1. Brian

    This American Life – Conventions – BS

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    February 20, 2012
    This podcast focused a lot on exactly what the title says, conventions. A couple of interesting stories were told by people that had gone to a couple different conventions. The sounds throughout the podcast, like normal, gave you a sense of actually being there. You could here the chatter of people around you but couldn’t...
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  2. Brian

    Networking 1 – Week 5 – Blog 4 – BS

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    February 20, 2012
    This week I slacked a bit as far as participation on the wiki and Diigo, but felt I really learned a good deal in class about Layer 3 switches and routers. Drawing out the networks and explaining how they send information between each other really helped. They use frames that hold the sender’s IP, then...
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  4. Kelly Carpenter

    Response to “Conventions”

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    February 20, 2012
    This American Life’s podcast “Conventions” was made up of three different acts.   I enjoyed all three acts and felt that I could on some level relate to the first and could definately relate to the third. Act 1:  Dark Shadows was about a man named John Conners who went to a convention for viewers of ...
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  5. Bradley Colson

    TAL 4

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    February 19, 2012
    TAL 4- WHAT I DID 4 LOVE I thought TAL4 was … well… it was “something.” Not that there was anything wrong with the pod-cast itself, but that Christi chic they talked to in the opening… OK, well… sadly enough I can somewhat relate to the craziness of what she was doing. That’s what happens ...
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  6. Jeff Grant Sr

    Jeff’s Tal 4 assignment

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    February 19, 2012
    This podcast I listened to was called” What I did for love” . Act one starts with a couple that was 30 yrs old and and had a great relationship together. they had been together for 13 yrs and got to talking about how they never really spoke about marriage. For some odd reason they […]
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  7. Jeff Grant Sr

    Jeff’s Tal 4 assignment

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    February 19, 2012
    This podcast I listened to was called” What I did for love” . Act one starts with a couple that was 30 yrs old and and had a great relationship together. they had been together for 13 yrs and got to talking about how they never really spoke about marriage. For some odd reason they […]
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  8. Jeff Grant Sr

    Jeff’s TAL 3 Assignment

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    February 19, 2012
    This podcast was titled “conventions”  Act one began with a guy who would watch the old TV show “Dark Shadows”  for like eight hours a day, seven days a week. That in itself seems over the top for watching just one particular show, let alone how damn slow and boring a show it was. I […]
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  9. Jeff Grant Sr

    Jeff’s Black History Choices Summary

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    February 18, 2012
    Buffalo Soldiers in Kansas Black cowboys in the old west?…Of course! In the Film Industry, there are  many western’s depicting how things were in the old West.      We rarely saw  a Black cowboy, yet 25% of all cowboys were Black!  The film Industry has  hidden this fact from so many people. I feel the need […]
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  10. Kelly Carpenter

    Black History Month – A look at Gwendolyn Brooks

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    February 18, 2012
    Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, KS but grew up in Chicago Illinois were the family moved to when she was just six weeks old.  Brooks had her first poem published in a children’s magazine when she was just thirteen years old and by the time she was sixteen she had about ...
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  11. Kelly Carpenter

    Black History Month – A look at Eva Jessye

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    February 18, 2012
    Eva Jessye was born on January 20, 1895 in Lawrence, KS and was educated at the historically black Kansas university name Western University.  In 1919 she became the chior director at Morgan State in Baltimore.  In 1926 she created her own group the Eva Jessye Choir origonally named the Origonal Dixie Jubilee Singers.  Jessye is most remembered for ...
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  12. Kelly Carpenter

    Black History Month – A look at Hattie McDaniel

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    February 18, 2012
    Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, KS but when her father remarried in 1901 the family was relocated to Denver, CO.  Growing up McDaniel sang at school, home, and church and before long was singing in professional minstrel shows and writing her own songs.  In 1910 when she was a sophomore ...
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  13. Bradley Colson

    TDC7-9

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    February 18, 2012
    These were this weeks “Daily Create” Assignments… they were: 1) Photograph your own or someone else’s cool tatoo. 2) Take a photo of a bird today. 3) Take a photo of someone else’s art in an interesting way to make it your...
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  18. Bradley Colson

    BLACK HISTORY – POSTER DRAFT ONE

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    February 16, 2012
          Above are the 3 first drafts for the Black History Month posters we were to do for this assignment. They’re not perfect, I have some changes I want to make like the text in the lower portion of the “Adair” poster doesn’t seem clearly legible enough for a summary to me and the “TRAITOR” ...
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  23. Brian

    Networking 1 – Lab 3 – The OSI model

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    February 15, 2012
    Brian Seitz February 10, 2012   Objectives: In this lab, we learned more about the OSI model and got the opportunity to work with a switch.   Equipment list: At least two computers, internet access and a switch.   Notes and Observations: Using the command prompt, Kevin and I pulled up our arp table. Once we...
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  24. Brian

    Networking 1 – Week 4 – Blog 3 – BS

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    February 12, 2012
    This week we talked about networking hardware and the OSI model. Since I had taken the Intro to PC Administration class my freshmen year, I knew about the hardware we talked about. I didn’t know about the OSI model though. I didn’t realize there is 7 different layers. This week I also added a link...
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  25. Bradley Colson

    BLACK HISTORY MONTH PAPER

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    February 12, 2012
    ASSIGNMENT: Write three half-page essays (one half page on each topic) about your research on Kansas Black History. Post these to your blog and submit the URL to this assignment. LANGSTON HUGHES   Langston Hughes, an African American writer and poet, was born in Joplin, MO, February 1-st, 1902, but grew up in Lawrence Kansas ...
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  26. Bradley Colson

    TAL 3

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    February 11, 2012
    This American Life: “Conventions”   I’m going to take a wild guess and say the topic of the story was “Conventions.” Basically the pod-cast was a collection of three different perspectives of the whole “convention” atmosphere. Act 1 started out with a waitress’s take on the whole convention scene and went into this “Phil” guy’s ...
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  27. Bradley Colson

    TDC4-6 ASSIGNMENT

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    February 11, 2012
    These were this weeks “Daily Create” assignments… they were: 1) Share an image of a place you loose things in your house. 2)  Create a photograph that represents the happiest or most memorable moment in your life. 3)  Make a photo that represents something you aspire to do or be one day. 4)  Confusion – ...
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  30. Ian Reese

    IR Black history month choices

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    February 8, 2012
    Barry Sanders One of the greatest NFL Running backs of all time, born in Wichita, KS. Tyson Gay World championship winner in track and field, attended college at Great Bend, KS. Lionel Hollins NBA champion and All-star and the current head coach of th...
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