Week 1 Summary
This has been an entirely overwhelming week resulting in failing my personal objective of producing daily contributions, as the week was over before I realised it had begun. Unfortunately, a disproportinate amount of time was spent on the basics that I had taken for granted that I would grasp without difficulty as opposed to course content and demonstrating an insight into the readings. I have set up accounts with Twitter, Delirious and explored WordPress. Hours can be lost sifting abundant internet resources for relevant content but more often being distracted by interesting (though not directly relevant for that moment in time) information. WordPress appears to be the biggest of my distractions as I can easily spend a precious evening rearranging my widgets and creating my avatar with no direct benefit to the course content….lesson learnt here!
I provided a delirious contribution but wish to develop my usage of delirious further as I see this is a very useful tool in online sharing. My tweets allowed me to participate in some way with the film festival (I was unfortunately unable to attend the synchtube session this week) and successfully linked to my Lifestream.
The readings are challenging! There is a cyberdictionary’s worth of new terminology for me and whilst I hope to have drawn some worth from them I look forward to re-reading them in a few weeks (as my experience of digital cultures develops) and having better appreciation of the emerging themes.