Completing the Culture Site Project
My culture site is now complete. I optimized photos for the site without any problems, which was a big surprise to me! I thought I would have to email my professor with a million questions, but the instructions were thorough and it was easy. I enjoyed reading the other student’s culture sites. Some were very impressive! Now that this project is done, I have to start thinking about the Financial Analysis project. When I heard there was a financial analysis project, I thought it would be about accounting, or a lot of math. This did not excite me in the slightest. But I just looked at the financial analysis page and it looks like it could be fun! It is a project where you pretend to live out one of your dreams, and you must analyze the cost of this dream. So I guess it is about accounting and math, but it sounds sort of fun because it is about your personal dreams and ambitions in life. I will have to start thinking about what mine are!
Progress Has Been Made
I have my Culture Site up and running. Now I just have to finish it. I would say that I am about 3/4 done. I need to do some more writing, organizing, etc. I struggled with arranging my page so that the viewer could see all of the sub-pages. I realized that the theme I had wasn’t capable of doing that, so I had to switch. I don’t like this theme very much, but the only other one I could chose from was bright pink with hearts and butterflies. I’m just not that girly. I should finish the culture site before the end of the weekend.
Culture Site Project…?
I am still a little unclear about the culture site project, but that may be because I haven’t dived in yet. I have some adequate research, and have requested an interview, but I haven’t thrown it all together yet. This week says that we are supposed to talk with a librarian about the project, but I honestly don’t have any questions yet. I already have two online and two print sources. Like I said, I am waiting to hear from my interviewee. I may have some questions later related to technology, but I feel like I don’t need any help researching my topic, which is the reason for the required librarian chat. I will just keep consolidating information and wait for the next “Do This Week” page on Blackboard. I feel pretty confident that once I start making a page, things will come together. Hopefully I am not overestimating myself.
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby – Really Smart Lady
I found a really interesting female inventor/scientist who has lived and worked in both Egypt and England. Dr. Rana el Kaliouby creates technologies that can sense human emotions and cognitive processes. Isn’t that crazy? She got her B.S. and M.S. from the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University, all in the subject of Computer Science. In 2006, she recieved the Higher Education and Learning Institite’s Gold Award from the Global Women and Inventors Network. Today she works at MIT. Her credentials are very impressive, and I am eager to research futher into her career. All of my information is from: http://web.media.mit.edu/~kaliouby/
Start Over
Well, I just realized that my choice for a female inventor, Ada Lovelace, is off limits for this class. I guess I will find a new one.
Ada Lovelace – The “Enchantress of Numbers”
I found a little more information on my female inventor of choice, English woman Ada Lovelace. According to FuturistSpeaker.com, Lovelace collaborated with Charles Babbage, who invented the first mechanical thinking-calculating machine. Assuming that she, as a female, was typically left out of any acknowledgment, I presume that she contributed a lot to any inventions that Babbage created while working with her. Here is the link:
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2008/08/a-study-of-women-inventors/
Culture Site Project
We have to choose a female scientist/technologist/inventor for our first project. I sit here thinking…. and I find it pathetic that I can’t think of any. I did some research, and I found fascinating information about an English woman named Ada Lovelace. She lived in the 19th century, and was the daughter of Lord Byron. Her contributions to the field of science includes a paper written in 1843 predicting computer software, artificial intelligence, and computerized music. I’m not sure if she will work for our project, because I don’t know if she ever used any technology herself. I will research more and find out. Here is where I found her:
http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventors/p/Ada_Lovelace.htm
