Reflection upon media:

I enjoyed watching the videos of the media.  In the first video of Robert Hughes I really liked how he was sitting in front of the Eiffel tower because I always wanted to go to Paris. I like how Hughes says that anyone can create art. You also never know what will come next.  I realized that it is very true that good ideas take a long time to come up and it is often with help of someone else that really gets the idea going.  According to Steven Johnson.  Also in John Cage’s I belive that those rules for students and teachers are genreally true.  I believe that anyone can create art and that people interpret art in their own way.  Everyone has  their own opinion on what art is and how it’s created.  And I also belive that people define art in their own way.  Art is always different and diverse and there are so many kinds of art and creative ability around.

Embeds of Daily Create:

I enjoyed doing the daily create for 8/28!  I’ve never made a youtube video before so it was fun to learn how to that and uploading it to youtube.  I am looking forward to seeing what I’ll be doing next for my daily creates.

Links to accounts:

Before I post the links to my accounts I will say that I have never had a twitter, flickr or soundcloud account until now.  I’ve had a youtube channel for a while though my gmail account but I have never actually uploaded a video until August 28, which was my first daily create.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amandrews93

Flickr:

Youtube:

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/aandrews93

Link to about page: http://aandrews93.com/wordpress/sample-page/

Embed of introduction twitter post:

aandrews93.com/wordpress/2012…My introduction post for #ds106 @mburtis

— Abbey Andrews (@amandrews93) August 28, 2012

Reflection on Bootcamp Week 1:

I had a good first week in DS106, I have already learned so much that I never knew before, such as creating a website and blog.  I really didn’t have much trouble figuring out how to do most of the stuff in bootcamp week one.  I guess the most difficult thing for me to do was learning how to embed videos and links into my blog.  I didn’t realize at first that embedding videos was different than just posting a link in the blog.  I am really excited about taking this class, I’ve really enjoyed the assignments so far.  My only concern is that I feel that I’ll be doing so much work for this class that I might get behind on my other classes I’m taking this semester.  I also admit that I have felt overwhelmed with this class at first (there was a lot of things that I did now know what to do), but I’m telling myself that if I just do a little work for this class each day I will be able to keep up and understand what I’m doing.  So far I do not have any questions but I will be sure to ask them as needed.  I am looking forward to seeing what I’ll be doing next in this class!