IMA 502

Abstract

Artist statement:

These are the preliminary outline of my website,

 

 

 
This will be an integrated platform of travel photography sites. This site will consist of two parts, the first part will be the photographs for the entrance. Provides a different perspective to the user in every corner of a city or a country, and then from their the perspective which they interested in as  the entrance to find the place.

Another part will be a comprehensive information provision, publishing, communication platform. The ultimate goal is to be the convenient, interesting and comprehensive assistant of traveler’s.

Technologies,

Technologies will be used are photoshop, dreamweaver, illustrator, flash, database, php, SDK and so on.

When the network and mobile technology is developed, the traditional physical travel will gradually decline. To some extent means that if a company doesn’t have local terminal application for mobile devices, like iphone, ipad, will lack of real convenience. Of course, on the other hand, if a company spends too much time on the trendy tools, resources may also appear serious upside. So after this website, to develop a application for apple products will be the next step.

Let the mind to travel

 

Let the mind to travel,But if the body has been subject to imprisonment, how can the mind free to fly?

Was there some places you want to go, but do not know how to get there? whether there have been some of the wonderfully photography that you want to view immersive? Are there some places you go to but missing to leave the most perfect moment?

First of all. the photography gallery will collect some of excellent works, from web, publications, and at the meanwhile we will  invite some excellent professional photographer to publish their works on this site.These works will open a door leading to every corner of the world to viewers. People would tell us where they want to go, or which photo they love and curious, like how and what kind of timing, environment and photographic equipment should be use on shooting.Then, that will leading them to next step, our comprehensive information and social website. With the specific detail info of photo, they can find which city it is, they will see the story of the photographer, the shooting people, or the traveler, they will know the equipment they used, and also, if they want to go there, every information they should to prepared, like local customs, the places that you can never miss, even the most useful details like hotels, restaurants and so on..

 

Social network

 

It is worth mentioning that we will make a connection between the author and viewers through our site,Photographers to create their gallery, blog on our website, viewers can communicate directly with them. At the same time, travelers can also write their own feelings.

 

Marketing

 

Because of the market involved by the tourism industry is infinitely large, so to make the social media to fully and adequately with the industry is a undoubtedly best expansion for it. Here is a recently report about the prospect and affection from social media to travel industry.

Travel industry to boost spend on social media marketing in 2011
Posted by Kevin May  on 16 November 2010

Social media is expected to feature strongly in marketing budgets across the travel industry in 2011, with online display likely to be the channel missing out.The results of a wide-ranging survey conducted by digital content specialist Frommers – in conjunction with Tnooz – found that almost two-thirds of travel companies are planning on increasing marketing spend in areas of social media next year.This is the second year in a row that social media has captured the attention of marketers in areas as diverse as hotels and hospitality, travel agencies, operators and consolidators, airlines, tourist offices, car rental, rail, and cruise.General travel content and mobile marketing are also expected to see a boost in spend, with budgets increasing by 63% and 50% respectively.Overall it appears that every marketing channel is likely to get an increase in 2011. At the lower end of the budget increase scale, around a third of companies say they will up online display advertising budgets, but the channel is also the most likely to see a decrease as 13% say they will cut spend.Across all channels, 70% say they will increase online marketing budgets, 23% say budgets will remain the same, 7% are predicting a fall.Elsewhere in the survey, almost half (47%) say the current average cost per visitor is under $1. Just 2% say the average cost is over $10 while 38% are paying between $1 and $5.Looking forward again to 2011, mobile looks to be the biggest beneficiary of where travel companies will spend budgets on digital content.The survey found an increase of 114% from 2009 to 2010 on mobile app content, with mobile web grabbing 98%. The only other channel to come close is video content at 59%.Search engine optimisation, product description an unique web content are likely to be the three with the least increase year-on-year at 7%, 15% and 16% respectively.But despite the lower focus of attention of search engine optimisation, attracting search engine traffic is the top priority among a third of travel companies for adding travel content to a site.Increasing conversions and building brand were two other main reasons for companies to focus on additional content.Finally, two-thirds of companies say the biggest challenge they face with online content is keeping it up-to-date and accurate. Almost half (47%) cite brand consistency issues, while 37% mention

IMA 505 — New Media Art

        This is a skeptical age, but although our mind in many of the things in which we realize always been most far away from art, like machine, computer or equation, our dependent and inspiration in new technology are never stopped.

