Creative Project ?

I'm not really sure what the creative project is or haven't really heard it be explained that much in class.  I was prepared to write a blog entry based on what we are doing with the group project; however, looking at the syllabus and some of my classmates entries, it seems that it is another project altogether.  I'm not sure what the creative project entails, therefore I don't know what questions or thoughts I have.

my crazy journey.

My Google Maps Journey

Learning to love you more

I read about the project “Learning to Love You More” which was a project that asked people from all over the globe to participate in helping answer 70 random questions. The people that were willing to participate in the project willing sent in pictures or responses to the questions that they wanted to about any of the questions that were posted on the website.  For example there were questions like, “Draw the news”, “Make an encouraging banner” or “Repair something”.  The topics are so vast, but that’s what makes the project so interesting to read about because there isn’t one response that looks the same, whether it is a photo or an actual text response.  Granted I’m sure someone was monitoring the posts coming in but I doubt that there were many responses that were similar because they are based on individuality and creativity. 

That’s what made this website’s project so interesting to read and go through because you were able to see how some people took the question and responded to it. In some cases you can picture your own responses and see how different or similar it would be if your postings were posted.  Some of the posts were just really random at what they were asking you to do but then again they just wanted you to become more comfortable with yourself and get out in the community. Hence the title, Learning to love you more (maybe, I’m assuming that’s what the title could mean?) It could mean that you have to put yourself in the most uncomfortable positions to actually get to know yourself and love yourself overall? It was just a fun website to look at.

Wunderkammer

When I first clicked the Wunderkammer link my initial reaction was…….. well if long pauses and periods could signify my facial expression, that’s basically what it looked like. I didn’t really know what to expect when I was clicking the “My body” link to an actual sketch of a body.  However, I thought it was a different and interesting how the whole website and story telling was set up. I did like how at some points each of the links with all of the stories would be connected as they were significant to her life at some point, but would always be a part of her by constantly repeating themselves. (e.g. like being memories).

Then I just thought this chick was an absolute crazy person when I was reading about how she felt about her shoulders, I clicked on a link within that story and it brought be straight to another story of a time when she was curious of where pee came from.  I mean to be that open on the internet, cool, more power to you speaking about fondling yourself and wondering if you had a penis and what not.  It just wasn’t expecting any of these stories to come from the shoulder section; I mean I was only at the top of her anatomy.  Then again, this IS coming from the author who had created a full body sketch of herself in order to tell personal life stories.

Facebook Privacy

Facebook is dying. True. Although I still personally go on it out of pure boredum and as a way to see how pathetic my "friends" as Facebook so lightly puts it, from high school are doing, I really have no purpose for it.  I sadly have moved onto the Twitter world but purely for Networking purposes. Being a chapter president for a national organization it's really hard to maintain a proper image while still in undergrad, so I just have my entire privacy page on Facebook....BLOCKED.  What's the fun in that? It's not because no one can see the emabarrassing pictures or comment stupid things on my wall and I even changed my name so I'm basically unsearchable. However, as we all know there are loopholes.  So again, where is the line drawn in the sand for privacy when it comes to Facebook. It's no longer a fun social networking media outlet because I can't connect with my "friends" online.  My co-workers aren't my friends, they are co-workers and there are also boundaries on what you should and shouldn't post about work.  There is boundries for everythin that you want you post and actually do post and yet you find ourself still needing to "clean up" your social media pages should someone happen to skim your page and not approve of what is on it.

wikipedia response

I have read a lot of content on Wikipedia and use their site[s] frequently when needing a quick reference to help me familiarize myself with topic that I briefly forgot or even if it’s to have secondary research on a topic when writing a paper.  I usually use Wikipedia websites as a secondary source of research or information because professors have always stressed to never rely on the information posted in Wikipedia; however posts have been regulated more frequently, so it seems more credible.  Wikipedia can be a great website resource in which students wanted to refer back to or even have as a starting reference so they have some background knowledge of the topic they need to discuss.  The most common search engine used today is Google and when you Google any topic, usually the first site to come up is Wikipedia, naturally people are going to click on it.  That’s why is has become more credible and reliable over the years, because of its popularity.

Wikipedia is also evolving and advancing itself as a website because whatever that is being posted on to the sites about an issue or a topic or anything else needs to have a credible source and these sources are now being linked onto the webpage itself so they can be used for further backup.  I will generally just use Wikipedia for my own personal use when I need to find a quick piece of information and remind myself about something that I forgot or couldn’t remember.

Abstract and Bibliography

Link to Abstract

Link to annotated bibliography