Imagine myself and the society in 2022

Imagine myself and the society in 2022

by Midori Shimabuku

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April 11, 2012

Here is my blog post for this fourth section After watching the vide of Bryan Alexander The Visible College: Four Futures for Higher Education of 1 hour and 30 minutes long、I started to think how our future or our next generation’s education is going to be like． The requirement for this blogpost was to Choose […]
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Children’s Book ~Cyberinfrastructure~

by Midori Shimabuku

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April 11, 2012

Assignment: For my second DS106 assignment I was required to choose a section that I never done it before．Therefore I choose the “mashup assignment” because I found the perfect assignment to use．It is called Mashup Children’s Book Instructions: Mashup a children’s book based on another cultural artifact. For example, framing Dr. Who as a children’s […]
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Future Learning

by Midori Shimabuku

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April 9, 2012

My First assignment for the forth section This time I chose an assignment from the Visual Assignment through this semester I really enjoyed doing visual assignments I enjoyed playing around with pictures and learn a lot of how to use an editing program As I wanted to do something relating this course and this section […]
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Vice Online Presentation

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 19, 2012

Here I am blogging about the Presentation of Vice Online I listened to 3 presentations, one from Alison about Student in Rutgers cyberbullying trial: ‘Overwhelmed’ by aftermathanother one from Delilah, about Pornography- A Gateway to Human Sex Trafficking, and one from Nick about U.S Poker Ban affects Mi llions. This presentation was kind of interesting because I learned […]
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Haiku It Up!

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 19, 2012

{An image from Flickr } Assignment: Here is my last DS 106 assignment, which is from the writting category: Haiku It Up! by Takeru Terajima Here as the instructions For the writing assignment, take a random Dailyshoot photograph and create a haiku using that image. Let the image inspire you to create a poetic haiku. Don’t know […]
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Privacy and Surveillance

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 19, 2012

Last section me and my group members did a presentation about privacy on the net .Well I got interested on the topic so I decided to have a look at the articles of Privacy and Surveillance .The tittle The end of online privacy got my complete attention .After reading the whole article I realized I was familiar with […]
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DFPQ1

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 18, 2012

Before blogging about my answer here are the instructions for the Pop Quiz: Choose the sentence from the first five paragraphs of Gardner Camppbell’s Personal Cyberinfrastructure essay that most appeals to you. Briefly describe how and why that sentence appeals to you (one or two paragraphs should suffice-unless you need more) MY ANSWER I particularly think […]
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My Own Creation

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 18, 2012

This is my second DS106 assignment for this third section I was looking the cartegory of dessign assignments and I found an assignment that fascinated me and definetely wanted to try it. It is called “Design Your Dream Animal” submitted by Danielle. Create a brand new animal, using animal parts from no less than 4 animals. […]
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KONY 2012

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 17, 2012

“KONY 2012″ Here I am going to provide some information and show the reaction of people towards the campaign “KONY 2012″ and to show the power of social media. I am going to use the arcitle The Kony 2012 Scam And Why You Should STOP Supporting ‘Invisible Children’ to show the negative side of this campaign which I agree with it. Introduction of […]
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A Whole New World

by Midori Shimabuku

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March 15, 2012

Hey guys! Here is my first DS106 assignment for this 3rd section :)) I decided first to go for one of the visual assignments called “A Whole New World” I read the instructions and sounded fun and easy to do it ! Here are the instructions: “Take a picture of your subject (grandparents, pet, yourself) […]
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Midterm-Activity

by Midori Shimabuku
February 28, 2012

-From TDC36- “CC licensed Flicker photo from Yuka’s Flicker“ This is a photo from Yuka’s Flickr describing a food being served or eaten in an unconventional way instructed by the TDC36 French Fries are the only thing that I can eat from McDonalds. All started after taken English 0812 in Temple University Japan Campus. The class topic ...
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6Songs Mixup

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 24, 2012

Assignment: Hey guys! So here is my last DS106 assignment for this second section! For the first time I am going to do an audio assignment. This time, I choose the assignment called ” Songs Mixup” Basically, in the instructions tell us to: Get short pieces from 6 different songs and put them into once ...
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Web 1.0 –> Web 2.0 –> Web 3.0

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 24, 2012

After having read the article What is Web 2.0 written by Tim O’Reilly, I ended up a little bit confuse about the definition on the term. So, I decided to read more about the definition along with learning what these terms, Web 1.0 and Web 3.0 mean. Web 1.0 is basically the first stage of the World ...
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Midori to ExtraordinaMidori

