DCJ 14:
It is amazing to me that it has taken as long as it has for women to receive equal rights. I think it is great that they are coming into more power positiions. Every field should have perspectives of both men and women in them and women are better at heading up certain just as men are better at heading up other things. There should never have been generalizations with the genders because no matter what, there will be exceptions.
I didn't realize the quote about the best type of birth control being education, but that also makes complete sense.
I thought it was a bit harder to follow the lecture without being engaged in lecture. I liked the way the slideshow broke down the process of production of knowledge so far though. My biggest take away was probably the part that was talking about the core ways thinking and how they are all within the cloud of technology and the resources around us. I feel that innovation itself is working with what we have to grow the cloud of what we have to work with. It is just our society slowly building on itself to grow.
I looked at the 12 creative workplaces and this may have been my favorite suggested reading I have ever looked at. I love modern architecture and it is what I want to work on when I graduate so these buildings were fascinating to me. I also loved how much they incorporated nature in the buildings of the workplaces.
I missed class for the first time on April 17th. I pulled an all nighter for a CVEN test, and got a migraine after the test so I was getting sick at the point of our class, but I went over the lecture after my migraine subsided.
Friday, April 18, 2014
DCJ 13:
I think that the most important characteristic of a leader is to be open minded. A leader must be open and accepting to the ones that he leads, but he must also be open to new ideas that others have to offer in order to better what this leader's objective is. Leaders need to set an example for the people that they are leading also. They need to create a comfortable environment while also knowing when to get things done.
I also believe that leaders should leverage resources in all of the examples we talked about in class. They can gather things in different ways from different sources as can everyone.
My favorite part of the online module was the video that simulated 2020. Technology is already beginning to infuse itself into every part of human life these days. It will be fascinating to see where it is headed next.
I liked the individual project more this week than the previous projects we had because we just got to choose one innovation and put all of our focus into that. I also like that their was a goal or focus that we had to have. This actually sprouted many more ideas in my head and I thought of a way to use technology to prevent excessive technology use.
I attended class on April 10th.
I think that the most important characteristic of a leader is to be open minded. A leader must be open and accepting to the ones that he leads, but he must also be open to new ideas that others have to offer in order to better what this leader's objective is. Leaders need to set an example for the people that they are leading also. They need to create a comfortable environment while also knowing when to get things done.
I also believe that leaders should leverage resources in all of the examples we talked about in class. They can gather things in different ways from different sources as can everyone.
My favorite part of the online module was the video that simulated 2020. Technology is already beginning to infuse itself into every part of human life these days. It will be fascinating to see where it is headed next.
I liked the individual project more this week than the previous projects we had because we just got to choose one innovation and put all of our focus into that. I also like that their was a goal or focus that we had to have. This actually sprouted many more ideas in my head and I thought of a way to use technology to prevent excessive technology use.
I attended class on April 10th.
DCJ 12:
I don't know where all these predictions and statistics came from, but some of them were really fascinating. The thought that at the rate we are changing now, the entire 1900s would have happened in 5 years is incredible. That just makes me think of my kids and what rate things will be changing in their lifetime. The singularity is truly coming if this keeps up, which it will. I can't even fathom the possibilities and ethics arguments that are going to be coming up with the advancements in medical technology and things of that nature.
The human experience itself will be incomparable in 50 years to what it is today, or what is was 100 years ago, or 500 years ago. But the same could be about our time now.
I looked at the LEGOgrapher link and it was so entertaining. I actually sent it to my dad because he is a photographer. I think it would be funny to take a picture of the guy whose project this was. Photgrapher-ception.
I attended class on April 3rd.
I don't know where all these predictions and statistics came from, but some of them were really fascinating. The thought that at the rate we are changing now, the entire 1900s would have happened in 5 years is incredible. That just makes me think of my kids and what rate things will be changing in their lifetime. The singularity is truly coming if this keeps up, which it will. I can't even fathom the possibilities and ethics arguments that are going to be coming up with the advancements in medical technology and things of that nature.
The human experience itself will be incomparable in 50 years to what it is today, or what is was 100 years ago, or 500 years ago. But the same could be about our time now.
I looked at the LEGOgrapher link and it was so entertaining. I actually sent it to my dad because he is a photographer. I think it would be funny to take a picture of the guy whose project this was. Photgrapher-ception.
I attended class on April 3rd.
DCJ 11:
In the exercise where we had the three volunteers go in front of the entire class and Dr.V told us to say nothing to one, boo the next, and laugh at the last one it made a good point that humor is relative and how uncomfortable it can be when people don't understand or have the same sense of humor, but it also made me think of something else that I have noticed. A lot of times I have seen people make jokes and people either laugh or not, but it seems that when someone laughs, generally other people join in. It seems that if some people enjoy it, then others feel comfortable openly enjoying it also. This made me think about an innovative environment. Not only does humor help a working environment on a scientific level, but also people may feel much more comfortable speaking up with their ideas in a casual joking environment where they feel like they will not be shut down or ridiculed because of their ideas.
I read the article about the wave carpet for alternative energy and I chose this because alternative energy is something I am very interested in. I think it is so cool that we can use things neturally on earth to help us gain electricity and live the way we want without harming the environment
(as much).
I attended class on the 27th of March.
