MEDIA MEDITATION#4 on Blackberry!

Lets start with a commercial so you can see what I got!

I absolutely LOVE my BlackBerry Tour from Verizon! I use to not see the unique advantages of them but now I really do! I used to think everyone following the trend and joining the bandwaggon of smart phones were wasting their money. I used multiple features every day so I figured the easiest way to explain the advantages is to give you a day in the life of my BlackBerry.

As I sleep my phone is turned off so I don't get phone calls and my phone has a great feature that if there is an alarm set it will turn its self on when the alarm needs to go off! What a great personal shift for myself, no more annoying alarm clock beeping and the wrong time or if the power goes off making me miss class! Now I wake up every day to a peaceful ringtone helping me start off right making my limbic brain very happy.

One of my most used applications is the best technology shift! Its Pandora radio on my phone! I choose my pre created station and I get great music! I'll listen to it when I walk to class, get ready in the morning, in the car, or when I'm doing my reading homework and don't want to have my computer open.

My old cell phone use to have good photos/videos but nothing to this quality! The pictures and recorded sound for movies both comes out so much more clear and beautiful making this phone have a great aesthetic shift! The second best thing about the pictures is I can email my mom right away. I can take a picture of something I want, email the picture to my mom, and she can find it online for a better price.

My individual meaning for this phone is connivence and an easier way to stay connected with my friends and family. My mom and dad know that when they send me an email that it shows up on my cell right away, and i have the tools to reply to the email right away. Especially if its an important email.

The commercials for this phone and other smart phones now have a much stronger emotional transfer for me because I can relate to everything they talk about. At first I was nervous about the reality construction because how could someone get so much out of a phone but now i get it.

One great connivence of this phone is blogging. I wish I could say that I did this blog from my phone but I cant. However, I have a personal blog which the host site has an application for phones! I can blog from ANYWHERE! My most recent post I was walking down to church st and decided my blog need an update! When I go on a road trip with my father this summer I can keep friends and family in the loop with a blog full of stories, links, photos and videos!

My friend and I were lost on the way back to Burlington VT from my aunts house in Southern New York and we used my cellphones GPS! These types of smart phones with all this technology is expected to normally sell to rich business people or celebrities when the reality is plain folks who are always on the run because of school or work need every day things!

(Blogger is currently having trouble uploading pictures to blogs, sorry for lack of pictures)

Electronic Media Writing Mid-term.

The best thing about this class is the use of technology. For todays blog I'll be posting my responses to the the second half of my spring 2010 mid term.

1. After studying media for eight weeks in this class, what have you learned? Please be specific.

I've learned how similar different forms of media are and also how extremely different the production and writing style can be.

2. What is the most important thing you have learned about yourself as 1. a critical reader, 2. a writer, and 3. a critical thinker in this class so far?

1. I'm dyslexic so I'm not a good reader but this is the most interesting class I have and I'm able to read more and retain more information than usual because I'm so intrigued by this topic.

2. I'm starting to realize how much I like writing and blogging. I now have my own blog on Word Press.

3. I've learned to be confident in my thinking and that I can have good ideas and strong opinons on media topics.

3. What's one thing YOU would do differently this first half of the semester if you were to take this class again?

I would spend more time reading the book as well as read it more carefully. Also, I would talk more and volunteer more in this class.

4. What's one thing you would like ME to do differently this first half of the semester if you were to take this class again?

I would have liked to know more about the final video product. I'm excited for it but it would be cool if we knew more about what was coming and who our groups would be. Also to introduce and use twitter sooner.

5. Please comment on the usefulness of the course blog, your personal blog, our films, and our book as learning tools.

I love using blogs in this class. It makes me feel always connected with the class. I also like that I can go back and correct my work after submitting it, and that I can always look back onto it. Blogs really help to keep the class organized. I really like the writing and format of the text book that we use, it makes it easier to blog about and remember. The videos are great and always will help me because I'm so much more of a video person. Also, not being a morning person I can pay attention to videos better at 930 rather than reading or listening.

Thanks so much for a great first half of the class Rob! This class never fails to disappoint.