Tutorial week 8

This week's tasks:
Sign an e-petition
Suport tougher sentences for Animal Cruelty:
16277 Natalie Bentzen From: Gold Coast, Australia Date: Oct 8, 2009
Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
I responded to Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson's blog.
http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/hitech/index.php/couriermail/comments/the_future_is_coming_later_this_month/

What is Barak Obama up to today?
Today it was announced that Barak Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace price. And to this he said; "This is not how I expected to wake up this morning. I am both surprised and deeply humbled! "
http://blogs.america.gov/obama/2009/10/

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Since I'm a international student and don't know that much about the australian goverment jet, I've diceded to find my local representatives in Norway instead:
Dag Terje Andersen, Anders Anundsen, Svein Flåtten, Sonja Mandt-Bartholsen, Per Arne Olsen, Steinar Gullvåg and Inga Marthe Thorkilsen.
http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Fylkene/Vestfold/

Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament. (I use my local representives in Norway in this question also.)

Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
I can't find anything, but Dag Terje Andersen is just selected as the stortings president.

What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???
What place does censorship have in a democracy?
I really don't like the idea about Clean Feed. Censoring have nothing to do in a democracy. I know it is a lot of crap on the internett, but people should be able to say what they want, and make up their own opinion, isn't that what a democrocy is all about?

Download youtube videos quick and easy!

I'm going to show you a really quick and easy way to download your favourite YouTube movies.

1. Go to youtube.com and find your favourite movie
2. Write "kick" in front of YouTube in the URL.
3. Chose file type.
4. Press "go"
5. Right click on "down" and choose "save link as"

6. Enjoy your movie!

Sketchcast

Look at this amazing drawing I made of me and my to best friends. I made it on www.sketchcast.com, go try it your self!

Googlemap

Vis My home town i et større kart

In the news

me interestingschoolblog and padda09 made this wonderful news report together!

ENJOY!

Lecture and tutorial week 7

Free software and the creative commons!

Bittorent -> limwire -> Downloading from many users. -> Makes downloading faster.

Open source software (free software) -> everyone can use, change and improve the software.
You can find free software on portableapps.com and miniova.org

Open source is often small and specific
ex. Erase portable.

You can also find good alternatives for programs that coast a lot of money.
Microsoft word -> open office
adobe Photoshop -> gimp
animation program -> blender

- You have to update it your self -> easier to get viruses.
- No help
- Bad economy -> they often us fundraising but it doesn't help, most people don't give a shit!

And since I am a big photoshop fan, and love to edit my pictures in photoshop I desided to try the open source alternative GIMP.
Photoshop is a very expencive program, and I have to say that GIMP is a really good alternative to it, and the best thing is that it's totally free.
GIMP was really easy to understand, and its really good for basic photoedeting. I relly recomend this program.

3 short films!

Number 1:

Number 1:

This is a music video that my to best friends and I made just for fun! We have a blog so the people back home can se wath were doing. Were a bit strange and we love making silly music videos. The next one is going to be Celine Dione - All by my self! This is definitely a movie for the small screen because we are the actresses and the producers of the movie. And the target group for this movie is our family and friends back in Norway.

Number 2:

I really love this movie! It's so cute! This is a movie for the big screen. That's because this movie is taken from a TV-show, with a lot of viewers. But this one is a youtube movie uploaded by a consumer so you could say that it is for the small screen also.

Number 3:

I used to watch "Home and away" before I went to Australia, just so I could dream about being here. This movie is the season their showing in Norway right now. This is a typical fan-movie. Someone who loves "Home and away" has made a movie with a lot of clips from the show, and posted it on Youtube.