Tuesday, July 7, 2009

What I read today.....06/07/09


In 06/07/09, the first lecture I attended was Reading and Documenting..

At first our lecturer Encik Wan showed us the definition of reading. That was too much and I cannot remembered it all. So I went to search the definition of reading in wikipedia. Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of deriving meaning and/ or constructing meaning. We read to understand text, image and words.

The objective of RUS 101 is intention. Once we have intention we have to act it. Actions are learn, do, acquire, get, equipped with basic tools. We just can participate in the development of the built environment once we get the basic tools.

Tools to
1) Document (text and image)
Text and images let us can read through the passage so we can know what the author want to give that message to us.

2)Communicate (text, images, models,presentation,argument,show,exhibition and negotiate)
Communicate is a sender want to send a message. He or she will encode the message into the symbols that the receiver know. The receiver will decode the symbols. Effective communication will occur.

3)Design (prototype,spaces,events and happening.)

4)Construct a page which is in history. We should create our own page with our own idea.
Our lecturer mention 1 important word that was plagiarism. We were warned to avoid plagiarism because it is a crime. We do have our own idea to produce a product. According to the indiana university plagiarism is using other's idea without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. So, to construct a page and product the idea must produce from our own idea and not copy other's idea. So that, we have a page in history that we create ourselves.

5)Serve bottom billion, top ten
Our lecturer told us either we want to serve bottom billion or top ten. Just like Michael Jackson, he is a super star. He is serving top ten. Many people admiring him. While serve the bottom billion is like unemployed people. They do not do anything and just waiting people to feed them. They are kind of useless people.

There are six elements of production

-Intention
-Actor
-Act
-Rule
-Product
-Site

Intention - according the webster online dictionary, is a determination to act in a certain way. So, in order to create a product we must have intention. Intention may be produce from the theory and of course our knowledge. Once we have intention, we have to act to produce a product.

Actor-Actor is a person who want to do something. For an example, an engineer have an intention to built a bridge. He or she is an actor who want to built that bridge.

Act- Act is an action we take to apply with intention. Although we have intention but without act, we cannot produce any product. Act is like designing, surveying and building.

Rule- Rule is a regulation governing or conduct an action, procedure and arrangement (source: dictionary.reference.com) to prevent some act that will harm to us , our environment and the living things on earth. If a developer want to develop a place. He or she must concern about the rules such as environmental assessment (EIA), AKTA PERHUTANAN NEGARA 1984 and so on.

Product- Product is a thing that produce by an actor. For example a complete building, bridge and a car.

Site- Site is a place where a product take place. It is consider to an actor where he or she want to allocate the product. For example an actor want to built a school beside the shopping complex therefore the site for the school is beside the shopping complex.



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