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Yesterday was the group presentation. The group really came together in those last few nights before the presentation. We worked together as a team to finalise the slides and make sure everything was working. Ava was having some issues with recording the audio for her slides so we worked together to find a solution. SheContinue reading “Week 12: Group Presentation”

One of the most topical issues today is climate change. For the first time in human civilisation we are facing the destruction of our habitat. The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact onContinue reading “Week 10: Warning!”

The class discussion this week was about digital citizenship. Unfortunately the class took place in an area in secondlife that I did not have access to because I am 17, and it was restricted to over 18s. Luckily I was still able to get a transcript of what was said but being unable to accessContinue reading “Week 9: Digital Citizenship, 50 years from now”

The team project is coming along well. We are in touch regularly, communicating using our instagram group chat. Over the break we were all working on our slides for the presentation. We decided to use green and blue as the colour scheme for our presentation. Dagmara and I uploaded our slides to the shared powerpointContinue reading “Week 8: Group Project”

The opening to the short story The Ones who walk away from Omelas portrays a seemingly perfect society in which everyone is happy. The happiness of the people however, is dependent on the eternal suffering of one child. If I were a member of society in Omelas, I’d like to think I would choose toContinue reading “Week 8: Walking away from Omelas”

Today I met with my team for the group project. We had planned to meet yesterday (the 22nd of March) but we rescheduled to today at 1:00pm as it suited some members better. We met up using zoom again as this worked well the last few times. So far we have all been doing individualContinue reading “Week 7: Group Project”

This week in class we discussed the philosophical question of personal identity and the ideas of the “self”. In an interview with Daniel Dennett, he brought up some interesting questions such as whether one person could have multiple “selves”, and I think in a way our online personas allow us to. In real life weContinue reading “Week 7: Online persona”

This week we are being tasked with outlining our personal frameworks for ethical digital engagement and how that has informed our interactions with online virtual communities. We visited Virtual Ability Island in class yesterday. While we were there I got to meet various members of the community and hear their stories. It was interesting toContinue reading “Week 6: Virtual Ability Island”

This week in class we discussed the theories of Marshall McLuhan. He was particularly interested in the way media impacts our society and culture. During the class we discussed one of his most famous quotes “the medium is the message”. McLuhan argues that the medium used is more impactful on society than the actual contentContinue reading “Week 5: McLuhan”

This week  my team met up to discuss the group project. Iamsquidward has taken the role of the leader in the group, she’s the one who set up the group chat and the calls we had. We are using an Instagram group chat as our main form of communication. We decided to use this forumContinue reading “Week 4: Brainstorming”