{"id":834,"date":"2009-09-25T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-09-28T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T01:29:50","slug":"upon-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/25\/upon-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Upon reflection…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why this picture you ask? I guess it\u2019s because I feel this proverb epitomizes the changing nature of text and technology and the fact that it\u2019s not something we can or should ignore.<\/p>\n

I want to begin by saying that it\u2019s taking a while for me to get use to using this type of forum. As day passes, I believe I\u2019m getting a little better at navigating and contributing to our weblog. I must say I was a little skeptical at first, perhaps because I\u2019m more \u2018old school\u2019 and more comfortable using older technologies. That being said, I\u2019m always up for a challenge and this certainly seems to be pushing me to the max. It helps knowing that I\u2019m not the only one that\u2019s struggling on the technology side of things. The bottom line is that I\u2019m learning plenty of new and interesting things.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to learn in Module 1 that there were so many different definitions for text and technology and that these terms are used in so many different contexts. I\u2019m used to be surrounded by books but in more recent years, I find myself spending more time working from a computer. I\u2019m not a gamer but I can see the attraction. I think the internet is a wonderful thing and I use it for many reasons, everything from communicating to family and friends, to finding out information on just about anything. I believe that, as a technology, the internet is responsible for transforming the way we see and use text. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a good thing or a bad thing.<\/p>\n

After I listened to O\u2019Donnell\u2019s From Papyrus to Cyberspace and reviewed the discussion postings on the text and technology, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what lies ahead. I think it might be interesting to listen to what people are prophesying about today, particularly with respect to where they believe the technology is expected to go but also about how they think it will alter the way we view text. Based on the Papyrus to Cyberspace experience, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised to learn that some of what is said will come to pass. We should also expect the unexpected as it is almost impossible to predict with certainly, just how things will unfold. As with most things in life, what we think will happen and what actually happened are usually two different things.<\/p>\n

If I could rewrite my first impressions on text and technology I suspect the entries would quite different than what they are now. I can\u2019t say I would have changed what I wrote previously. Instead, I would probably have expanded it to include all the other things I hadn\u2019t thought of previously or hadn\u2019t known until now. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to reflect on these two terms again, towards the end of the course.<\/p>\n

Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why this picture you ask? I guess it\u2019s because I feel this proverb epitomizes the changing nature of text and technology and the fact that it\u2019s not something we can or should ignore. I want to begin by saying that it\u2019s taking a while for me to get use to using this type of forum. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2197],"tags":[6809,6808,6810],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","tag-reflection","tag-technology","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}