For a long time now I have thoroughly enjoyed my own resistence to change -- that is until I returned to Granite State College to complete my long-awaited, much craved Bachelor's Degree in Language Arts.
Little did I know when I ventured out from under my comfy, protective rock the twists and turns of enlightment my precious journey would take.
Today is the day I will finish the book Media Studies An Introduction by Robert Kolker which is the text for my Independent Learning Contract with Professor Craig Nevins. With this amazing book in hand I have time-traveled far and wide from the days of newspapers and yellow journalism to a new millenium crampack filled with the next greatest things from myspace.com to the latest and greatest notepad that is all the rage as I write this blog.
As the saying goes, "I didn't know what I didn't know!" One thing I do know for sure, I am more informed about the media and the way it has massaged me over the past 50 years of my life. I am also less paralyzed than I was before I began this course because I now have a backdrop from which to go forward into future learning efforts of my precious education, most especially where technology and media are concerned.
During these past couple of years at Granite State College I have experienced some stunning revelations after finishing most of my courses. But I have waited and resisted this course about media studies for a couple of reasons, fear being the most significant one of all. I was afraid I didn't have enough knowledge base to take this course because I really don't keep current with the latest and greatest techno-inventions. Frankly I would rather be hiking along "The Road Not Taken" than sitting in front of my computer screen, that is, until Blogging arrived in my life.
My second reason for resisting this course is more about my lack of interest in technology that has remanded me to the prison of my own ignorance. It is good that I have finally taken this course because I have enjoyed learning how far we have progressed in this country. We do have the best and brightest minds in the world who are truly the visionaries of our evolvement.
I am unafraid to learn more about the technical developments though I must concede, I will live forever in total fear of the daze and gaze of the advertising world and its incessant sales pitch.
So, even if "Media and it's Message" is a general requirement in any particular course of study, I now understand what it brings to my well-rounded Liberal Arts Education at Granite State College.
Little did I know when I ventured out from under my comfy, protective rock the twists and turns of enlightment my precious journey would take.
Today is the day I will finish the book Media Studies An Introduction by Robert Kolker which is the text for my Independent Learning Contract with Professor Craig Nevins. With this amazing book in hand I have time-traveled far and wide from the days of newspapers and yellow journalism to a new millenium crampack filled with the next greatest things from myspace.com to the latest and greatest notepad that is all the rage as I write this blog.
As the saying goes, "I didn't know what I didn't know!" One thing I do know for sure, I am more informed about the media and the way it has massaged me over the past 50 years of my life. I am also less paralyzed than I was before I began this course because I now have a backdrop from which to go forward into future learning efforts of my precious education, most especially where technology and media are concerned.
During these past couple of years at Granite State College I have experienced some stunning revelations after finishing most of my courses. But I have waited and resisted this course about media studies for a couple of reasons, fear being the most significant one of all. I was afraid I didn't have enough knowledge base to take this course because I really don't keep current with the latest and greatest techno-inventions. Frankly I would rather be hiking along "The Road Not Taken" than sitting in front of my computer screen, that is, until Blogging arrived in my life.
My second reason for resisting this course is more about my lack of interest in technology that has remanded me to the prison of my own ignorance. It is good that I have finally taken this course because I have enjoyed learning how far we have progressed in this country. We do have the best and brightest minds in the world who are truly the visionaries of our evolvement.
I am unafraid to learn more about the technical developments though I must concede, I will live forever in total fear of the daze and gaze of the advertising world and its incessant sales pitch.
So, even if "Media and it's Message" is a general requirement in any particular course of study, I now understand what it brings to my well-rounded Liberal Arts Education at Granite State College.
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