Theme

I think the theme of my portfolio will be the "journey". I've learned a lot in this class, especially things I could actually use in the future. Eventually, I really want to launch a website dedicated to my photography and it's great that I know the properties of a good and bad website.

2 Project revisions

I definitely want to revise my enthusiast blog because I'm not a great blogger and it's difficult for me to update on a daily basis. Now that classes are almost done and I have less homework, besides studying, I'll have more time to focus on it.

Although I am proud of the work my group did for the website redesign, but I wanna revamp it to make it more creative and to put more detail in the description of the homepage.

Ning Project pt. 3

There were a few times when a member of the group wasn't able to show up to class, but it wasn't a disadvantage at all. The missing member would connect to the rest of the group through Sakai and were able to send us their part of the work.

Ning Project pt. 2

I really got into personalizing my personal profile page. Some of the templates weren't appealing, but then I found one I really liked, but not in a color I liked. So I saved the background image, opened it in Photoshop and tweaked the colors a bit. Then I uploaded it. I was able to change all the blues into purples through Photoshop and by editing the HTML. I'm very happy with the outcome.

Ning Project

This project started out well. We were able to decide quickly on what we wanted to do this project on. We were also able to carry things out smoothly. The website itself was easy to navigate, but I felt it was a little bit cluttered. I don't understand why updates from our personal pages had to come up in the news feed of the main page. Our personal pages don't have anything to do with the main page.

Danah Boyd vs. W. Lance Bennett

Social Network Sites

I actually knew a lot about social network services before reading this article. Mostly based on personal experience. I'm a part of several social network sites: Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and SocialVibe. All these sites are so convenient! With Facebook, I can keep in touch with out of state friends; and as a film media major and a photography minor, YouTube and Flickr is extremely useful to promote my videos and photography; and with SocialVibe, I can help the world!

Every few years or so, I'd go visit some relatives in China. And, at the time, I was shocked to see my cousins using the social network sites that I use! I wasn't aware that these sites were available across the globe. I was even introduced to some Chinese networking sites. Instead of AIM or MSN messenger, my cousins used QQ. Obviously, we exchanged screen names so we could keep in touch. When I tried to install QQ onto my laptop, turns out, it's all in Chinese. And, unfortunately, I can't read. So, my cousins installed MSN Messenger. But, of course, things just couldn't work out. Because of the time differences, everytime I was online, my cousins would be sleeping and vice versa. Now we just send each other emails and keep in touch through Facebook.

And obviously, these networks are good for businesses. They're all free, and because so many people use these networks, it's easy for businesses to promote themselves.

I dread the day my parents get a Facebook.