The Final Blog

Over the years we never really think about the things that we do everyday or the things we do. We also don’t realize that rely on technology to get by. It wasn’t until I took Electronic Communications that I realized how much we use technology everyday. Through this class I have learned that a text message way more than I talk on the phone and that I would rather do research online than actually go to the library. During this class I started to pay attention to how much I am on the computer and the people around me. I have also realized that whenever I had to use the computer for anything I would do other things on the computer before I actually started doing what I need to do. I have noticed a difference about my CMC habits, from the time I was younger till now. When I was younger I was all about the internet and browsing the web but the older I got the more I strayed away from it. Then I started to stray away from AOL and all things that surround that. This class has made me want to get back into the whole CMC thing but before this class I was just kind of bored with the internet and the things that surround it. This course only caused me to have one oh wow memory that I can recall and it was when we first started blogging and doing the questions for the chapter. I think the only reason why I felt like oh wow was because I was out of the loop and confused by blogging in the beginning. Only because I strayed away from CMC and felt like I had to relearn how to do everything. I haven’t changed the way I use CMC now but in the feature maybe I will. In my personal life I think CMC is going to be big just because we use it and everything we do and it’s only getting more advanced as time goes on. I feel as if no matter what kind of job I get CMC will be important because it’s going to be an essential necessity. I think I will look at every aspect of CMC from now on and take things that I have learned in this class and apply it to everyday life. I will look differently at how people view CMC because now I have a general understanding of what it is and all the things that happen in CMC. I’m not sure what kind of things I learned but I know everything was essential and that I will know what I learned by applying it in the feature. I did learn how to blog and how to comment on blogs, but I also learned the differences between certain types of blogs. This course was different from what I expected because I thought this class was just going to be a class where we talked about things that happened in CMC and what technology has done and how it’s going to continue to grow. Not only did I think that but I definitely didn’t think there were going to be online classes and discussions or hands on activities. All in all the class was a learning experience in many different ways although it wasn’t exactly what I thought it was going to be.