a curator, you begin to think about what your writings can do to the individuals who read them; you think, essentially, about how your writing and thought affect people and life. It is important to state that the connectedness is, in fact, the basic premise of social media, of which blogging shared a big part in by sharing.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING Richard M. Cano: Delicious

https://delicious.com/rmcutsa

Delicious is a social bookmarking website that allows you to save all the links that interest you in one place. You have a home page with all the links listed. You can search through your links or filter them by keywords that you assign to them. You can even discover links and create relationships with other people. You can use their links as your own or you can search their links.There is even a feature that allows you to connect to your other social media profiles and even share your links through them. Perhaps the most fascinating feature is that it is hosted on the cloud, meaning, you will always have access to them via all of you Internet enabled multimedia devices.

Technology in the Classroom

As I mentioned Monday, technology in the classroom makes life way easier. This is a picture of my classroom at TAMUSA in the College of Business located at Brooks Air Force Base. You can see that people have their laptops out, are surfing the Internet, have their cellphones out and texting, and are actively engaged in media. We do a lot of our assignments in class in case we need help so that the professor can help or another student that understands how to do the assignment can help. I took this picture so that the person viewing can feel the technology in the room.