Reflection of Blog Experience IST 611
This was my first experience with blogs. While I had heard of this, I had never even looked at a blog to understand what it is that people were putting on them. My first technology to report on was Wiki’s, which again I had heard of, but never looked at. I enjoyed looking and finding resources about this topic and found it to be a useful technology that I will continue to use. On the other hand, my second topic on SCORM was a more technical subject and I found it difficult to find information that made it relevant to myself. At the end, with the help of Professor Parker, I began to find articles that related to education, but I still found it to be a technology that would not be something I would continue to investigate unless required, but at least if I come across it in other readings I have an idea of what it is now.
While this was not necessarily a hard project to do, I found it time consuming finding enough material or material that was good enough to post on twice a week, and then having to read and post to my group member’s blogs as well. Having said that, I did find it an informative project and learned a lot from what my other group members posted. By having everyone post on a different subject it exposed me to technologies that I was not aware of or if I had heard of them, was not well informed about them, without having to do the research on my own. I feel fortunate that all my group members provided wonderful information on their technologies that I was able to glean information from and even book-marked several sites to use in the future if required to do so or when I get out in the field.
On the whole, I don’t see myself maintaining a blog unless it is on a subject of interest to myself, then I could probably get more into it. I don’t know how other people maintain more then one of these types of sites, such as MySpace, flicker etc. I just don’t have the time to put into doing this, plus I would much rather socialize with people one on one. I do see the advantages of connecting with other people through these modes of communication, but again, I’m not the kind of person who wants to spend that much time in front of my computer, unless I have to. I would rather be doing then sitting. I’m also hesitant to post a lot of personal information about myself, especially after reading some of the articles this semester and the consequences of sharing to much information.
This was my first experience with blogs. While I had heard of this, I had never even looked at a blog to understand what it is that people were putting on them. My first technology to report on was Wiki’s, which again I had heard of, but never looked at. I enjoyed looking and finding resources about this topic and found it to be a useful technology that I will continue to use. On the other hand, my second topic on SCORM was a more technical subject and I found it difficult to find information that made it relevant to myself. At the end, with the help of Professor Parker, I began to find articles that related to education, but I still found it to be a technology that would not be something I would continue to investigate unless required, but at least if I come across it in other readings I have an idea of what it is now.
While this was not necessarily a hard project to do, I found it time consuming finding enough material or material that was good enough to post on twice a week, and then having to read and post to my group member’s blogs as well. Having said that, I did find it an informative project and learned a lot from what my other group members posted. By having everyone post on a different subject it exposed me to technologies that I was not aware of or if I had heard of them, was not well informed about them, without having to do the research on my own. I feel fortunate that all my group members provided wonderful information on their technologies that I was able to glean information from and even book-marked several sites to use in the future if required to do so or when I get out in the field.
On the whole, I don’t see myself maintaining a blog unless it is on a subject of interest to myself, then I could probably get more into it. I don’t know how other people maintain more then one of these types of sites, such as MySpace, flicker etc. I just don’t have the time to put into doing this, plus I would much rather socialize with people one on one. I do see the advantages of connecting with other people through these modes of communication, but again, I’m not the kind of person who wants to spend that much time in front of my computer, unless I have to. I would rather be doing then sitting. I’m also hesitant to post a lot of personal information about myself, especially after reading some of the articles this semester and the consequences of sharing to much information.
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