Blog number 2

Part 1:
• Brief Descriptions of Boethius and she makes reference to his book “Consolations of Philosophy”
• Her own personal opinion about university.
• She question herself about university.
In the article “What’s the point of a college education” by Janet D. Stemwedel, the three paragraphs are about here opinions and how she feels about the importance of college education. In paragraph four she notes that a college education and job training are not the same thing. I agree with this statement because in university one takes a variety of courses to see which potential job one can pursue in the future. She questions why people spend their time and money on university. In this reading, there was a reference made to Boethius. I searched for this individual vic the internet. He is a Roman patrician and Master of the offices for the King of Theodoric. According to the article he wrote a book called the “Consolations of Philosophy”. There was a brief description about Boethius and his life.

The paper version of the article contains the name of the author as well as where the article is located with the website name. The actual website contains a picture of the author with information about where she comes from and her education. The date that this was posted on was October 2nd, 2006 at 9:30 p.m. The article has a category name so that people can search for different topics on the website. It is located under Academia with the sub-sections Personal, Philosophy, and Teaching and Learning. Beneath the article the is an area where people are able to post comments.

Part 2:

Physical Object: Table, creator: Unknown/carpenter of some sort. Materials used: wood, metal, hammer, screws, screwdriver. Use of material: To allow materials to be put into it or to carry the weight of other objects. Color of the materials: Black purple-white. There are little squiggly line designs on the surface of the table.

Digital Text: A Midsummer Night's Dream -- http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html
Author: William Shakepeare. Website created by Jeremy Hylton, Operated by the Tech. Written in the 1590's. Written in Shakespearean language, which is old English. Format: Html Subject: Play written for many people to enjoy. On the website (the page where the play is contained) where the script is located i would indicate, more about the contents of the play and where it takes place. Midsummer night's dream is a comedic play written my William Shakespeare.

Digital Image: Beyonce performing -- http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.themavenreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/beyonce_performing1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.themavenreport.com/%3Ftag%3Dbeyonce-knowles&usg=__mRHymlEzZtVjQq2tTNiWv059Wks=&h=672&w=450&sz=48&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=3bSNrVK6Kc8qbM:&tbnh=151&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbeyonce%2Bknowles%2Bperforming%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1525%26bih%3D918%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=121&vpy=527&dur=4007&hovh=274&hovw=184&tx=124&ty=189&ei=fWyiTL6SNpWL4Qa_kIGyBA&oei=fWyiTL6SNpWL4Qa_kIGyBA&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=50&ved=1t:429,r:30,s:0

This is a picture of Beyonce who is performing which was taken on January 18th, 2008 by Maven. There are tags in a picture of Beyonce Knowles as well as Matthew Knowles, even though he is not in the picture. The picture takes place at a an award show and it indicates that she is a celebrity. Matthew Knowles makes a statement about Beyonce saying that she will be performing at the music awards in Germany. The language is in English. This is located on The Maven Report which is a blog post.

Video: Step up 2 The streets.- Final dance off. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTq7w9Glv1E
This video takes place in the movie Step Up 2. This is the dance scene from the end of the video. The battle is between many groups and at the end it came between two groups. This video was located on the youtube website. There are comments that different individuals are able to post onto the video. The video is in English. There is not a date on the video, but my assumption is that it was posted when movie was released on DVD.

The process involved finding four objects to work with, as well as searching for the metadata located with the objects. The digital objects had links attached to it where you find more metadata on the object. In terms of choosing a physical object, digital text, digital image, and a video, I choose a table inside the classroom, Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Nights’ Dream”, A picture of Beyonce Knowles, as well as a dance video from the Step Up 2 movie. I choose these items because they are related to my own interests. I enjoy listening to music in particular rhythm and Blues artists such as Beyonce. I like reading Shakespearean plays, in fact in grade nine my class was required to read the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which is a Shakespearean Comedy. I enjoy dancing and watching dance movies. Metadata is data about data. It is constructed by us for a purpose and it can be useful. From the metadata that I have gathered about these objects, I was not surprised by the metadata that I found about the objects. It depends upon where the object what type of object it is, and where the object is located. A photograph will have tags on the picture as well as who took the photograph. Since the video was on youtube, the information contained the characters of the video as well as the comments posted under the video. I did notice that the quote “The past was analog, the future is digital” holds true. The digital objects have more metadata attached to the object and you can learn more about objects. Whereas with a physical object, the is only so much information that you can gather from observing the object.