Two weeks in and --BAM!!

I must say, dear reader, that at the beginning of this course I had much excitement. Indeed, who wouldn't be excited about attending classes on Facebook? Indeed, the whole idea of the soon to be Dr. Blewett is infact exploratory in nature, and in order to provide the richness thereof I must be honest.

Firstly, I must say, if I were to summarize my two week experience of the CMC course I'd use one word - overwhelming. The Facebook platform has notifications all over the place to such an extent that most of the time I don't know what's going on. When reading articles and wanting to post them on the page, I get so overwhelmed by the content that's already on the page and having to comment on it all, boy, I get tired just thinking about it. the other day I logged on to Facebook and I found 27 notifications, all from the FABspace page, and all of them are either people commenting or people posting new stuff. Its hard even to keep up with the notices that come from the lecturer that are important (although I must add, the forum app has aided this to such an extent that it is virtually a non-issue at this point). So to this end I'm a bit uncomfortable.

Second, and this is no joke, I LOVE the neatchat way of attending classes! I think it is absolutely revolutionary and the look on people's faces when I tell them that I attend on Facebook is priceless! This past week, where we had to go around chat-rooms and engaging in web2 discussions, was probably the best class I've ever attended in my 3-and some years in this institution. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Lastly, the course content thus far is far from unreasonable. I like the element of freedom it allows us, and being given a platform to convey insight is not only absolutely fantastic but it also makes me think like a professional. All in all, so far the experience is very good, but some kind of solution has to found to deal with the issue of uncontrolled posting on the wall. to this effect I will write in the next post, with also updates from the upcoming week.
Dennis.