Claudio M. Rojas

From the last chapters of this book, there was one idea that got stuck in my mind: tell the story of "WE" and not the story of "I". How deep is this concept, and how powerful are its implications. If you think about it for a minute then you will discover that this idea has been around for centuries and many religions includes it as part of the "rules" you must follow to have a healthy and prosperous life. The whole preaching of Jesus Christ is centered around this idea. If we eliminate the individuality and we begin thinking in the community then problems like the egoism and violence can be erradicated from the face of the earth. I am convinced that somewhere along the way in the history of humankind, we have lost some of the values that separate us from the rest of the living beings that exists in this planet. The question here is: Are we going to be able to go back and recuperate those values before it is too late?. Well, the answer to this question i...

I got trapped by this book from the very first page. After watching the videos embeded in the activity for this week my expectation about the book and about the writers were very high. I must say that I was not disspointed at all, actually it caught my attention in a way that I could not stop reading the book, that happens to me every time I read a book that really inspires me and makes my imagination take flight. The whole idea proposed by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander is really interesting and makes a lot of sense. I have heard many ideas and read about many new techniques to be succesful in what you do for a living, but I had never before seen one that it is based in a simple idea that can be put into practice by anyone without doing a major effort from your side. All of the first six chapters of this book are based on examples and results that you can obtain if you change the way you see your problems. I have actually made myself questions similar to the ones mentioned in the boo...

 Here is the TOP EIGHT LIST of things that I learned about Media Creation and Sharing from the Media Asset Creation Class at Full Sail University. 1. A blog can not only be used for sharing ideas or comments over the internet, it can also be used to complement a class. 2.The globalize world is creating new ways to share information in real time, no matter where you are, which means that step by step we are heading to a convergence culture. 3. When you are creating a multimedia presentation for your class, you must avoid a few common mistakes that most of us commit, so your presentation would not be boring and it will serve its purpose. 4.Copyright laws must be taken seriously, fair use is not something concrete, it can be interpreted in many ways. So if you are going to use something that you do not have the rights for, you better ask permission from the owner to use it. 5. There exists good alternatives to avoid infringing copyright laws, one of these alternativ...

In spite of the possibility of using fair use of a work for a not commercial purpose, I'm glad that places like creative commons exists. They are a relief for not being worried about what a copyright holder could consider a fair use of their work. It seems to me, according to what was discussed on the wimba session, that it does not exists a clear agreement of what it is considered a true fair use of something, so you will always be in danger of getting into a legal problem using something that you did not created yourself. It is wise to always ask the permission of the copyright owner to use their work, doing this you might get a good response from the owner who will let you use his/her work for a fee adjusted to your budget or even just giving them the credit they deserve. From now on I will keep using places like creative commons to get material that I can use to complement my works, it will be easier and safer doing that than getting into the trouble of using something that y...

Many of the myths about copyright that were discussed in the wimba session, I have heard them before, and I used to believe in a few of them until I started to get more information about copyright laws a few years back. Every time that I am doing something in which I want to include an illustration, graphic, etc. I make myself sure that it is copyrighted or not. Most of the time if I had the chance I prefer to create it myself, so I don't get into trouble. One of the things that can be copyrighted that I didn't know about and really caught my attention was dance. It was a surprise for me to find out that you can copyright it, and thinking about it, it makes sense, after all if other works of art can be copyrighted then why a dance should be any different. Costa Rica used to be a country were people didn't even think about copyright laws, for the general public, everything was public domain and fair use. This has been changing since the country decided to sign Free Trad...

I must say that this session was really iluminating and very helpful for my thesis writing. I had a few doubts that were clarified during the session, I hope that I can put into practice many of the things that Dr. Sue Bedard suggested to do for the thesis. I still have a few ideas that are going around my head about what the main focus of my thesis must be, but I think that I have pretty much what I need, to do my work. I am really excited to see how all the things that we have been learning in the previous months will fall into place in our final projects. I am also looking foward to see the projects of my classmates, I am sure I am going to learn a lot form their works too.

  The internet has made possible that people from different parts of the country or even from different countries could participate together in daily activities. Two examples of that are the Full Sail online Master's Degree Programs and blogs like the one you are reading now. For me it is really amazing to see all the communication possibilities that we have at our reach today, some of them were only a dream when I was growing up, and now they are part of our daily lives: cell phones, fast computers, text messaging, e-mail, and online video/audio conversations.      When I arrived to the USA in January 1995 to study at Florida State University, the internet was just starting to take shape and become accesible to indivivuals, and in Costa Rica only a few institutions and private companies had access. I remember my first experiences with bulletin boards and e-mail two things that were new for me. Of course at that time most of the services didn't have any icons o...