        The pioneer of new media arts, Roy Ascott said, the most noticeable feature of new media art is connectivity and interactivity. It has a lot of different forms of expression but only one common ground, users through the directly interactivity to participate in and change the image, model, even meaning. They could use multiple approaches to make transform of these works, such as touching, moving space or vocalizing and so on. No matter to use keyboard, mouse, light, audio inductor or any other more complicated even invisible “trigger”, the primary relationship between audience and those works still is interactive. The connective makes viewers transcend time and space.

        As new media itself, it originated from Idea Ari which is in meddle of 1960s, at the early stage, developed in Surrealist Art and Dada as well.

        Communicate and cooperate became to those artist’s the significant focus during their production process. They are never stop discover new form of behaviors and new intermediaries, and try to find out and create new thinking and experience as well, even the possibility of new world. So many artists interested in bring audience participate in and get more realize feeling of their works, so that their creativity no longer limited in its physical forms, more likely focus on producing program. So many artists interested in how to make audience get real touch of their production. Over all, the whole 20^th century fascinated in the mode, metaphor of new science, especially, the development of quantum physics in the beginning of 20^th century, neuroscience and biology in the end of 20^th, greatly prodded at those artist’s imagination.

        However, no matter Roy Ascott, or Benjamin Well, when they were talking about art, they were rarely referring about create art, more likely refer to the application of new media technology and how to have it well in hand, the marketing problem of new media art as well. Those are all easy to bring people a illusion that the significant part of the new kind of art are seems not artistic creation, but the problem of how to lead art use new technology dominate the market. Of course, it is entire probably because the relationship between new media art and commercialization are an indissoluble bond since the initial time. Roy Ascott realizes that, for those artists who live in 20^th century, thinking about how to build structure is more important than present it. He said that, interests of Internet, bioelectronics, wireless network, knowledgeware, virtual reality, neuronic network, genetic engineering, molecular electronic technique, robot technology, are not only concerns the creation and communication of their works, and also the definition of these arts, the aesthetic of apparition as well, definitely also the interactivity, connectivity, changeability as well. The Aesthetic of Appearance is instead of Aesthetic of apparition.  

        Really creative new digital media artists are not focus on using new device, but just like pick up one particular style of cookery from a recipe, using new technology expand market, test limits of technique to promote its change. Therefore what people looking for are those intelligent machine and system which have highly response strength, even could predict people’s demand, as well as show some self awareness in degree (but not artificial intelligence.). So that, how could they do in this situation? People have to seek new source of funds and supports. The old mode market does not have ability to adapt to this kind art. Relative to tradition of art and closure property, people are seems more likely easy to accept new discovery and new attempt of science. Meanwhile, in the interactive communicate system, the close relationship between each person, and the worldwide highly connective Internet means a neomorph art system coming out.    

        People need to establish new meaningfully connect with scientists, enterprise, they are not only challenge people’s creativity and imagination, also offer people the possibility to compose fantasy even make it come true. If these enterprises are not exist, people must to establish it.

        New media art is about to enter into media technology piece by piece; new media artists will become to expertise of media technology, or be replaced by media technology expertise. New media art will be more commercialize, new media art will exist for media technology, develop for them as well. These are also the reason that makes people confused. However, no matter how it will goes on, it must be develop along with IT industry and Internet. We don’t need jump to conclusion.

Education —IMA501

Abstract

        Along with the international age coming, There are a number of issues which need serious consideration. To what extent should we standardize educational programs? How much risk does internationalization contain for national identity? How to create a global system of academic recognition and is it really necessary? Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented. The benefits that coming along with the development of new technologies are obvious and have been discussed quite a lot. Without any exception, it is also made a great impression on education. Network communications technology makes people access to globally information resource among net users unprecedentedly convenient and fast. New information technologies are widely introduced in schools and universities as well. It is also provides technological base for Internet education.

