Taking mid-terms at Granite State College is always a challenging experience, however, this semester I am taking a mid-term as a part of my Indpendent Learning Contract which makes it not only more challenging but also very interesting.
The course is called The Media and its Messages so the first thing I have been asked to do as an exam component is to track my own personal media use for a total of five days.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered how much I access different media sources during the course of a day (and evening); I who use a cell phone for emergencies, a laptop only when I am in Northern Maine in summer and don't know how to use my DVD player even when I would like to.
My GSC Instructor gave me an eye-opening exercise that makes me more aware of how much television, computer, and radio time I actually do use in spite of my own resistence to it at times.
Now that I have gathered this information I must write an essay about the mass medium I use most in my life. Although I have not tallied the results as of this posting I do think it will definitely be a toss-up between television and computer because, since I have been at Granite State College my use of the computer has risen to an all-time though unepceted high. Through Granite State College I have taken the basic level computer course that is offered to bring me up to speed. I have also learned to do my research through EBSCO host which is an awesome virtual library and I have grown to rely on it as an outstanding source of solid peer-reviewed information. And now I am a blogger. Who knew?
Tomorrow I will tally my results and begin my essay. I am ready to get started up yet another rung of my Granite State College ladder to success!
The course is called The Media and its Messages so the first thing I have been asked to do as an exam component is to track my own personal media use for a total of five days.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered how much I access different media sources during the course of a day (and evening); I who use a cell phone for emergencies, a laptop only when I am in Northern Maine in summer and don't know how to use my DVD player even when I would like to.
My GSC Instructor gave me an eye-opening exercise that makes me more aware of how much television, computer, and radio time I actually do use in spite of my own resistence to it at times.
Now that I have gathered this information I must write an essay about the mass medium I use most in my life. Although I have not tallied the results as of this posting I do think it will definitely be a toss-up between television and computer because, since I have been at Granite State College my use of the computer has risen to an all-time though unepceted high. Through Granite State College I have taken the basic level computer course that is offered to bring me up to speed. I have also learned to do my research through EBSCO host which is an awesome virtual library and I have grown to rely on it as an outstanding source of solid peer-reviewed information. And now I am a blogger. Who knew?
Tomorrow I will tally my results and begin my essay. I am ready to get started up yet another rung of my Granite State College ladder to success!
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