KCB201 Chat

Just at uni wasting time in the KCB201 Chatroom and learning how to use it. It is a great concept to use chatrooms to find out other students ideas and opinions about the reading and lecture material but I think it is also a disadvantage when we are being marked upon it. I discussed this with other individuals in the room and they all agreed.I suppose it is only worth 5% and you really just need to have some sort of interesting input to the discussion that relates the the subject material. All in all a very good idea and also demonstrates to us the change that technology is having upon our everyday lives.

It was also suprising to read in the newspaper that my old school, John Paul College allows students to use Ipod, mobile phones and other electronic devices while in class as they believe it is the only way to teach children these days. They think because students will study at home whilst listening to music, chatting on msn and reading their textbooks that it is appropriate to do this at school. This also ties into issues that I discuss in KCB301 with the idea of interactivity and utilising many different media at the same time. I guess at this moment I am a perfect example of this: blogging, chatting and checking my emails at the same time.