A few weeks ago, the world is shocked because of the death of Steve Jobs. To me, He is a live legend of creativity and innovations. I am also amazed by his passion that he has devoted all his life to technologies. His great inventions for Mac, Ipod, Iphone, Ipad have changed the world’s attitude towards technology. Moreover, his contributions to Pixar also led to a great step forward of the development of the animation industry. To be honest, I didn’t know him quite well before he left us. After the announcements of his death, hundreds of thousands of posts were uploaded to different media. Thank to the new media, I searched for anything about Steve Jobs with just a “click”.
First of all, Apple has created a webpage to remember this memorable genius:
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
It shows messages written by the public. You can also share yours at rememberingsteve@apple.com.
Here’s another website which is quite interesting. It is called “All about Steve Jobs.com”.Obviously, this website includes all sorts of information about Steve Jobs. You can find his basic profile, family and friends, his opinion awards work and life, his pictures and his short movies. The most interesting feature is that you can look for people’s opinion from the blog. The blogger will post news about Steve Jobs on the blog so that you can get the latest news from the blog.
Not only creates message boards and websites, people designed animations to show their admiration for Steve:
Some people also composed songs and music videos to him (I am sorry it’s in Cantonese. This video is so well composed that I really want to share it). The song is about his enormous contributions to technology. His revolutions of computer and mobile phone had enlightened the world. We will never forget this genius.
Writing for new media not only can report practical facts or events, it also assists people to show the love and care in different ways.
Steve, you are amazing, we will never forget you.
RIP Steve Jobs.
Friday, 21 October 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Innovations In Writing for New Media
In the past few weeks, my groupmates and I worked on the project of a new media tool. Jojo suggested that Storify would be a nice topic. So we found informations about it. Storify is a new platform for posting news and stories. Everyone can be a journalist to edit news with texts, images, videos and even comments from different social media groups. It is especially usefull for people who wants to follow news. They can simply click to read the whole story instead of searching choppy versions on the internet.
Another fascinating feature of this tool is that we don't no longer need to type any complicated codes ( like what im doing right now, so confusing!), but just drag-and-drop the information to your story. It is so user-friendly that we don't even need to check out the user guide.
Anyway, here's a user guide. You will find it user-friendly after you watched this video. Enjoy!
Writing for new media is an important topic for everyone in the world. Not only adults should know more about it, but also children, teenagers and elderly.
Firstly, writing for new media makes life easier. Nowadays, we use internet and all kinds of related technologies to communicate with families, friends, teachers, students, colleagues, societies, government...And even STRANGERS! If you don't know how to make use of the tools, the communication process can be far more complicated and time-wasting.
Secondly, writing for new media helps us to know more about the world. It helps us to get involved. We can know any kinds of news and knowledge through them. Without all the new media tools, it is impossible for us to enrich ourselves at home.
Most importantly, writing for new media help us to interact and express ourselves so that everyone on earth is being linked together. There is no distance on the internet. We can attend class thousand miles away from the classroom; we can chat with strangers; we can write storys and blogs to the world...
Everything seems possible on the internet. It is gaining much more importance that we can hardly live without it. It is vital for everyone to know more about writing for new media in order to catch up with the fast-changing world.
Another fascinating feature of this tool is that we don't no longer need to type any complicated codes ( like what im doing right now, so confusing!), but just drag-and-drop the information to your story. It is so user-friendly that we don't even need to check out the user guide.
Anyway, here's a user guide. You will find it user-friendly after you watched this video. Enjoy!
Writing for new media is an important topic for everyone in the world. Not only adults should know more about it, but also children, teenagers and elderly.
Firstly, writing for new media makes life easier. Nowadays, we use internet and all kinds of related technologies to communicate with families, friends, teachers, students, colleagues, societies, government...And even STRANGERS! If you don't know how to make use of the tools, the communication process can be far more complicated and time-wasting.
Secondly, writing for new media helps us to know more about the world. It helps us to get involved. We can know any kinds of news and knowledge through them. Without all the new media tools, it is impossible for us to enrich ourselves at home.
Most importantly, writing for new media help us to interact and express ourselves so that everyone on earth is being linked together. There is no distance on the internet. We can attend class thousand miles away from the classroom; we can chat with strangers; we can write storys and blogs to the world...
Everything seems possible on the internet. It is gaining much more importance that we can hardly live without it. It is vital for everyone to know more about writing for new media in order to catch up with the fast-changing world.
Saturday, 8 October 2011
The Live Legend- Steve Jobs 1955-2011
In these days, we can find the news about Steve Jobs at anywhere, newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts, TV news and programmes, internet...Thanks to the free access of information, I knew this Live Lengend in just 15 minutes in front of my computer.
Here's a summary of the comments of Steve Job's death from Storify:
Honoring a legend, Steve Jobs
To all well beings, it is a really sad news because we have lost a genius. Without him, we can hardly find i-phone, i-pad, i-pod... I am wondering how would life be if Steve Jobs had never invented these amazing technologies? hmm... maybe we would have better sense of location because we wouln't reply on any i-phone GPS systems. Perhaps we will have less entertainment as we would never know what is an App.
I am not a fan of Apple nor a fan of any technologies, but still, I deeply appretiate his contributions towards mankind. He created a new era of technologies, and his innovative ideas proved to us again and again that impossible is nothing.
RIP Steve Jobs.
Here's a summary of the comments of Steve Job's death from Storify:
Honoring a legend, Steve Jobs
To all well beings, it is a really sad news because we have lost a genius. Without him, we can hardly find i-phone, i-pad, i-pod... I am wondering how would life be if Steve Jobs had never invented these amazing technologies? hmm... maybe we would have better sense of location because we wouln't reply on any i-phone GPS systems. Perhaps we will have less entertainment as we would never know what is an App.
I am not a fan of Apple nor a fan of any technologies, but still, I deeply appretiate his contributions towards mankind. He created a new era of technologies, and his innovative ideas proved to us again and again that impossible is nothing.
RIP Steve Jobs.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Review on the Presentation of a New Media Tool
After the presentation of different new media tools, I found them so interesting, especially for the new presentation tool, Prezi, it can successfully draw attention from the audience. I think i will try to use it as my presentation tool instead of Microsoft power point.
Back to my presentation topic- Storify, it is an amazing tool to create and re-distribute a news or an event. By embedding different medias like images, videos, tags, comments, etc, people easily understand the whole story, as well as the comments or reactions of other people.
Although I appreciate its drag-and-drop feature, I am concern about the quality control of the stories. It is because writers can give biased view and information of the story, which may mislead the readers.
Prezi and Storify are just tools to assist people to present ideas in a better way. After all, the most important thing is to have a good idea. :)
Back to my presentation topic- Storify, it is an amazing tool to create and re-distribute a news or an event. By embedding different medias like images, videos, tags, comments, etc, people easily understand the whole story, as well as the comments or reactions of other people.
Although I appreciate its drag-and-drop feature, I am concern about the quality control of the stories. It is because writers can give biased view and information of the story, which may mislead the readers.
Prezi and Storify are just tools to assist people to present ideas in a better way. After all, the most important thing is to have a good idea. :)
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