Document on Graphics Facility by Yvonne Decelis

This is a document I (gradually) wrote for a graphics facility I set up (and maintained and trained on) at HMS.


WQGFOverview

Tactical Media Meeting April 30th 2008

Due to an illness of a friend of Fred Johnson's, Fred was unable to attend tonight's meeting.

Although, some of the meeting still went on, and was interactive through the use of Secondlife.

Jay showed me a few basics of how to use Secondlife. I have been unable to access it on my personal laptop as it does not have the graphical power to do so. This meeting was beneficial as a intro to using Secondlife.

Attendance: Aaron, Jay, Sarah, Yvonne.

We all were on Secondlife. Jay, Sarah & myself were in the actual Taylor center on separate computers accessing the Secondlife program. Yvonne was not in the Taylor center, but was on-line in the Tactical Media center on Secondlife. It was pretty cool to interact with her using the program.

I also brought in a hand out that I was going to pass out to everybody regarding our Tactical Media Myspace.com. Jay & Sarah were the only one's that did receive this hand out. Please ask me next Wednesday, May 7th to give you one.

Hopefully next meeting everybody will be able to log on to Secondlife so we all can experiment with it a little more so we can plan future meeting times as the semester is coming to a end.

Aaron Stenton

Poster File Preparation info by Yvonne Decelis

Poster File Preparation Info

This is a document containing the slides I ran for a brown bag seminar I did at Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2006 on preparing files for poster printing.

-Yvonne Decelis

SAVE CPCS AND CMT petition

I have created a petition on this site for people to use:

SAVE CMT AND CPCS

Saving CPCS & Community Media & Technology

Who is in favor of creating an on-line petition? Who will take the lead on this? I feel it will be a great idea to go forth with creating one in order for our voices to be heard here at Umass Boston to show support for CPCS & our Major, or Minor, or Concentration in Community Media & Technology.

We are the future for technology, and without our input, it will be negative for those who are interested in our college's program. It needs to be expanded to allow those who are interested to get the opportunity to show off their talents and skills in Media & Technology.

So I ask of you all, who will take the step in starting this revolution to save our College & Program?

http://www.petitiononline.com/

Let 2008 be the year for CPCS & Community Media & Technology


Aaron Stenton

LogMeIn Information

Hello everyone! Just wanted to throw a note up on the blog since I mentioned the web site LinkedIn at last night's workshop.

From what I've seen, Linked in is an online way of networking with professionals...

You can look into it (and, if you want, join for free) at www.LinkedIn.com

Best,
Yvonne

Wednesday, April 23rd Notes

Tactical Media Notes for April 23rd, 2008.

Note Taker: Aaron Stenton


A revised Tactical Media sheet was handed out. Please email or see Fred directly for a sheet if you were not at the meeting to receive one.


Everybody needs to decide what projects and presentations that they will be doing to earn our competencies. Please Email or meet with Fred to discuss what you will be doing or have done already. In addition, See Fred for a Outline form and a Tactical Media 2008: Potential Projects form. If you do not already have these.


As the semester is coming to an end, we are preparing to be a leanring community that doesn’t meet all the time, but instead, we are trying to meet on-line and communicate on the status of works that are taking place.


The Workshops that have taken place already are for people to learn from and to go forth to begin with there own project(S).


Please notify Fred if you are unable to access SecondLife. We all need a alais on SecondLife as soon as possible. If you are unsure how to do this, go to www.secondlife.com or contact Jay.



Next Week: Myspace. Aaron will be bringing in direction of where Myspace should be going for Tactical Media.



Did I miss anything? If so, feel free to add onto this posting. Thanks Everyone.

Using The Tactical Media Wikispace

Hey Everybody.

Here is a project that I have been working on. I hope you may find some use out of it if you are unfamiliar with the basics of using & navigating the Tactical Media Wiki Page. I felt it was something that was needed in order to expand some of the uses of our media tools to those who are not aware of what can be done, with little or no money at all. It takes creation, time, and effort to establish something that can prove a point or show by example and demonstration.

I also feel that this is a great way for those of you that are new to Tactical Media to understand how to use the Wiki Page. At the end of my presentation, it will automatically bring you to the Main Page of Tactical Media Wiki. To view a better version of this, you can check it out on the actual Wiki Page as I created a separate page for it under the Table Of Contents labeled as "Using This Wikispace"

Aaron Stenton

Dreamweaver Class info and 4/23/08 TIME CHANGE

Hey folks! I don't believe we are starting at 4 on the 23rd - think it will be 5:30 sans workshop, fyi. I am putting this on the blog for now but it needs to go onto the Wikispace as well. I have no idea when I'll get around to doing this but, for now:

Couple of updates: wanted to give you these URLs I went over at the workshop by request:

http://www.tinyurl.com (makes URL addresses much shorter and is free to use)

Sizzling Jalfrezi (HTML by example) for everything you could want to know on html code:
http://vzone.virgin.net/sizzling.jalfrezi/iniframe.htm

Lastly (to answer questions I couldn't answer on the 16th):

(From http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=xml&seqNum=217):

What's the difference between XML and HTML?

Last updated Jan 1, 2004.

On the surface, XML and HTML look similar. Both use tags (such as
or ) and attributes (such as
align="left" or type="personal") to add information to the content. In
fact, a carefully prepared HTML document can double as an XML
document. The difference is that HTML is a well-defined set of
elements and attributes. For example, the following is a well-formed
XML document, but because it only uses tags that are defined in HTML,
it's also an HTML document:



On the other hand, HTML has somewhat looser rules than XML, so some
HTML documents are not well-formed XML documents. (See the next
section.)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What is php? (from
http://forums.hostrocket.com/archive/index.php/t-3109.html):
HP is a scripting language you can use on your "html" pages. Using the
"php" extension on a file tells the server to look for php code in the
file. So, if you want to use php, you have to have it end in .php (or
a few other options). If you have no php code on the page there is no
need to use .php on that page, but it doesn't really hurt anything if
you do. Only possible thing I can think of is that the server might
take a little more work because it's looking for something that's not
there. :)

Tactical Media Workshop Schedule

The following workshops will be held from 5:00pm - 7:00pm

04/09/08

Photoshop + Adobe ImageReady Presented by Yvonne and Trey (2 hrs)

04/16/08

Adobe Dreamweaver Presented by Trey (2 hrs) **Class will start @ 4:00 pm by request

04/23/08

Flash Presented by Trey (2 hrs) ** Class will start @ 4:00 pm by request

Please remember to establish an identity on Second Life (www.secondlife.com)

-Trey

Build a Website

How to create a web site?

In Case you haven't Been On The Wiki Page

Here is the link to our Tactical Media Calendar.


http://www.my.calendars.net/tacticalmedia