Above is the finished product of a compilation of four basic pictures that were edited using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Pictured were cropped, re-sized, enhanced using the basic techniques in photo editing. Additional background was used to provide a vegetation setting while extensively using Photoshop capabilities to provide effects. The mini film clip is based on a popular Anime character named, Naruto, who possesses abilities using special hand techniques. Being displayed in the clip is Naruto's ability to clone himself several times while at the same time as if appearing to retain his same strength and powers.
Miyerkules, Disyembre 24, 2014
Four-Picture Photoshop Editing (Comic-Movie Clip)
Above is the finished product of a compilation of four basic pictures that were edited using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Pictured were cropped, re-sized, enhanced using the basic techniques in photo editing. Additional background was used to provide a vegetation setting while extensively using Photoshop capabilities to provide effects. The mini film clip is based on a popular Anime character named, Naruto, who possesses abilities using special hand techniques. Being displayed in the clip is Naruto's ability to clone himself several times while at the same time as if appearing to retain his same strength and powers.
Lunes, Disyembre 22, 2014
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Media Text: Choc Nut Challenge
On a typical early Friday evening in a classroom at the
end of the hall, fifteen students sit idly while earnestly listening to their
professor’s lecture that started a few minutes pass 5pm. His talk began with a
modest conversation about the track of the subject’s course outline and like in
most cases these story-telling part of the class is always as lively as a boy
who had a few chucks of chocolate for energy boosters. As he patiently stirred
his steaming hot cup of coffee using the rolled-up coffee sachet (ingeniously
creative – ‘ahem), catching a few glances here and there, he comically tells
his bits of anecdotes, like stories posted on a timeline that are mostly a
variety of opinions, principles and what-not’s in government, and nosy businesses
and dirty politics. It was quite unpredicted action that ensue when he pulled
out an item from among his things, turned to us with his eyes wide open staring
over his glasses, ripped its packaging and readily shared its contents to everybody.
And since he allows us to take any knick-knacks during his class, it was quite
obvious that this was a treat to enjoy, and we sure did. We even have a laugh
at it when one of us tried to slip what was left in the package in the other
student’s bag which the teacher caught. A good laugh and Choc Nut is indeed a
delight to share.
Like your common Marca Pina Soy Sauce or a Datu Puti Suka, Choc
Nut is a Filipino household name in the arena of sweet treats that almost loved by everybody by mere reputation. It is an undeniable fact that this Filipino couture of sorts,
in the field of mainstream delicacies, is not even a full pledge
chocolate in its own right, but, it has captured countless hearts and
paletes.
This magical little bar is popularly known as Choc-Nut.
Its full product name is “King Choc Nut Peanut Milk Chocolate”. Quite a bit “corny”
for a chocolate bar some might think, but once you’ve grabbed one and nibble on
a bite, you’d quickly realize
it’s not so silly after all, and that’s a guarantee. King Choc Nut Peanut Milk Chocolates are
manufactured and distributed by Annie’s Sweets Manufacturing and Packaging
Corporation. This sweets company is located in Jica Road, Buhay na Tubig, Imus,
Cavite.
While a few of you might already be in a state of
reminiscing, others may be staring with blank faces as to what this product
looks like? Let me tell you some of its features. The entire packaging: a
combination of gold on the bottom part of the package and red on the product
label.
In answering further this particular question of taste uniqueness,
I tried conducting a taste-test survey among
a few of my classmates and professors to know who may have the same
liking for Choc-Nut, and to make the opinion gathering worthwhile, I infused a
variety of subjects for scrutiny. Come to think of it, this might be my first
crowdsourcing? Elegant!
And the contenders are:
Choc Nut
Hany Milk Chocolate
BarNuts
Choc Nut
Although the Choc Nut falls apart as soon as you open it,
we withhold this due to its simple structure. This same structure is evident
among all participants. As for Choc-Nut, it was refreshingly a simple mixture
of tastes of a strong flavor of milky peanut without the peanut buttery
taste. Sweetness was light with a trace of bitterness, probably from
the salt added. Kind of rough or coarse in texture, and mostly dark brown in
color. Its reputation precedes its taste in most cases, and is without a
question a ready favorite for most who took the survey.
Hany Milk
Chocolate
It is
surprisingly noticeable that the packaging is pretty simple, the HANY logo is
decked out in a 50's-style font and almost copying Choc-Nut's package. However,
it readily makes up for like the choc-nut bar itself. The wrapper can be easily
removed and you can try swallowing it in whole, although there are times that
they crumble depending on your touch or grab. It has a very milky, sweet taste.
