Thursday, February 11, 2010
Different and Interesting
I really enjoyed this website and I thought it brought alot of truth and meaning to many problems that are occuring around the country. I spent most of my time looking through the gallery of Day 5 which was about migrant workers. I thought it brought up some great issues and it reminded me of a friend I used to work in El Paso. He used to be one of those people working everyday in the hot sun illegaly. Getting paid next to nothing and doing some hard labor and when they were done with one crop they would go to the next. He has his citizenship now but it was a long process. He was one of the hardest workers I have ever met. So I think this website and what Chris McgREAL is doing is important and new. It rings true and it is interesting to watch and I feel it is something new because you are able be with him on this journey. I felt like I could understand what was taking place and happening. The only limitation is that we cant be there with them in person. But I felt that it was very unique and I liked it.
The Good and Bad of the Web
Considering our readings on the print history of "little magazines" and this week's readings of virtual/visual/multimodal texts, discuss the possibilities and limitations of multimodal storytelling. How might online spaces feed creativity? How might it stifle writers/artists?
Online spaces are really the way to go nowadays. There are just so many possibilities when posting online or reading something online compared to in a print magazine. When looking at some of the places that were put on the website, Digital Storytelling, Ubu web and others, you are able to do so much more. You can tell your story through video and also add voice to poems that you have written and you can fit so much in such a little space. And in most cases it is free and easy to access and you can get several articles from different articles in a matter of minutes. I remember using UBU Web last year in Connie's class and it was amazing at what was at your fingertips. You could hear, listen or watch poetry and it was all done at a click of a button. It was easy to search and find articles. So online space is so immense that you can do anything and you no longer have to be resticted to several pages like in a print. There is no limit to what you can do online.
I think the way it would stifle writers/artists is if you dont know how to use the web. Some people just have that handicap and they are not able to access a computer or use one to upload there stuff then they will be in a world of hurt. And I think that this is the case for alot of people, there are alot of older and younger writers that are like cavemen when it comes to computers. But I also think that sometimes with online work is that because it is so accessable everyone is doing it and it overloads the system and the really great writers are left in the midst of mediocre or less writers. So I believe there is good and bad when it comes to Web use but I really do love UBU Web abd have been really impressed with all I have found there but there is so much to take in and it is impossible to read everything.
Online spaces are really the way to go nowadays. There are just so many possibilities when posting online or reading something online compared to in a print magazine. When looking at some of the places that were put on the website, Digital Storytelling, Ubu web and others, you are able to do so much more. You can tell your story through video and also add voice to poems that you have written and you can fit so much in such a little space. And in most cases it is free and easy to access and you can get several articles from different articles in a matter of minutes. I remember using UBU Web last year in Connie's class and it was amazing at what was at your fingertips. You could hear, listen or watch poetry and it was all done at a click of a button. It was easy to search and find articles. So online space is so immense that you can do anything and you no longer have to be resticted to several pages like in a print. There is no limit to what you can do online.
I think the way it would stifle writers/artists is if you dont know how to use the web. Some people just have that handicap and they are not able to access a computer or use one to upload there stuff then they will be in a world of hurt. And I think that this is the case for alot of people, there are alot of older and younger writers that are like cavemen when it comes to computers. But I also think that sometimes with online work is that because it is so accessable everyone is doing it and it overloads the system and the really great writers are left in the midst of mediocre or less writers. So I believe there is good and bad when it comes to Web use but I really do love UBU Web abd have been really impressed with all I have found there but there is so much to take in and it is impossible to read everything.
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