First Week Post

1/1my educational background

As I study English literature and linguistic as my undergrad major, I have two-year English teaching experience and have a strong interest in how technology and new media can reform traditional classroom teaching. Now I choose instructional technology as my graduate major and want to learn more about coding and new mdia.

my experience about new media

I have a small Youtube channel where I record my daily life and tiny shiny thoughts. I do love the way new media empower everyone with internet to express themselves and let the world know their voice and their thoughts. Even though few people view my videos, I love watching other people's video for it's like making friends and communicating through video chat.
Social media also change the way we live. I always post videos about my lunch, my works, my thoughts on microblog or instagram to share it with friends and contact with them about their post. Actually I can barely remember the life before social media become part of our lives. How do we spend our time when we have no work to do? How we share thoughts or daily life with friends offline?

1/2Artist with Tech

Art Entry

Gretchen Andrew is an artist whose work is described as an exploration of virtual reality. Her creativity in art is not only represented as painting techniques, but the entrance of the work in Internet. When she completed the painting with her personal theme, she programed the theme topic as key works in Google search engine and made that theme dominate all the search result of that key works. Her work is multi-dimensional for her work is way beyond painting; it is kind of performance art among Internet.

1/3 Institute with Tech

Cleveland Museum of Technology

• Digital Tour/ Direction
• Exhibition on APP and VR exhibition experience
• Engaging game with motion capturer and touch screen

1/4 Reading Takeaways

• Asynchronous: Because online activities did not have to occur in real time, we ended up having all the time in the Internet world. One actually thought before responding — sometimes a whole day. For example, people always though email replaces traditional mail industry while however, according to the survey, what email challenges is phone call instead of mail because phone call requires both sides at the same time but email can find someone when they want to be found. The asynchronous somehow saves us from having to be at the exactly same time but we sacrifice more time in checking messages from the past and give deeper reflection towards those messages than before. This is like a double-sided sward that make us both benefit and suffer and we have already deeply trapped in this asynchronous world.
• Anxiety: We hard to escape from anxiety in modern life. Even though email and facebook have already saved us from having to be at the synchronous time to exchange information, we still suffer from anxiety that we cannot be too late to response to those messages. In the asynchronous age, what takes most of the time is wait and chase: wait because we cannot receive messages from other synchronously but wait until the other want to respond to the messages; chase is because while the information exchange happens, we are not here and we have to chase after passing time and search through time line to go back to exact when it happened. We are running forward and because anxiety, we always want to running fast to catch up with others and backwards to be in the past.