Assessment 1

This is my blog for our first assessment in MPI104. I became a member of Flickr, Blogger and del.icio.us and had no idea how to use any of them.. I'm starting to get the hang of it all now.

Flickr is a cool site to upload photos. I started of by uploading my photos that are being used for a GRP223 assignment, then gradually added more of my own photos which were mostly of my friends. I also added some roughs and final work for another subject, GRP224, which we had to do.. lucky I was enrolled in this subject and learnt how to use it. On my flickr I have three different sets named Friends, One Night Stand and Uni Work. My favourite set would be my Friends one as thats what I take most of my photos of and enjoy doing so. All of my uploads have titles, descriptions and tags. The set of photos I uploaded the first day in class are tagged as MPI104-2007, my other photos are tagged by there subject code or name of event. I joined the MPI104-2007 group which was really good to look at what other people in our class were uploading on their flickr. This allowed me to push some of my photos to the group and to add favourites and contacts to my flickr. Here is one of my favourite photos that I commented on I joined a couple of other groups and have a profile that tells everyone else a little bit about myself.

del.icio.us is a site to save bookmarks which I have gradually added over the last two months. I find this site fairly useful, instead of trying to remember web address's I can log onto del.icio.us whereever I may be. My bookmarks have descriptions and tags, my tags have been bundled into groups of Uni and Interests. On my network I have most people that are in my class which was good to look at what they had saved and could save onto my own if I was interested. The first bookmarks I saved were My Blog, the Metablog and Flickr. I didnt know what a link roll was but I played around and got it all figured out.

My blog has 9 posts. I created a new blog for GRP224 which has another 3 posts. My posts were mostly about myself, what I'd been up to and links to new things I had joined such as del.icio.us, flickr and technorati. I experimented with fonts, colours and templates and decided on a simple layout with bright colours for posts and easy font to read. I liked my post on my Easter Holidays the best as I blogged what I did during the time I had a photo to go with what was being said. I included a photo in about half of my posts. My blog has a description, links on the side, a list, a counter and a profile. I commented on other peoples posts, I think this was the one I was most excited about The Real Footy.