Before taking this class, I really had not even scratched the surface of technology. I always considered myself a "tech-savvy" person but I have come to the realization that I'm really not all that "tech-savvy." I was born at a time where technology and the Internet and mobile phones were being first utilized in real life. I started playing on the computer when I was younger and we started downloading/uploading music onto an old media player on the computer. CD's were the cool thing to have and I can even remember using cassette tapes as well. Technology itself has just evolved and shot off since then. Looking back now, I sometimes wonder if I could ever survive without the technology that I use every day.
Pre-Info3Pt0 class I never would have used that amount of technology in everyday life. I guess what I would call my level of usage of technology is very basic. I use my BlackBerry everyday so I can have emails sent to me and not need my laptop. I use my iTouch but solely for music purposes. I have few apps on my phone and my phone I use pretty much for texting and if I call anyone it's usually family. But really, I just use bare bone minimum technology compared to what we talked about, learned about and utilized in class. The only time I really had a blog was when I was in middle school and it was a LiveJournal. My facebook I use obviously to socialize with all my peers and keep in touch with some family members and my twitter I just really use not to the extent that we did. All in all, I'd say that pre-class I probably wasn't utilizing the technology we have available to the extent that we can use it to be effective.
In class, we have covered everything from mobile technology to security issues to social media to technology and education. It's been interesting to go into each of these topics in depth and really explore them and see how the technology has evolved since then. Using a blog to relate our topic to technology was really interesting and effective to a degree. Looking at some of the blogs, I'd say that I learned a lot in comparison to what I posted on my blog. It really gave us a chance to explore what field of study we are currently interested/majoring in and see how technology has and is and will be affecting it. We looked at our topics from new perspectives and took it to new levels each and every time. I sometimes had to get a little creative since a couple of these topics were really hard to relate to but then I ended up having a couple personal experiences that I could share and I hope it helped the blog when I couldn't find the research to back up the issue.
Post 3.0 Class I would say that I think I'm going to stick with the minimal amount of technology that I still use. While I have learned a LOT with this class I feel better prepared for using the technology we have. I'm probably going to try and use my iTouch more for apps and the same with my BlackBerry. The apps we looked at were actually pretty helpful and I could use some of them to help organize my life because I like to have a system and be organized. I'm glad that we have learned through a broad variety and I feel that I have learned about security measures and I plan on putting some of those into practice. All in all, I feel that technology affects my field of study and the setup for this class was very fun and different from my typical classes. But, I think that theatre requires more hands on experiences more so than lecturing and I would find it difficult to incorporate technology into some of my classes. I enjoyed using all the different things such as WIMBA, Pronto and being able to have my laptop in class. It really helped me focus sometimes and other times I would get distracted and end up on Facebook. But incoporating the social media such as Twitter and Facebook into the assignments helped because we ALREADY go onto these sites daily. I learned so much from this class and felt that there was still so much more to learn in terms of technology and I feel like you have to constantly keep yourself updated because technology keeps advancing every single day. This was definitely a great class and a great experience and while it was overwhelming at first I was able to adjust.
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