An Introduction:
Spring semester 2009, taking two very difficult classes towards my Masters in Distance Education through the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). This is my second semester and I have already conquered one class albeit the Introductory Class OMDE 601 and in addition USCP 611 a library science introduction class. As I start the new semester I ponder and bring curosity to what I am about to embark upon and how it will challenage me, change my views and morph me into the Woman and educator I strive to be. My Classes are OMDE 603 which is titled: Technology in Education and OMDE 606 which is titled: Cost and Economics of Distance Education. The reason I have started this blog is simple...It's mandatory! Ha.
My thoughts on Vlogs and Blogs...
I am an avid blogger via my private Myspace page that is available only to close family and friends. I enjoy taking Distance Education classes and I feel this is how my blog came about in its first inception. I have always had a love of writing and after taking half of my undergraduate classes online I was introduced by a friend to myspace. Myspace of course is a social networking site much in the same vein as the ill fated Friendster, and Fratastic Facebook. I had no real interest in social networking of course give me a site where I could meet with and hook up with corporate America to further my job prospects and you'd have me there with bells on. Although after my 500th friend made me join I suddenly became an avid social networker collecting friends as though they were baseball cards and thus the blog just happened. Long lost friends, Family, random people I met at the bar all converge to get to know a little bit more about me and it is a vanity project. Where else can you go and talk about yourself and everyone is supportive aside from AA, and a therapist's office. I love the idea where semi sane people can express thoughts some crazy, others funny but all in all original for the world to partake in and enjoy. It was love at first blog! I try and blog anytime something exciting or new happens in my life. Currently me and my husband are expecting our first child, and unlike many people are first child is coming in the form of a 7 year old, who has been in foster care her entire life and via a adoption website we were matched. I joke that it is like E-Harmony for the childless. Seriously though this is an exciting and magical time in our lives and my blog reflects all the emotions that come with it. Now Vlogs and me have a very differant relationship as soon as youtube launched I decided to share some vacation footage with my best friend via youtube. My videos constantly received negitive feedback and frankly I was like "They are for a friend" but that is not how many people see youtube it is very differant than let's say a Photobucket account where you can store your pictures and share with friends they are much more viewed and available to strangers who can then rate and discuss you. It is far too much scrunity for me personally. I think that the written word is becoming too casual and unfortunatly obsolete with Vlogs. I do the candor that you can possess in the flesh although I am just not up for the Vlogesphere.
More to Come...
Onto the subject of what will be discussed in future chapters hmmm...The books I am forced into reading and the ones that I pay lots of money to read each semester.
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Thanks for sharing! You can write boy can you write :^)
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Where else can you go and talk about yourself and everyone is supportive aside from AA, and a therapist's office.
I am stealing it and I am not going to site you either. LOL
Did you do the research stuff for 611 yet?
ReplyDeleteI research for a professor during my bachelors (he wrote the book we did the work) I thought I was good but I learned a lot form the class. I think it is good that everyone has to take it.
Yes I did survive the 611...Barely Thanks for the nice words of encouragement sometimes I feel that writing is my weakest link. Maybe I am just too hard on myself? Ahh self loathing keeps me motivated I suppose.
ReplyDeleteJennifer,
ReplyDeleteI didn't go the MySpace route...I got the 500th request from Facebook friends and....grudgingly set up a page. It was something I just didn't feel I had time for....it felt like another party you "had to make a presence" at. But that did change as I "met up" with friends from my graduating class (this is a reunion year for me) and then I started getting contacted my some of my former students in a class I periodically teach at CSM. It was nice to see what is happening in their lives, where they are, what they have gone on to do...and the fact that I can check in on them on my own free time (little that it is) and still feel "connected".
I don't blog off the page, but I think there is a place to post "notes" like an e-journal/blog. I just don't opt to use the function. I'm way to private with my thought to put them "out there" for anyone, even some of my friends to just see. The furthest I go is the one liner rant in the "What is Beverly doing?" status line! ~Bev