Assignment #10: Artifact 3

It took a lot of think about what I wanted to do for artifact number 3 because I had a couple different ideas.  One o f my ideas was to bring some of our yield maps and soil sample maps and our monitor so that I could use them to help explain how it all works.  Well now I decided to work on make like a book out of paper and each paper will show a different step in the category because she was  already have lo.  I think I would rather stay with the idea of riding back anger .The book will show all the steps that there is to precision agriculture. Well I'll se you need time.     Brent

Assignment #9: Spring Break

I had a really busy spring break.  The weather was really nice at the beginning of the week so I was constantly working.  I would wake up early and get in after dark then I was usually ready to go to bed but would try to work on my webpage which I have having a lot of trouble with.  Each night was pretty limited but I still tried to work on stuff as hard as I could.  Toward the end of the week with the rain and cooler weather I was able to do a little bit more to the webpage than the nights before.  It turned into me working on it all weekend with Dreamweaver causing me many problems.  I will admit some times I tried not to ignore it but I am sure I ignored it a few times.  Other than that spring break went pretty well and I got to see some people that I hadn't saw in a while.

Well I hope all of you had a good break too!                 Brent

Blog Assignment #7

I have many thoughts about what all I am going to do for artifact #2.  I am going to be creating a website.  I have taken a website design class over using Adobe Dreamweaver and I also have the program so that’s what I will be using to create artifact #2.  I also have liked Dreamweaver as a website design tool so I feel that there is no reason to switch.

I feel that making a webpage is going to be a lot of work and much more time consuming than other artifacts I could do but I think that I will be able to have some fun with it and that it will kind of tie into my last artifact which was a brochure.  It will connect because the brochure was a simplified way to tell the information and to make the viewer want to learn more which is when the webpage comes in.  My webpage will have a lot more detail and will be able to have many links to other sources that include good information.

The time is the only thing that is going to be more challenging but I feel that this is the time to do it since spring break I will have a lot of time to get things done if I start to fall behind and it will help to not rush me through it so that I can create a webpage that I will like and that would be useful for the viewers.

Blog Assignment #6

For my artifact I wanted it to give a simple to the point information about precision agriculture.  I decided that the brochure would be the way to go.  In doing this I decided that I needed to take a lot of information and combined it into smaller terms.  I then decided what I would want them to look at first and what I felt was more important.  I tried to tell them what precision agriculture was before they got into the other details so they would have a clue on what it would be dealing with.

I believe that I added a table to help show some cost and listed what all there is to precision agriculture to give the viewer a better thought on what all would be needed. I think that if someone were to come pick up the brochure they would be able to read it quickly but still get a good idea on what is going on in the precision agriculture world.  I feel that brochures are made to just clearly explain what you are trying to get across and then maybe having a more in detail report that they could look at if they thought they would be interested in it.

I have been learning a lot of stuff about this topic too and feel that it is really going help me out since it has a lot to do with why I am going to college and what I am going to college for.  It is also a lot more entertaining and easier to stay focused.

Free Write: Feb. 21, 2011

I am planning on connecting all of my artificts and other parts in to my project by them all dealing with my topic of precision agriculture.  They will all be about how everything works and if in the end it saves the farmer money and supplies.  The connection is with all of my research and finding out if it is a good thing or a bad thing. So far everything seems to be working out ok for me and I am hoping to keep it that way and keep the project all under the same topic.  It also has been teaching me how to do different things like make the annotated biography.

Assignment #5

At the library visit last Thrusday I thought that it helped out a lot helping to understand how to find information that you want and find it quicker.  I have found it hard to find the exact information that I was wanting for the project I was doing or it would find a whole bunch that was related but not quite what I wanted but I now know how to narrow done everything to find exactly want I want.  That was the first time I have ever used the ebrary and I kind of liked how it worked because it's pretty straight forward and has a lot of good information.  I now have about all the research that I should need so everything is still going pretty smoothly.  I believe I am sitting much better now than I was before the library visit. It is very frusterating when you keep spending a bunch of time to try for find a good resource but sources that deal with something else keep popping up causing it to take much longer than it should have but that isn't quite as big of a problem now.  I also feel that it is easier to find a scholarly article using the library website because that was a problem for me to find when I first started off.  There is also so many more books, articles, and other resources than you wouldn't be able to find in most places and they are pretty simple to find so overall I believe that the library visit was a good thing.                 Brent Ginther

Assignment #4

Well my project is still going about the same.  I haven't really changed it much and it is pretty well on the same track as it was at the beginning of the year.  I like the topic that I first picked and want to keep it as on track as possible.  I enjoy learning about my topic of Precision Agricultural because I plan on using it after I get out of college so it will be very useful information to me.  So far I haven't had to much trouble finding the information I am going to need and there seem to be many sources out there that will work great for me.  I am hoping that it keeps going together the way it is so I don't fall behind trying to get things figured out.  My topic is a topic that is really starting to grow bigger at this moment in time so I am wanting to find the newest information I can find so that it is all recent information and technologies that have just started coming out instead of something that has been out for a while and is no longer going to be used by many people because Precision Agricultural electronics are just like any other electronics out there, they just keep getting upgraded so its hard to have the newest technology at all times.  As I said before my project is pretty much that same as it started as and I hope to keep it that way and keep learning more about what I like to do. Thanks for you time.
            Brent

Assignment #3

I have not yet had to many troubles with my writing so far.  Some things take a lot of thought before I can decide exactly what I want to do but other than that it hasn't been bad.  I am hoping that I don't run into anything that might cause troubles.  I do worry that at some point I will not be able to find the information I am needing or not be able to get it in time. 

Blog Assignment #2: Letter

This week I read the letter that was written in the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.  He could write as well as he could speak.  He had a way with his words to really make you think about things.  He made good points in his letter just like he did in his speech and he let them know what his thoughts were.  Martin Luther King Jr. shows how you can just sit there and hope something is going to fix its self, you have to go out and fight for it and take action on it.  He showed how you always have to stand up for yourself and do what you think is right.

On my research project I feel that there is going to be a lot of research out there and that it will take a lot of time to get it all planned out.  I believe that it will be a very good topic as of now for the research because of the information that is out about precision agriculture.  I hope that the future will hold a lot of new technologies that will help out the farming industry and help feed this increasing population.  Crops are going to have to start producing more per acre just to keep up with this increasing population.  One way this can be done is with the technologies of being about to have more efficient row and seed spacing.  This technology just keeps improving and many farmers are using it already so the better the programing gets the more that will be produced and the more farmers that will switch over.

Thanks for reading,
                     Brent Ginther

Blog Assignment #1: Precision Ag.

I have decided to research Precision Agriculture for this class's research assignment.  I have decided this because it goes along with my major which is Agriculture Science and I have grown up on a farm all my life and its what I like to do.  Electronics and GPS have really started to be a big part of farming in the last 10 years and I believe in the future that's all there will be.  Some may not like it because of the skilled needed to work on and use the new equipment that has been coming out.  I like using all the electronics though and believe that it is very useful.

I plan on researching for more details that deal with how it is going to affect the future.  I hope to find a good answer on if these new inventions are going to be good or if they are going to start causing trouble in the agricultural fields.

I will be providing artifacts that will tell and show about all the new electronics that have been coming out and what they do to help the farmers.  Some ways I might go about doing that is by using power points and essay papers that explain to the audience on how everything works.  I want to be able to teach others that might not know much about agriculture and help them to understand how everything works.  I might also try to make a webpage with that would include links to different sites that sell or have examples of precision ag. equipment and some general facts about it.

Thanks for your time,
Brent Ginther