Week 13 The Final Frontier....

Well maybe not the final frontier, i don't even know why i titled my post this, i guess it just sounded cool (in a nerdy kinda way). Anyway, wow its the end of another semester, how quick time flies! So this final post (hopefully not the last from me, i kinda like getting stuff off my chest in a blog, just the last for this subject) is to be "a short summary of their class related online work/activity". Well as my blogs show I'm not the perfect example of presenting on-time postings of online work, but as they say better late than never, and i guess submitting something is better than nothing (shrug). Even though i was constantly behind (both my fault and computer troubles, not going there again lol) going over the readings and the online posts after their actual week I made me, i think learn the topics better. I really did enjoy all the interesting topics, Online worlds, online socialising, mobile phones, blogs and web 2.0 (i hope in covered them all) and i did gain a greater insight in to these new media areas and online posts/work certainly helped that. Actually engaging with the technology is more interesting and practical than theory.

I was always hesitant to set up an online identity, mainly because (one of the psych trademarks of a teenager) is that in real life i still don't know exactly what/who my own identity is. Having my identity online i guess cements it, consolidates it, makes it something separate from me and that is what i tried to avoid. Now after having a substantial presence online through a facebook, myspace, blog and various other accounts to webpages, i realise that its not that bad having an online identity and that like the web, your identity can still be fluid and change online just like it changes in real life. Anyway I hope the readers of my blog (or my one follower Meg) have so far enjoyed my online identity and getting to know me, because i know have enjoyed "webifying" myself. On a final note, my portfolio website is not entirely what i imagined (professionally and content wise) but as stated before, it will constantly change and hopefully be upgraded, but at least it reflects some part of me at that particular time and is my own individual personal web project.

Thanks for a great semester guys, Melissa and Micael, Chris, David and Katie, thanks for all your help and knowledge and Meg thanks for following my blog (effort or no effort) it made blogging so much easier knowing that hopefully i didn't sound like a idiot.....

Website/Webifying Professionalism

Well I finally got my online portfolio website sorted except still have a few linkage issues but hopefully they'll be sorted out soon. I started my website and in my mind it seems a lot different than what it looks like now but ah well, it sorta came out okay I think? I tried doing, along with the bubbles as the theme, an alternative universe type of thing with lots of different characters from different worlds, if that makes sense. Even though it didn't turn out quite like I wanted, it seems okay. My website is a little less professional and a lot less cooler than I imagined in my head lol, but then again this was my first attempt at creating a website with limited computer knowledge, so I did okay. My bubbles as the links idea didn't turn out quites like i wanted, which was meant to be the cursor when moved over a bubble, the bubble would reveal the links but unfortunately I couldn't figure that out given the amount of time I have left :( Then again I can always improve and come back to it later after uni is over and try and fix it but overall im happy with my first draft at a website.

Week 8 The Blogosphere

Okay well in answering the question about blogs dealing with contemporary political issues, i think i accidently answered that question in my week 6 post. ooops..... well the Beppe Grillo video is a perfect example of the power of blogs as a form of political activism and how blogs have changed public debate. The issue i want to deal with in my blog i wasnt really sure, i dont really have extensive knowledge of any one particular issue, my aim for my blog was simply to allow people who know me online to know me a little better as a person, if that is possible online given the whole stalker factor, but in having only 1 follower I think im pretty safe lol.