Course Commentary
i would like to thank 2p26 for helping me get over a bit of technophobia that i had for social media such as blogs and twitter. its easy to be afraid of something that you don’t understand and i am grateful for the pressure to dive into these mediums. i have also been exposed to several tools that i was previously unaware of: wikis, linkedIN, social bookmarking… these three i had either never heard of or had no idea what they were. i look forward to encountering the delicious symbol in my free time and knowing what it means! finally, i am pleased to say that i can see myself making use of several of these social mediums in the future, once i feel so inspired. the format of this course was fun, i liked your non-traditional teaching style professor k.
from this course i have learned that people are ‘plugged in’ to the internet in more ways than i ever thought possible. i can’t imagine how someone could juggle more than a few social mediums at a time, but i can see their specific usefulness to various jobs or projects. for example, i can see people using linkedIN much more in the coming months because of all the layoffs.
the internet provides us with a plethora of information and tools. our information society requires its members to possess some level of technological skills in order to participate in it. technology has relieved mankind many labour intensive skills, but demanded of him new skills of processing, searching, sharing and protecting. as with our tools of the past, the Internet is a good servant but a bad master. the better we understand it, the more use and less harm we can make of it.
