Assessment 3 Blog Post

Assessment #3 Blog Post

Hello, Goodbye, The course is over and all the topics are done, goodbye MPI104, it's been interesting :) Over the course of MPI104 We learned the basics about social networks on the internet, a brief history, and quickly how to utilise these sites ourselves. This led to topics on designing on the web, and creating our own sites. The interaction with the internet getting deeper until we got to our second/last (this is a progress assignment) assignment wherein we acually left our own website footprint on the web, pretty cool.


MPI104 Blog 20 Posts; 3 pages; 1 Favicon; 13 gadgets; 2 RSS feeds; 1 counter 
Blogging, on My Blog was an interesting experience, which I'd never tried before. I think it was really useful to be introduced to blogging, and when you take some time and and effort it can really work out well and be worthwhile. SOme of the time though, It felt a bit rushed and forced because it's an assessment and not a natural interest in putting your thoughts out there like a normal blog. I experimented with templates, design layouts, gadgets and making the blog accessible and appealing. I tried to put a lot of effort and detail into my posts, with images, links, written information, and video clips. My favourite part was learning how to embed video, hide the text for a link, and create my own HTML counter when the gadgets were down, from the knowledge we'd got in the HTML topic.
Here are some of my favourite posts:
All things Japan - The Sydney Japanese Film Festivall
All Things Japanese - Yakisoba (fried noodle dish)
All Things Japan - J-pop
All Things Japan - The call of Korean Dramas

My delicious account 11 stacks; 78 links
In Delicious I learned about sorting links into topics, which got more interesting the more I did it. The best part for me, in this section, was learning about what other people find interesting, by looking at the Hit Counter. This led to a better understanding of designing on the web, which will be useful in the future, when I venture out on the web universe.
Stacks and link counter:
MPI104 links 7 links
Mangamania 6 links
Fruit alone 8 links
Popular dishes Eaten in Japan 7 links
Message Hats 4 links
Design Fingernail Art! 5 links
Discontinued modern Olympic Sports 7 links
Guinea pigs 5 links
Language learning for kids (free sites only) 6 links
VOCALOID DESU SHI! 12 links
Secret Garden (Korean): Soundtrack 10 links

My Flickr Account 64 items; 5 sets; 1 gallery; 10 Favourites
Learning about Flickr was an introduction into the photo-sharing community of the web, and gave me an insight into interesting and unusual imagery which I am happy to be amazed by every day. From Flickr I got more of an interest in the photography community, and the networks of image sharingf - how popular and useful they are for getting your work out there and appreciated/judged.

Learning about HTML and creating a webspace would have been way better if there'd been more time for it. I really like the idea of HTML and learning how to write up some script has been pretty useful. Because my webspace didn't upload properly I don't really feel a sense of having accomplished making my own site, and feel a bit of a nube still at it all, which I am but hey! It was brilliant learning about each new thing though, like getting a window peek into a whole new world "programmer world" :D RSS was challenging and linking up the CSS sheet, but it was fun. I wish I had something more interesting to create a web site about though, I hadn't really had many good ideas for reaching other people, it felt like being told to sit down and write a novel when you never really thought about being a writer before.

I liked MPI104. The class atmosphere was fun, although sometimes I couldn't keep up with the speed. :) Thanks for being an awesome lecturer :D'

MPI Delicious updates

Hey people, Just putting an alert up there that I've been gradually adding to my other assessment sites, Delicious and Flickr, and so, feel free to check them out and see what's new. It may not be your up of tea, but I've added about five new stacks to Delicious, so chances are there might be one that appeals to you :D Here's hoping. The previous stacks were on "This Assessment links"; "Manga Links"; and "Fruit alone" - which, for Tge biz rarity of its name has attracted an unfathomably large amount of views for a stack just on types of fruit -.^ Not that I'm complaining, that's great (probably, well I can't see any sinister reason) that people are paying more attention to health and nutrition and fruit :D More power to you. For my part I've added a few more links to these older stacks, but here's where it gets exciting *trumpets* dandadaah!! New stacks! I don't know that I'm remembering them all right now, but I'll give it a shot: Popular Meals Eaten in Japan; Message Hats; Discontinued Modern Olympic Sports; Design Your Own Fingernail Art; Guinea-Pigs :D Yes, broad and diverse and interesting haha, I hope there's something there one thing at least for most people - if not, I'll just have to add newer and more interestinger ;) stacks until I get you all on board. Share the huge guys, Happy Wednesday from Australia xox

Assessment #1 blog post

Assessment #1 blog post; the summary...

