Visual Effects Have Changed Hollywood?!

Hi there last lesson we're asked to find some works of visual effects. This video has amazed me so much because it records a bunch of films with visual effects from 1900 to 2008. This video has shown how visual effects in films evolved. It proves that visual effects have played a crucial role in our contemporary culture.


Other than visual effects, we've also gone through some other multimodality elements. We've gone through different forms of webpages' layout (e.g Left-Right, Top&Bottom, Centre). It recalls my memory that I used to have my own webpages when I was in junior high. I created my webpages by using a software called "Frontpages". I have a lot of things in my webpages, but my webpages weren't as popular because I did not organize my webpage' layout very well, things're presented in the way just too chaotic. If I took this course a couple of years ago, I could have been another Jerry Yang or Mark Zuckerberg!

Greeting!

Hi there I'm Locke. It's been great to meet everyone of you in this class. I haven't done blogging for years and this GE course now seems to be providing me with motivation to stick with this online-social platform again. Here I would like to share the most commonly used platform of mine and my expectation of this course.

Blogging is but one of many examples of "web-based social platform". There's another example of it called Facebook, which is the most commonly visited website of mine. As far as I'm concerned, Facebook's a fantastic and revolutionary invention because it connects people together and facilitates the building of our social networks. More specifically, it allows me to be friend with my friends' friends.

These Facebook and blogging things have altered the way we communicate with the others as well as the way we use languages. It's too obvious to require any proof of it. Hopefully I can have a better understanding of how these internet platforms have affected our use of languages after this course.