Statement

Present

        More and more people are talking about contemporary society offers so many ways of learning that reading books is no longer very important. Along with rapidly expand of computer technology, Internet and multimedia technology. Our fields of vision are no longer limited by distance and time. “Can we speak of the death of the university?” an English newspaper recently asked. Another offered the diagnosis: ”still breathing.” Not only at this seminar, here and now, but also all over the world the future of the universities is now being discussed. Many people are asking whether the traditional research universities in fact have any future at all. That is mainly due to the development of the new technology. The growing competition from web education institutions are constantly against traditional education system. One of a very successful online education system is K12. K12 is the largest provider of accredited online learning for grades K-12. It offers tuition-free and private supplemental learning, blended online/offline programs, and full-time online programs in the United States and internationally. K12 allows students to learn at their own level and has a strong social community with regularly sponsored events. Parents looking for an alternative to traditional schooling for their child, now have options other can special classes, tutoring and expensive private schools. Online education offers students more one-on-one time with their instructors. And, as a bonus, most K-12 online programs are inexpensive or even tuition-free.

        In the United States, approximately 60 percent of universities offer courses online. Why could online education be so popular in such a short time？ Among other reasons, the quick development of the internet should be an essential one, which makes all our dreams of attending a distant class possible. Another underlying reason is the quick development of both society and technology. Today, modern science and technology is developing with lighting speed. To catch up with this development we all feel an urgent and strong desire to study. People who are already got full time job usually too busy to study full time at school due to the great pace of modern society, online education just comes to their aids. It’s indeed a helpful complement to the traditional educational means. It can provide different learners with more flexible and versatile ways to learn. Most of all, with online education, we can stick to our jobs and at the same time study and absorb the latest knowledge. 

        However, if the online education really system could entirely replace traditional education? I realize no one would say yes. Computer and network technology has led us into an age of information, putting us in an unprecedented advantageous position to access and use a boundless sea of information. But as to these fields of that need concentrate on researches, traditional universities still provides abundant resources and equipments. As to these students which should be in high school, it is not only bring high speed and widely range study. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instruction students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning. Every coin has two sides, addiction to videos, computer games and the Internet, or the abuse of such things as computer games, violent programs on the Internet will not only distract them from learning but also endanger their psychological health. 

Future

        The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says…

        A survey substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes others

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/TheFutureofOnlineTeachingandLe/157426

By Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk

        Institutions of higher education have increasingly embraced online education, and the number of students enrolled in distance programs is rapidly rising in colleges and universities throughout the United States. In response to these changes in enrollment demands, many states, institutions, and organizations have been working on strategic plans to implement online education. At the same time, misconceptions and myths related to the difficulty of teaching and learning online, technologies available to support online instruction, the support and compensation needed for high-quality instructors, and the needs of online students create challenges for such vision statements and planning documents.

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Conclusion

        Although there still some problem not solve yet, computers and openly online study environment does not hindrances to the way we think deeply or originally. Conversely, new technologies and devices bring us to a new information age, and contribute to our deep and original thinking. And also, I am an optimist, and I have become even more of an optimist having listened to the speakers today. I believe in the magic of the campus! I believe that the universities will be able to enjoy a very bright future when they are more combine with new technologies and devices.

 

Information Transfer—IMA505

 

ABSTRACT 

        Like language and social organization, information is essential to man. As bridge and as framework of human society, also the most basic needs of living, information and how to deliver information became to an everlasting subject of research that has accompanied man since prehistoric times. From the first letter that delivered by a homing pigeon, until now, the information age arrival, the communication between people has become much more convenient and faster than ever. During this process, people lived through five times information revolution. There is no one can deny that the high technology development changed people’s life. Also, it has enhanced the overall standard of information communication system. The subject of this paper is discussing what happened in the past, the change of the way of transinformation from past to nowadays. Find out the different meaning of each age of information revolution. Also, talk about the impact of future. 

STATEMENT

Past

        In retrospect past several centuries, the improvement of human society relies on establishment of infrastructure construction. Like road, housing, farmland water conservancy, also industry and so on, they are all indispensable to life. Of all others necessary portions, information and information transfer could be viewed as foundation of development of human society.

        From the first word human had spoken, people lived through several significant ages. The first information revolution should be the use of language. As the most basically transporting species of information, language is the most straightway to make other else understand our meaning. The second information revolution is the creation of words. Massages are recorded, preserved, and transmitted by symbolic form. Movable-Type Printing, as the greatest invention of human being, it should be seem as the third time information revolution. Massages were transferred by a simple, efficient, and extensive method. It makes enable that rapidly and large numbers of information transfer so as to the news could disseminate to the public. This invention deeply influences the life of their life of the mind, also the culture development. Along with the printing age coming, new ideas and new information were blaze abroad more and more comprehensive. The fourth information revolution, the invented of telegraph, broadcast, telephone, and television, happened on 19^th century and 20^th century. These invention’s popularization and application bring people enter into a new age. At the end of World War 2, the first electronic digital computer ENIAC weighed thirty tons, had 18,000 vacuum tubes, and occupied a space as large as a boxcar. Less than forty years later, many hand-held calculators had comparable computing power for a few dollars. Today most people have a computer on their desk with more computing power than engineers could imagine just a few years ago. Our world rapidly shifted from a traditional and old, slowly society to a computer-based society.

