Bitstrips

I used Bitstrips to make a funny cartoon which I'm sure alot of us can relate too.  I really like this site.  It offered  really cool and helpful tools to create and edit cartoons and strips and it was really easy!  I'm not gonna lie, I can see myself spending alot of hours on this site.  The layout was good and how to create a comic strip was really easy.  Some sites out there make it so that it is alot more difficult to create a comic, no Bitstrips!  Another greate advantage is that, all you have to do is make a really quick account for FREE and then you can just get started.  Bitstrips also offeres a lot of other cool features.  You can create you own characters and evenlook at other comic strips that others have created.  It also offers a wide varity of props and tools to place in your comic strip.  I would totally recomend this site for people who would like to make and create comic strips for a career or even just for fun!
The image below is comic strip that I created.  Enjoy!

Mobile Technology

Technology in Society

One hundred years ago the fastest way to get a hold of a family member or a friend was by

either walking over to go and talk to them, or if they we’re too far away, by sending them a letter

which would take weeks, sometimes months to reach the person. Now, friends and family are just a

phone call or text message away. When the phone first became available, it was the newest and

greatest thing, and now, that we have text messaging, it seems that it is starting to take over the

aspect of calling and talking to people . Now, a simple text saying, “Hey what’s up?” has taken over

phone calls. But now, there are other new add-ons to just cell phones and texting.  We have

picture messaging, games, and instant internet access to our favorite websites like Facebook,

Twitter, Youtube, etc. Now, instead of using a computer and emails, we can have that access right

in the palm of our hands. Not only have our everyday lives been affected by new mobile

technology, but it has also affected how things work in the business world too. The most common uses of mobile technology by NGO workers are voice calls (90%) and text messaging (83%).  Instead of calling conferences with other employee members, project leaders can call or send out a

quick text to their co-worker and chat about the project they are working on.

There are a lot of positives to this new world of technology. Now by just a click of a button,

or a swipe of a screen, we can get a hold of the people who we need to get a hold of. Sure it’s got a

lot of good things going for it, but is this also making it so we’ve lost track and forgotten about the

important things and values which we were once taught . Now that we can just text, it seems that

sometimes it has taken away the aspect of socializing. Although we are talking and communicating

with other people, we have sort of lost the actual face-to-face communication. Instead of walking

across the street to go and ask your friend if you want to go out and play, now all you need to do is

text your friend and ask, “Hey, wanna go out and play?” Has this new form of technology, made our

generation, lazy? In some ways yes, but in some ways no it has not. As teenagers, we’ve used the

excuse of new technology to “cheat” our way through life. We don’t always need to cram right

before a test when we have a cell phone with internet access or even just access to text a mobile

search engine like ChaCha for the answer during or right before a test. Although it’s sad to admit, a

lot of us teens do it. Sure it’s convenient, but is it right; defiantly not . What’s next? Is there going

to be a new phone that does all our homework for us; it’s very possible. But hey, I’m not saying that

mobile technology is bad, don’t get me wrong, but it does have its cons. On the plus side though,

there are a lot of pros. Texting and accessing the internet from your phone can help you keep in

touch with family members who live far away. It can also allow you to let your boss know you’ll be

late for work, or even to just check the traffic on your way to work or school. Mobile technology

HAS changed how we live our everyday lives. If this is how we work and live now, who knows what

things will be like in 20, 50, or 100 years from now. More than likely all of the technologies we have

now will be a thing of the past. I look forward to seeing what new things are in store for us over the

rest of our lifetimes.

Reference:

http://mobileactive.org/wireless-technology-social-change-trends-ngo-mobile-use

Movie/Blogging

In class we just finished watching the movie Julia and Julia.  It was a okay movie.  It tells the story of a woman who models after her idol Julia Childs who is a female cook who beat the odds, and proved to everyone she could cook and spent 8 years writing and perfecting her cook book before it was published.  Julia wrote a blog everyday about how she would cook Julia's cooking and so many people looked and followed her blog.  It goes to show you that even the tiniest stubject, like cooking, can catch so many peoples attention.  It was almost like people would look foward to her blogs each day, almost as if they knew her personally. 
We also looked at a site which showed how bosses look up and find their employees blogs.  Sometimes, if the boss finds something that they do not like in the blog, they fire their employee.  Personally, I find this stupid.  Yes, not everything a person writes about or talks about in blogs are politically correct, but isn't that what blogs are about?  Blogs are an opportunity for people such as you and me to just write and express themselfs and how they feel.  No one said that they have to follow certain rules.  In some cases yes, maybe the bosses had a 'good reason' for firing their emplyees, but alot of the time they don't seem too.  Blogs give a person freedom to speak and express how they feel.  If that's true, why is that right even being taking for granted now?

Social Media Video

The video it'sself was actually very surprising.  I've known that Facebook is growing and it is a huge and is still growing.  Everyone seems to always be updating their twitter, facebook, myspace and blogs and chance they get.  It's surprising how so many people use facebook.  Its also surprising that if facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest.  It just shows how many people are using these different social networks to communicate with others. 
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We now live in times where our whole world bacially revolves around media and technology.  Thats not a bad thing, but if we base everything we do on media and technology, doesn't that take away some of the values that we were once taught all those years ago?  There are not as many books being bought anymore, or CD's.  Nw people can just download the newest music or books to theyre computer or even just to their Ipods.  It's funny how only a few years ago people would run out and buy the newest CD's that came out, now, with a click of the mouse, they can have the music downloaded to their Ipods, Without leaving the own comfort of their home, yet alone getting up from their computer desk.  Is this how it is going to be?  Or are there even more social technological surprises still to come for the world that we live in?