My thoughts:
-author reveals personal biases and beliefs
-strange that paragraphs aren't indented
-18 months for technical school seems too short?
-not very specific on huge checklist of general courses
-why is on the job training so bad?
-dot com references are out of date, happened over 10yrs ago
-how often are the constant changes in jobs she describes?
-Boethius reference seems out of place
-again many personal opinions towards end of essay
Janet Stemwedel essay on what is the point of a college education presents a somewhat narrow minded view in the author’s beliefs on why people attend college. She admits her biases and opinions right from the start of the article. The author's first point is that college should not prepare you for a specific career. For that path she suggest technical school with she fails to mention now often take just as long as college degrees when you factor in work experience and apprenticeships.
Although I agree a specific career choice is too narrow minded for college, I do believe you should be narrowing down your career choices as you advance further in your university degree. The article goes on to reference the breaking of the dot com bubble, which is now outdated and not as relevant as it once was. Later on she mentions how specific training puts you at large risks for changes in your chosen field of work while degrading on the job training to learn the new changes in the field. Further on, the author’s previous teachings are mentioned and she talks about what is truly happiness?
She then makes valid points as to why it is good to learn new things taught at school. She then ends her essay with the conclusion that college is essentially the learning needed for life, which while I believe to be true is not a completely valid reason as to why someone should spend 4-7years of their life simply to acquire knowledge with no specific career in mind.
Boethius- early Christian philosopher best known for his work Consolations of Philosophy (see below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius
Consolations of Philosophy- Classical writing of Boethius which had powerful and wide spread influence on the renaissance of Christianity. It’s writings remain popular today and have influenced many authors throughout history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolation_of_Philosophy#Influence
The article uses structural media as it takes a complex subject and gives it structure in the forum of paragraphs inside an essay. The online edition of the article can be described as descriptive metadata as it is search-able by title, author and keywords through internet search engines.
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Part 2: Thinking about Metadata
- Your reasons for choosing: the physical object, the digital text, the digital image, and the video.
All 3 metadata I chose are of personal significance to me. I often use iMac desktop computers both at home and at school. Tom Thomson is an artist who I have previously researched and his painting April in Algonquin Park was one his more memorable works of art for me. Lastly, The Game by Ken Dryden remains my favourite book to this day. The detail of the real life characters portrayed in the book are something to behold as is the ability of Dryden to capture how much hockey is a part of Canadian culture.
- An image of, or link to, the physical object, the digital text, the digital image, and the video.
Apple Inc iMac^
The Game by Ken Dryden
Metadata: Descriptive: Structural: book is organized into chapters. Descriptive: can be identified by author, title, keywords, concept, themes.
April in Algonquin Park:
Descriptive: has been organized and displayed by author, keywords, technique, theme, image
Admin: Has been digitally restored as a file and image
Without Me - Eminem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY
Descriptive: is categorized into subsets of music and video. Can be searched for by author and key words.
Administrative: provides information on copyright and production.
I've have learned plenty of information through the process of this project on the idea of metadata, mainly that it used everywhere and for everything with no limits or boundaries. The objects I selected despite being 3 completely distinct and different objects all possessed various forums of metadata. That concept alone was shocking as it relative to everything I researched. Metadata is so truly important it today’s world as it is able to bridge documents on the past into today’s world in an organized and timely fashion. Tom Thomson’s photograph despite being originally painted over 80years ago can now be seen today with the simple click of a mouse! The picture identifies who owns it, its copyright information, how it was reproduced, along with exposure and descriptive information such as keywords involved in the photo, making the file searchable on the Internet. For the music video metadata is particularly useful, where information about its contents can be easily searched and often specific such as transcripts of conversations and text descriptions in videos can be used to further identify. Ken Dryden`s book the game is now able to be searched through categories such as word count, themes, chapters and characters to pinpoint exact scenes throughout the book. Metadata organizes all data into manageable subsets to make once un locatable data readily available for consumption.
( I was not in class on Friday)
· The materials used to construct the object
Despite iMac's being constructed primarly of aluminum and glass, two materials often negativley disposed of into the enviroment Apple Inc has constructed to remain engery efficient and completely recyclable. Apple designers and engineers have integrated the entire iMac so that it is made from a single, solid piece of recyclable aluminum! The computer screen is made of recyclable glass. Both aluminum and glass are very desirable to recyclers, which means the raw materials used in iMac can be reused in other products after the their use in the iMac. When disregarded, the iMac faces environmental challenge facing the computer industry due to the prescence of many airborn chemicals. Apple engineers have worked hard and eliminated many toxins that are a common part of desktop computer manufacturing. Examples include mercury-free backlighting and arsenic-free glass for the iMac display screen.- The use of the object
- The color of the object
- Other distinguishing features of the object
B) A Digital Text
- Title / Name
- Author / Creator
- Publisher
- Date of Creation
- Date viewed
- Language
- Format (.html, .pdf, .avi, etc.)
- Rights
- Subject or Topic
- Category or Categories
- Tags (if none are available, write down the tags that you would add)
- Description (2 to 3 sentences)
c) A Digital Image
- Title / Name
- Author / Creator
- Publisher
- Date of Creation
- Date viewed
- Persistent Identifier (if available)
- Format (.html, .pdf, .avi, etc.)
- Rights (if available; see information at What is Creative Commons?)
- Subject or Topic
- Category or Categories
- Tags
- Description (2 to 3 sentences)
c)
Title / Name
Without Me Music Video
Author / Creator
Eminem (Marshall Mathers)
Publisher
Shady Records under the supervision of EMI Music
Date viewed
November 14, 2001
Date created
November 14,2001. Both the song and music video were uploaded to youtube the day of its release.
Persistant identifier
Copyright
Eminem, Shady Records, EMI Music
Subject or Topic
Music video created in conjunction with Eminem's song "Without Me" off the Eminem Show album.
Categories
rap music, parody, shady records
Tags,
eminem, emi music, eminem show, obie trice(featured artist in song), itunes, hip hop, mtv, music awards
Description
Without Me is the music video produced to accompany Eminem's third single off his fourth album the Eminem Show. The video is essentially a visual interpretation of the song as Eminem raps about the nusances of everyday life, his impatience with the rest of the music industry and pop culture as a whole. Popular subjects in the video include spoofs and parodys of Elvis, the Jerry Springer show, electronic artist Moby, and the outdoor adventure show Survivor.
