Weekend Well Wishes

As un-relaxing as weekends have seemed to be recently, I thought I might pass this along. It's definitely worth a 5 minute, 27 second stupid grin.



Yes, his voice is that good.


And yes, he is playing an electric ukulele.


-cheers

New Course in the College of Journalism

I just got a heads up on a new class, MMC 6936: Developing Digital Online Learning in the CoJ. It looks like it should provide a lot of hands on training in digital media development. It meets on Tuesday mornings in a CIRCA lab and culminates in a semester-long, faculty-advised project.

I think I will take it because the Advanced Online Media Production course (also MMC6936) with Professor Mindy McAdams conflicts with Professor Ferdig's Society and Culture class.

-thought you (all) might be interested

Personal web presence

I just wanted to pass along the url for the personal site I finished yesterday. It took me quite a while because I really wanted to get a structure in place that looked moderately slick but would be easily updateable (that can't be a real word). And I had to hand code the whole thing in notepad for my journalism class which further slowed my progess.

But it's done. Let me know if anyone has any input. I'd love to entertain some.

-cheers

Save the internet!

I try to steer clear of politics on this here blog, but net neutrality is a bipartisan issue that seriously affects all of us. If you want to learn more or sign a petition to congress, look here. It's probably more important than environmental welfare; because once it's too hot to go outside, we will all be stuck inside surfing the net.
-salud

Academic Cross Training and Networking

I have seen a lot of people posting about frustration with their respective knowledge of (x)html and CSS. In case anyone is interested, I have been taking a course in the College of Journalism called Electronic Publishing. In this course we attend lectures on the history and theory of interactive media, intermingled with web design theory. We also have small group (there are 7 students in mine) lab meetings in which we get to play in the Interactive Media Lab and bang our heads at coding strict (x)html and CSS by hand. This is giving me a whole new appreciation for web development and design. Both the Professor and TA are excellent. You can get a taste for their enthusiasm and knowledge by perusing our class blog.

Also, for those of you interested in social networking from the theoretical and/or technical perspective, our TA has developed his own networking portal specifically for gator grad students. Yesteday I mentioned to him there may be some interested individuals in the COE and he said he would love to talk shop to anyone interested. His name is Gary and you can contact him at this email address: gritz (at) ufl.edu.

-Where's the love song to set us free?