Some of the taste-testers commented that its sweetness vary from time to time probably
resulting from the quality of sugar used in manufacturing. It’s color also
varies, sometimes it is light brown in color while at other times its darker.
Nonetheless, it seems to be a surprising favorite for most.
Bar-Nuts
The packaging is pretty simple, with a
cartoon ant carrying a realistic photo of a choc-nut. This could the cheapest
choc-nut-like bar in the local market, amounting to less than ₽20 pesos. But
the catch here would be its size, yes, it’s small and almost a fraction of the
usual Choc-Nut bar and it has a darker color compared to its counter-part.
However, the wrapper is easy to remove and they taste pretty solid and pure for
a choc-nut. But what can you expect for a small choc-nut? Some of the opinions
gathered are, coarse in texture, sweetness is more relative to that of a locally-
made peanut butter.
Choc-O-Star
This
local milk choco bar can be considered a rookie in terms of popularity, hardly unknown
to the ones I surveyed. Most of the comments it garnered places it a notch
behind Choc Nut in terms of taste, sweeetness, texture and an overall impression
that its light to the senses, surprising low impact with a possible degree of likability.
Of the nineteen persons surveyed, there were only eleven returned
ballots that were qualified for canvassing (staged politics?) An
undistinguishable differences in terms of sweetness, texture and packaging were
announced making this challenge a head to head battle for all four
participants. The final ruling however, made two stand out and square it off
in terms of “expected standing” and a “surprising performance”. These two
are, the old favorite Choc-Nut and its challenger, Hany Milk Chocolate. Odds
were placed as two-to-one in favor of Choc-Nut, and for a moment, this may have
been the case if it not for a barrage of clashing looks, peculiar taste-buds and bottles of
mineral water to quickly drench the panels’ after-taste. Hany Milk Chocolate which was
deemed an underdog, fought hard to inch its way to first place. Although as it almost turned the favor around, surprisingly it only came in second behind a solitary vote that pushed Choc-Nut ahead the hard-fighting adversary. A daunted task have finally been revealed as who was the best among the ranks, so far. But don’t count out the second best, we
all, at one point do crave for sweets and everybody gets second chances….or
opinions in this case.
So what are you waiting for? Place your bets, dig in and
enjoy to your heart’s content. c”,)
Education Technology - Act Three : Media Text
The traditional form of written communication has been through
messages. It has been largely and undoubtedly been in effective used from the
time it had been conceived. Its modernization came as little as vaguely as the
opportunities for improvement came by. Although relevant discoveries were as
effective as what the messages convey.
The modern message or modern text is characterized by any
presentation that conveys messages in meaning, photo, videos, music, and these
transmitted messages are being perceived. Media are the means for transferring or delivering messages. When the
medium transfers message for the purpose of teaching, it is called educational
medium. Today, education focuses more on the learner's participation and the
existing idea of teaching materials.
Factors of modern texts are:
(1)
Physical Form, Output of Media has physical form as an artifact.
(2) Economic
Value – This typical factor is in terms of its commodity status (cost price of
media production).
(3) Meaning – which pertains to the “Value Generation.”
Terminologies:
1. Analogy of Text – simply the analysis of the text
media, newspaper, magazines, products, commercials)
2. Rhetoric – construction and manipulation of language
by the creator of the text for “affective purposes.”
3. Captioning – verbal text that accompanies the visual
message or text
4. Affects – intellectual, emotional, physical,
psychological responses to rhetorical address of media text
5. Composition – is focused more on the image (juxta
position) Adjustment, lighting, framing, arrangement of the image on media
text.
Education Technology – Act Two
On this particular meeting, our Professor was extensively discussing
the Principles of Education Technology, and that moreover, its purpose should
be all about engaging the students into learning rather than it being some kind of an entertainment.
