04.01.09
“Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us”
I’ve seen this video before. It was shown in a media literacy class I took last summer, but resurfaced today because a classmate is using it for a discussion about writing and technology in tonight’s Writing Pedagogy class.
A very cool video, it makes you think, etc. But what struck me about it this time was toward the end where he says we have to “rethink a few things” and then he lists “copyrights, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves.”
Web 2.0, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, this blog, and so on have given me a “public presence” unlike any other public presence I’ve ever known and when you make the choice to do that it really does (or should) make you rethink all those things.
03.16.09
Senioritis
I’m taking my last class in this technical writing graduate certificate program and can. not. wait. until it is done. I am so unmotivated to do the readings not to mention I haven’t made any decent progress on the big 20-page paper that is due in a month. The class is not bad or anything. I’m just ready to be done — hence the senioritis.
Working full time, being a mom and going to school is tough. However, I have learned a lot about writing and editing, and have been challenged intellectually, so I’m glad I did it. And it’s already proving beneficial — the training has already opened up a new opportunity at work, and the certificate will look great on my resume. The best part is it was all free — the company I work for has tuition reimbursement. Now if I could just find a way for them to pay for my bachelor’s.
03.02.08
Crunch Time
The first draft of my research paper for this semester is due in one week, and two days after that (so in a week of a half) we board a plane for a 5-day vacation to Orlando and Disney World. Needless to say, a lot going on in our lives the next 10 days or so. I’m glad the draft comes before the vacation, so at least I can be done with that and enjoy some R&R and fun with the boys.
