While the use of a blog for learning purposes seems interesting on paper, I'm not sure how well this worked for me in practice. I found that while weekly summaries of readings via tute presentation posts, complete with cyberlinks, was something nice that you don't get in other units, it was easy to forget about the blog for a while, only to return and be overwhelmed with the amount of posts that you should have been keeping up with. But I suppose that was my own fault. I find that the blogs I visit in my own time are generally full of pictures and links, rather than large blocks of text, thus it became a task to read and keep up to date with this blog without getting distracted by things like Youtube or Facebook. A reflection of our shortened attention spans due to our own technology perhaps? Also, something interesting I found with this blog was that although I know your faces from tutes, I don't know many of your names, and I would often read posts and wonder who they were written by, trying to match names and faces. Because of this, I feel like there's a strange sense of disconnected community with these blogs.
I wish I could be one of you's who arn't tragically reliant on technology, and could proudly say that I'd be fine without my computer or mobile phone, but the truth is, I really don't know what I would do without my gadgets. I lost my iPhone earlier this year, and it was a sad but very real emptiness that I felt. I remember dramatically telling people that I felt like I had lost a piece of myself. I realise this is somewhat pathetic and materialistic, but with things like hard-drives and phones, so much of your life is stored on it that when you lose it, it really is like losing a part of yourself. So from this, I will reluctantly admit that I do consider myself a cyborg.
I really enjoyed the content of this unit. I have come across most of it already in my years of doing communications/cultural studies, but still like the relevance to life that the readings hold. This was one of those units where I would find myself talking to friends about weekly topics or readings, and they would be impressed with how interesting my course sounds. :) So with this, thanks, and goodluck with your essays everyone.
I wish I could be one of you's who arn't tragically reliant on technology, and could proudly say that I'd be fine without my computer or mobile phone, but the truth is, I really don't know what I would do without my gadgets. I lost my iPhone earlier this year, and it was a sad but very real emptiness that I felt. I remember dramatically telling people that I felt like I had lost a piece of myself. I realise this is somewhat pathetic and materialistic, but with things like hard-drives and phones, so much of your life is stored on it that when you lose it, it really is like losing a part of yourself. So from this, I will reluctantly admit that I do consider myself a cyborg.
I really enjoyed the content of this unit. I have come across most of it already in my years of doing communications/cultural studies, but still like the relevance to life that the readings hold. This was one of those units where I would find myself talking to friends about weekly topics or readings, and they would be impressed with how interesting my course sounds. :) So with this, thanks, and goodluck with your essays everyone.
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