Category: Course Related

Some more Peers

Michael’s entire blog is dripping with his insightful and quirky personality. It’s clear from his posting style he is a knowledgable internet person using blogs and other platforms. Working with Michael on a variety of projects I find his creativity infectious and often find myself producing some of my best ideas. Michael’s ability as an editor and producer of content is on display in the first episode of our webseries Get Fucked-tional. He managed to cut together my stuttering and pathetic attempt at humour into someone thing that I think comes close to comedy. If it hadn’t have been for Michael I would have just given up on the project but he pushed me to finish the video. I feel that he also deserves a round of applause for the amount of bucket hats he photoshopped onto random people.
In this post I also wanted to briefly mention Michael’s ability to summarise course related work whilst also relating it to his own experiences. Like Michael I feel that knowledge of coding is paramount and being someone who doesn’t know much about the net I’m taking it all in with utter fascination.

Living in the outer suburbs I suffer the daily public transport commute. I find the train to be monotonous and on a bad day soul destroying. Reading Callum’s own reflection on his commute, I opened or at least tried to open my mind.  I guess it is great that so many people choose to catch the train helping the environment and also reduce congestion in the city. To be honest I would rather catch the train everyday than have to navigate the city streets with my pathetic driving abilities. On the train I can sit (usually stand) listen to some music and lose myself in a good book. After writing this post, I’ve come to the conclusion that my disdain is unwarranted and I probably should start appreciating the leisure time I get to share with hundreds of complete strangers.

Rebecca Bozin or Beezy as she is typically referred to as, is a powerhouse of wit and ‘fangirling’. I’m jealous of her wit and I’m not suggesting there is anything wrong with being a fangirl. I myself am a passionate fangirl of bands such as Baroness and Mastodon. I almost faint with excitement when they release a new song let alone a new album. Anyway back to Beezy’s post omg html! which is equal parts a nostalgic discussion of her myspace days and discussion of HTML coding. Unlike most other people my age I stayed clear of the internet for a while and missed the craze of myspace and msn, so I had no idea that coding could play such a role in myspace. Like Beezy I do share an appreciation of HTML and how it remains a world of expansion and change.

Appreciating Peers

Looking at Giorgia’s post Atre Moris I am reminded of how lucky we are here in Australia. To not only have the freedom to practise whatever art form we wish to but also have the chance to study it and learn from experts in that area. I remember hearing from Ben and Giorg first hand about how great an experience it was to travel to East Timor. It really sounds like it was eye opening and a great chance to absorb other cultures. Unfortunately I haven’t travelled a whole heap and I feel that in the near future I would love to expand my ideas of the world.

Alex’s post about last weeks symposium Read this, post that was a particularly concise and useful summary of what went down last week in building 56 at 2:30 on a Tuesday. The thoughts that Alex shared about own understanding of the legitimacy of the online content aligned with my own ideas. I also tried to find PDF documents relating to my topic, and with the resource of the RMIT it easy to find reliable information, in a couple of mouse clicks.  Another aspect that I though Alex explained well was how we judge the validity of online articles. Firstly by making sure it’s published on a reputable source or is a popular and secondly something we forget in this day and age, Logic!

To round off my post I looked at Kerri’s Rad Readings #3. Firstly I am in awe at Kerri’s internet-ing ability. There is a twitter widget which is cool and knowing Kerri I know she is a pro at navigating blogs and the internet. This comes through in her discussion of Adrian’s piece on Network literacy. He example of her grandma commenting on friends photos is some we can all relate to as avid Facebook abuser user. We’ve grown up in the internet age and usually  shows in some form of basic network literacy. We all understand that we can’t like our own stuff on Facebook. Not only is that we understand social media etiquette we also have a broader understand the possibilities we have if we utilise networked media.               

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