        These technologies revolution happened in the past changed physical conditions of human existence. As we retrospect the history, we will find how profound science and technology have changed the world, human life, also changed the way we transfer information. In industry, with technology innovations like the invention of steam engine which intrigues Industrial Revolution, people have been emancipated from burdensome work. For example, the wide distribution of television programs, as the major media in 20^th century, even 21th century, makes it much easier for various aspects of culture to spread all over the world thereby enriching and influencing other cultures. Highly advanced telecommunication technology makes the worldwide distribution of television programs and advertisements possible.

        Technology’s fruits can be both sweet and bitter. C.S. Lewis writes in The Abolition of Man, “From this point of view, what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be power exercised by some men over men with Nature as its instrument. . . . There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man’s side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. In every victory, besides being the general who triumphs, he is also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car.”

                                                                                               — Kerby Anderson

                                                               Computers and the Information Revolution

Present

        Along with enter into 21 century; the way people obtain massage has greatly changed. With advances in technology, we can get a great deal of factual information not available to us several years ago, removing trivialities of the research process. After the invent of computer and network,  with the increasing popularity of personal computer, larger populations, especially the young, can surf the internet freely, browsing, writing and sending e-mails, chatting with others from around the world, all of which were unimaginable and unavailable for the people who lived just several years ago. If want important materials such as news, academic theses or university application materials, we need only visit websites. A decade ago, without the convenience of the internet, we had many prolonged but necessary steps such as going to the library, searching through academic journals, calling around and ultimately requesting to post materials which would arrive at a later date. Nowadays, with the help of the technology, we are no longer preoccupied by those previous trivialities.

Future

        The ultimate goal of technology should be to improve the quality of people’s life. We can see this goal is reflected in today’s technological developments. Thank to the internet, planes, telecommunication, computers, and genetic decoding, people’s lives are becoming more and more comfortable and enjoyable than ever before. High speed electronic communications media, such as electronic mail and wireless telecom equipment, like mobile computer, Itouch, Iphone, Ipad and so on, tend to make distance and time problem disappear. People can obtain information they need everywhere and every time, also send the massage when and where they want. Along with these technology developed, the intensity of future’s media and information coverage has been greatly magnified by sheer number and types of information outlets that are available today.

Conclusion

Now that computer technology and other high technological equipment has led us into an age of information, setting us in an unprecedented advantageous position to access and use a boundless sea of information. The way of our life has changed every where, and every time, there is also no denying the possibility that we suffer from a new problem— information overload. However, it does not follow that computers are hindrances to the way we think deeply or originally. Conversely, computers contribute to our deep and original thinking.

Technology and Potential Crisis (IMA504)—References

IPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University

By John Cox, NetworkWorld.com

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071607-duke-iphone.html?page=1

Job Stress and Heart Disease: Evidence and Strategies for Prevention.

Authors: Paul A. Landsbergis, Susan J. Schurman, Barbara A. Israel, Peter L. Schnall, Margrit K. Hugentobler, Janet Cahill, and Dean Baker

http://www.workhealth.org/prevention/prjscvd.html

Technology and Potential Crisis (IMA504)—Abstract

      Human activities have been changing tremendously by the rapid rate of technology development in past century. As the most efficient, resourceful media nowadays, network is especially revolutionary. It is used in everywhere. From everyday we wake up, until sleep in the night, our working, studying, researching all rely on computer, internet. Student’s grades saved in database, network teleconference holding everyday, the latest scientific research more so rely on these technologies than others. It definitely takes us in an unbelievable age.
 
      However, it should be noted that the effects of new technology are not always positive. When something we need it everyday and everywhere, can not living without it, it entirely could be a potential crisis, a weak part. If there are something happened in internet, sequential impact could be worse than any other things. So, if it is enough strong, if it is enough safe, are also very serious problem.

