Usually reflections for me are lengthy affairs which take up time and space - like the universe! - and cover everything much more thoroughly than necessary. I'm going to keep this one short because I'm fed up with Media 2.0 at the moment and very tired. Though now that I FINALLY got my MAsh-up to work, I'm admittedly less fed up.
It was much more involved than I expected it to be, I'm not gonna lie. And mot of it was creating accounts all over the place - I feel my digital footprint is now sickeningly deep like I stood on one proverbial foot and hopped up and down repeatedly until I dug a trench in the World Wide Web for myself. I have way more accounts than I will ever use, than I am interested in, and than I could ever keep up with. I already had a Twitter account, but I rejuvenated that one, I guess, in this process and found some neat people to follow- who unfortunately tweet a lot more than I would ever be able to keep up with EITHER.
Wordle was definitely my favorite post - it just turns out looking so neat and it is the entire text - whatever it is - in an incomprehensible nutshell!
Mash-up was my least favorite because I had issues making it work. I thought the only thing I could depend upon working was the sticky-note function... then I realized I had to click back and reopen the file to get the other things I'd uploaded to show up. Took me forever to realize that though!
The one thing I set out to learn I did not - how to make those big quotation marks with text inside of them NOT thrown off by the size of the quotation marks. I tried for more time than I would like to admit when working on Thing 2 and got nowhere. I don't know where to go to create an image, I tried paint, stuff online, everything and found I was blocked constantly.
I think some of this might be useful to my life after Coe, but I don't feel like I need to be able to use Twitter and Mash-ups to get by - if I do, then I'm finding a different career! I don't know, I got to this point not being tech-savvy, and I was really okay. I feel this was more stressful than informative to me and each thing took far longer than it should have and kind of turned me off to Web 2.0.
As far as self-discovery goes, I did not get that through this project. I didn't know I was supposed to. If I learned anything about myself it was that I am still fairly inept at technology no matter how hard I try to master it.
I know this is not at all what you want to hear, but I'm being honest. I experienced a lot, learned a decent amount, and hope I never have to wrangle with half of it again. I will admit, though, Wordle is pretty awesome. I still can't get over that.
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