When first seeing this assignment I thought that I would already know what was on the internet about me. As a curious kid, I had looked up my name on the internet a few times before. I expected to see pictures and articles about the bronze project I did for girls scouts in fifth grade…
Social media can have varying results on the way students in college performs. Huffington Post article by Riley Griffin goes into detail on how the use of social media can impact the way college students deal with mental health issues. In this article,...
Growing up, technology was something that began to change the way I started to interact with people and the world around me. Although technology wasn’t as abundant as it is today back in the early 2000’s, I was still able to grab a glimpse of how innov...
As I was throwing tissue paper and tearing off wrapping paper, my little third grader brain was not ready for the gift I was about to receive, an original iPod. Now today when you think of an iPod, you think of an iPhone that needs wifi to work. The iPod that I got is so…
Googling myself seemed like a weird idea at first… I wasn’t exactly sure of what would pop up. I assumed things like my social media accounts such as; Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat would come up. But, I was still uncertain about the rest. The first thing I did was look myself up through Google, followed
Even though “As We May Think” was written over 70 years ago, the author, Bush, makes some really good points about machines and technology. He mentions ideas of the benefits science has brought to society and looks at the ways information is passed to others though technology. Bush (1945) also states that technology finds a…
Entering this course, I am expecting to learn about the “behind the scenes” of the web. This includes where our posts, searches, emails, etc. are all stored, what benefits come from others keeping our information, and who looks at our data. Throughout this course I expect my perspective on my use of technology to grow…