=Blogger=
+ Posts: 8 This includes MPI104 related and theme related. My running theme was 'All Things Japan', which were the most interesting of my posts, about Japanese art and photography; Language skills and TV dramas; Celebrating your birthday overseas. I tried my best to be consistently interesting though... so feel free to read some of the others ^^)
+ Work done on aesthetics: In Template I customised my blog Template (from 'Travel'); where I also adjusted the widths, layout, and text fonts and colours. I tried for a colour scheme that matched up/complemented each part (i.e. text, background).
+ Comments on other blogs (and the links to the comments) can be found on this post - "Miscellaneous post commenting".
+ The tags I used: assessment blog, Birthdays, blogging, blog viewing, celebrating, comments, crucial post, delicious, first post, Flickr, Gifu FC, Gokusen, Hope Maguire, interesting topics, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese drama, language techniques., Matt Barron Lecturer, mpi104_2012, MPI104, New Gallery, Physical Japan, soccer fans, stacks.
+ Other work I've done on blogger:  I added gadgets to my sidebars (Fish, MP3 player, Diggs) and below posts bar. I re-arranged how the parts of the blog were set up in "Layout". I designed a favicon for my URL - so that ever time you have my blog URL up, it won't have the orange "B" for the blogger site, but my own symbol linking it visually to my site. I added two more pages to my MPI104 blog, that are URL links to the relating MPI104 Flickr and MPI104 Del.icio.us sites. I called the pages "Flickr PLace" and "MPI Del.ic.ious". In settings I checked on all the options and made sure it was formatted how I would like it - blog description, Header, sub header, language, time zone, commenting. I added personal information on the profile page, about my interests etc.
+ That's about it for blogger. Here is the link: Hope Maguire's Blog

=Del.icio.us=
+ The number of bookmarked web pages (Links) is 14.
+ Why these are of interest to me?- they're my hobbies/interests. Why I found them interesting is why I chose them as stacks: MPI104 - with 6 links (My own MPI104 sites - Flickr; Blog; Masterblog; and three other blogs I found interesting) is all course related, and I find this course interesting, I didn't know so much about these websites before, it's pretty cool :)
Mangamania links - with 3 links to manga websites - because I love Japanese manga, Korean Manhwa, and Chinese (not sure what they call it there) manga. And I thought, you know, if anyone else wanted to find out about it - here's the links to some informative, interesting places.
Fruit alone links - with 5 links to websites about just one specific fruit. Because one day I just suddenly pictured fruit as always being in a fruitbowl and I wanted to separate them up into "just an apple" etc, random yes, I think I was red-lining on the lack of sleep front - but fruit is good, its all bright colours and yummy tastes. Come on - who doesn't love fruit?
+ Links to my favourite three web pages:
on pears
a webcomic
a manga website for readings scanlations
+ Here is the link to my delicious profile

=Flickr=
+ Number of uploaded images: 32
+ My three favourite images mosaic plates, cup of tea, Nagasaki city sprawl (own); and by others: geisha; cuban cyclist; rabbit face (from my favourites section)
+ Here is the link to my Flickr stream

=thoughts=
So far it's been pretty interesting; learning about these online social/information sharing websites and ho wmany people use them and how/why they post their opinions and information on the web. Besides learning how to operate these sites, my faourite part of MPI104 has been learning a little bit of coding, and all the random, current geeky information that comes up in class. Definately a workshop a look forward to, in a Uni week. Cheers for the 'funness'.

Delicious account

Today we created an MPI104 delicious account, here's my link with my first stack.