My Thoughts on Weebly

If I needed to create my own website, I'd use Weebly.  Right away I felt like I was already familiar to the way it was set up; it didn't take long before I had my own website.

Now here's the thing- I DON'T NEED MY OWN WEBSITE RIGHT NOW.

I feel like my website is a bit lame due to the fact of anonymity.  Is my name Merciful Mango, is it Jane?  Anyways, I feel like this will be something very helpful in the possibly near future when I actually need to create my own website.

One thing that I like is it keeps track of how many people viewed my site.  As of right now I know all of the views are from myself but I'm hoping that'll change once I add the link to this.

http://jovialjane.weebly.com/

My Experience with Moovly

Honestly, at first I thought it was awful.
I felt like a 4th grader could make a better presentation using PowerPoint.
It seemed very boring.  Once I found out we could use transitions and animations, it became a bit better.  I found the layout seemed a bit childish but I suppose that fit the subject since my moov was about Mario Kart.
At first the layout seemed foreign but it wasn't too long before I realized pretty much everything is controlled by the section at the bottom.
To be quite honest, I probably won't use Moovly to make presentations for anything other than computers class.  However, if you know a 4th grader who's hoping to up their PowerPoint game, tell them to click the link below.

https://www.moovly.com/platform/#project/view/8c68b743-96c2-0439

Piracy: Good or Bad?

If you were to ask one of my parents this question, they would say it's most certainly bad.

They are right.

They are wrong.

Piracy is obviously bad for the producer of the product that's being pirated.  It's this perspective that majority of middle aged adults see because they are not interested in be consumers.  Most pirating sites are aimed towards attracting young customers.  They rake in a large profit because the young generation is able to keep up with common interests in movies,  TV shows, and music while paying nothing.
Sounds great eh?  Being among these young people I can assure you I support piracy companies.  It used to be a huge deal trying to decide what songs and movies to buy because each one was so goddamn expensive.  Quickly, pirating sites gained tonnes of popularity.

However there's an issue.  When products are pirated no money gets back to the producer.  When pirating gets put of control, even super popular movies don't make much profit.

So what to do?  We only have two options and neither one is very appealing; poorly made media, and not being able to enjoy all of the well-made products because they're far too expensive.

Piracy is quite the paradox.

We'll have to fall somewhere in the middle and just hope that our rich friends actually pay for movies and music more than we do.

You see, before entering this ICT class, I was informed that we would be doing many things including creating our own blogs.  Honestly, making a blog was what I was looking forward to the most.  It's only the second day of the semester and we've already created our blogs.  I'm hoping that having this blog will help me to share my ideas and thoughts with my other classmates and ultimately the world.  Perhaps I will continue to blog after this class but it's plausible that I won't identify as a mango.
Later in the semester we will also be working with some digital film making.  Particularly, I'm looking forward to creating short stop-motion films.  I haven't attempted anything along these lines since elementary school.  I predict the most hilarious part of these films will be everyone dusting off their skills to create their first movie.
This class will benefit us all because technology is quickly advancing and becoming more evident in our daily lives.