I thought this girl was about the CUTEST thing ever so i had to post this...
1.25.2011
1.24.2011
Digital Native
Okay so you may be wondering.. 'What is a digital native?' Well, if you are about 25 years or younger its probably safe to say that you are a digital native, also known as a person who has grown up in our current digital age where computers are an everyday normal object that you use. Even kids as young as 20 months old are beginning to use computers with complete ease. If you look on Youtube you can find many videos of kids as they use computers. Meet baby Roland, at the age of 20 months old he uses he internet to play his games on The Disney Website.
Our parents grew up in school not having a computer to use whenever they wanted. We have it easy....
If they had a computer then... this is probably what it looked like....
For me however I grew very much so as a TRUE Digital Native. At a very young age, about 4 years old, I was already using the computer and playing games and such. By the age of 7 I could do just about anything on the computer, at that time we had dial-up internet which was always a pain... **phone rings** "Oh crap" then Xanga came along when i was about 11, it was like a blog for younger audiences, it required html codes for things such as layouts, headers, fonts, not long after by about 11-12 years old I could change all the html codes to change everything to how I liked it, change the background, font, color scheme.. and id figure out how to chug things like this in something that would look something like this:
</script><style id=gstyle>body{margin:0;overflow-y:scroll}#gog{padding:3px 8px 0}.gac_m td{line-height:17px}form{margin-bottom:20px}body,td,a,p,.h{font-family:arial,sans-serif}.h{color:#36c;font-size:20px}.q{color:#00c}.ts td{padding:0}.ts{border-collapse:collapse}em{font-weight:bold;font-style:normal}.lst{height:25px;width:496px}.ds{display:inline-block;display:-moz-inline-box}span.ds{border-bottom:solid 1px #e7e7e7;border-right:solid 1px This gibberish just seemed to make sence to me, I could change it however I liked, it became something to do in my spare time, I started a small layout Xanga for other users where they could request certain things. I ran the page till Xanga was replaced with Facebook which I was one of the first of my friends to have. Since then I have kept my Facebook, but I also use things like formspring, Picnik, Tinypic, Youtube, Hulu, and other sites regularly, an am currently using Hulu to watch a show I love, called Lie to Me.
1.23.2011
Media Literacy... What is it... and why should you care??
So what is literacy?
According to the dictionary "Literacy. Noun. The quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to readand write." I think everyone knows what this word means and implies... but without literacy we would be figuratively blind to most of the world around us. The world absolutely thrives on literacy, you wont find a place in the world that does not have its own written language. We live in a literate world.
Now, what's "media literacy......."?
According to the dictionary... there is no such thing as Media Literacy.... So what do you think it is? This question was asked to a few people in this video, they were asked to give their definition of what they thought media literacy was here.
Personally I believe them to be correct, these days we Facebook, Myspace, Tweet, Formspring, Blog, websurf, etc... by doing this we are becoming media literate, you learn how to control what you do and how to make it better serve you. Its what our world is becoming and has already become.
According to the dictionary "Literacy. Noun. The quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to readand write." I think everyone knows what this word means and implies... but without literacy we would be figuratively blind to most of the world around us. The world absolutely thrives on literacy, you wont find a place in the world that does not have its own written language. We live in a literate world.
Now, what's "media literacy......."?
According to the dictionary... there is no such thing as Media Literacy.... So what do you think it is? This question was asked to a few people in this video, they were asked to give their definition of what they thought media literacy was here.
Personally I believe them to be correct, these days we Facebook, Myspace, Tweet, Formspring, Blog, websurf, etc... by doing this we are becoming media literate, you learn how to control what you do and how to make it better serve you. Its what our world is becoming and has already become.
About me...? Why not.
I'm Rachel Spillane, 18, I have been born and raised in the heart of Marietta, Georgia. People call me a bunch of different things like Rae, Rae Rae, Rach, Rachie, Spillane, Splane (hence the blog name), Spillaney (pronounced Spill-ah-nay) and a bunch of other random things. Some call me not normal... or just insane, but I'm just me. Around 7th grade, I completely gave up caring what people think of me and how they choose to judge me.. And I have to say I have the best friends anyone could ever have because of it! I am OBSESSED with art, taking pictures, drawing, painting, making jewelry, etc... It is and will always be my life (especially since Im an art major)! So.. Welcome to my Blog!
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