Why Digital Media?

Sometimes I ask myself why I chose this field of study. It actually was not my first choice. I originally wanted to be a computer science major, but my heart was not in it so I remembered that a friend of mine was a IMM major and I thought, "Hey, that sounds fun. Maybe I'll try that." After my first class I was hooked. I can still remember doing my first project for IMM 120: Introduction to Interactive Computing. I became so engrossed in it, that I no longer cared about the grade. Even after it was basically done I kept adding little features like start and reset buttons. The same was true with my final project. I couldn't remember a time when I had so much fun doing work for a class. Sure it was a little challenging, but each challenge was something I had to conquer in order to get the project to run the way I wanted it to.

The next class I took was IMM 110: Introduction to Digital Media. Most of the class was using Photoshop which is something that I always wanted to learn how to use, but for one reason or another didn't have the time (or the program). This class sealed the deal for me as an IMM major. Not only did I get to use the program that I always wanted to learn, but I also had fun doing it. Sure the work was tedious at times, but in the end I was proud of the work that I did.

In the end I'm happy that I made the switch from Computer Science to IMM, I'm sure that the road ahead of me will be a tough one, but I know I'll enjoy the challenge and will have a career that I enjoy.

First Blog Post and Liz Henry Response

Hello and welcome to my IMM (Interactive Multimedia) Blog. I've never done any form of blogging before but it's fun to try new things. This blog will consist of my responses to various class activities as well as things that interest me from the world of digital media.

So I will begin my first blog post with my response to the Skype Chat our class had with Liz Henry.

I found it our Skype Chat with Liz Henry very interesting. I enjoyed hearing from someone in the field who is utilizing or has utilized all the tools we are learning in class to make them successful. I was interested with how open standards and open source programming was first created on the Internet. It seems that without open source programming, the Internet would be vastly different that how it is today. With open source programming people have been able to work with others around the world to develop a new program. This allows many different people from all over the world to implement several different ideas and ways of thinking in the development of a program. That's pretty amazing if you ask me.