Week 1: Tutorial 10-12 JBS

Well, back on the internet. The beginning of my first computer class for my journalism course and already a wonderfully "subtle" hint towards 4chan.

For those that don't know me, my name is Jack. I'm studying journalism, as i stated above, this year and plan to move into that profession when I finish. I'm starting a blog as one of the 'oh so many' course requirements that seem to be thrust upon a poor, first year student. This reason aside however, after listening to the first lecture of this course; new communication technologies, I have begun to see more uses for this blog than simply completing an assessment.

I plan, hopefully, to use this blog to attempt to display other pieces of my writing and receive some feedback. As I'm writing this in fact, my tutor is informing the class of how the internet and computers in general have changed the way society works. This fact is what has led me to my attempt to use this blog as a staging ground for other forms of writing.

I have honestly found it amazing that in a single week of this course many of my ideas about the internet and its uses in writing and communication have changed. No longer simply a portal to /b/ and its many internet superheroes, but a medium by which to promote and discover talent in areas i had not before associated with the web.

These thoughts aside however, there is an assessment criteria to this course. The first of these items is in fact, this very blog. We have been set the task of updating the blog weekly with around 300 words or so, and to have approximately 3000 words by the end of the course. This part of our assessment incorporates 30% of the overall mark for the course, but should be quite fun and not really much of a burden. Not alone in its web based assessment, the blog will also contain a separately assessed essay at some point during its life. Although this has only been set out as 1000 words, and 20% of our marked criteria, the large number of references required seems quite daunting compared to what I have become accustomed to through school.

It seems that I have rambled, as I usually do when put in front of a keyboard, about close to nothing. To conclude this first post of mine I suppose I should mention that I really have enjoyed the course so far, and from what I have seen of the course so far, presume I will continue to enjoy it.

Until the next time I post on this, my own little piece of the internet I shall say good bye.

P.S. For those that don't know what it is, google /b/ and see what you can discover.