A False sense of perfection...

I was browsing through my face book today and I started to recognise an ongoing pattern.  Photos posted through instagram, status' s that expressed the amazing things that were happening to people. Pregnancy's,  marriages, new jobs!! Are we creating illusions of perfection to each other through the power of social media. Are we sub consciously trying to out do eachother and make our lives seem like fairytales.  Is this constant live updating of the good things in our lives making the others we share it with doubt their progression in life?? Please share your thoughts with me on this...

Journal Writing Experience

On Tuesday 26th March I worked in an SEN primary school teaching children Dance and Drama.  A performing friend of mine usually teaches this class but she is currently doing a sketch show so needed it covered.  I was a little nervous the day before, as although I have taught children with special needs and behavioral problems, I have never taught in an SEN school before.  Having one child in a class is different to teaching a whole class with special needs.  I planned my classes very carefully, and made sure I researched the school so I could understand all the different types of children that attend there.  When I arrived at the school and taught the classes I was overwhelmed with how energetic and friendly all the children were.  I was able to engage with them through the world of performing and felt such pleasure from seeing them grow in confidence and self esteem from the exercises I was doing with them.  It made me grow as a person and a teacher to see how widely my work can effect children.  This is why i love Performing Arts so much, and why it will always hold a place in my heart.  It doesn't shut its doors to anyone, and maybe it could teach the world a few things.

Web 2.0

More than 400 million active users
50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
There are over 160 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups and events)
Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes,
photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

By reading the above, I have come to the conclusion that the world never sleeps!!  We are all so engage in our virtual lives.  When sitting browsing through Facebook, posting photos, commenting on peoples posts, it has never occurred to me that over 400 million people are doing the same.  Does this not show how powerful Web 2.0 is...?  In a way i find it quite daunting, that something can control our lives in such a way.  I saw a television programme once that was talking about social networking sites and how they effect the path our lives take.  There are certain people, that our life did not intend for us to keep in touch with, people who we are meant to leave behind to progress in our future.  I found this very interesting and when I actually looked at my friends list on Facebook, I had many friends who I hadn't even really spoke to in school, yet they were commenting on my status's and photos.  Is this not a little weird?

Something that did catch my eye in the Professional Communication Technology reader was 'Tim O'Reily's meme'.  By analyzing this it made me think deeper about the web 2.0 tools I use in everyday life, and showed me the deeper meaning of these tools and how they effect us.  I also like the idea that web 2.0 tools 'reduces barriers by making participation cheap, easy and quick', (Hamilton, 2000).  I find this to be true, you can build a whole business through participating in the communication of web 2.0.   'Ullrich et al.(2008)' uses the term 'architecture of assembly', everything we do to build on these tools, helps them to develop and evolve.  We are able to create our own methods of production and don't have to rely on other sources to do it for us.

I think I will come back to this, with more comments as I start to analyze the way i use Web 2.0 more.  I'm no longer just going to post, I will be thinking constantly about the effect the posts i write will have on the community that are able to see it.

Camera, Action!

Hey Guys... Heres my youtube video...  http://youtu.be/BD789TOrAZU.  Not going to lie, I think i did it about 10 times.  Haha.  Kept wanting to put in more, but then I said to myself.  Lizzy, your not making a movie here!!!  Enjoy.

My flikr account

http://www.flickr.com/people/93143336@N04/

The way we interpret...

Ive been nosey and had a look at other bloggers from the BAPP course.  I have found so many different interpretations of what it is the Task asked us to do.  Now I'm not sure if there is a right or wrong, or if we are to learn from our own and others interpretations and make our own decision on what we think is right.  I like the way Kim Walton http://kymwalton.blogspot.co.uk/ wrote her profile as if she was having a conversation with the reader.  It really engaged me and I was actually interested in reading on through her profile.  I think this is the same kind of approach I took.  I want to make my readers get to know me and my personality through my words.  I don't want them to just know what work I have done.  That's a bit boring and less personal, I feel.  Looking back over past years, I found Ahmet Ahmet's blog to be extremely interesting. http://mrahmet.blogspot.co.uk.  Although the profile was very informative, he made a little joke at the end and i felt that gave me an insight into the kind of character he is.  As i went on to read more of his blog, i was mentally stealing ideas for my own.  Sorry Ahmet!! You should have copy written your ideas.  haha.  

Background

So I'm back already!  I just wanted to share with you all why i changed my background to the Stereo.  The stereo is so retro, and yet it holds such a strong place in society.  Especially the world i work in.  Without music i would have no inspiration, it holds a massive part of my heart.  So i chose the stereo as the background for my blog as it is part of the background of me.