I have spent a spring semester here at Northern Virgina Community college writing a blog about a topic in which I would want to educate myself by elaborating on it. When I signed up for this English class, it was originally set for a traditional class session. As time went on during my first semester, I didn't realize that the class was eventually switched out for a hybrid course. Hybrid course meaning that the class is half the time online, and the other part would be in a traditional classroom.
First day in the classroom, I was shocked to see that the classroom was full even though the classroom setting and instructor had been changed. We were informed by our wonderful professor that we would be writing blogs as a class assignment for the whole semester. With all this work to be researched it sounded very intimidating. The next class day, I was then surprised that half the class had dropped the class. I had accepted the fact that we would have to research and blog about our topic. The topic I chose was technology and it's effect on college society.
At first I didn't understand the whole point of blogging. Was I suppose to write about my life or other lives? Will the information I gather have to explain my opinion or will it explain fact? What will my viewers think of my blog? How can I view my community?
As these thoughts filled my head, I started to do things little by little. Once I got the whole plan of the blog outline, I just researched information and applied it into forming posts. Throughout the semester I have realized that living in a college environment we as students and staff have become dependent on technology. The irony is that I am using Internet to realize that people are dependent on the Internet.
We as a class are given the option to keep our blog or to end the blog. I have chosen to end this blog with this final post. I have learned a lot about the college society and it's integration with technology. Unfortunately, I will have to end this post, but I just wanted to say that it was a great opportunity to learn more about this topic. Hopefully I might start another blog in the future about another topic. Thank you for viewing my blog , I hope this information has assisted you my fellow community and classmates.
Your post here is excellent, and I do see the irony that you posted and agree with you: we use technology just to discover that we are tied to technology. I happened to see a girl walking down the street the other day absorbed by whatever she was typing into her phone. She wasn't looking around and was practically unaware of the traffic zooming by her. I can remember being a college student and nobody having a cell phone (back then, they weighed about 8 lbs.).
ReplyDeleteI know it will be interesting to see where the technology goes from here. Great final post!