…I realized that phones were basically cloud storage for happiness….

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Using your Journal 8 assignment (and any revisions–Journal 9), post documentation of your final project. Be sure to open your post by answer the following questions about your project: PROJECT: What will you be designing/redesigning? TOOLS: Which Tools did you use & why? VALUES: What More

Conner Ingalls NMD 200 Project 1 10-03-2020 Local Online Collaborative Learning   A commonality between a lot of people my age is that we all believe to be the last group of students that were taught cursive. Cursive is a skill I use everyday, and More

    Project 1     Discerning and Using Your Own Values to Create Human-Centered Design PROBLEM: Social distancing is a new reality that challenges how we communicate. With mandates in place that order restrictions on physical interactions, we must use different methods of communication More

PROJECT 1 – CREATING A HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN     PROBLEM ———————————   Now that classes are online and people are encouraged to stay inside, the issue of screen time has become more prominent than ever.  Students can spend hours at their desks, listening to More

PROBLEM: ADDICTIVE TECHNOLOGY Technology, as necessary and helpful as it’s become, has an overwhelmingly addictive power that many people fail to resist. While some people have a bit more resistance than some, others are so addicted to their technology that they don’t often go a More

“BLUE FILTER” SCREEN PROTECTOR* By: Griffin Lord   The Problem: Technology has advanced faster in the past 15 years than it has in the rest of human history. Though it has done a lot of good for the world it has done just as much More

Create a post for the class website that points to your own wordpress.com site. Use a featured image, and an image link to your portfolio URL . The image can be a screenshot of your portfolio, or a section of it.  Then click on the More

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is More

Explore how technology can either augment or amutate the human body and its capabilities.

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Below you will find the rubric I use to help you strengthen your internet writing.  This should help you craft good work for your portfolio.  Do not underestimate writing skills in landing a good job.  So use this time to practice ways to empower your More

2018’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics by Brenda Barron Last updated: October 29, 2019 Disclosure: Your support helps keep the site running! We earn a referral fee for some of the services we recommend on this page. Learn more WordPress is a global phenomenon that has More

BANGOR GREEN Maeve, Claudio, John & Bobby Project Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1605viohKWXYWYMHqQ0d7G7Yzb9ATb2T-A3ZjD9nTlpE/edit?usp=sharing This app inspects businesses for their environmental impact and gives a letter grade based on five criteria: 1. Establishment Sustainability (How friendly is the building itself and the practices within) Carbon Emissions  Sourced Goods Waste More

Disappearing Language: Solution B made the most sense despite it’s less professional design as it puts the preservation of the language in the hands of it’s speakers and their family. While a dictionary is stagnant and lifeless, the accounts of living Passamaquoddy are active and More

(I realized looking back that my Journal 7 was kind of abysmal and didn’t work with this project at all so I’m choosing a new community and tech to talk about and will be going back and changing my Journal 7 later to reflect that) More

The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. It should use less energy More

Concerningly, surveillance has become a “norm” to us, as we just disregard the fact that we are constantly are being listened to or that our data is being and used as a marketing tool. In class, we talked about the different benefits and consequences of More

Immediately when thinking of creating your own avatar, I thought of the videogame fortnite. In this game, you get to make and design your own avatar that you play through the game with. Fortnite makes all their avatars look exotic, creative and almost always extremely More

When we focus on all the harm that the internet brings, we often forget the countless tools that it can also supply us with. When I think of the way the internet helps me, I immediately think about how it helps me stay connected with More

Maeve Maloney NMD 200 October 4, 2019 Project 1              Our task at hand is to redesign a technology, forcing it to become more of human-centered design. I believe that this idea is very dependent on the user, many apps More

Mental health with technology; where does it start? How is classroom technology impacting children’s addiction? 1) When we say the internet, it is much bigger than just the web. There are millions of platforms we use with the internet. It is explained as “a new More

After watching the video and reading the articles about technology taking over our society, I’ve found it to be very alarming reading the statistics and how drastic the changes have been. One of the articles wrote that 2.87 billion people have smartphones. That article was More

Option 1: Duplicate the image you are using, save the original if you need it and “optimize” the copy. Rename the copy to a suitable name(no spaces or Caps), then open it in  Preview on mac (or similar software on PC). Select Adjust Size from More

DIY Biohacking Ellen Jorgensen from Brooklyn based Genspace.   Stray DNA Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects stray DNA and re-imagines the owners via their DNA profile.     eXistenZ Sci-fi thriller about gen tech future accessed via wetware game:  you log-in via spinal cord. Artists Critical Art More