I have enjoyed this class and I am excited for what the Cyber future holds for us!
What I liked best about this class was all of the exercises that we were asked to do. Sometimes you know that all of these things are available to you (i.e. discussion boards, blogs, etc.), but for whatever reason, you don’t take it upon yourself to look into them. Maybe it’s because we’re all to busy?!?
I know for me personally, I have a list a mile long of websites I would like to check-out or things I would like to research or projects I would like to do, if I ever have a spare moment someday…but I never seem to. So this class for me was a good exercise in getting some of those things checked off my list.
Probably the most personally impacting exercise was the letter’s though: that exercise was priceless!
And in the spirit of evaluating, my least favorite was the abstinence exercise! When you have such an AMAZING tool as the Internet, who wants to abstain from it?!?! Just kidding, I know that it’s good for us to remember or experience what life was like B.C. (before computers), but that doesn’t mean that it’s fun.
Overall, I would recommend this class to anyone who’s life is affected or influenced by a computer…so pretty much anyone! As for changes, I think that the content was great, I just struggled with a few of the logistics. I understand why there’s limits on when you can participate in the discussion boards, but I also know that it’s sometime hard with life to fit in responding only on the weekends. And it was also frustrating to have so many blog choices: not all servers were comment friendly (unless you belonged to their blog service, you couldn’t comment). Otherwise, I enjoyed my experience and reading all of my classmates blogs! You really get to see some personality (way more than you get on the OSU discussion board).
Have a great rest of the summer everyone…all three weeks of it that is! =(
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“And in the spirit of evaluating, my least favorite was the abstinence exercise! When you have such an AMAZING tool as the Internet, who wants to abstain from it?!?!”
That is so funny! I too had a hard time with this particular exercise, but I thought it taught a great lesson. I was really surprised at how quickly this course went by. I had never taken a summer course at OSU before, so this was new to me. I too said that I would recommend it to anyone, because it was fun, interesting, and caused me to really think about the technology that I use everyday. I do not really think that I was doing that before, I really took it for granted. Thanks for your post and I hope you have a good rest of your summer too.
Yeah the abstinence assignment was brutal. All of my activities and life seem to be structured around the computer and internet. It’s my source of information for just about everything. Without the internet I felt like everything came to a screeching halt and my productivity plummeted. It’s truly amazing just how reliant we have become on technology and the internet.
Great post!
It was kind of bothersome how everybody had different blog services and the only way to comment was by creating an account. I have blog accounts for virtually every major service now. And I too struggled with the abstinence. I think a lot of us are very internet savvy people who know how to utilize the net. But because of this, I think we all learned a new lesson from the blog assignments which forced us out of our comfort zone.