The interesting thing for me is to find friends’ “hidden” blog. Blog is a social platform to share feeling with others, sometimes with hidden content only can be seen by specific person.

once I really can not understand why people write on the public blog but refuse to open it to the public. if want to keep  inside, why not just write on the paper or using some other more private ways.

As a bloger, when I noticed someone updated their blog and catch a gaze of brief beginning,  I would love to click it and watch the whole article. however, it needs access permission.

The saying “we live in a remix culture” has become more and more recognized and legitimate. A remix culture is a process that gives people permission to edit, rearrange, and integrate existing materials to create a new piece of work. Amongst “the age of remix”, it is very common that people to exchange information and ideas efficiently by using digital technologies, which offers a fundamental condition for the rise of remixing. Resultantly, it is more accessible for everyone to share different views to a certain same event.  Remixing is acknowledged as a desirable concept as someone believe that remixing means being able to ‘borrow’ great elements from other mass sources and combine them into one work that something entirely fresh, better than the old.

The term ‘Remix Culture’ may have only come about in the recent decade. However, the theory of remixing seems to have been realized a long time ago. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work…Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable.” Disney Company took Grimm fairy tales and retold them in a way that carried them into a new age with Disney style people recognized.

Hua Mulan is a brave Chinese heroine who dresses up like a solider and goes to war in place of her crippled father,  rising death and dishonor. Film, Mula

n, has been produced in 1998 by Disney Company. Mulan’s story, from the ancient Chinese poem

the Balled of Mulan, was re-edited by Mark Henn. Obviously, Mulan is a unique Disney heroine, different from other beautiful princess Disney produced before. Meanwhile, this character has been given some western values in her personality, such as strong, independent, obviously not a traditional Chinese feminine image.

she is loosely based on the heroine from the ancient Chinese epic poem” the Legend of Hua Mulan” and she is the only Disney Princess who is not royal by blood or marriage and is literally not one. However, she has the honor of a princess because she achieved honor from the emperor himself by saving China. During her stay in the army, she falls in love with the Captain, Li Shang, whom she starts dating by the end of the film.

Mulan is one of my favorite characters in the old Chinese tales. Her brave is very different from other Chinese traditional Female characters. Mulan

 

Henry Ford and Walt Disney both were example of success accomplished by adopting remixing. Also, according to their story, virtually all the brilliant ideas are second hand only sometimes, it takes generation to make an obvious massive leap forward. Nevertheless, the movement of reviewing prevailing principles and designs to make improvements and produce something better is perpetual. Therefore, remixing can be described as a channel through which progression happens.

 

 

when I prepared this week’s presentation, I found it was a really interesting topic and was worthing spending time on it. Although we only have 5 minutes for each but I still digs lot about why Thailand has high tolerance in the third gender.

what I mentioned before is because of Buddhism, but now I found is more about the government supportive. kathoey show has become an attraction in Thailand, bringing lots of economic benefit for the government and incurring the number of tourists.

When government recognized the benefit, they support it. Meanwhile,  high tolerance could be a kind of tool to negotiate with the Western because in western country, gender freedom is more open then traditional Asian countries.  supporting the third gender could narrow the distance between individual and global.

 

 

 

 

Support the freedom of love. It is the slogan of pinkdot, which is a famous event in Singapore supporting LGBT love. I have seen the advertising on youtube and feel moving. Recognizing the gender is a ‘becoming process’. It is unstable. No matter what kind of love, all should be respected. The advertising shows how hard for gay people to come out, facing with their family, friends, especially in Asian country where family value is above then personal need. What makes me impression in advertising is that a girl who is a lesbian writes a letter to their parents, inviting them to join pinkdot event. 

please check this video

I went to Dream work show at Federation Square last month. Shrek storyboard left me a strong impression. The host showed how story goes., a scene where the kind is looking for the most beautiful princess getting married. I really like them and their very well drawn and easy to understand.

 

 

Adrian in “Blogs in Media Education: A Begining” says blog plays an important role in media education because it may relavent to professional practise as a teacher or as a classroom tool. She has used blogs on a subject by subject basis with university students since 2002. After then, the use of blog has emphasised and explored what is ‘peculiar’ to blog. It breaks the boundrey of writing, also makes contribution to teaching and learning.

Adrian also gives an introduction to blog. ” what is a blog” I have the same question. A blog is a web based publication. it is traditionally consists of entries of verying length that are published in reverse chronological order so that the most recent entry appears first. Blog is a kind of online diary, writing daily experience down and sharing to others. All posts are automatically archived by date, and it is also common to apply categories to individual entries. It is easy to find the artical which you are looking for by searching the key word. Blogs, like journals, allow a record to be maintained of ideas, reflections, activities, things to be done, and so on.

High technology makes people’s life more convinent. Most blogs also support optional comments, where readers can leave notes attached to individual posts.

Content Mangement System(CMS) lets a blogger become a publisher. The article I posted could be viewed by people all over the world as long as under internet covered. Although we may don’t know each other, blog indeed narrow the physical disstance, getting individual into different groups depends on interest, country, religion and so on, and then community becomes.

Arian presents there are a host of reasins why blogs maybe useful in teaching. therefore it takes time to learn how to blog.

As a media students, it is need to develop a range of literacies around internet and digital technologies.