Tabblo!
This week is focused on how technology has changed the way I write. I did however stick a couple images about music and movies on the internet and Youtube. I believe we have spoken on this before and I thought it was an important aspect of my internet life so I put them there.
In regards to how technology has changed the way I write and communicate. New technologies for these subjects come about all of the time, and it seems like to me they always create a new way for me to communicate with others. That or they tend to make things a whole lot faster or more convenient. I think for me the biggest thing is not the fact that these technologies improve my forms of communication, but that they increase it. A snail-mail letter can say essentially the same thing an email can (disregarding any HTML or the like), but it sure takes longer. Because of this increased efficiency and speed I have increased the quantity of "mails" that I have sent to others by numbers in the thousands per year. To say this is not relevant is to ignore a crucial change during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This is also the case with other forms such as cell phones, which has increased the percent of time that I am on the phone with someone by huge numbers.
I am not entirely sure if I did this part correctly but I will post my Tabblo anyways.
The picture below is an example of a word document which can
solve this problem. This is so monumental that many professors only
accept typed homework in their classes. ... See my Tabblo>
Comments
In regards to the differences between paper and electronic letters: I think the human-ness of writing is lost in e-mail. I've sent drawings, seeds, ticket stubs, a butterfly wing to a friend in a hospital in Japan (which was probably illegal, come to think of it), flyers, and hand-drawn maps in the mail. My grandma's cursive is incredible, but her e-mails would look like anyone else's. When I write to her, I have to use a marker to make inch-high letters on plain white paper so she can make out the words. It seems like e-mail has led us to exchange quality for quantity in our letters.
Posted by: e_rose | March 25, 2007 01:34 PM
Hi! Thanks for talking about the physical act of writing! Do you think that handwriting (not just yours) is hard to read because we are not used to it any longer, or because people are are handwriting less and not as used to it.
A relative of mine recently wondered if cursive writing should be taught at all in elementary school, since students learn to write on computers so early.
Posted by: Ramonac | March 25, 2007 11:24 PM
Hi! Thanks for talking about the physical act of writing! Do you think that handwriting (not just yours) is hard to read because we are not used to it any longer, or because people are are handwriting less and not as used to it.
A relative of mine recently wondered if cursive writing should be taught at all in elementary school, since students learn to write on computers so early.
Posted by: Ramonac | March 25, 2007 11:25 PM
I don't know if you'll ever get this---
but in response to your post, the pics of Kevin Bacon were from Sundance Film Festival. I was there in January.
-Julie
Posted by: Julie Swenson | April 1, 2007 10:54 PM