Blog #1 - Intro

Hello, My name is John Graff. I am a 25 year old Junior at OSU. My major is Corporate Technical Training. I have always been interested in web design and administration. I started a web design and administration company in 2002, Tri-Rivers Networking, In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I administer three web and mail servers, two windows 2003 corporate and one debian linux server. I host six websites, four of which I have designed. I administer two companies remotely, Connections And Wiring Inc. a Security and Satellite Installation company in Pittsburgh and Allegheny Heritage Builders Inc. I have an associates in network administration. I believe knowledge gained in school and just putzing around with different web design programs has helped me learn a great deal. My favorite web design languages are asp and php (SQL Databased). Most of my sites are php. I know basic html and javascript. I am happy to be in this class because I know that I will learn more about web design strategies and most importantly I want to help others in my class. Here is a listing of my websites:

Hosted and Designed:
Pittsburgh Pimps
Starscope - Music Library
Pittsburgh Powerski

Hosted:
Allegheny Heritage Inc.
Connections and Wiring Inc.

Under Construction
Tri Rivers Networking Inc.
Public Truth

Personal
Myspace

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Blog 9

I have noticed many changes in my understanding of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier. I have learned much about the process of graphic design and the creation of digital video. I had some previous experience with Adobe Photoshop and this class has strengthened my abilities as well as showing me new tools and features. My experiences with making movies on Premier was exciting! I was able to see how professional movies are created and the benefits that come with having the knowledge to create them. I look forward to using this knowledge I have gained for my future career.

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Blog 8

In my field, corporate technical training, I will defiantly have to create videos and presentations for my students. I think that the experience I am getting from this class will help me in the future for when I need to make or edit a presentation for my specific needs. Most of the ideas for these type of videos would be specific for the company that I work for. I just know that people are visually stimulated and having the ability to create an educational video will be an extremely helpful tool.

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Blog 7

Our Next video is going to consist of us sitting around a table or room trying to open a beer can. We will complain about how how hard it is to open cans. "Hey Jeff what did you do with all those things we dug up from the yard. Look guys they open cans." We're going to do a QVC infomercial, look it opens cans pop cans beer cans juice cans, women can save finger nails with the amazing poptopper. one of us or a girl will demonstrate how it will save fingernails. We will have product hanging in back of the video , demonstrate with us behind tabletop and show all the uses of the pop topper. We will have a countdown like they do on QVC ,flip to other screen with adobe photoshop edited screen with clock and still picture of poptopper, with prices and special deals available now to our select customers on QVC. Have special poptoppers, gold plated , a double poptopper, two of them glued together. We will show all of its uses and demonstrate the benefits! We will have a great time making this video.

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Blog 6 - The First Video

For this group project, Jeff, Todd, and MySelf are all in basically the same classes this quarter. We knew eachother from before this class and just decided to make it a group effort. We decided to use Adobe Premier Pro to create our group video because it is an extremely extensive program and pretty easy to use. We met at my house 3 times over the past few weeks for about 2 hours putting our ideas togather and working on photoshop creating images. During our first meeting we were able to decide what we were going to make this video about. I think Jeff and Todd probably had the best ideas. We should be done with this project sometime this weekend. I am excited to see the final product!

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Blog 5 - Graphic Design and Contemporary Literacy

I believe that graphic design and page layout has much to do with contemporary literacy and learning. This is because these design concepts must appeal to contemporary styles in order to appeal to current standards. If these layouts and designs are compiled in a pleasant, easy to read with exciting themes, then the attention of the reader will be kept. All of these aspects are crucial to learning and literacy.

Blog 4

In my personal opinion, I believe that a newsletter could be used in publishing news for an intranet homepage. The company I had an internship with over the summer had an intranet page where news could be posted and with my career in training and corporate installation, I could inform employees about new technologies and upcoming events.