The What's New and What's Cool functions were a lot of fun to look at. In What's New, I took a look at e-music which is an online listing of new releases, different artists and even music you can purchase. In What's Cool , I took a look at the MTV Homepage, specifically, the music news and the animation.
I also used the Directory and Net Search, it did take me a couple of minutes to figure out but I did. In the Net Directory I looked in Yahoo, under art, then music and then artists. I looked up a group I really like called the Cocteau Twins. There was a listing and the page had a couple of their album covers, I thought this was pretty neat. In Net Search I looked up punk rock using Infoseek. I came across a homepage called John's Punk Page which was not terribly interesting.
Not too much to report as far as negative emotion goes, I mean, I never knew how much fun it was to e-mail someone and using the computer to look up interesting bits. The only thing is that I couldn't get the newsgroups to work and the Mac Color Classics are very, very slow. The MTV Homepage, for example, took at least a couple of minutes to load. Another thing is the CLIC lab is very humid and hot. Other than these things everything has been very positive.
I do happen to think that this
will be very valuable as we will be building progressively
on the things
we pick up each week. This week was all about learning the basics
and
being able to look things up. For example being able to use a search
engine
is what everything is all about, the whole purpose for being online, finding information,
and not being limited by only using what's listed.
I think it is very likely I'll be getting good at this
stuff, my confidence is pretty
high right now. I spent about 10 hours on the computer this week which is more time
than I spend watching television. I realize it's the first week but I feel good
about what is to come in this class (admittedly, I was
a bit anxious about being able
to survive).
As far as being
satisfied with the Internet and the computer, I think I am more amazed
than anything. I find myself like a kid in a candy store, looking at
everything
in wonderment and basking in the newness of it all. Besides
the hot CLIC lab and
the slow computer, I really can't complain.
This week's tasks required a little time and effort but as I mentioned
before, I was
on the computer for 10 hours this week, which I suppose
isn't a lot to other people
but to me as a beginner, it sure seems like a lot of time.
There weren't a lot of differences in the sub-tasks but then again there weren't any
real sub-tasks to speak of. As I mentioned earlier this week was more fun th
an anything.
I did not notice any fossilized errors which I suppose would be pretty difficult to have seeing as how we're all novices in this cyber-classroom as it were.
I did feel lacunae in terms of my note
taking. I simply didn't know what to write
down, and I kept forgetting to write things down, I had to keep on backtracking.
I suppose the novelty of the situation made me lose track of what I was doing online
in the first place. The only thing I can
think to do is to do my weekly tasks first and
stay focused, taking
complete notes all the while.
Ok, I
will say that I have progressed. A week ago I knew nothing, this week I
guess
I'm surfing the wild net, pretty cool. I really never thought
that I would be doing
this, I felt like I was missing the cultural boat
so to speak. I suppose that is why I took this class in the first
place. What can I say in conclusion except for, this is really
fun.