Geeky Minds

Background 2020 has marked the start of my journey into e-Logistics and this is perhaps a good time for me to pick up this blog again. My last blog was in 2014 when I was still employed as Research Assistant at the Digital Media Studios at the University of the Western Cape. I had left the Digital Media Studios (DMS) in 2014 for medical reasons. In March this year I met up with my former supervisor. We had a short but fruitful chat. I shared with him my research endeavors especially as it relates to digital technology in Higher Education. I subsequently shared my research article in Research Analytics. I must admit, I am extremely grateful to my exposure so early into computer software and media applications at the DMS. Where am I now? Six years on, I am still somehow involved with the University of the Western Cape but this time via the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). IDIA was born out of the partnership of University of the Western Cape (UWC), Universi...

My first day back at work after 3 weeks of absentia (as I took an indefinite leave for medical reasons) seems to be going quite well as a matter of fact. Walking back into the office, I felt the energy that welcomed me here the first day I stepped in. My supervisor seems to be pleased with me back at work and I seem to be content with being back at the office. It has been a while. It is not uncommon among students that undertake disciplines that involve economic and management sciences to table the discussion of the current economic climate and the cause of such. Most will concur with each other this is a result of the chaos involved in the Auditing and Financial Accounting disciplines, but a few may even point out that this is a result of an information system that does address these issues within these disciplines. Moreover, more and more arguments are simple connotations that suggest how I.T. and Accounting disciplines should be aligned as to pre-empt, prevent or even avoid the...

Just one of those weeks when time seems to catch up with you, once in a while. I recently tumbled across a cool invention by Google called Google Sites. I went through the whole reviews of the service offered by Google electronically and I was quite impressed by the app. I think it would be quite useful to students who find themselves in a position where they need to get information from other students (a community notice board). It allows for the admin and whomsoever else will have relevant permissions to post on the sit to post announcements, advertisements, career information and so and so forth. If that's what you would like to have access to then you should try Google Sites out. Anyway, this week has gone by so smoothly that it is actually unbelievable that it is Wednesday already. Let me ride this week through on this tip that I am on.

This week started off slow rather than the usual fast-paced life or week I'd have in my life. I'm still much focused on the whole Digital Story side of things. I have my audio and my pictures together but the whole software is giving me a problem to say nonetheless. I am not a huge fan of using this type of software that is not really user-friendly. I am trying to piece in everything bit by bit, and I hope it does go down quite well. The week has been catching up with me, it's escalated to Thursday already and I have yet to finish this project. I will hopefully get it done by the end of the week. That's basically been my week thus far except the whole issue with vacation is really one that interests me since we are not really on vacation through out these holidays.

Today was my first shoot for the Digital Media Studios at Information and Communication Services (ICS). The event was part of the ICS workshop in conjunction with other departments in the university that would include various executives of the university. The first problem we encountered was with regard to the lighting in the venue itself. The sound was also quite a problem in itself but somehow Tosin and Andre had it fixed in no time at all. Another problem I faced was the fact that I was falling half asleep the whole time, and that can not be blamed on me in particular but rather the exams and the content of the presentation that was being delivered at the seminar itself. Apart from all that, the seminar did kind of help as I was introduced to various topics and content that related to ITS itself, so it was not totally a waste of time. I learnt a lot things though at this firs shoot.

This has been a week that started off on the right foot. After being away from my blog and work for the past week I am back and in full health and speed to take on this week and the following weeks to come. So far the experience at the Digital Media Studios have been enlightening and overwhelming at times. Having to juggle school, work and health is vitally important to me-with my health being of the most important of the three. My health has been acting up while I was employed at the DMS Offices (at times landing me in hospital or in the emergency room at weird hours of the morning) but my coordinator has been extremely understanding of my health issues that at times I feel as if my health tends to abuse this fact. School has been a priority more important than work to say the least since I can not be employed by the DMS if I am not a student here, but for the past 2 months I have learned to work on scheduled times and time tables (a lesson in time management I have yet to admit t...

Recently, my coordinator assigned tasks to us on Asana (a platform that I plan to reveiw on some other day) to tell a digital story. Well, the brief being that we must tell a story that would leave a lesson to whom so ever comes across it (but the brief was not in those words). The task has different phases and parts to it, so that makes the task easier to deal with and handle. I started off with producing a script for the digital story. The script is just a wording of what the visual story and the narration of the story will be composed of. I loved writing the script, pouring the lessons I have learned thus far into such a script was a good experience. The CMap was kind of tricky hey, having to draw a concept map that captures the whole concept of the digital story was very tricky. It was my first time having to produce a copy of CMap document that would be used for such purposes. I did not struggle at all with the Concept Map as much as I expected to struggle. Currently I am co...