title: the progression of painting

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When we glance back at this painting, we can see a little foggy landscape with a town behind them, but Mary and the infants are in a beautiful field, which we can tell by glancing down by their feet, where we see plants and perhaps wildflowers. We can see Jesus standing on his mother’s foot, as many children do when they need their mother’s help, but he’s also clutching her knee and reaching for her book. The mother’s concern for her kid may be seen in Mary’s holding him and safeguarding him from falling.The colors in this really make Mary pop out, and because of that, we end up concentrating on her eyes to see what she’s gazing at, which is the major element of the picture, which is Jesus Christ.

Titian, Venus of Urbino. ca. 1538. Oil on canvas, 47 × 65?? (119 × 165 cm). Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Raphael, La Belle Jardinière. 1507. Oil on panel, 48 × 311 (122 × 80 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris

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The first image we will be discussing is The Nativity, by Gentile da Fabriano. He started working on this piece in 1420. For this piece, I am seeing multiple biblical representations. The first would have to be the Madonna of Humility (I have been using a lot of different Madonna pieces for our art project to see the revolution), then there is the nativity (childbirth), and lastly, there is the notice of the shepherds. In the piece, you can see this by the virgin being above the ground and her hands folded worshiping the child that has just been born. After researching the artist and multiple pieces they have done I have learned this is an international gothic style. The blond hair, the small lips, and the little expressions make this style. The piece is telling a gospel story which I feel was very important during this time.

title: cloud based collaboration

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Cloud collaboration has become the norm since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing for team collaboration to become common practice for most businesses. There are many benefits to cloud-based collaboration aside from the ability to work remotely. It actually expands collaboration by way of extending the ability for teamwork with those around the world, bringing in new ideas with essentially the click of a button. Benefits also include building a sense of community through teamwork, increasing productivity, and stimulating creativity. (RingCentral, 2021) Blogs,wikis, and calendars all benefits from cloud collaboration by increasing productivity, delegating tasks, and enforcing accountability. Enforcing accountability by being able to trace the edits and progress made by each team member is important, especially when those edits need refinement before publishing. Cloud collaboration can also increase credibility by allowing collaboration with professionals from around the world to weigh in on work and even edit work themselves. Collaborative calendars are a great way to ensure that members are given equal opportunity to attend and participate in events and collaborative meetings.

A few months into the pandemic, my place of employment took on the task of being a covid-testing site. The transition to this was made much simpler by using cloud collaboration meeting sources. To communicate with our daily provider, we use Cisco Webex in a group chat. The pharmacies in the district check-in with our Nurse Practitioner for the day and when problems arise, we know that or provider can be easily reached. Implementation of this program has shown benefits in our work with accountability, accessibility, and problem solving.

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The world we live in today is more inter connected than ever before, and the shift from in office to remote work during the pandemic has accelerated that even more. With this being the case, it is even more important that we have solutions in place that allow for collaboration across a number of different sites. Some of the advantages in cloud-based solutions for blogs, wikis, and calendar management are the fact that it makes it easy for different people to track work, write, comment, and edit in documents and blog posts, share files, and work from any where and any device.

We used to be limited to working on from desktop computers with files that were either saved directly to the drive, or on floppy disks and thumb drives, or had to be emailed out. Even when these documents were emailed, changes that were saved had to be re-saved in order for all participants to have the most updated information. Now, we can work from our tablets or phones from a coffee shop or at home, and we can collaborate on files without the need to continuously save them or update the version. If one person makes changes to a file, everyone will see.

Another example of a web application that maximizes the use of clous is Microsoft Teams. I’ve used Teams at work for just about everything – from sharing files, to calendar management, and even for chatting with coworkers. Oftentimes we would use the drive in Microsoft teams to save presentations or documents so that the entire team could edit and view them when ever they needed to. It made collaboration alot more efficient.