As many of my fellow colleagues have – I would like to say
thank you to everyone for a wonderful, informative, explorative, and
entertaining semester. Thank you Professor for sharing your thoughts and incite
to this amazing world of New Media and New Literacies.
With that said - what a journey this has been!
New media is constantly being developed and as in all things
this leads to the need for new literacies. New literacy is the building block
to the 21st century learner. As learners explore and utilize the new
media, a culture begins to emerge that requires participation and collaboration.
Learning is no longer a linear track but has morphed into a multi-facet one.
Through this course I have been able to experience something
that I have not experienced in sometime, I had to learn new media and I was
behind in technology. In my career I deal with technology every day and I use
technology to teach others. I found that I have not even scratched the surface
of the new media that is available to use and enrich the learning environments.
WOW!!!
I am now on a journey to explore where this new literacy and
understanding of new media can take me. I had some anxiety to record my voice
to create a presentation online for YouTube – but I did it! I enjoyed this
experience so much I purchased a professional microphone and I have started to
record my lectures to allow my students to play them back for review.
I am proud to say that I am not a true native to the
technology but I am immersed into a whole new world that I can be a participant
like never before!
