The project that is being analyzed or reflected upon is the TED Presentation Project. For this project, we had to choose a video from the TED website of speakers or a speaker whose topic and goals challenge a status quo in our society. The video I chose was "Inside the Google Machine." This video shows how Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google, how they run their corporation, and how they are able to keep on growing in new directions. When I was starting my project I first figured out what needed to be included in it. I did this by reading over the TED essay prompt so it was clear and so I knew what I had to look for and get out of the video. From there I decided to note the themes and ideas being presented that particularly stuck out to me. I wanted to pay a little more attention to what I personally thought was important because that could also be what is needed to fulfill some of the requirements of the overall essay. I watched the video one time through and wrote down what I thought was important. It turned out that I was missing a lot of the required parts of the essay so I watched the video another time through to make sure I fulfilled every requirement of the essay. I think that it would have worked out a lot better if I did it the other way around, fulfilling the requirements and then noting what I believed to be important. This would have benefited me because I could have fulfilled the requirements and complemented them with what I believed to be important, rather than trying to complement by own ideas by connecting them to the requirements, if that makes sense. What I like about taking out what I think is important first is that these ideas remain untainted and unbiased. If I look for the what the requirements think to be important, I am only following the status quo and focusing more on what the majority thinks to be important. For my next essay I hope to have more balance between my own ideas and those that are required. By doing so I can complement the necessary parts with my personal opinions. After receiving a D, my own way of thinking wasn't very effective so I am now open to new ways of doing things.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Monday, November 3, 2008
imedia: Kanye West's concert
This video personally strike me because I was right there. I worked at Lollapalooza and I got to see many of my favorite band perform. Kanye West has been a huge icon in American music and media since he began his career. I have listened to him for years because he has a different sound and image to him. He came from nothing growing up in Chicago and now he is known around the world. Him performing in his home city with thousands of people listening must symbolize to him how far he truly has come and what he has been through throughout it all. Even though he came off as quite arrogant during the Grammy's many people still respect him and what he has accomplished. He is a role model to thousands of people around the world and he will stay that way as long as he succeeds.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Conor H Humanities finally
Metacognition: Brain Project
The project that was assigned to me was a brain project for psychology class. For this project, we are required to find different pictures or drawings that would represent the functions for each side of the brain. The way i went about completing this task, was I mapped out in bullets all of the functions of each side of the brain. Doing this made it a lot easier to pick and choose which one I would like to use. Also, it served as a checklist for what I am putting in the project. I see this form of thinking very effective because I have everything I need in one list that is easy to look over. Something that I could have changed is that I could have been more specific in defining the functions. Being more specific could make me think a bit more deeply and be more clever in my symbolism of these functions. I was a little surprised at how much easier this made my project because I could just look at the list and pick a picture to depict the action. I like this style of preparing because it is very organized and easy to understand even for someone other than myself. Something that could be improved upon is how deep I think about a certain subject. If I think deeper about a subject I tend to understand it more. Knowledge comes from understanding, not knowing.Conor Hart
Connection: Collaboration then and now
In "The Televisionary," one of the themes that is apparent throughout is; collaboration is more successful than induvidualism. In this essay, Philo Farnsworth is depicted as the epitome of a Romantic Idealist. This means that he believes that you can succeed on your own. Farnsworth is proven wrong when he is defeated in the race to create the first television by the RCA Corporation. He believed, "Of you had the vision and you made the vision work, then the invetion was yours." This wasn't true because the idea of the television did not belong to one person, in fact two others had the idea and failed to create the mechanical television along with the RCA corporation, which had an entire crew of inventors to work on it. This shows that visionaries cannot succeed without the inventor or the creative mind. This is very true in society and politics today. Every step in a career of a successful politician is made with collaboration. The politician is really the visionary and his crew are the inventors. When a politician runs for a position he or she usually follows what they are told by their campaign managers and staff. This is because their managers are experts in different political topics. The RCA prevailed over Philo because they employed a crew of inventors that worked together to create and finalize the idea of the television. If Philo would have accepted the invitation to join the team at RCA his family would still be living off his fortune today and he would not have died a depressed, unaccomplished man. ""No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.""--H.E. Luccock
Carry It Forward: Creative personality
Before we read "The Creative Personality" I had a completely different idea of what creativity is or how it can be defined. Once I really thought about it I realized that there are millions of different forms of creativity. The statement, "most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they are extremly objective about it as well," revealed a new way to look at how people are creative. The statement besically means that a creative person strives to do what they love or are interested in. When they do something that they like to do they are actually their biggest critic. The want to do it right if not they want to improve upon what they have completed. I would like to take this to heart and try to be objective of my work. By doing so I would open my mind to new ideas and perspectives unseen before. Perfection comes with trial and error. Therefore, I feel the need to correct or improve any of the work that I have completed. I think that this will make me a better student as well as better person overall by perfecting my actions. It is truely creative to fix work or ideas that you have done before.
The project that was assigned to me was a brain project for psychology class. For this project, we are required to find different pictures or drawings that would represent the functions for each side of the brain. The way i went about completing this task, was I mapped out in bullets all of the functions of each side of the brain. Doing this made it a lot easier to pick and choose which one I would like to use. Also, it served as a checklist for what I am putting in the project. I see this form of thinking very effective because I have everything I need in one list that is easy to look over. Something that I could have changed is that I could have been more specific in defining the functions. Being more specific could make me think a bit more deeply and be more clever in my symbolism of these functions. I was a little surprised at how much easier this made my project because I could just look at the list and pick a picture to depict the action. I like this style of preparing because it is very organized and easy to understand even for someone other than myself. Something that could be improved upon is how deep I think about a certain subject. If I think deeper about a subject I tend to understand it more. Knowledge comes from understanding, not knowing.Conor Hart
Connection: Collaboration then and now
In "The Televisionary," one of the themes that is apparent throughout is; collaboration is more successful than induvidualism. In this essay, Philo Farnsworth is depicted as the epitome of a Romantic Idealist. This means that he believes that you can succeed on your own. Farnsworth is proven wrong when he is defeated in the race to create the first television by the RCA Corporation. He believed, "Of you had the vision and you made the vision work, then the invetion was yours." This wasn't true because the idea of the television did not belong to one person, in fact two others had the idea and failed to create the mechanical television along with the RCA corporation, which had an entire crew of inventors to work on it. This shows that visionaries cannot succeed without the inventor or the creative mind. This is very true in society and politics today. Every step in a career of a successful politician is made with collaboration. The politician is really the visionary and his crew are the inventors. When a politician runs for a position he or she usually follows what they are told by their campaign managers and staff. This is because their managers are experts in different political topics. The RCA prevailed over Philo because they employed a crew of inventors that worked together to create and finalize the idea of the television. If Philo would have accepted the invitation to join the team at RCA his family would still be living off his fortune today and he would not have died a depressed, unaccomplished man. ""No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.""--H.E. Luccock
Carry It Forward: Creative personality
Before we read "The Creative Personality" I had a completely different idea of what creativity is or how it can be defined. Once I really thought about it I realized that there are millions of different forms of creativity. The statement, "most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they are extremly objective about it as well," revealed a new way to look at how people are creative. The statement besically means that a creative person strives to do what they love or are interested in. When they do something that they like to do they are actually their biggest critic. The want to do it right if not they want to improve upon what they have completed. I would like to take this to heart and try to be objective of my work. By doing so I would open my mind to new ideas and perspectives unseen before. Perfection comes with trial and error. Therefore, I feel the need to correct or improve any of the work that I have completed. I think that this will make me a better student as well as better person overall by perfecting my actions. It is truely creative to fix work or ideas that you have done before.
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