Technology and Potential Crisis (IMA504)—Statement

      As we review history, we can see how profoundly science and technology have changed our lives. Computer, Internet, as the greatest inventions in 20^th century, greatly changed the way people work and live. For example, Tele-communication tools such as the telephone, fax and Internet, which have increasingly replaced “paper letters”, have become the major means of communicating.

       The new technologies introduce into education are greatest change forms of education. The whole education system is benefit from these global networks. Students’ using computer connects with the Internet and the World Wide Web brings an endless resource that information they need from all over the world. These researches, even on any subject could be done now while simply sitting in front of computer rather than by go out and do tedious searches through stacks of books or rolls of microfilm in a library. Linking every schools and laboratories across the globe through real-time communication system, like live video satellite transmissions or others  makes the ideas and information  exchanges immediately. Also, it is entirely possible that a student in the United States can “sit in” a class at a university in China.  The educational use of computers is called Computer Assisted Instruction, or CAI. Many public schools in the United States have acquired computers and CAI programs to run on them. Schools establish computer resource centers and special training programs to teachers to help them use computers in teaching. Some colleges and universities establish computer literacy requirements for graduation.

      Not only in education, but also almost all aspects of society probably benefit from the rapid growth of global networks. High-speed electronic communications media such as email and television, taking us enter into a new age. These are all highly effective way to get information from others. News and other information can be transmitted around the world in seconds. The more people are connected to each other, the greater the chances are that they will learn to understand each other. So many practically technologies and applications emerged during this period of time. It is possible that e-books, network classes, and other multimedia could serve as suitable alternatives to reading books for getting information. Moreover, the new hi-tech contemporary approaches have more advantages than the traditional ways.

      These new technologies based on computer or network become to indispensable part of our life. However, it should be noted that the effects of new technology are not always positive. Reviewing our life, from everyday we wake up until mid-night, the first news read on website, the last email send to client, videoconference or just find the latest travel resource, almost no one can live without this new media technology.

       However, if it will always bring positive effect to us? Definitely not. When we start to using something as indispensable in everywhere of our life, it also could be a potential crisis. Because of people almost can not live without, so if there is something happened on Internet, suppose network paralysis in one day, how many wireless telecommunications system will instantly turn off? How many companies will unable running? How many loss will happen during this period of time? It is actually not just an assumption, it’s already happened in real life.

      The following event happened in July, 2007, 18,000 requests per second from IPhone knocking out dozens of access points at Duke University.

Iphones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University.

      The Wi-Fi connection on Apple’s recently released IPhone seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke University.

      The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on several IPhones periodically flood sections of the Durham, N.C., school’s pervasive wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. The campus network staff is talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown.

    “Because of the time of year for us, it’s not a severe problem,” says Kevin Miller, assistant director, communications infrastructure, with Duke’s Office of Information Technology. “But from late August through May, our wireless net is critical. My concern is how many students will be coming back in August with IPhones? It’s a pretty big annoyance, right now, with 20-30 access points signaling they’re down, and then coming back up a few minutes later. But in late August, this would be devastating.”

      That’s because the misbehaving iPhones flood the access points with up to 18,000 address requests per second, nearly 10Mbps of bandwidth, and monopolizing the AP’s airtime.

      The access points show up as “out of service.” For 10-15 minutes, there’s no way to communicate with them, Miller says. “When the problem occurs, we see dozens of access points in that condition,” Miller says. The network team began capturing wireless traffic for analysis and that’s when they discovered that the offending devices were IPhones. Right now, Miller says, there are about 150 of the Apple devices registered on the campus WLAN.

      The requests are for what is, at least for Duke’s network, an invalid router address. Devices use the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to request the MAC address of the destination node, for which it already has the IP address. When it doesn’t get an answer, the IPhone just keeps asking.

    “I’m not exactly sure where the ‘bad’ router address is coming from,” Miller says. One possibility: each offending IPhone may have been first connected to a home wireless router or gateway, and it may automatically and repeatedly be trying to reconnect to it again when something happens to the IPhone’s initial connection on the Duke WLAN.

      They’re still sorting out what that “something” is. On two occasions, one last Friday and one today, Monday 16 July, both users seemed to be behaving completely normally, yet both IPhones started flooding the net with ARP requests. In both cases, the user first successfully connected to the WLAN at one location, and then moved to another building, where the ARP flood began. “It may have something to do with the IPhone losing connectivity and then trying to reconnect in a new location,” Miller says.

