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Thanks for visiting. This is my blog of learning for the NET 11 Unit through Curtin University. It will be an ongoing project ... possibly not particularly exciting viewing for some!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Mod 3 HTML lessons - Volcano Web




Successfully managed to create my first ever web page from scratch.
but not sure how to demonstrate it here. How do I make that web page a gif file? Or something I can bring in. Those posts are SOOOOOO informative - thank god for Sonia and Lin. Here it is ...

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Module 3 Tasks - HTML lessons 1-14 Intro

HTML - another new language to be learnt. My first effort:
"This is my first homepage. This text is bold"
file:///D:/INT%20STUDIES/Mod%203%20tasks/mypage.htm - lovely!

Just about to work my way through a whole lot of lessons on HTML. I want to know who the W3C is - and how they got together in the first place. need to look more at their website http://www.w3.org/

"The idea is to make something that the world can view" http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut0.html from Mod 3 tasks.
Seems very logical to me... nothing more frustrating than a website that just doesn't work on your browser. I'm not sure why browsers treat HTML differently - sure I will find out. Guess that's why they want HTML4.

Hyper Text Markup Language here I come!!!

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Notes on blogs

"To skilled online role players, it's easier to fake a flesh-world personae than to maintain a consistent, long-term online presence. It also happens to give street credibility.

"http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf

Now that's an interesting comment. I think blogs are like diaries. except they're public. And I think people always want someone to read their diaries anyway. Why would they write them otherwise?
Who will our Anne Frank be?

The Blog World

This site http://www.brainoff.com/geoblog/ is just great. It really starts to sink in just how totally radical the internet can be - the lights coming on around the world although it's noticeably dark in Africa and parts of Asia .. question of equal access.

Blogosphere & group identity

Great para from the unit's reading:

"Within the blogosphere, a certain variety of language has developed, one that rationalizes the
human need to communicate with the constraints of the medium. These weblogs group into
tight social networks that consist of varying degrees of community. Each community is
anchored around a topic, whether it is job-related, research-related, age, gender, etc. Because
of the closeness of the blogging networks, communicative practices can be standardized,
strengthening further the sense of group identity."

This subject intrigues me.

More on blogspeak

Love this subject. Intriguing - is it spoken, written, a combination, is it as Lin asks asynchronous? Conversations can happen in real time, and others can read those conversations days later. The blogosphere is a bit like a very noisy party I think. if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll hear and/or get into some great conversations. You can also feel very alone and as if you're chatting away to yourself .... want to check out http://blogtalk.net/presentations/wagingpeace.pdf if I can find it . Back to archives.

LOL explained

Now I know what it stands for - laughing out loud - from the Blogspeak section as listed in Mod 3 http://www.eng.umu.se/stephanie/web/LanguageBlogs.pdf . Everyone uses it on their posts in the DBs- I was thinking lots of luck, look out love? . I need a blog/internet language dictionary .... just to be 15 years younger would probably have helped however!