Project Four Independent Learning Technology Post Three

For my third post I will talk about Spruz.com. We were required to make out webpage about our topic on Spruz.com. Our group along with many other groups experienced problems with this domain. Beginning with the very first step of getting a membership to this website. Some people, including myself, had to try numerous times to submit a log in and password to gain access to this website. After acquiring a membership I then set up my personal profile, this is where I talked about my self and the reasons in why I decided to pick to discuss the topic of commercialization of children. AFter creating my personal profile we were to post our own individual blog post about a specific part of our topic. During this step I experienced difficulties when going to submit my blog post. After completing my blog post, I clicked the submit button, the next page was an error page, when I went back to try and re submit my post the post was deleted completely and not automatically saved. After finally posting my blog post we were to replay to another group members blog post, at this step I did not experience any problems. After this step we were to as group come up with the mission statement and welcome note for out website. Also in class we decided to change the theme of our webpage. There were some slight difficulties when trying to post both the mission statement and welcome note, but they were fixed shortly. The domain or Spruz.com also operated very slowly. Pages took forever to load, pages had to be refreshed constantly.

Project Four Independent Learning Technology Post Two

For my second log post I will tai about my specific component I talked about on our webpage. I decided to talk about the commercialization of children through food products. How people overlook the issues that this causes. In today's world parents replace babysitters with television. Today children are watching more t.v. then ever before, and the numbers continue to increase over the years. Since the television is now spending time with children rather then people, who could be playing with children and teaching them things, they are occupied by programs that attract their attentions. this is where the media strikes. Based on the tv shows the children watch the media decides where to play certain commercials that appeal to specific crows. The commercials played during children shows, typically appeal to children. Commercials for children also involve children. This is because if children see other children on television doing certain things, they as well will want to do those things. This is how the media sell their products. They are making children and entire class of consumers, not only now but also for later. Soon these children will be growing up, and as they grow up they are further influenced by the media. We need to protect the values of childhood. We need to prevent the increasing problems, such as the rise of child obesity, and get children involved in more knowledgeable activities.

Project Four Independent Learning Technology Post One

For my first blog post I will talk about the topic my group had decided to pick for project four. For this project, we were again divided into groups. In these groups we were to select a prominent issue in todays world. An issue that we are personally interested in and want to discuss. For my group we chose the topic of the commercialization of children. We thought that the commercialization of children is a growing issue in the US, and that it does not receive enough awareness. Our main goal was to spread the awareness of this uprising problem. We talked about six different aspects of the commercialization of children, and how each one of these aspects are a part of the problem. While researching out own topic we were also required to complete an assignment, which was creating a webpage for the groups issue. The webpage should provide certain information that discussed the groups specific topic. We thought that the commercialization of children is important because now a days the television is such an important factor in our world. If children are being apart of media, it can potentially cause problems within our younger generations. We thought that by trying to spread awareness we would be able to stop this upcoming issues.

Project Three: Independent Learning Technology Post Five

For my last process blog post I will talk about my opinion about this project. For this project we were required to work in a group, in college group projects tend to be a little more difficult or more stressful. Also working with a group and with a new program was a little tricky. I did like how we were able to communicate through the  separate forum groups on sakai to converse with my group members. For group projects though, being able to work together in class is crucial. There was a good amount  time for class work provided, but it college things tend to move ten times faster. I liked working with Wordpress, although frustrating at times it was interesting to learn the different components of the website. Learn how to make a website and change the entire format of a pre existing website. Being able to analyze poor websites was also interesting because you were actually able to get a good look at how many horrible websites are out there. Before this class I would have over looked all the negative aspects of the website and just looked for the information I was searching for. I didn't realize how much better the website would be if it just provided the audience with the information they were looking for. This what we tried to do when redesigned Kingston Pizza website, redesign the site based on the information that an audience member would be interested in.