Blog Journal #4

I've been an affluent twitter user for a few years and can say with confidence that it is the application I invest the most time one. For the most part I interact with political channels and entertainment figures, interspersing personal entries here and there. Twitter is where I get the vast majority of my news-- as it works as the most effective and productive "feed" on the net.  I rarely post anything about myself so I haven't necessarily built user/follower connections. I understand that twitter can be an extremely toxic environment for opinion writers, minorities, the LGBTQ community, and so forth. From my detached but informed experience there is no greater way to communicate my content as a writer. I plan in the near future to begin my blog focused all around film/t.v/pop culture think pieces, so this website is key.

It's a modern tragedy to think  there exists in this world a student body with no practical access to technologies in the age of communication. With just a cursory look of history one can see that technologies have sprung up and have dictated flows of information for better or worse--form dictates content. Wealth distribution lays at the heart of the issue, obviously. I remember the example that, you, Mr. Liu have brought up in class about teaching in China without the aid of internet technologies. Hard, I imagine, considering the vast amount of jabs available require knowledge in online fields.

Lynda.com, from the cursory look we took in class, I think provided compelling software materials  that could serve supplementary functions. Say, I'm out of town; my students would refer to the materials in the lesson plans so they stay on track. Another would be MS suite. I'm a mac guy, so I have my biases but you have to give credit where it's due. MS has provided a wide breathe of suites for nary a cost for students. Invaluable, really, and practical given what is required to complete projects.