The final word - My experience with this class

I have such an appreciation for the online world and find a lot of the content that was delivered in this class really interesting. Some of the content I feel i already knew but I don't see this as a disadvantage because I was able to concentrate on the aspects I was a bit foreign with.

The idea of video blogging really interested me, I guess I was a bit scared to ever attempt it but the fact that it was intertwined in our assessment really allowed me to finally take that step. I found the process frustrating because on every output of my video I came across a problem! On video 1 i had entered the wrong video codec, Video 2 i had exported the video with the wrong audio codec and then Video 3 for some reason failed to convert when uploaded.

What this taught me was that with online technology, most of the things you learn are through trial and error and there is no finite way to teach how something is done.

Something which really stuck with me in the class was the idea that "When you upload something, the way you view it completely changes because you become aware of the audience" I thought this was really profound because a lot of the time when you upload something on the internet you really have to evaluate the piece because you never know who could come across it, whether it's suitable or appropriate and whether it's worth uploading.

I really enjoyed the discussions we had in class and enjoyed the class size as I think it was just the right number.

Overall, it pretty much fulfilled everything I had expected coming into the class. I've learnt a fair bit given it only ran for 3 days and am still learning as I continue with some of the blogging in my own time.