Mission Accomplished!
March 17, 2009
Wow,
I can’t believe that this is our last Blog experience for this class. It seems as thought the term had flown bye once again. This was my first Blog experience for a class or for any reason at that. It was kind of cool checking out other student pages and so forth. Ths being my first time creating a Blog I thought it could have been better if I would have put up a picture of myself for others to see. If I had time I might have even tried to personalize my site as well. But, with that being said I did not have enough time to really put allot of energy into my Blog. As of know in my life I feel as though I do not have enough time to maintain this or another Blog. With school and work taking on most of my time, I can’t imagine sitting in front of a computer and typing out a weekly or daily Blog.
I thought it was a clever way to incorporate the class and class work into a Blog experience. Like I had said before I really have not done something like this for a class. I liked the fact that this was something different than the same old thing for homework.
I was a bit confused having the work to completed on Tuesdays at noon, and having that next week for the other assignment to be completed. There were times that I would get confused because all of my other homework would be due on Sunday and this would be due on Tuesday. But once I got used to it, it was no big deal and it became part of my routine.
I thought the Postman book was interesting and did not enjoy the Wood and Smith book to much. I like where Postman took his thought and ideas about Technology and its place in our society. I do feel that technology can ruin us and that we need to be careful about how much we let technology control our lives. In our culture in America and other parts of the world Technology rules and we become complaisant to it and rely on it and act like we can’t survive without it.
Overall, I enjoyed the class and thought it shined a light on some things that I never really had thought about. I have no real complaints about the course because complaining gets you no where.
Thanks to all for reading my Blog.
Jared
Jared,
HAha! Yes, indeed, complaining does get you no where.
It seems that most people in the class didn’t like the Wood & Smith book, the more traditional “text book” while enjoying Postman’s, even though Technopoly was a more dense read. The Tuesday-Friday thing threw me for a curve at first too. I added an appointment in my Outlook for every Tuesday and Friday, and that seemed to set me straight (there I go, being too reliant on technology again…)
Peace,
-Casey