For the fourth morning in a row, my body or my mind, I can't decipher who is the exact culprit, thathas woken me up in the 4 o'clock hour with admonishment.
It's like it's saying, "Hey, you lazy bum, let's go! Let's go! There's lots to do!"
To which I try to reply, "Stop it! We are not in Pennsylvania and it is not 7am! There are no kids wanting breakfast, so let me sleep!"
And it fails.
My head starts processing what occured the day before and what the agenda holds in story for today. Then I go into my To Do lists. Finally, I drag my body down to the 4th floor and work out my thoughts while exercising my ambitious limbs on the elliptical
Yesterday's 4:46am revelation was more of an affirmation of something I discussed with Alan on the way to lunch yesterday. The journalism field is an Apple field. Seibert inntroduced to us all the things you can do to photos and videos on the iPhone 4S, Stan talked about a microphone for your iPod, and Macs and iPads dominate the classroom and labs.Seibert even confirmed this with me when I caught him in the elevator yesterday on the way to class.
So what happens to us Microsoft people and the Android users? Are our Windows students who aspire to be MMJs already one step behind the iPhone addicts? And then,I ponder, is allowing students to use the cameras on their iPhones contradictory to school cell phone use policies if they are using them during school hours? Should one of my obligations to them be proposing buying into a brand of products like buying into a brand of politics?
I guess my next phone should be the iPhone, my next computer should be a Mac and maybe I should start saving for an iPad. But then, is this branding? Is this consumerism at its best? Does being a successful journalist mean having the latest and greatest? But doesn't that mean ruining your credit score to obtain it as we all know there is not millions in journalism. Where does the character ed and the economics come into play here?
Jackie Ludka
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The 4:46 am Apple
For the fourth morning in a row, my body or my mind, I can't decipher who is the exact culprit, thathas woken me up in the 4 o'clock hour with admonishment.
It's like it's saying, "Hey, you lazy bum, let's go! Let's go! There's lots to do!"
To which I try to reply, "Stop it! We are not in Pennsylvania and it is not 7am! There are no kids wanting breakfast, so let me sleep!"
And it fails.
My head starts processing what occured the day before and what the agenda holds in story for today. Then I go into my To Do lists. Finally, I drag my body down to the 4th floor and work out my thoughts while exercising my ambitious limbs on the elliptical
Yesterday's 4:46am revelation was more of an affirmation of something I discussed with Alan on the way to lunch yesterday. The journalism field is an Apple field. Seibert inntroduced to us all the things you can do to photos and videos on the iPhone 4S, Stan talked about a microphone for your iPod, and Macs and iPads dominate the classroom and labs.Seibert even confirmed this with me when I caught him in the elevator yesterday on the way to class.
So what happens to us Microsoft people and the Android users? Are our Windows students who aspire to be MMJs already one step behind the iPhone addicts? And then,I ponder, is allowing students to use the cameras on their iPhones contradictory to school cell phone use policies if they are using them during school hours? Should one of my obligations to them be proposing buying into a brand of products like buying into a brand of politics?
I guess my next phone should be the iPhone, my next computer should be a Mac and maybe I should start saving for an iPad. But then, is this branding? Is this consumerism at its best? Does being a successful journalist mean having the latest and greatest? But doesn't that mean ruining your credit score to obtain it as we all know there is not millions in journalism. Where does the character ed and the economics come into play here?
Jackie Ludka
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Excellent point re: PC-Windows-Android versus the Appleheads and the savvy iPad-iPhone-iMac-iMovie cult, etc. etc. - fortunately, I'm comfortable using both but it does raise a question of whether or not one platform may ultimately leave another in the dust...granted, many of our technological resources will continually be cycled, replaced, dated, and outdated as we move forward teaching our students...I really dug the five-finger 'shots' map that Snyder provided and Seibert's variety of resources and ideas were inspiring. Many of his sample projects, particularly the stills-with-video-and audio piece re: the female chain gang in the desert (and his student sample video of the LA muralist)- were awesome!
ReplyDeleteCody Roberts
Milby High School
Houston
There's an old saying in the world of both golf and photography: it ain't the arrow, it's the Indian. It doesn't matter what you have. If you can think independently, do basic research, and then tell the story, that is going to trump iPhones, iMacs, iPads, and even iPlants, which Apple should be introducing sometime around 2015. The iPlant will be embedded just above your ear with a tiny mike in your tongue. You'll give it voice commands and will also be able to text in Morse code tapped on your temple. But remember, it still won't be worth squat if you can't tell the story in the first place.
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