Future Endeavors

My Future Endeavors:

- Photoshop: My only experience with Photoshop thus far has been seeing people edit pictures from parties where they used Photoshop to black out any beer cans or alcohol bottles. There has got to be another purpose for Photoshop besides hiding the evidence and this Techno- JAP is going to discover it.

- Music: Like any JAP I am a big fan of "classic" rap (Biggie Smalls anyone?) and awesome electronic music (KapSlap goes to my school!) so I am always looking for new ways to download music. I'm sure there is a more effective way to download music than iTunes and I'm hearing really great things about Napster and Kazaa these days...

- iMovie: For my internship I filmed and edited a video of a local step team and I loved using iMovie! The sad thing was since I forgot the camera battery the video was too dark so it never made it's way on to the Lehigh University website.

- Keyboard Shortcuts: No one more legit than someone you are working on a computer with that can use keyboard shortcuts to do all kinds of cool things like open new tabs and switch between pages, only using the keyboard.

Me, Me, Me

Welcome to Techno JAP! The purpose of this blog is to help me to learn how to be more technologically savvy. My technological skills are that of a techno- JAP (Jewish American Princess). I have mastered the art of online shopping and I can use my iPhone and MacBook on a basic functional level but forget about anything fancy like Snow Leopard, Lion or iCloud. Technology has never been “my thing,” but as I am about to graduate from Lehigh University, that all has to change. This fall I will be attending the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University for a program in multimedia.

            Why would I chose to get my masters in a multimedia program if I struggled to install my new printer, you may ask? This semester I have an internship at Lehigh’s Media Relations Department—they handle all of Lehigh’s publicity, and through my internship I have been exposed to types of technology, for both social and multimedia that previously seemed unfathomable to me. This Luddite, who had never used iMovie before February, learned how to use Final Cut Pro X! And I was bitten with the technology bug.

            Through my internship I realized that it’s not that I’m bad with technology; I am a techno- JAP because I have never challenged myself to try new forms of technology. And this is why I am starting this blog— with NYU looming on the horizon I have a BIG reason to technologically challenge myself now. With some help from my tech savvy friends, I am going to try to learn how to use a new form of technology every week and write about it. I will also post any photos or videos that that come out of this project. Understandably this may only be a cursory understanding of some things, but hey, that’s much better than what I know now!