Advice for Success

At the beginning of next semester if you are worried about taking this class you shouldn't be. I think out of all the classes I have taken at Clemson, this is the one that has taught me the most. As we did the work in the class, I could see how down this road this stuff was really going to help. I actually found all of the work we did interesting and I thought it was great that we got to work with a client because you could see the work you were doing was going to make a difference and help out the client. If there is one tip I can give about this class it is to not take the formatting quiz or the grammar for granted. Just study for these two a little bit and you should be fine. These two quizzes were probably the easiest grades but I put the studying off and didn't do as well as I should have. I think it was great working in a group while doing the project for the client. It helped to have a lot of good ideas and we put them together to make a great website. Make sure you can attend all the group meetings and are prepared for them so that you can help produce a good project.

The most difficult thing about this class was making the different portfolios but Angie was always available and willing to help. If you have any problems about anything do not hesitate to ask her for help because she is such a very nice lady and will always help you. I really think just about everything we did in this class has prepared very much for obstacles I will be facing when I graduate. Thanks Angie for a great semester!

VT Tragedy

First off, I would like to say that my hear goes out to all of the victims families from the Virginia Tech massacre. I'm not so sure there is a way to prevent something like this from happening again and I don't think there was a way to ever prevent it from happening. The campus at VT is open and anyone at any time could go there whenever they want. There's really no way to tell when some crazy person is going to decide to do what the shooter at VT did. Anyone at anytime could flip and decide to do that any no one would know unless they had told mentioned it or written it down before it happened.

You cant really say that you could keep students from having weapons because theres always a way around something and someone that wants something like that is going to have it or get it regardless of whats at stake. I think I saw on t.v. where students had to have like an ID card to get in the buildings and dorms but that also would be easy for a student of another school or just anyone off the streets to obtain if they knew someone that went to school there or something. I just don't really believe that something like this can be prevented without people finding out before it ever happens.

Fired for a blog?

I must have been so excited the week before spring break that I forgot to do a blog that week so I am now making that up. I hope this is ok to do this now and I hope this counts toward the second phase of blogging.

I can't believe that people have actually been fired from there work on the account that they had a personal blog. Obviously, I know you wouldn't just get fired for having a personal blog but whats the difference in talking with fellow employees in the office about work or how bad it sucks or how you feel about certain people in the company or having your own personal blog where you could write down how you feel just as long as it doesn't discriminate or look bad on the company. It is my opinion that people would be more likely to say bad things about the company or people in a company to other workers at work instead of writing it in a blog and I bet people rarely get fired for talking at work. Now I could understand if someone had a personal blog and they were writing rude things about certain people or telling secrets that the company doesn't want people to know, then that would allow for someone to be fired.

I think it would be ok to have a person blog to let people know how you feel and let people know how things are going as long as you don't bring defamation to the company or the people that work there. As for the question Angie asked if it would be ok if they didn't blog from a computer at work, I think that would be ok still as long as when they do blog wherever it may be from that they still aren't speaking bad about the company or people in it.

The end is near

I posted on the team blog this week, see Tiger Web Design.

Dual Coding Theory...

I hadn't really heard about the dual coding theory all that much until we talked about it in class last Monday but now that we did i'm starting to notice a lot of examples. One example that comes to mind now that I know a little about the dual coding theory is the little taco bell dog that use to talk and influence you to go to taco bell. I thought that was a very good way to get the audience's attention because instead of a human talking and telling you what taco bell offered they had a little dog doing it. Another example of the dual coding theory would be with cereal. Cereal companies often use cartoon characters to entice children. A good example of this would be fruity and coco pebbles, they use fred flintstone to talk about how fruity or chocolatey their cereal is. Kids will recognize this cereal by watching the cartoon the flintstones and when their parents take them to the store they will recognize the cereal by the cartoon.

Also, I'm not sure if this is an example of the dual coding theory but I thought this thing was pretty cool. My mom sent it to me in an e-mail: I know it looks as though its just a bunch of crap but thats how the letters are supposed to be.

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Project + Proposal = Busy

This week we met on Wednesday in order to talk about the proposal that is due next week and also to check out how our website is coming along. Crystal had tried to create our website last weekend in dreamweaver but it ended up not working out, so she had to write the website out in code or something like that and for that I would like to congratulate and thank her. Just thinking about writing out or making up my own web page based on code just gives me a headache and I wouldn't even know where to begin. Right now, we basically have a rough draft of our website on the computer to look at and now we just have to figure out what information we want to put and where. At our meeting we were a little confused as to what all went into the proposal and how long each sections should be. We were hoping that Fridays class would give us an idea of what to include so that we could divide up the different sections and get this done over the weekend so we can put it all together in class next Monday. We kinda felt as a group that we had waited a little to long to find out what all was supposed to go in our proposal and decided that it would be great if we could get the proposal pushed back and due on Friday instead of Wednesday. With it being the week before spring break a lot of people in our group have said they have a lot of tests and it will be tough to meet so we felt that we are going to be rushed to get this done.

My Presentation...

Well, the time came where I had to give my presentation today and I don't think it was really all that bad. I liked the fact that we could choose to do the presentation on anything we wanted, because I felt a lot more comfortable talking about something I know a lot about instead of having to learn all kinds of new facts and different things. I hope I wasn't too nervous and didn't speak to fast, if I did sorry guys. I don't know if its just me but I kind of hate the feeling I get after giving a presentation. First off, you don't know how well it went, if you spoke too fast, if you didn't make any sense and the thing that bothers me the most is after the fact I always realize I left things out. I forgot to mention all the prizes you win for winning the tournaments, what we actually won last year and how many teams are usually in the tournaments. I guess things that happen like that are kind of good though because then it gives you something that you know you need to work on for next time.

Also, I think our team meetings went very well while we had this little time of from class. I think we got a lot accomplished with what we are going to do any now all we have to do is actually sit down and do the website on the computer. Hopefully, since we are getting a visit Monday from The Anderson Sunshine House they will be able to answer a few questions that we have about what can and can't go on the website. Well, since I blogged about other peoples presentations last week and the portfolio and stuff I guess this is it.

Here is a link to that video I tried to put on my presentation, I hope it works. This guy pitching is playing in a USSSA tournament where you have 5 seconds from the time you get the ball to do anything you want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2YVDgiLhU