This past week has definitely been the most helpful to me in life outside of the classroom. The lessons and activities this week taught me various ways to find out if a source is reliable or not. In this age of fake news, biased websites, and sponsored content, it’s important to have the skills necessary …

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The result of my research is a brief history of trolling as a hobby, from it’s beginnings in the prank phone call to the massive phenomenon it is on the internet today. During my research, I learned about other platforms that have been used for trolling over the years, as well as trolling’s dark turn …

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I think everyone is well aware that people have always found new and exciting ways to annoy one another for quite some time now. Only recently however have people been able to not only bother total strangers but remain completely anonymous while doing it. The internet in recent years has seen the rise of a …

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This week, My group and I have decided to go with the topic of “Trouble with Trolling”. Now initially, I had trouble deciding where I wanted to even begin with this module. Although I frequently use the internet, my interactions with other people online is very limited. There are only two social media websites that …

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This week was definitely a lot harder than week 1, mostly towards the end. This past week, I have learned many things about the device I am constantly carrying around in my pocket, many of them not pretty. I have learned that a large part of the process of making my phone likely relied on …

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSBGKcnd1vqq63urZr0TL55qiZQRddlllkRiznXdYlB6og7pF-E00AP9fLpmCUwm2xj3cOMI04z07bE/pubhtml I’m going to be completely honest with you guys, I don’t think this project was my best work. Now to be clear, I am actually very interested in this subject. I love technology. I am very interested in the origins of the devices we see and use on a daily basis, not just in …

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Starting this weeks work was a fairly easy en devour. Not only because I have successfully taken an online class in the past, but because I have taken this specific class . Last year I made an attempt to take digital studies for a short while, But I eventually dropped the class due to reasons …

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Overall, the work I did for this module, while simple, was satisfying. Any work done within the field of entertainment is great for me. Originally I wanted to go with a module for interactive fiction, But I felt that I did not have the skill set necessary to do so,so this served as a good …

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I will say that, in this instance at least, creating a GIF was extremely easy. This however, was only due to the help of my fellow classmates. While looking for a website where I could make a GIF, I noticed that a number of my classmates had mentioned a website known as Giphy, which I …

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The reason why I decided to go with creating a GIF for my first module was simple. I love films. It is my dream to one day work in the entertainment industry, and although I strive to be a successful writer, I would love the opportunity to work behind the camera as well. With that …

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My Name is Michael Dietrich. I am a junior and plan on graduating sometime next year. My hope is that after college I will be able to enter the entertainment industry as a writer. Setting up this website and application was extremely easy as I had already done it for another online class last year. …

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Timeline of iPhone

During my time living in New Hampshire, my family could not afford the luxuries of owning expensive devices and electronics. This is why the day my Father brought home and iPhone was particularly exciting. Technically, the iPhone did not belong to him. The phone was given to him by the company he worked for as …

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Our very first module taught me a lot within the topic of interactive fiction. The tips and recommended programs, along with a short play session of the game “Zork”, taught me several ways to successfully go about creating a story that is entirely devoid of visual and audio cues, containing instead only text. This is …

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The Drop 2

When Choosing a topic for my very first module, it only took me a few moments to decide that it would be on the subject of interactive fiction. The reason for this quite simple, and that’s the fact that I have always had an interest in this form of storytelling. All my life I’ve always …

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Greetings fellow students. My name is Michael Dietrich, and this is my blog. The blog I am currently using is the same blog I had used for the class i have just finished a couple of days ago. Because of this, not only do i have everything that is required for this class already set …

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Going into this class, I thought for sure I was going to hate the structure of an online course. I feared that without being present within an actual classroom setting, I wouldn’t be able to learn anything of real value. I’m happy to report that those assumptions were completely wrong. This class has challenged me …

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Love, friendship, happiness… These are all concepts that are slowly being forgotten in this day and age. The Drop changed everything, including how humans view themselves and each other. Gone are the days of relative peace among the people of this world. In fact, if you want my honest opinion, the Drop did away with …

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I’ve probably stated before in one of these numerous blog posts that it is my dream to one day work within the entertainment industry. The problem is that this is my dream job only in theory. In reality, I had never had enough hands on experience to confirm whether or not I would truly enjoy …

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I’ve probably mentioned at some point in these numerous blog posts that I love movies, and I hope to work in the entertainment industry one day. So naturally assignments that involve analyzing pieces of film history, as well as just talking about them in general, fits right up my alley. When I first started this …

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Ring Around the Rosie is honestly the only nursery rhyme from my childhood that I can remember, probably because it’s the only one I legitimately enjoyed listening to. Whats interesting about this nursery rhyme that you may not no about is that the song is actually describing the events of the Black Plague. If I …

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#tdc2346By day, birds fly in and out of these branches delivering food to these babies. By night bats rest here, flying in and out in between their time hunting for moths. It’s really quite a sight pic.twitter.com/oV2peWrqAZ — Michael Dietrich (@Michael68856400) June 14, 2018 #tdc2347A box of ashes, Beautiful in the sense that this person …

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If there’s anything watching countless movies over the years has taught me is that in order to stand out and keep things fresh, a director has to present the audience with their own unique style of filming, and the videos I have watched just now have only further proved that point. Anyone can just record …

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I’m gonna be completely honest, despite being a huge film buff my entire life, I never liked Roger Ebert. To be fair, I never really followed or pay much attention to him, nor did I read any of his work, so perhaps I truly do not have an accurate view of Ebert. That being said, …

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Let get the bad parts of the assignments for this week out of the way. I’ve always made it clear right from the beginning of this class that I am particularly not good with electronics, especially when it comes to computer programs. So this week when I was tasked along with the rest of the …

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#tdc2343As you can see I am quite productive pic.twitter.com/QkHnQLF2Qj — Michael Dietrich (@Michael68856400) June 10, 2018 #tdc2342 pic.twitter.com/FJs3xyJn2o — Michael Dietrich (@Michael68856400) June 11, 2018