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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Flash Works

These are two of my Flash products:

This is thus far one of my best Flash animations, done with some of my fellow Infocomm Club Ambassadors for the NIC event in 2009.

This is the Flash animation that we, students in Hwa Chong, had to do for our Infocomm Studies Flash assignment.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Lesson 4

This week's lesson was in very much similar to last week's. Our topic was all about Cascading Style Sheets(CSS). Basically, lesson 3 was like the foundation where we learnt how to build a webpage while lesson 4 was on how to decorate a webpage, which in my opinion is a very good way to teach as people would need to know what and how a webpage is made before even knowing anything more than that.

Similar to last week, we were given worksheets and another challenge to complete. However, this week our worksheets were already done for us by Mr Cheong, and I am very grateful to his efforts as it made our jobs much easier. Referring to the answers that he provided and the websites given, we soon grasped the idea of how to use CSS.

There are two ways we can use CSS, internal and external. Internal is like typing in the code itself together with the HTML, while external is like creating two files and linking them together. If you ask for my opinion, I certainly prefer external as it allows flexibility to the amount of pages I can link it to.

CSS is a very important aspect to creating a good website. Imagine a website that is just filled with words and a white blackground, with all its text being default, aligned to the left. Nobody would want to spend more than a minute looking at the website unless it is truly important. I take CSS as a way to help captivate your audience attention and at the same time making your website look more attractive. After all, the first thing people look for in a website when they just arrived is how beautifully it is designed.

My group and I then proceeded to complete the challenge. For me and my teammates, this was a very easy task. Even so, we still listened to what we each other had to say, and teamwork made the task even easier! Just like the challenge for the previous lesson on HTML, we have yet overcomed another one, and is another stepstone nearer to our Infocomm Career, that is if we do want to be a part of it of course.

The main reason why people also use CSS is it can be used to tidy the webpage up, setting borders and background, allowing better contrast within the webpage. Throughout this four lessons, I have indeed learnt quite a bit, especially the last two lessons, where we had the two challenges that allowed us to really try out what we have just learnt and see how much information we have absorbed. Well, this being my last post, I would like to end off a thank you to my IS teacher for being very helpful throughout all the lessons and giving us the opportunity to learn all we did!

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lesson 3

Today's topic was "Introduction to HTML and Worksheet HTML". Basically, what we learnt to day was about HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language. during this lesson, we got to learn about the backbone behind a website. We also learnt about how to build web pages using HTML. After spending some time going through the slides and videos, we were all equiped with the basic knowledge in building our very first web page.

Our teacher then proceeded to give out a worksheet for all of us to do. In it were some questions about HTML, for example "What does the tag <hr> do?" and many others. Well what "<hr>" actually stands for is horizontal rule, like this:

Towards the end of the worksheet, there were also 2 websites for us to view, which later we had to pen down our opinions and views of what we learnt and which website we preferred.

Aside from writing, as this subject is called "Infocomm Studies", we also had another challenge to complete. Our teacher gave us a file containing some text and an image. What we had to do was to use HTML and CSS to convert the plain text we were given into the model one he showed us. Simply said, we had to put in some HTML tags where necessary and also add in the image. For example we had to make some text Bold, Italic and many other things like that. We also had to give the image a border and make it such as when we put our mouse over it it will display a certain description text about it.

Unlike the previous lessons, for this activity we had to work in pairs. I think the main reason we were told to work in pairs as for this particular assignment, I feel it is more and harder then the previous ones, so we need 2 people to share the workload. After completing all this, I also learnt something that was not required for completing all the task while I was creating this post. I learnt how to put in this two brackets without letting the computer read whats in between them: <>. Be cause if I just put the original form like this "<p>", it will show what it does, and not the thing itself!

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Lesson 2

During this week's lesson, our teacher told us about three topics: "Intellectual Property - is copy right?", "Social impact of new media" and "Decide blog or website?" Well, for index number 1-11, they had to post their opinions about the first topic, index number 12-22 about topic 2 and index 23-33 about topic 3 respectively.

Since I was index 30, I had to do about "Decide blog or website" which, in short, if a website or a blog is better. I went ahead and followed my teacher's instructions - to view a video he recomended to us about this topic. The video elaborated on the pros and con of both the blog and website and I came to this conclusion. If someone is a beginner or just wants to set things up faster, choose the blog. If someone has more time and has knowledge about javascript and CSS and wants to be able to edit large pieces of information around in his website, choose the website.

Besides having to do on our topic, we were required to also view another opinion made by our classmate on our topic and another topic. What I did was that I went to view about the second topic, "Social impact of our new media". I read one of my friend's post and also view the video that was recomended for that topic and realised that technology is rapidly growing and nothing is going to stop it, so we have to keep up. I also commented on one of my friend's post and agreed about what he said about making our lives much easier with the advance of technology.

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Lesson 1

Today, we learnt about The Internet & World Wide Web(WWW). Firstly, I learnt that the internet started because a couple of scientist at different locations needed to share information with each other if part of the network was disabled. At that time, it was called ARPANET.

The main thing about Internet is how fast it managed to to grow. When it first started at 1969, it only had four host nodes. 15 years later, it had more than 1000 host nodes and todat, there are more than 200 million host nodes.

WWW. Basically, the WWW is a worldwide collection of electronic documents, which is also called the web. It contains almost everything! From text informations to videos, from pictures to all kinds of other things you can think of.

To use WWW, you need a web browser. Some web browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla and Opera! There is also this thing called Web 2.0. The difference between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 is that when you use Web 2.0, the person who owns a website and the people who are viewing it can post comments and other items, unlike Web 1.0!

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