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 17, 2012

Just realized I haven’t done any DS106 assignments in a while….:O Assignment: My second assignment is from the Visual assignment called Normal to Extraordinary The instructions tell us to : ¨Take a friend and turn him/her from a normal looking person to an extraordinary looking. Put the shots side by side for comparison.¨ I changed ...
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<3 Saint Valentine’s Day <3

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine’s everybody!!! “Feliz Dia dos Namorados” -Portuguese “Joyeuse Saint-Valentin” -French ”Gelukkige Valentijns Dag”- Dutch How was everyone’s Valentine’s day? Today I decided to write a quick blog about Valentine’s. Well today I saw many status on Facebook saying something like “Everyone calls it Valentines day, I call it Tuesday”! haha well for me, it ...
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Group 3 Project -Facebook Default Private Settings-

by Midori Shimabuku
February 12, 2012

Who doesn’t know Facebook? I am sure most of does and has an account of one. Our group 3, has decided to go for an Infographic about the lack of people’s privacy on the Internet. The Infographic we are going to analyze its called Do you know who’s watching you? and we divided it ...
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TDC33 -Mathematics :S-

by Midori Shimabuku
February 11, 2012

Mathematics :S, a photo by rdm1924g on Flickr. Today’s Daily Create is to take a picture of confusion So, I choose to take a picture of mathematics because I hate mathematics and even if I study hard, I end up with many many question marks all over my head At the moment I read the ...
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TDC31-Going to sleep!-

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 9, 2012

Going to sleep!, a photo by rdm1924g on Flickr. TDC tell us to “create a phograph that represents the happiest or most memorable moment in your life” This is my favorite and happiest moment:D After having a long tiring day, all I wanna do ...
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TDC19-Downside Up ? Upside Down-

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 7, 2012

Downside Up ? Upside Down, a photo by rdm1924g on Flickr. Today’s Daily Create is to: Make a photo upside down that is never seen that way. The first thing that came to my mind was taking a picture of me doing standhand and rotate it. I tried to do it several times but fail ...
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 7, 2012

Assignment: Here is my first Ds106 assignment for section 2, the State of Net. To be honest, I was so into other works that I haven’t touch or even look at the DS106 assignment for several days, so I was kind of excited to play around editing pictures again. However, the assignment I choose didn’t ...
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TDC 27 -Train Sounds-

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 5, 2012

Today’s Daily Create is Photography Before taking this class my pictures were mostly of people and myself, however now I enjoy taking pictures of objects, buildings, sky and more!! Basically for this assignment I had to: “Take a picture that represents or expresses something loud “ The picture above was taken from my ...
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TDC28 -TUJ’s Cafeteria-

by Midori Shimabuku

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February 3, 2012

Hey everybody! Here is my first Daily Create assignment! Today’s TDC tells us to: Record the sound of something that gives you comfort, or makes you feel safe. I hope everyone enjoys it I decided to record the various sounds of TUJ’s students in the cafeteria because, during hazardous events such as the earthquake and ...
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Alan Kay 106 Horror

by Midori Shimabuku

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January 29, 2012

Assignment:Here is my third DS 106 assignment. This time I did a Visual assignment called “106 Horror!” Sound pretty interesting, and I thought by doing this assignment I will be able to play around with programs and learn more about them. This assignment submitted by CogDog tell us to: create or modify an image of ...
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DS106 Assignment ~Way Back Time Machine~

by Midori Shimabuku

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January 26, 2012

The Assignment: When I was choosing what to do for my first DS106 assignment, I found this assignment but nothing came up on me mind to connect with Alan Turing at that time. So I thought to myself this is a great opportunity to do it. Way Back Time Machine was my second challenge for the ...
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DS 106 Assignment ~Iconic Alan Turing~

by Midori Shimabuku
January 24, 2012

The Assignment: Finally, I finished up with my fisrt DS106 assignment. After looking for each category of the assignment, I ended up in the page of design where I found an assignment exactly what I was looking for. Iconic You, the perfect assignment where I can start learning more about editing programs. The assignment instructions ...
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Me and the GlobalInternet

by Midori Shimabuku
January 21, 2012

~About the image~ I Google it as “global internet” and found the picture above in the images. I chose it because it shows the connection between the world and the Internet. I changed the picture a little bit by using Picasa 3. To give an image of the world moving round I flipped the picture ...
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Hello world!

by Midori Shimabuku
January 15, 2012

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by ...
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