      Most of the W LAN is comprised of Cisco thin access points and controllers. Some older autonomous Cisco Aironet access points tend to uncover the flooding first, since they try to resolve the ARP request themselves. But Miller’s team has seen the CPU utilization on the WLAN controllers spiking as they try to process the request flood passed on to them in control traffic from the thin access points.

    “I don’t believe it’s a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form,” he says firmly.

      So far, the communication with Apple has been “one-way,” Miller says, with the Duke team filing the problem ticket. He says Apple has told him the problem is being “escalated” but as of midafternoon Monday, nothing substantive had been heard from Apple.

Technology and Potential Crisis (IMA504)

    Some other impacts entirely possible happen on social life, working based on computer everywhere probably make the workplace less friendly. We have seen the future, and it hurts.

    Majority of American offices workers may finding every year as computer come to dominate the office. If present sentiments persist, there could be “a white collar revolt”, as executives and stenographers alike find that the “office of tomorrow” is just the key punch counterpart of the sweat shop of yesterday. One reason for this is the computer’s potential work, to reduce it to simple, repetitive actions.

    Managers in order to improve productivity, they introduce electronic gear as a easy way to meter work time to the millisecond, tally breaks time and phone calls, or rank a worker’s output against that of his colleagues. Terminals track the number of keystrokes a workers uses in completing a particular project.

    Under this series of working management system, workers are become less enthusiastic, and easily influenced by unnecessary pressure. They start to complain incredible pressure to enter data faster and faster to meet management’s standards. “I’d leave work everyday with a terrible headache and pain in my neck and shoulders.”  This kind of complaint is very familiar in nowadays. Almost two-thirds of workers were engaged in some form of computer surveillance, monitoring, standardized pace, or quota systems.

     National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that clerical work involving computers and video display terminals produced a higher level of tension that air-traffic control. Proponents of highly technology dismissed the findings a transient spasm of adjustment to the new digital workplace. The volume of stress-based complaints continues to rise.

    In an atmosphere of computer monitoring, inept work station, inflexible pacing, and nerve-wracking anxiety, workman’s compensation claims based on job stress have more than doubled since 1980, over the last 14 years, a new model of job stress developed by Robert Karasek, has highlighted two key elements of these stressors, and has been supported by a growing body of evidence. Karasek’s “job strain” model states that the greatest risk to physical and mental health from stress occurs to workers facing high psychological workload demands or pressures combined with low control or decision latitude in meeting those demands.

    Labor Department figures show that productivity in the services department, where electronic equipment should have maximum impact and which employs nearly three quarters of all American workers, is scarcely above levels in the mid-1970s, chiefly because of problems understanding and adapting to new technology.

Technology and Potential Crisis (IMA504)—-Conclusion

    Even through there still have many problems we should resolve, but with advances in technology, we still can obtain a great deal of factual information not available to us several years ago.With the increasing popularity of personal computers, larger populations, especially the new generation, the youngers, who born in this new technology age, can surf the internet freely, browsing, writing and sending emails, chatting with others from around the world, these were unimaginable and unavailable for the people who lived several years ago.When we need to find  important materials such as news, academic theses or university application, the only thing we need to do is visit websites. Instead of before several years ago, without the convenience of the internet, we had to going to the library, searching through academic journals, calling around and ultimately requesting to post materials which would arrive at a later date. Nowadays, with the help of the technology, we are no longer preoccupied by those previous inconvenient step and waste time on it.

     The ultimate goal of technology should be to improve the quality of people’s life. We can see this goal is reflected in today’s technological developments. Thanks to the Internet, planes, telecommunication, computers, and genetic decoding, people’s lives are becoming more and more comfortable and enjoyable.

IMA501-Design Sample

The above image is the enter page of this website. The original work is start with a flash. And then, there will come with a brief introduction of the website to help visitors make clearly idea about it.

These major technologies I will use are Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and so on.

Next part will be News. I will update new information about multimedia technology, also great works.

        Under the main page, the website will have five important sections. Including flash games page, graphic design page, dynamic vision design page, audio effects with render section, and combination. Every section has its own function and characteristic.

        Flash games page, which will supply many little flash game, as a experience to emphasize media work. Graphic, planer design works will be show on Graphic page. Some dynamic, 3D, video, and AE works probably for animation, advertisement or any other kind of field will be next.

        There is a example website a mentioned before, http://www.cartelle.nl/#/toys