Final Assignment

       During the course of this class I was able to gain seek to learn by using the classes' learning objectives.

To consume information I was able to examine many different ways of gathering information. I was given some good books that were assigned for me relating to the 18th century and for openness. The sound unbound was an interesting take on how music is spreading and how remixing happens. It was quite hard to follow because it doesn't have one main tenant that it is attempting to prove so I wasn't really able to gain much from the book. It did come with an interesting music CD though with some odd but intriguing music.

       To meet the course objective for consuming information I used lots of different sources. Mainly I looked at things that were online but for much of the information on Copernicus I gathered my information from what I have learned in my astronomy class and my physical science classes that I took here at BYU in the past. I also looked at information online about how different traditions came about. When my grandmother passed away this semester I wondered how modern funerals had come about so I began researching information about how modern funerals came about. I did this mainly through google searches but I specifically was looking for educational site and organizations that were not .com sites cause many of these types of sites seem to have a better understanding of the information that I was looking for.

       One of my favorite blogs was about fair use I went to the governments own site to see what copy right laws actually are. I found it interesting that much of our fair use law hasn't changed in over 50 years. It kind of made me wonder if we needed to adjust the current system because there has been such a large change in how information is presented in the last 50 years. It was really interesting to get to gather information from lots of different sources because some of the information is so biased that looking at the opinions of fair use was a challenge to not just read someone's article and immediately adopt their position because it sounded good.

       Coming up with an idea of what to research was the hardest part most of the time in the creation process. Sometime there were videos that really helped to get a good solid understanding of a topic, like TEDx. Other times content was not as well presented like looking at videos from youtube in an attempt to find some information to make my blog have something catchy to attempt to draw others attention.

       Because of this class and being assigned the topic of openness at the start of the semester I was able to chat candidly with my cousin who is a computer buff about the topic of how SOPA would affect media and internet if the legislation was passed. This was only possible because of class interactions and being able to comment back and forth with people on google+ (I can't figure out how to link to google+ comments).

       By the end of the class it had become much easier to more easily direct what I wanted to learn about. It was extremely nice to be able to have a group that could be given assignments and actually not have to worry about them being accomplish and not seeing anyone person having to take on an extra hard load because of someone not wanting to take the initiative and take on tasks that were little out of their comfort zones. 

       From Digital Civilizations I was able to learn a new way of connecting and learning from others. It is extremely simple to get connected with a Professional in just about any field that I could want to learn about.  Learning platforms come in many different forms and I was able to see that there is not just one set way to learn about a subject. Information can be gathered extremely easily from outsiders and experts are always somewhere close by to help with starting to learn about a new subject. 

Thank You Professor Burton and Zappala 

Presentation Invites

For the asking of people to the presentation I did what the Professors mentioned for us to do which was look at the people we know and have been getting in contact with and ask them to watch our performance. I asked eight people to watch the performance online cause most of the people I felt would find our class applicable were people who do not live here in Provo.
I asked Jesse Spackman, Brian Pincock, Aaron Dietrich, Jeff Hoffman, Sid Smith, Tyler Dodge, Lainey Thompson, Richard Howard. Jesse and Brian are engineers and they are both involved in the current science movement so I told them that I thought this would be beneficial for them because they would be able to see some changes that could be made in science to improve how science is relayed.
I asked three people in person with the fliers to the performance so that they would remember the performance. Unfortunately only one of the people was able to make it that evening but at least someone was able to make it to see our classes awesome performance. In person I asked Rebecca Plante (who attended), Kevin Walton, and Brady Hirst. Rebecca is a teaching major so this was super beneficial for her to be able to see some of our ideas for how to improve teaching. New teachers are the people who will probably be able to change how the education process is happening.
I thought that the presentation went really well and found the all of the different groups performances extremely well done.(even with the couple mistakes technical mistakes)