Wilmer's Blog (2040)

A funny story concerning my time with twitter: I'm what you would label an experienced user. I've operated my own twitter profile years prior to enrolling in EME2040 and can speak, firstly, to that experience. I'm active in many subfields including politics, film, literature, and art. These can sometimes bear fruit--interesting articles can pop up, informative conversations can ensue and a good time could be had all around, especially in film twitter. These days, with the political climate as it stands, things can get very toxic. I find myself constantly wearing myself out with the sheer amount of negativity and never ending stream of information. Creating a new account for this course presented me with the opportunity to change my habits and finds new followers. focusing my list to educators and technology companies has significantly improved my experience. Who knew that professionals had such interesting and thoughtful things to say? The web design project has familiari...

Part 2 of "Stravinsky's Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots" If part one presented us with a crash-course history lecture emphasizing France and Vienna--both meccas of musical innovation at the time--then part 2 presents to us musical theory lesson, one with  granular emphasis on the musical mechanisms that give the operatic work it's intrinsic edge. A primer on music theory and the foundational structures that drive rhythm and harmony, this section proved to be the easiest to complete despite accenting materials that a layman might not be familiar with. Piano dictations. Harmony and Counterpoint I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of content; how nuanced and succinct the structures and layouts were. Much consideration was  given to articulating the right musical excerpts given the students apparent level and exposure to such nomenclature.  Things get a little complicated when the terminology ramps up as they bare no relation to real-world ...

For my learning project I signed up for a Mooch course called "Stravinsky's Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots." The subject was early twentieth century music and it centered primarily around France, during a tumultuous period of great cultural and social upheaval. Interesting to note, the Mooch course is split up into two sections. One details the arrival of composer Igor Stravinsky into the musical scene. A Russian-born classical composer, Stravinsky was a pioneer in establishing a fresh modern sound that reinvigorated an over-waltzed Hungarian hierarchy prominent  during the turn of the century. His oeuvre ran the gamut of classical styles--show pieces; opera; symphonies; chamber works; trio and solo works; chorus--which garnered him much attention and acclaim. The course stresses the importance of one piece in particular, the operatic orchestral work, The Rite of Spring. The opera features an episodic structure; each episode focused on a different pagan ri...

https://www.idalouisd.net/dowdy Above is a Pic/link to a page belonging to Julie Dowdy, a High School algebra teacher from Idalou, Texas. It is simple, sure.  A presentation of the surface-level rudimentary materials one would expect from a 12-k math instructor--Daily schedules; supplementary resource tabs, and so forth. Peering through the "first day" materials I found helpful pdf's explaining, in full, mission statements and class objects for each of the different categories of math studies. Though not specified it can be inferred that Mrs. Dowdy is an 11th grade math teacher. She even leaves a newsletter address where parents can enter their contact information in case they wish to get in touch with an instructor.    Diigo--qualms about interface aside--provided me compelling tools that aided in retrieving and implementing informational contents off the web. In class we have utilized the application to complete in-class assignments, all the while checking off pa...

The range of my experience with Diigo stems from our short classroom presentation and from auxiliary use outside of class. I found it interesting, this almost open source approach to information gathering--where forum communities can exchange pieces of information in planner form, for the benefit of the whole. Tabs and bookmarks were adequately displayed with only the majority of the clutter appearing in side task bars. This leads me to my one big gripe, Interface. The main interface resembles a google search page where the relevant results of a search are strung along vertically. This does not jive with my interests. Not one bit. Also, with the advent of proprietary software management tools from the likes of apple(pages, air) and MS (suite) I'm hesitant to dip my feet in these third party solutions. I love blogging. I think it the most effective tool to getting ones ideas out as there are no limits to what one could create within the frame work of a blog post. The problem with ...

I've been an affluent twitter user for a few years and can say with confidence that it is the application I invest the most time one. For the most part I interact with political channels and entertainment figures, interspersing personal entries here and there. Twitter is where I get the vast majority of my news-- as it works as the most effective and productive "feed" on the net.  I rarely post anything about myself so I haven't necessarily built user/follower connections. I understand that twitter can be an extremely toxic environment for opinion writers, minorities, the LGBTQ community, and so forth. From my detached but informed experience there is no greater way to communicate my content as a writer. I plan in the near future to begin my blog focused all around film/t.v/pop culture think pieces, so this website is key. It's a modern tragedy to think  there exists in this world a student body with no practical access to technologies in the age of communicatio...