The Medium is the Message This sentence explains my thoughts on today’s internet usage. With the advent of Web 2.0, communication online has drastically changed. Discussions are being held via comments on blogs and similar platforms, internet lingo and meme usage are inserted into conversation to add a new dimension to the post, and even ...

Assignment: Choose the sentence from the first five paragraphs of Gardner Campbell’s Personal Cyberinfrastructure essay that most appeals to you. Briefly describe how and why that sentence appeals to you (one or two paragraphs should suffice – unless you need more). Sentence: “At the turn of the century, higher education looked in the mirror and, ...

“Sometimes, however, progress means looping back to earlier ideas whose vitality and importance were unrecognized or underexplored at the time, and bringing those ideas back into play in a new context” This quote really reminds me of what a friend and I were talking about, about a year ago. We had discussed how much of the ...

  So, what stood out the most for me in the first five paragraphs of the reading was the term creative citizenship, and the sentence it goes with: “...higher education largely failed to empower the strong and effective imagination that students need for creative citizen ship in this new medium.” I’ve never heard this term … Continue reading »

The sentence that really caught my attention in the Gardner Campbell article was when it mentioned about how students would have the convenience of one-stop, single-sign-on activities, from registering for classes to participating in online discussion for seeing grades mere seconds after they were posted. I thought it was an interesting sentence, because it sounded ...

The sentence that really caught my attention in the Gardner Campbell article was when it mentioned about how students would have the convenience of one-stop, single-sign-on activities, from registering for classes to participating in online discussion for seeing grades mere seconds after they were posted. I thought it was an interesting sentence, because it sounded ...