Thursday, January 28, 2010

CLASS NOTES

1/28/10
Reptilian mind: the spatial part of the brain, the non-logical side

Cloud Tag: way of showing highly used tags from blogs spatially not logically

PPT essentials- minimal text
- simple background
- name always
- chapter divisions
- san serif type
- big, clear pictures

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"We made our bed, and now we must lie on it...on the moon!"





















1.) "Everyone's going to the Moon"
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/368984main_Every_ones_going_to_the_Moon.pdf

2.) Jamiroquai- Everybody's going to the Moon"




3.) "Buzz Aldrin 40-years later explains why humanity walked on the moon."
http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/space/buzz-aldrin-40-years-later-explains-why-humanity-walked-on-the-moon

4.) The Dream- "Walking on the Moon."




5.) "The Moon in Ancient Egypt"
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/moon.htm

6.) Drive-by Truckers- Putting people on the Moon





7.) "Living on the Moon"
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/11893/living_on_the_moon.html?cat=15

8.) "Building a Town on the Moon"
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/103936/building_a_town_on_the_moon.html?cat=15

9.) "NASA's Next Moon Mission"

“Heavy flow? There’s an app for that!”




With Apple's announcement on Wednesday of their new product, the public was left wondering if there were any women on their marketing department, or at the very least if there was any testing before its release.

The iPad, or the iTampon as tweeters are calling it, caused and uproar and triggered a barrage of tweets like the following, "I’m waiting for the second version that comes with wings..."

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

"Who needs school anyway?"

With the ubiquity, convenience and efficiency of language web tutorials, classrooms and their extravagant prices are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Online tutorials such as RosettaStone and TellMeMore are benefiting from this recent rise in web and automated learning.

Professors and students are now communicating at their own convenience and with greater interest and attention in their subject matter due to the rise in interactive material (crossword puzzles and games).