Google Alerts are very useful if you want to know more about a topic and don't want to go to the effort to spend hours at a time searching for it. You just type in a topic and Google will email you some sites that may be of interest. This tool will be very helpful in later years like college when you have multiple research papers due. You can "do research" without putting as much effort into it.
In my Alerts I found an article that dealt with being able to use smartphones on the battlefield. They have new technology that enabled them to communicate better with others on a battlefield where before they had difficulties coming up with the proper wiring to be able to do so. I think this is a tremendous leap in our digital age.
http://www.defencetalk.com/smart-phone-technology-takes-leap-to-battlefield-40122/
Friday, January 27, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Class Reflection
In this class, we have gone over a few different websites that I have never visited before, this site being one of them. I have never really had a blog before, but it is nice to write out your opinions on things and see what others think too. Another thing I have never done is diigo. I still don't really understand how to use it, but I am slowly getting the hang of things. I also have never worked on a project with other people at the same time on different computers. It is interesting to only communicate using chat. I thought this class would be going over a lot of things I already knew, but it is nice to learn new things about social networking that I never really explored before.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Digital Nation Video Reaction
This video really focused on how much our lives are depending on technology. People spend their whole lives on their computers or iPhones and do not really get out much. They can even develop disorders from spending so much time playing online games or just staring at a screen for a long period of time.
It is really scary how much our lives become dependent on the internet and other technologies, but at the same time, it helps us to interact more with people in ways that we would not before. It is good to be involved in the digital world, but you also have to be able to interact in the real world. Without being able to handle both, you run the risk of falling behind in one or the other. You may even lose touch with both worlds.
This video focused on multiple aspects of digital involvement. It talked about people in schools being so involved in their computers, people being obsessed or even addicted to online games, and air force soldiers flying their droids from a whole separate location. All of these things can either hurt or help our society in ways that we may not even be able to see. I only hope we can still stop and think about real-life interactions and how they affect us even more than our digital ones.
It is really scary how much our lives become dependent on the internet and other technologies, but at the same time, it helps us to interact more with people in ways that we would not before. It is good to be involved in the digital world, but you also have to be able to interact in the real world. Without being able to handle both, you run the risk of falling behind in one or the other. You may even lose touch with both worlds.
This video focused on multiple aspects of digital involvement. It talked about people in schools being so involved in their computers, people being obsessed or even addicted to online games, and air force soldiers flying their droids from a whole separate location. All of these things can either hurt or help our society in ways that we may not even be able to see. I only hope we can still stop and think about real-life interactions and how they affect us even more than our digital ones.
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