Tis the end!

Reflective Blog post:

Communication is a key tool in the world of business. If nothing were to be communicated no work would be done. It is interesting to look back at how communication in the world has come such a long way by means of boats, ships, trains, airplanes, mail, telephone, cellphone, email, Facebook, Twitter, and the list goes on.  When I had heard about this class I was a little afraid of taking this course because even though I had all the tools for this class and I was already on Facebok and Twitter I just thought technology and all this media commotion was overrated. You hear how Smartphone’s increase the hours people work these days, take away from family time and can cause serious legal issues in court. Aside from all that, I didn’t completely have a negative attitude towards technology, because I do understand how it is shapes our daily living and will continue to be present, and I don’t want to be left behind in the times become an old grandma by the time I’m thirty. After having thought that technology can only go so far and can only carry us to the future so far, I realized I was terribly mistaken as to thinking I knew how to work all my gadgets and login accounts and I thought my Smartphone and laptop only served a couple purposes. In all truth, I was wrong, this class instead of emphasizing the worst of social media has focused on the many different ways technology can be used  to better the world and to simplify some activities and to share our common wealth with others in the quickest and most efficient way yet! It gave new light on using my Smartphone especially, and using my social media accounts not only for socializing but for resources and reliable contacts for the future.  I loved reading this interesting fact about using Smartphone’s in a creative way, here is a video: Smartphone marketing I will say this video has changed my perspective drastically about technology in modern times.

This class has made me a bit of a social media nut! I already am on Facebook and I was on Twitter before coming into this class but didn’t really have a clue how to navigate around the site.  I’m glad I have learnt now because I am already following people that can potentially help me in the future and I already find out great articles about the textile industry from a few followers.  Twitter is fairly simple to use and it is reliable for the latest news.  Though it may have the fastest news as I have learnt you do have to look up the sources of the articles and be academically aware that flaws do exist in the world of news, but I think after taking this course I can be sure to know what kind of an article is academically peer reviewed and what may just be a simple article out of a magazine or newspaper.  I know now how to read each article differently depending on whether it is an academic article or just an informative article.  

As for the blog, I think the blog was a great touch to the class because it promoted communication. It was an opportunity to show who you are as a person and let others see it in a professional manner.  It gave us a sense of common ground to go and comment and reflect on what others had to say about assignments. No one’s blog remotely looks the same because it is our own personal blog to develop and for it to grow in the future. I am glad I learnt all the tricks of starting a blog and how to write one because I now have the confidence to make a blog on my own and actually advertise it as mine via social media and not be afraid to voice my opinion. This is a fellow students blog which I’m glad to have met because she is graduating this year in the same program as me and she could be future contact for me after I’m done my degree and wanting to kick start my career in the fashion industry.

 Along with creating the blog, the linkedin, the Facebook page, I see now how your resume and CV can be beneficial for you in the world of media.  With all the competition out there keeping your resume and Cv up to date is date online is important for maintaining your social image of yourself.




Photo Credits: Ziyah Karmali 

Photo of my friend Sarah Dubé and I at WCFW. Photo taken April 4th 2012.

I am glad I have met a great friend in ALES 204 who I can continue to speak french with on main campus and is the same faculty as me! I invite you all to follow me on tumbrl here: coeurdebijoux where I plan on making this blog my main Fashion blog in the near future!

Links to my comments:
Alana Soderberg
Tess Beaton
Erin Hrycan
Sarah Dubé
Jasveer Brar

Thanks for a great class:)

Free blog post!

I have decided to do my free blog post about natural dyes in the textile industry.

Natural dyes are everywhere; derived from mostly parts of plants and some bugs, they are the earliest known dyes of time and are becoming a new hype. They are becoming more popular and a lot more talked about when it comes down to being eco-friendly.  I found this article on a Facebook page called “My Sustainable Fashion” of which I follow and found it to be quite intriguing and really neat. You can find the article here: Natural Dye Article

Photo Credits: Laura Scott 

Easter tulips, could potentially be dye?-Photo of Easter tulips. Taken on April 13th 2012.

I found that this article gives new light on making your own creations and giving our own personal touches on things we own.  The article insinuates that anyone could take a flower or any sort of leaves from their garden and use it as a dye. You can take any plain old shirt and spice it up with a little heating of the plants in water and letting the fabric sit in it for an hour and violà you could have a brand new shirt in no time.  Something that may just be a hobby could become something much more complex.

When people think of natural dyes many think of natural dyes from the Victorian era and think that they only produce bland and pale colours but in all truthiness a lot of natural dyes produce vibrant colours, those who wore the vibrant colours in Victorian era and in eras past were mainly royalty because the process of collecting required very extensive labour.  I remember my textile professor showing my textile class a very ancient piece of fabric from Egypt with deep purple dyed stripes on it( which represented a type of royalty) , but the dye from the purple stripes was tested and found to be probably dyed  from a special plant only known to royalty at the time.  I think it must be fun to dig around in ancient land and find clothing and articles and have them tested to know who wore them in ancient eras.

