Final Thoughts

Wow the blog was something I never thought I would be doing; instead I actually really liked it. The blog is a tool to sorta express your opinion on issues and communicate with others. I enjoyed the comp 106 class more then the other two I took before and yes I was placed in comp 99. But we live and we learn and I learned that it was much better to actually learn and take a course for no credit although the comp 106 was my favorite because we ACTUALLY use what we learn. Whether you admit or not we are living in the age where computer use is evitable and comp 106 is a multi-media course and that’s exactly what we did. The blog was one weapon in the multi-media arsenal to help display and communicate with others about many of the activities we conducted in class !! one of favorite was the ISM exercise which I really liked placing a photo with a word. We even had a speaker discussing the evolution of photography, which resembled Velma from Scooby Doo, which was cool. The blog is actually a example in the change of transfer of information which I thought was really neat. We started with written print that we moved on to the E-form E-mail E-everything even school. The final thought is the course was amazing I actually looked forward to coming to class and waking up every Tuesday and Thursday. I will hopefully continue to use this blog in the future.

Second Life EX credit

Second life is quite a game with many different worlds. I started heading to the web site and creating a account which was actually simple. I found interesting that the last name was already predetermined my avatars last name the names were actually quite strange some that I have never heard of before I named mine moonwall a strange name tony moonwall imagine that was a really name !. the avatar was created it was one that looked like it came out of soul caliber III with large flaps and gown it was male it resembled a Asian man from Japanese manga or comics. The next step was to download the program which I did it was about 60MB and did not take that long to download. Opening the program it reminded me of roller coaster tycoon or flight simulator the last games I have played on a computer. With buttons along the bottom and the top the game requires a log in, the game its self is actually like a RPG but like all the online RPG they are endless and can never be beaten a avatar can only become stronger. The game opens a tutorial that helps me get started in the game I have to say my favorite part was being able to fly around the whole location but it was really small but I believe that there are more places that can be accessed that I do not the privileges to access. As I walked around I noticed a wall with stuff that people no longer wanted like a craigslist in a artificial world, I searched for a location that was the university of Michigan Dearborn but online I did not understand why I would get a error every time I tried to access it. The avatars seemed to have magic powers with wanted a item from the wall they would simply just raise there hands and balls would go from there hands to the wall and the item would be received. The avatar I created after a close look at the face resembles a employee I recently fired accept with a nose-job. The modifications I made to the avatar were removing cloth from it making it nude, which resembles a ken doll with no penis or vagina? The next thing I noticed was the avatar was androgens very strange. I was able to make the eye color anything I wanted. Made it blue. The best part was the ability to take a screen shot from within the game and that made it simpler. The most interesting thing I found was that as I was born into the second life world many before me and after came with the same idea of spheres of light then creating humans its like a online directory of artificial humans something if found to be very interesting. The second life game was actually fun but get bored of repetition very fast and that was the game was a endless one.