Hi I’m Kelsey Hamilton and I am in my fourth year at UVIC. I’m doing a major in sociology with a minor in professional writing, which is what lead me to TS 400. TS 400 is offered this semester, works with my schedule, and completes my minor in journalism. I am not necessarily a tech-savvy person, but I am realizing it is becoming pertinent to almost any profession, not only writing.

I have always had an interest in social media, how quickly it has grown, and how quickly we have lost interest in privacy. I am also interested in, as a journalist, the varying degrees of information available through technology but also hidden by technology.

In another class, a student discussed an article she read of a new app, similar to snap chat, aimed at professionals who do not want a record of their communication or documents between one another to exist. Here’s the article if you’re interested.

Hi my name is Alex Niketas, I am a second year student in the Business Program here at UVic! I have taken this class to learn more about the advancement of technology and the role it plays in our society, specifically towards business and political trends.

Here is the Prezi from our first class with key terms etc.

Hello my name is Trevor Hopton and I’m a second year sociology student. I am in this class because I took TS200 last year and liked it so much that I want to pursue this as my minor. Ive always been a big fan of technology of many forms. From a clock on your toaster to let you know how long till the toast is ready (yes mine has one and its awesome) to the cars of the future like the new Tesla line. I always love to get and tinker around with the latest tech to figure out how it works and how I can apply it to my daily life. My idea for a group project or discussion would be to talk about the classroom of the future. Bluntly a majority of the classrooms now are normal desks, chars ect and the newer ones have power plugs. But why don’t we expand on that? Why not have a fully integrated desk that is a computer. I don’t want to continue on or else I wont have anything to contribute to the discussion if we have one. Like I said I had professor Leach before and if this class is anything like the TS200 then I am extremely looking forward to this semester.

Cheers

For your first blog, use this site to introduce yourself, what you’re studying, your interests in technology — and then make a short pitch for a topic, theme, trend or technology that you think we ought to focus part of the course on and that might make an interesting focus for the Augmented Reality group project.