After reading, some other classmates free blog post I see that one student Julianna Lackowicz chose to write about the Kony 2012 Project. An extensively talked about project that started hitting the media scene beginning of March 2012, and has become widely known now thanks to social media posting mass messages and videos of the hype. I like how even with all it's attention sometimes only people here about these issues through word of mouth or in class which is a great setting for learning news! I think the only sad part of these big hype issues is that once it happens it has it's so called infamous "fifteen minutes of fame" then loses interest fast, though social media can create a pathway for these issues to further discussed, such ass through Twitter's # and maybe even through event pages on FB. 

Wikipedia: the go to source for winning a bet.

 Wikipedia may not always have the most reliable sources only because any person can write and type up their own information to any “stub”.  Though, when writing a Wikipedia article there are specific guidelines to follow. It must of reliable sources such as peer-reviewed articles and the sources must be traceable.  

For my assignment, I chose to add to the “Folk Linguistics stub”. I have taken linguistics classes before and it is an area I have an interest in, though it is not my main interest I figured I would find some research done on it. I found information about folk linguistics using the ualberta libraries website.  The information I found was all from research articles that explained the origin and how about folk linguistics came to be what it is today,which is very similar to language ideology.  Folk linguistics is a form of speech with an underlying belief that has existed since the beginning of time.

In making this Wikipedia article, I tried to use some the Wikipedia formatting. There are some symbols that are straightforward but some of them were confusing and I didn’t quite know how to double up some of the symbols.  Though in the process of writing this article I learnt that I will start to think more critically about Wkis and question their content more often. 

Here is my print screen photos of my editing to the wiki stub:     

Folk Linguitics Wikipedia page -  editing. From Laura Scot's personal collection, March 23, 2012. 

 

Internal link: http://jessiebales204.blogspot.ca/

As this person's blog mentions, I as well didn't realize how many stubs were out there and incomplete. Finding information via the internet may be easy as typing it into google or wikipedia but it may not be the most reliable and be credentially accurate. Important information may be missing to fully understand a concept. 

External link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Folk_linguistics&action=submit

I did not actually publish my article, I just did the preview of my article.  

Hey all, I have created a Facebook Page for my ALES 204 class. This page was created to be used essentially as my online CV. The creation of this page was fairly easy, even though it took a bit of jumping through hoops to figure out the setup and layout of my page. Past the initial setup, I had to decide which information to include in my page, keeping in mind this page is my online resume and that others could view it, especially future employers. Since a Facebook Page can be as detailed to your preferences I chose to somewhat keep mine simple. I tried to write in point form and use headings for each category.  I hope this will make it clearer and an easier/faster read.

For my future career, I hope to add more to my list of volunteering.  I hope to add more experience definitely directly involving fashion.  I hope that a future employer who may just be browsing online, may come across my page and hopefully something intrigues them to read my information.  I hope for my future this page improves and grows bigger and will help me land a job someday. 

External link: I know this article is from 2011 but I thought it to be kinda funny: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394558/French-ban-words-Twitter-Facebook-used-TV-radio.html

Internal link: http://sarahjdube.blogspot.com/

link to my facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Laura-Scott/223088181111877

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75313889@N05/6772828975/

Hello, my name is Laura, and my field of study is Clothing, Textiles, Material Culture and Design. I have just transferred in to the Human Ecology program at the University of Alberta and I am excited to get involved with the program and the various clubs it offers. I am aware that fashion is a tough industry, and communication is extremely important for new interns especially for contacts and resources.  In my case these contacts are important for figuring out who I would like to work with during my practicum. Fashion is the field I want to work in and I know I am going to have to start at the bottom of the chain.  I am not afraid of this because I love the experience and want to grow in to myself and my own personal brand.  

  Luckily, I do have connections through friends, who know local designers, photographers, stylists and fashion bloggers. Though, these connections are not solidly established, I am keeping up to date with their projects and reading their profiles and working on one day  doing my practicum with anyone of them, hopefully. Communication for me between them right now is mostly following them on twitter, liking them on Facebook and commenting on their works.  Mainly, it is more about the social networking and finding out information via the internet, I find this will help me the most for when I later communicate with them directly. I will have the confidence to be able to talk to them whether via email, over the phone or in person, the background knowledge, I anticipate will help.  

Communication is something I do need to step up on when it comes to volunteering.  Thus far, I have communicated with the founder and director of Edmonton Fahsion Week, Sandra Sing Fernandes, and have asked her if I could assist with anything during Western Canada Fashion Week, being held in March. Excitingly enough, she responded fairly fast and is even asking if I can help out with fashion shoots this month. I sent one simple email saying I was a student at the U of A in Clothing and Textiles and was interested in volunteering and I had no idea I would get such an awesome response! The next step, meeting her in person which I am hoping will be just as pleasantly surprising and that I don’t make a fool out of myself since she is a much respected woman in the fashion industry, especially here in Edmonton.
http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/fashion-reporters/2009/08/14/edmonton-at-the-helm-of-edmonton-fashion-week/#more-7316

For the future I need to continue to communicate with my contacts and fellow students in my program. I need to communicate with my student council and participate in quite a bit more activities in my future field of work and the activities that happen on campus. I will need to have good communication skills to let people I work with (whether in school or in the professional field) know what I am searching to do and who or what company I would like to work with!

Link to a girl I met the second or third day of ALES 204 class: http://sarahjdube.blogspot.com/


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