Feeling high on caffeine the class started.. what a great afternoon. The teacher told us that the lecture assignments are to be submitted according to a schedule, yay! The first one should be submitted by next week's class.
Next up, was some presentations, there were some cool subjects, should do a 15 minute presentation by myself. The presentation of it is on 8th February and my presentation is about Instant messaging, woo! Should be a decent subject, I know I've got loads of experience.. since I use it every day.
The teacher told us about LinkedIN, I've been there for some years (?), but can't remember when was the last time I logged in. LinkedIN is like Facebook, but its for professional and work usage, not for posting what you had for breakfast.
Anyway, continuing... becoming an inhabitant from a mere tourist.. Anyone in the world can become an inhabitant of the internet, I guess. You just need to participate in the what ever community you find yourself in on the internet.
Mika then showed us a website where people cane design their own camera bags and show off them in the public. It was just one example of how the companies nowadays want to give the customers a freedom to customize their products and give them ideas and what not towards better products.
Apparently openness and publicity are a big thing nowadays. With Facebook and what not we have lots of social medias that reveal our life to the public. The Big Brother nowadays is the person next to you, not some government agency.
We then proceeded to doing our group assignments, this was convenient for us since we were all here in the class, except Timo(!).
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
First Proper Class @ 18.1.2010
Today was the first proper class of the course. After a morning of working on another course's projects, I had about two hours till this class, so I went home and googled around, because I wanted to setup some galleries for my work. Got it under construction, when I found bolGallery (which is easy and awesome by the way), just need to unify it with my website's layout and create the galleries for each folder.
Anyway, about the class, for the first half of the class or so our teacher, Mika, talked about the clearly visible two groups using the internet. The so called Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Us, who have used the internet pretty much ever since we went to school, are the natives, we're used to all sorts of new fancy things that are related to the internet or PCs, and what not. The computer is basicly an extension of us. Where as the immigrants are the older generations, that really haven't gone so far, necessarely, into the world of computing. Mika also told us about the evolution of the internet from a rather small library into an insane one, with bringing along the shopping mall and the lot (commercialism, basicly).
In the latter part of the class we were told to form groups, and so we did. Our group consists of Toni, Timo, Jarno, Joona and me. Rather a solid group of people that I've worked with in the past (and currently) quite a bit. After a while we came up with the name 4 Aces and A Joker, don't ask where it originates from. Going to start with the course's group projects on Friday, I reckon.
That's about enough for this week's ICT-marketing and collaborative media.
Anyway, about the class, for the first half of the class or so our teacher, Mika, talked about the clearly visible two groups using the internet. The so called Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Us, who have used the internet pretty much ever since we went to school, are the natives, we're used to all sorts of new fancy things that are related to the internet or PCs, and what not. The computer is basicly an extension of us. Where as the immigrants are the older generations, that really haven't gone so far, necessarely, into the world of computing. Mika also told us about the evolution of the internet from a rather small library into an insane one, with bringing along the shopping mall and the lot (commercialism, basicly).
In the latter part of the class we were told to form groups, and so we did. Our group consists of Toni, Timo, Jarno, Joona and me. Rather a solid group of people that I've worked with in the past (and currently) quite a bit. After a while we came up with the name 4 Aces and A Joker, don't ask where it originates from. Going to start with the course's group projects on Friday, I reckon.
That's about enough for this week's ICT-marketing and collaborative media.
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