Friday, October 24, 2008

This is my final blog post or as it is called in the unit outline, my reflective "meta" post. I would like to start by explaining I did not really understand what networked media was at the beginning of this course. I now know that it is how the internet works, allows us to interact with others and communicate. This made it hard at the start when we began blogging because I was unsure of what to say and what networked media I should present. After beginning classes and more lectures I had a better understanding.
I chose to write about lectures and information that they taught me. I viewed websites that interested me as they are certain film makers and photographer that I idolize and believe others may also, or now have the opportunity after learning about them. I also continued to update on the progress I was making with the assignments over the course that included Project A, where I built a website and Project B, where I constructed a photographic tour and geotagged each on Flickr. Each of these assignments allowed me to use a variety of media and understand the positives and negatives of certain types such as video uploaders, webpage makers and so on.
The audience I tried to write for where people like me doing the same course who had the same sort of interests. This is why I chose to write what I was using in Projects, interesting sites and positive and negative aspects I have found within networked media.
It is a basic and up to date blog with webpages that I would insist on viewing and information about this course. I have also added some gadgets on the side bar to make it a bit more interesting. One gadget I chose to add was the youtube video bar. In this bar you will find a video called, Strings Day Out, which is an amazing film made by a friend of mine. She made it entirely of photographs that she took and compiled them into a movie. I also added a slideshow of pictures from Flickr with the keyword sunset. This allows a slideshow to continue playing a variety of sunsets taken by all different members of Flickr. These are good examples of networked media on my blog because they are different people and sites that are connected and viewed through my blog.

It is also required to nominate three of my past posts to be assessed. I have chosen Tuesday, September 23's post because it has a clear engagement with, and reflection on, the content of the unit. It also shows an ability to create, customise and integrate networked media forms as it explains that we learnt how to use Text Wrangler in our tutorial. This allows us to customize and create our own webpage.
The second post I am going to nominate is Sunday, August 17. This is a small summary of what I have learnt so far in the first 2/3 weeks of the course, reflecting and engaging on the content of the unit.
The third post I nominate is Friday, September 5. I chose this post because it explains how I created Project A, which was creating a website and publishing my work on it. This showed an ability to position my own practice appropriately within the context of networked media and connecting with an audience.

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