Multimedia Week 2: The Cloud

It sounds rather ominous when it's worded that simply...

Let's talk about The Cloud shall we? I won't tiptoe around the fact that I am something of a nerd when it comes to things on the internet. I usually end up being glued to a screen more so than anything else. But what's really interesting is even though I'm on the computer so often, there are a lot of aspects to The Cloud that most people use, and yet I simply do not.

While I do have a Facebook account, it's rare that you'll actually see me doing anything on it. At most I post a link to a video I've made on Youtube. And unlike Facebook, Youtube plays much more of a factor in the "things I do on The Cloud". When it comes to image saving, I mostly only do it for small games I make (text based games in case you're wondering, so no technology there) if I need a picture to show something off or something, and in that case I just use Imgur as it's been the most reliable for me. My email has fallen into the same disregarded boat as Facebook, in which I check it sometimes, but I really don't do anything with it. I do have Open Office however, and that's where I type all my essays for school and the such.

Five years ago was rather different, but at the same time, not by a whole lot. Basically, all you'd have to do to get the internet for me five years ago would be take away Facebook, take away Open Office, take away my email and replace a couple nondescript websites with a few others. I was still on Youtube, I just wasn't making any videos. While I think back on it, it feels as if technology has improved a lot over the past 5 years, but I tend to ignore the advancements such as Facebook and Twitter and just keep going with the things I know. I wonder why that is...



It's really hard to say what the future has in store. It's a little worrying to be honest, whether it'll be even more impossible to remain private on the Internet, or Google updating Youtube again to make it even more inaccessible (That's a rant for another day though) I find it hard to look super brightly for things to come. It seems we have hit almost all the bases when it comes to things we can do thanks to The Cloud. We can make music, make videos, make art, chat with friends, type up entire reports, the list goes on. All that remains is to see how the current methods of doing all of these things can be improved upon in the future, though it could be for better or for worse.

An Opening Week

Also known as: "How Dmitri is going to have trouble coming up with titles for these things..."


Hello everyone! Welcome to this blog! I won't hesitate to admit that I never do anything involving blogs, so this is pretty new. I'm just not the guy who tends to read blogs, let alone create one. Though I'm sure it won't be the end of the world to make one for this class. Because if I don't I'll probably fail.

Anyhow, when it comes to a class called "Multimedia Apps and Tools", I wasn't quite sure what to expect from it, besides the fact that it's going to have a lot to do with media. And now that I have a more basic understanding, I'm hoping to learn a lot of neat little things I wouldn't have been able to learn otherwise either because I would have never had the chance or I'm simply too lazy. That's not I'm not familiar with everything on the outline, but there's still a lot I don't know that I'm interested in.

...I am a bit worried about the animation week, as I have the art skills of a rock. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there I suppose.

When it comes to online classes, this isn't the first one I've taken, but it is the first one I've taken on Moodle. While it's a bit different, getting used to it isn't that difficult. Plus, because of the system I've used to get into this class, I get a full period in my school day for this online course. So that's pretty dandy.

Anyway, this is just a little intro post to this blog, and next time I'll talk about whatever the assignment tells me to! Until then!