Final, Final Post!

Ok, so this is my final blog, seeing how the final is in 1 day and the term almost over, so I better make the most of it!

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this class!  Every time I learned something new and cool I'd run to my friend and tell her about it.  And just the number of times I've mentioned something about what I learned in class the other day when I'm at home (probably bothered the hell out of my dad while my mom feigned understanding).

So now I'm studying for this final (luckily the midterm wasn't that hard, so I don't expect this one to be a mountain climb either. Which is great!)

Hopefully I can apply a ton that I learned in this class to daily life, like any future Internet restricting laws the government wants to throw at us....

Is the internet dooming spelling?

I read one of prof. macek's posts on the internet dooming spelling, but I think it's really Word and spell check that's ruining it.

on the internet, all the preteens seem to spell things in the strangest ways (teen slang?), and think they're sooooo cool doing it (really, they just look like idiots).

but it's just a phase.  they grow out of it eventually and learn to spell correctly.

but in Word, when we type a paper and misspell a word, it underlines it in red, and can tell us how to actually spell it.

and that's what's dooming spelling


we don't need to remember to spell correctly, because spell check will just do that for us! :D

Cyber bullying

I know lots of students mentioned last class that cyber bullying surprisingly didn't become a big deal until too late...

what if that could be due to parents not understanding what the internet is about and could be used for? We are the "digital generation", so we tend to know more about technology and its many uses.

our parents do not.

so the adults may not have realized that bullying could move to the internet because they never truly understood what the internet was.

Final Project OVER! (OH MY GOD!)

I spent grueling hours on that final project, finding at least 4 academic sources to cite (even though there was really only 1 that talked about transmedia in Japanese pop culture).....

Then I wrote up all those examples (i think that's what really killed me....)

and cite all the different pages I used for miniscule information (release dates, etc.)....

but now....it's finally.....OVAR!


now onto the final exam........................