Journal Project

Hopefully everyone was able to turn their projects in on time and without much trouble. I kind of went into this project with an idea of how it might turn out in the end. I do not always pay attention to how much I use the media in but I have done it enough to know what I typically use it for and for how long.
The recording went relatively well even though I found myself forgetting to record something right away quite often. My recordings show an awful lot of TV usage but I found that most of the time I have the TV on as background noise when ever I do other things for some reason. I use to play a lot of video games and while my record shows that when I do play it is often until three in the mourning I seemed to not play them with as much frequency as I use to. Another interesting thing about my records is the pretty much total lack of books, I do actually read some just not with any real frequency and probably not as much as I should.
I did make two graphs but I included only one in this post. I wanted to see what I end up using the media for most of the time in four categories. Entertainment came out the biggest reason I use media and the second largest was a mix of media when I tend to use two or more types of media at once for different reasons.

TED

I gave a presentation on TED in class so I thought I would make a post to also explain TED. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design; they started holding conferences in 1990 at various locations and then started recording the conferences and putting them on their website.
        The conferences cover a large range of topics from technology to music to some inspirational thinking. The speakers chosen also vary but seem to always be very knowledgeable in their subject; when one man talks to the audience about the future of robotics he is doing it because that is what he studies, he designs and builds robots for commercial and even military use so he knows what he is talking about.
          Age also varies, in one conference the speaker was a twelve year old girl (although she has already published a book).
         There are several reasons to use TED probably the most important to college students is the various topics it covers I think can help spring board ideas for class papers. I had to do a research paper in my English class on a controversial subject. I could have looked up TED which often covers subjects that can be controversial and are more interesting to write about then the usual subjects of controversy. Another reason is the relevancy of the subjects. One conference I watched had one man talk about how self driving cars were soon going to enter our lives and just a few days ago I saw that Nevada had actually legalized self driving cars relevant article
The last reason to use TED can be found in their motto on their first page Ideas Worth Spreading.

Hello Everyone in the Intro to Electronic Media Class!

Hello and welcome to my blog for the inrtroduction to electronic media class at FCC. The title is inspired by the name of my band The Flying Bananas. The band is a personal project I started with a friend, as of now we are not very good and do not have any songs, but, we are slowly improving . Other than that My name is Tony and I am enrolled at FCC for the digital media and design associates degree. This degree I find appeals to my interests which include music, and art. I like to draw and I try to draw as often as I can. This class is interesting to me since I can try to be creative with the projects and even this blog.