The Final Blog

I apologize for the lateness, and was sorry to have to miss the final tute - but this morning I managed to drag myself (and my IV drip - no just kidding) out of bed to make the reflective post :P

I thought that the weblog was useful to the learning process, especially to this unit - we couldn't have thought about the issues without engaging in any of them! The tute blog was helpful in showing everybody's thoughts as a collection on the topic of "identity in the digital age" - you can browse through and see the progression of the unit. However the unit is good whether we use weblogs or not ;)

I don't believe myself to be a cyborg, or maybe I am considering it yet can't go all the way with this idea. The organic experience of being a human is too strong to suggest that technology is going to become dominant in my experience - yet I can see how technology offers an extention to what we understand as being human. For me, I always see myself in the drivers seat with technology as a passenger - I see it as a tool whether it extends as a part of me or not. Sure I form strong attachments to technology, but perhaps due to the more sensory/bodily world of "real life" I can't quite embrace the idea of technology being "real" to us, I see it as a part of what we are, (in the case of the internet) a projected self.

I liked exploring this idea most of all throughout the course, it made me think of things that I hadn't before, made me analyze into our world and the way we interact, and how technology is articulated into our already existing ideas about being human.
At first I really disliked the idea of weblogs, I felt pressured to share opinions and especially my work (that I was self conscious about) and I dreaded each mandatory post. As the course went by though, I realized that the weblog caused me to be more open with my ideas online and in tutes - it made me more confident in sharing thoughts with others. I don't think I've learnt much more than I already knew about the internet - I think I'm always going to be clumsy - I managed to make mistakes in nearly every post! And tried to correct them but failed :P (sorry Tama)

I really liked the course, and Tama was a great tutor, thanks everyone in the tute too
:)