First on the list was about presentations, and since this
would be the format wherein topics of subjects will be discussed, certain basic
rules should be observed. One of which is the Rule of 8. For one particular
presentation slide, a maximum of eight lines should be observed when placing
texts or words about the topics being discussed, part of this would be the font
type and size and that it should be readable for a the distant part of the
classroom. Practice of this rule will allow the presentation to be clear and
uncluttered thus avoiding a “pumped up” message board. One should also keep in
mind the K.I.S.S. rule, an acronym for “Keep It Straight and Simple.” When
presenting major parts of the topic or subject, only use certain Keywords, and
avoid including the entire meaning. This will also allow you to expound on the
matter while getting a good mileage on your audience’s attention since they
will be getting the information from you and not the screen. Look alive and
sound lively as to advocate interest among your listeners and to make your message
clear and understood. When explaining, information should be outlined and
concise. The presentation outline should include the following; Introduction,
Main body and Conclusion. Any other information additives would be based on
your entire understanding on what you are discussing.
One Key Note we should all practice when preparing an effective presentation, would
be the 9 Ps: Prior Proper Presentation Prevents Poor Performance of the Person
Putting on the Presentation.This will serve as a template or guide to keep presentations meaningful and interesting.
Education Technology can also be defined as the systematic way of designing, implementing, and evaluating the total learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives based on research in human learning and communication; and employing combination of human and non-human resources to bring about more effective instruction.
Education
Technology can characterized by three categories, these are (1) Development,
(2) Application, and (3) Evaluation.
Hence conclusively, Education Technology is the development, application and
evaluation of systems, techniques and aids to improve the process of human
learning. One particular example cited is the importance of language. Using the
audio of recorded voice (through the use of a microphone/recording and
transcription) stimulates the learning process along with visual learning
techniques.
Lastly,
Education Technology is the application of the results and researches and
studies, material and non-material teaching and learning. Material results of
researches include both the traditional
aids (which the primary focus of this course). Non-material resources are the
theories, principles of teaching. Including but not limited to methodologies,
strategies and techniques of teaching.
The
ABCs of Technology assesses that technology should be:
(A) Accessible
(B) Beneficial
and enhancing
(C) Cost effective
(D) Demonstrating and
(E) Easy to use.
Digital Darwinism on the other hand, is defined as the evolution of consumer behavior of society, when society and technology
evolves faster that its ability to adapt to the changes.
To have a clearer perspective of this topic I have below is a part of a definition of Darwinism according to Brian Solis, a Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group. He is also an award-winning author, prominent blogger, and keynote speaker.
“Social media, mobile, gadgets, internet
thing-a-ma-jigs, real-time — these are just some of the technologies that are
disrupting markets. Changes in how people communicate, connect, and discover
are carrying incredible implications for businesses. The real threat and
opportunity in technology’s disruption lies in the evolution of customer and
employee behavior, values, and expectations....
This is a time of digital Darwinism — an era where technology and
society are evolving faster than businesses can naturally adapt. This sets the
stage for a new era .....charging behind a mantra of “adapt or die.” One of the most problematic aspects
around digital maturity is that technology is both part of the solution and
also part of the problem.Enter digital
transformation.
As technology becomes a permanent fixture in everyday
life, organizations are forced to update legacy technology strategies and
supporting methodologies to better reflect how the real world is evolving. And,
the need to do so is becoming increasingly obligatory.
(Source: Digital
Darwinism: How Disruptive Technology Is Changing Business for Good
By Brian Solis, ALTIMETER GROUP October 16, 2014)
Education Technology – Act One
After going through three full weeks of somewhat an unproductive outlook, an expected angel of hope came and turned every
unfathomable darkness into… finally a certified class for Education Technology.
Kudos to ma’am Angie for taking us in as her responsibility. Thank you.
First on the agenda, is an electronic portfolio, and its
conception will still be determined. Crowd-sourcing
was tackled along with its coherent accompaniment of responsibility. By
definition, it is the practice of obtaining
needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large
group of people and especially from the online community rather than from
traditional employees or suppliers.
Education Technology was later described as the combining of
learning and means of teaching through the utilization of technology. It is
also accompanied by certain limitations set by the teacher’s responsibility.Discussed as well, were the latest tools in aesthetic learning. Once the entire course syllabus was given and each
emphasized on their importance or relativeness, discussion regarding course
output was given along with the typical mediums that will be utilized, such as
blogging, effective presentation making, electronic portfolio among others.
A short video on the history of communication was shown
depicting the transition and gradual development of information display, usage
and exchange throughout the centuries,
particularly the evolution of Educational Technology in the application of
learning and teaching education explicitly during implementation and availability to the public when the Public Education was enacted.
Part of my personal reflection on Education Technology is
posted as a final and complete copy of my
first blog that is already posted.
(...for October 2, 2014)
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