Garage Band Podcast/Song

Just a little creation on Garage Band! I just messed around and learned new things on it. I figure out how and what loops are and how to add more than one instrument at a time! It a very interesting and fun program. I never understood it until now. Podcasts and songs can be used in my field of sport management because if an event is advertised online it might be a way to draw future participate attention. Advertising is the largest aspect of sport management, because without it you can't get participant's attention and therefore won't have events. Overall sound can draw many in and can be a big contributer to advertisement.


Enjoy!

EME2040 - Taylor Leffler

Learning Entry Blog- Wikis

Wikis are a great way to organize trip and stay in touch with people. Essentially they allow any and all users to create and edit Web page content at their own leisure. Wikis are easily used by many people and are frequently used to post crosslinks between pages. According to wiki.org the concept of " 'open editing' has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users." There have been many advances to help users understand wikis including many YouTube videos that explain how to use them to people who are not technologically advanced. One of the most popular wikis is Wikipedia. This website is often times used for research, it can be edited by its users to deepen the amount of information.

This aspect of the world wide web can be greatly used in my field of study to link spectators and participants to important information and other sites. With the knowledge of wikis and the "Plain English" videos presented by Common Craft events can be run smoothly and everyone can receive great knowledge about the event(s). Sport Management is a field with many events and particants and spectators; making everything run smoothly is a "prized possession." Even if not used by participants and spectators wikis could help within organizations. Having a wikis within an organization would help the organization of the event so everyone knows what is going on at all times instead of just one person at a time, and also allows each user to edit and change the ideas.

The following is a video from YouTube, about a commonly used website to create wikis and what they are all about! The video is by common craft and is the same format as that of the "Plain English" videos. It shows you how to create your own wiki. ENJOY!!!!

Digital Storytelling

I am very involved in the UF Women's club lacrosse team. This is a quick video of our trip to Atlanta to play in the SWLL ( Southeastern Women's Lacrosse League), we won the SWLL title; and our trip to Arizona for the WDIA National Championship, which we came in 4th place.

Learning Entry Blog- Photoshop

I personally have never used Photoshop, prior to in class, but learning how to use it not only shows me what I can do with it, but I have a new-found respect for those who have mastered the art. It is interesting to see what all you can do with one computer program. I'm sure there are many different versions of it, but for the most part its just a computer program. There are many different aspect to photoshop and many different applications as well. It not only lets you alter one picture but you can take segments of many different pictures and add them together. It can completely change a picture or incorporate many pictures into one project that can either be very simple or quite intricate to catch the viewer eye.

This program can and probably is used in many different fields. Photoshop would be a very useful tool in my field of study, Sport Management, to advertise and generate attention for different venues and events. Plus as we learned in class for advertising different items together so the consumer can see it all in one picture/ glance. Sport Management involves many different aspects of the sports industry and having Photoshop as a tool would be very helpful and resourceful.

The following picture is from a website dphotojournal.com showing one of the many ways photoshop can be used. It shows that you can take a normal photo and convert it to a charcoal drawing.

Learning Entry Blog- Web 2.0

There are tools for the internet that are called Web 2.0 tools. These tools are all connected to the internet and are a great way to stay connected to people, share information, and get ideas for just about anything. These tools range in anything from creating a website to keep in touch with family members called Family Connections, giving you items and ingredients to cook dishes and such called CookThing, and even Story Something which is an application for authors to share new stories and get feedback and parents to keep a wide range of stories for their children. Many say that this phase of the internet has transformed it from a presentation form to a presentation and participation form.

These new tools are able to help many people to connect to a large proportion of the population and get feedback! This could help the sport management field in many ways. Any organization could create a Facebook, one of the most popular Web 2.0 tools to get feedback from their consumers. This could be a better way to contact the people who use their service on an everyday basis without face-to-face confrontation.

This video, from YouTube, a Web 2.0 tool, explains Web 1.0 and the new and improved Wed 2.0. It doesn't use words, but its cool how it gets the basic idea across of how Web 2.0 is different and a better way to use the internet.

Creative Commons

This video helped me personally get Creative Commons licensing better! Hopefully it will help you too! Have Fun!

Or to go straight to YouTube and watch it there Click Here

Learning Entry Blog- Learning a Mac

I personally own a Mac computer for my everyday use, but for as long as I can remember, before coming to college, my family had always had PCs. When I first switched over to a Mac it would have been helpful to have a tutorial to learn the ins and outs of using a Mac. I still to this day am learning little tricks friends teach me. Most of the times those tricks make things so much easier. The tutorials are all the major information most people need to know about using a Mac to get you going and a little more comfortable with the differences. They help you to use the basic, and even some of the more complicated applications that are on many Mac computers.

These tutorials can help anyone in any field if they use Mac computers. Many firms are switching to using Mac because they are more friendly and reliable, however, PCs are known for business Mac is stepping up their game. In the Sport Mangement field there may be different companies that use these computers and with new employees there may not be time for some one to teach them how to use a Mac, this is where these tutorials would come into handy in a BIG way. Knowing how to use both "types" of computers might also give someone a better chance to get a job.

Apple even gives you a beginner or refresher course on how to use their computers. Click here to visit Apple and see their tutorial. There are many different tutorials on all of their applications and even different ones to get started.