General Analysis of a Blog/ Week 1&2

Well I suppose I should start off by giving a general analysis of what I understand by the term blog. I believe that a blog is a like a journal used to publish your thoughts and opinions which inevitably can be didactic.
This is my first attempt at writing an online blog so I hope that I make it a good one. I realise that blogs are usually conversational however, I will try to be academic when necessary. I will be using this blog for academic purposes only which means that I will be giving a detailed analysis of what Ive learnt in each lesson and what I am hoping to achieve in this multimedia project module. I believe that writing a blog is a much easier way of communicating with my group as a posed to an email as it enables you to post videos, emails and links if need be.

My group includes Sara, Miray, Krisztina, Ioannis; our theme is identity online, which we have entitled 'Wiki identity'.

In the first lesson we had, we distingushied the main differences between the internet and the World Wide Web. One of the main differences is that the internet carries the web whereas (WWW) carries things which are said to be more graphical.

Tim Berners Lee - CERN- was the worlds first-ever web server http://info.cern.ch/

and http://public.web.cern.ch/public/content /chapters/aboutcern/achi. gives you an indepth understanding of how (WWW) actually works.

Week 2: In this weeks lesson, we expanded on our knowledge of what Wiki's are and how to edit good ones. In addition, we learnt about HTML. This is a text based file used to create a basic web page. We were also given the opportunity to attempt one, which at first looks confusing but then it is made clear when explained.

Towards the end of the lesson we formed into our groups, to discuss what ideas we had to make this project on 'identity online' work. Some interesting issues were raised which we are going to expand on when we meet up on thursday for a group discussion.

For next weeks lesson I am going to try and gather some case studies which I can find on 'Identity online' and also looking at how the convergence and synergy of new media technologies contributes to this.