In the exercise where we had the three volunteers go in front of the entire class and Dr.V told us to say nothing to one, boo the next, and laugh at the last one it made a good point that humor is relative and how uncomfortable it can be when people don't understand or have the same sense of humor, but it also made me think of something else that I have noticed. A lot of times I have seen people make jokes and people either laugh or not, but it seems that when someone laughs, generally other people join in. It seems that if some people enjoy it, then others feel comfortable openly enjoying it also. This made me think about an innovative environment. Not only does humor help a working environment on a scientific level, but also people may feel much more comfortable speaking up with their ideas in a casual joking environment where they feel like they will not be shut down or ridiculed because of their ideas.
I read the article about the wave carpet for alternative energy and I chose this because alternative energy is something I am very interested in. I think it is so cool that we can use things neturally on earth to help us gain electricity and live the way we want without harming the environment
(as much).
I attended class on the 27th of March.
DCJ 10:
In the first excercise I thhought of one of my best friends Jordan. I think that everyone's real role model is someone who they can relate to. He comes from the same upbringing as me and he is just such a hard worker and gets what he wants. It was a bit hard for me to think of the second part of the exercise because I talk to him all the time.
This lecture is actually extremely ironic because the entire lecture I was thinking about my family and how we struggle with communication. It was so interesting in the second exercise how things can be misconstrued just from the inflection or pauses in a sentence which got me thinking about all the variables that can cause people to misunderstand things.
When we began speaking about the elevator pitch in the next excercise then the WOW statement, I thought about when I volunteered at South by Southwest interactive panels and there were multiple speakers that came and had talks there. They always opened up just like this with a statement to get the audiences attention and it was usually an "imagine" statement because most of the panels were about future and upcoming technology.
From the online module, I think it is very cool to create a peer to peer entrepreneurship service. What they did to fix up the space that is in is so cool too. I think it is really cool to see people that are still in school apply what they have learned to do something in the real world. It is always nice to see how the things we are learning apply to life.
I watched "Finally freedom for pet fish!" ans it was so interesting. The most interesting thing in it would be if the fish figured out that it is controlling it.
In the first excercise I thhought of one of my best friends Jordan. I think that everyone's real role model is someone who they can relate to. He comes from the same upbringing as me and he is just such a hard worker and gets what he wants. It was a bit hard for me to think of the second part of the exercise because I talk to him all the time.
This lecture is actually extremely ironic because the entire lecture I was thinking about my family and how we struggle with communication. It was so interesting in the second exercise how things can be misconstrued just from the inflection or pauses in a sentence which got me thinking about all the variables that can cause people to misunderstand things.
When we began speaking about the elevator pitch in the next excercise then the WOW statement, I thought about when I volunteered at South by Southwest interactive panels and there were multiple speakers that came and had talks there. They always opened up just like this with a statement to get the audiences attention and it was usually an "imagine" statement because most of the panels were about future and upcoming technology.
From the online module, I think it is very cool to create a peer to peer entrepreneurship service. What they did to fix up the space that is in is so cool too. I think it is really cool to see people that are still in school apply what they have learned to do something in the real world. It is always nice to see how the things we are learning apply to life.
I watched "Finally freedom for pet fish!" ans it was so interesting. The most interesting thing in it would be if the fish figured out that it is controlling it.
DCJ 8:
For the online lecture, I went to a few of the links, but didn't have time to visit all of them. I had already visited some of them in past weeks just looking at suggested readings.
For the online lecture, I enjoyed learning about the ideamache technology. I like the concept of compiling a lot of information to tell a story or make a point. I also didn't know what the concept of metadata was until this lecture. The idea of having data within data.
Suggested reading:
I read the 18 things that highly creative people do differently and was honestly not very surprised. Nearly all the points were things I would expect a highly creative person to do. I am very curious as to if one who isn't considered a "highly creative person" could try doing these things to improve their creative abilities or if it is just something that some people have and others don't.
I also read "8 Ways to come up with a business idea". The point I liked the most was the idea of doing something about something that bugs you. I particularly liked this idea because it is so simple to just think of something that bothers you and fix it. People so frequently live their day to day lives thinking to themselves "wow, that bothers me." but never do anything about it. There could be so much more innovation if people just relayed these small bothers to someone and they came up with a viable solution.
I attended class on March 6th.
For the online lecture, I went to a few of the links, but didn't have time to visit all of them. I had already visited some of them in past weeks just looking at suggested readings.
For the online lecture, I enjoyed learning about the ideamache technology. I like the concept of compiling a lot of information to tell a story or make a point. I also didn't know what the concept of metadata was until this lecture. The idea of having data within data.
Suggested reading:
I read the 18 things that highly creative people do differently and was honestly not very surprised. Nearly all the points were things I would expect a highly creative person to do. I am very curious as to if one who isn't considered a "highly creative person" could try doing these things to improve their creative abilities or if it is just something that some people have and others don't.
I also read "8 Ways to come up with a business idea". The point I liked the most was the idea of doing something about something that bugs you. I particularly liked this idea because it is so simple to just think of something that bothers you and fix it. People so frequently live their day to day lives thinking to themselves "wow, that bothers me." but never do anything about it. There could be so much more innovation if people just relayed these small bothers to someone and they came up with a viable solution.
I attended class on March 6th.
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