My "oh don't forget" experience

My overall process of creating the "oh don't forget" presentation went quite smoothly.

I first started out by searching "Cool Web applications." I then proceeded to scroll down the page and browse through all of the available web applications. I wanted something simple, but not overly boring or shallow.

Eventually, I came to select the "oh don't forget" application, an app you can learn about in my presentation in the blog post below. Me and Jackson Connell chose to use Google Docs in the making of our slideshow, mainly because in enables us to work in it at the same time.

The process of creating it through Google docs was easy, especially considering I had already done it before. With our App being simple, the slides required little hard work.

A lot of people struggled with putting the right Web address on their blog, but that was not a problem for me. I have done all this before, so it was fairly easy.

"Oh don't forget" presentation

Here's the Google docs presentation on the "oh don't forget" web application.

Aviary Song

This song will will blow your mind... SONG

Google docs Presentation - The Flying Cow

The Presentation 

I was not impressed with Google Docs. I did like the ability for more than one person could work on it at once, but other than that it was basically a step down from Microsoft Powerpoint. No copy and pastes of pictures, not a lot of creativity, and a couple other things. I would only use this if there was multiple people working on it.

What I learned this week 2/7 - 2/10

• The History of the Internet. I was suprised at the intial size of the internet, with it only having 4 computers to start with. The rate of new computers every year was shocking, bascily doubling every time. I never knew that TCP-IP came later in the internet, and that it really was used for idenifing computers. This portion of the class was suprisingly interesting to me.

• The process of creating a Website. Before this lesson, I thought creating a good website was only a few clicks away, and that you didn't have to know much to create one. Boy was I wrong. I discovered it takes a lot of knowledge and understanding to make one. What you do is type in a bunch of codes to tell the computer to make a picture or something, and it does it. Seems like a really hard thing to do, and I have a newfound repect for people who create one.

• Client Side and Server Side. Now THIS is what's useful. Before I thought that every problem on the Internet had to do with the computer, and that there was a virus in it or something. But now I realize that some problems relating to the internet are related to the server. Let's say I'm visiting a website amd click on a link. If the website crashes or something, I can't blame my computer for that, I rather should blame the server my computer is communicating with.

Internet history response

Before the internet came around, important files were kept on single peices of paper in select places. That was a problem because if those peices of paper got burned, the files would be lost.

Enter the Internet.

The internet essentially linked multiple computer together so they could share information. So if one computer had a bomb drop on it (this was the Cold War times) and lost it's information, the other computers would have that same information. This was the purpose of the internet... not for long.

Eventually a couple of univercitys started using this "Internet", mainly to share information. But unfortunutally for the common American, the internet wasn't avadible until the mid 80's, which is when the internet and computers in general started taking off. The number of people on the internet increased exponentially, swelling to 1,136,000 by 1992.

During the 1980's, a man invented HTML, which allowed computers to locate webpages more easily. Computers were evolving fast, mainly to keep up with the expansion of the Internet.

Syllabus response

Subjects I'm interested in this semester

• Facebook and how it works
• All the different types of blogs.
• How Wikis work and what goes into them.
• Oddly, I'm interested in the copyright law reffering to using someone else's pictures on the internet.

Subjects I'm not really interested in

• Languages of the internet, sounds like a lot of uniteresting numbers and what not.
• Web Servers

All the rest of the subjects I really don't know what to expect, mainly because of my lack of knowledge in those areas.

Welcome

So, uh, welcome to my blog. There's nothing flashy about it, which not really a concern. If you haven't picked it up by now, the main goal of this blog is a place to submit assignments for my school's Web Page Design class.

I'll post something once and a while not relating to school, but doing that would defeat the purpose of Facebook and Twitter. Plus, you probably don't want to know about what's going on in a High School freshman's life anyway.