Author: John Baker

Journal 9 – John Baker

Journal 9 – John Baker

Strategy 1: Mobilize People Project: Trashtag Description: A play on “Hashtag”, Trashtag is an viral movement that began on social media in 2015 from a company called UCO Gear as part of a campaign to protect wilderness areas. It was simple, and consisted of people More

Project 2- John Baker

Project 2- John Baker

For my project I would want to research the footprints in the field of robotics. Robotics is a field that has been seeing exponential improvements in many of its aspects. Companies like Boston Dynamics have pushed the edge of the potential of robots in the More

Life Cycle – John B

Life Cycle – John B

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16o9YWtv7Ze_mXUqM-gq-RSqgpMbet5wrVQtsox_bGuE/edit?usp=sharing     The Extraordinary Raw Materials in an iPhone 6s   John B, Jared S, Maeve M, Claudio V

Journal 7 – John Baker

Journal 7 – John Baker

A community that I value is my hometown of Sterling Massachusetts. I was raised in this town my entire life and left to come up to Maine. Sterling is a small town of just over 5,000 people, and consists mainly of sparce rural homes and More

Journal 6 – John Baker

Journal 6 – John Baker

In class yesterday, we discussed artificial intelligence and the risks it poses. AI has been the subject of discussion for awhile, but I believe we are only in its infancy of potential. AI research is exponentially growing, and every day we learn about more developments. More

Journal 5 – John Baker

Journal 5 – John Baker

For an identity category, I wanted to discuss mental health and “sanity”. While this has no bearing on appearance, mental health can greatly affect the way an individual identifies just like age, race, gender and class. All of these characters I have chose are either More

Journal 4 – John Baker

Journal 4 – John Baker

Journal 4 – John Baker For our assignment, we wanted to create an interesting way to communicate our idea. Me and Brett created a fake podcast where we talked about an interesting subject we found. We talked about “Parasocial Relationships”.  We wanted to discuss the More

Project 1 – JohnBaker

Project 1 – JohnBaker

Social media has essentially defined the 2010’s generation. From the early stages of the decade where MySpace was in its late stages of popularity, till the last twilight years of the decade where Facebook has become a mega corporation hoarding its users private data without More

Kotti – John Baker

Kotti – John Baker

Hari talks about the effects of depression and how they effect cultures across the world. He talks a lot about how having freedom and feeling like you are in control has much better mental health effects than feeling as if you are an underling just More

Journal 3 – John Baker

Journal 3 – John Baker

Summarize at least 4 class resources, whether video or article, in a short paragraph. Cite references for each paragraph at the end of the paragraph in parentheses, using URLs where possible. (4 paragraphs)   Resource 1: Digital ethics and the future of humans in a More

Journal 2 – John Baker

Journal 2 – John Baker

Social Media: Twitter & Instagram “The big 3” of social media in my opinion are Facebook, twitter & Instagram. I have essentially stopped using Facebook daily, and only use it for community events or gatherings. That is why I want to focus on Twitter and More

Journal 1 JohnBaker

Journal 1 JohnBaker

Find a free image online that is a good visual representation of your ideas and use that as a “featured image”. In your post, copy the quote, briefly and simply summarize what it means to you. Then write two short/quick paragraphs describing two similar memories: More