Blog by Tomo

When we write an essay with a topic you chose by yourself, the topic must be debatable. As for my case, my topic is about the internet. Especially "net neutrality". My topic is: "The internet should be an open-source platform for any user to develop and use". As a web developer myself, my point of view would be "developer". Since the topic I am going to give out is on a serious debate on the United States congress and other countries (I believe), my essay must contain more then one perspectives and point of view for thinking. Why? That is because, with a lot of supporting statements based on several point of view and reasoning, my main claim will be protected from the arguments made by the opposite side. Writing this topic with a strong supported claim will be important for me, especially because this topic is held as a main topic for the United States congress. As a web developer, I would like to write with a strong statement regarding to my topic.

In the United States, peer editing documents is a very common method for enhancing documents. Fun Fact : Google Docs was designed to enable this because Microsoft Word did not have this feature. As said in class, "we can not find our own mistakes". This idea has become popular in the business world of "writing documents". As a result, over the recent years, there are now startups and companies which focus on these features. For example, Grammarly is a company that made the chrome extension that auto-corrects your writing on the web. Fun Fact : I create my blog posts with the help of Grammarly . Peer editing is a powerful method that can be used to edit and enhance your document. Because can not find our own "minor" mistakes, utilizing the free services online may be a great choice to make.

 There were many things to be fixed on my presentation. I would like to write down some major mistakes on my presentation.  First of all, my voice was shaking. The "voice" in presentation really effects on how you look and how listeners "see" your whole presentation itself. As for myself, having a "shaky voice" resulted into giving the listeners an image that I am not confident with what I am saying. Being bright and all would be better for my presentation. In addition, using more exaggerated body language would be better.  I also lacked "standard body language", such as how you should hold out your arms. Although the listeners were not able to see my body language because of the desk (Because the room was JUST HORRIBLE). However, I think I should have not spoken at an fixed area. I should have done the presentation like Steve Jobs (Like how he walks around the stage).  Other mistakes comes with presentation slide style, the format of my pres...

VR Minecraft For a few weeks, I've been developing "VR Minecraft" to test the limits of the sensors included in the phone. (Especially iPhone) Heres the link to the project: https://prazma.github.io/vrminecraft Note: The link will be available during (10/20 - 11/5). I will repost a link to share the details of the program. How to Play (How it Works) I have added a program where the camera detects your hand gesture to detect your actions in the game (such as placing a block, destroying a block, opening the menu and closing the menu). Using GPS (geolocation API on HTML5), the player is able to move in the game (as well as Jump, with automatic jumping program as seen on Minecraft PE). Technology We code with: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PrazmaScript (PrazmaScript is a custom language I built out of JavaScript Library. Initiating hand motion capture can be done with the code snippet below) var gestures = []; //make an empty array to store gestures gestu...

While listening to the classmates presentations, there were few things that I have realized.  First of all, most of the speakers voice was shaking. As a result, the listeners can easily detect if the speaker is nervous or not. To look confident about what I am saying on my presentation, I thought speaking clearly was important thing to keep in mind. Secondly, some text and images in presentation did not look very nice. The problem was the lack of blending colors, box elements and fixed layout. By blending the image background with the slide background (or removing all whitespace) will make the slide very clean and visually attractive. Also, by creating a box element as a background for the text will make the text more viewable and clear. Last of all, I thought that it was always important to link your "one last thing" with your book. Some people were stating the "One Last Thing" that had nothing to do with the book, but had something to do with either th...

I believe that there are two types of designs for slideshows. The first design, is based on making each slide simple with images and minimum text. This method gives the viewers static image on what the speaker is talking about. The second design method I use is the "Material UI Design". Since it is a UI design, the whole design interacts to the users with geometrical and photographic elements animated and placed according to a layout. (the layout guidelines are set by Google). For example, if you were to tell a user about a new feature, this is what Material UI Design will solve the task: https://storage.googleapis.com/material-design/publish/material_v_12/assets/0B4kv-3uZbS1qQVhNbFlVdlNsOEE/engagement-featurediscovery-single-flow.mp4

The practice for the "Book Review Presentation" went pretty well for me. By practicing my presentation I have learned one thing: A script is unnecessary . Scripts hardens our ideas. All we need is a brief memo on what you are going to talk about. Doing a presentation is just like "talking" to the audience. The final result of what you are going to say can be processed in your head real time during the presentation, along with your wise cracking jokes.