Class Analysis

Overall, I’d have to say I enjoyed this class.  I have always had an interest in technology.  For this class, I had to update and maintain a blog.  I do read a few blogs regularly, but after doing my own blog; I have a new appreciation on how much work goes into maintaining a blog.  Updating a wiki is also something that I found interesting.  I use Wikipedia for a quick reference all the time.  I know that one of the reasons why it is so popular is because users operate it.  After using the class wiki, I now have a better knowledge of how wikis work.

One of the most entertaining aspects of the class was going to the different websites.  Learning about the waybackmachine was really useful.  I did not know that existed.  It was also cool to see the website about finding a hotel and matching it up to pictures on what you want to do on vacation.

The Carr article I also liked because it brought up many useful questions dealing with technology and the future.  I think that these topics will become more mainstream in the near future.  I wish we could have talked about his article “is google making us stupid?”

This class made me realize that I always have to be up to date when it comes to technology.  As was stated in class, when I do get a job, I will probably be one of the youngest and people are going to be looking to me for help on technological issues.