Hello class,<\/p>\n
My name is Ben Fast and I think I’m posting this in the correct place. \u00a0I’m a fifth year honours history student taking the Professional Writing minor and wrapping it all up this semester. \u00a0After 17 years of constant school I think I need a break, but I also need a solid base in the real world so studying technology and society seems like a great idea.<\/p>\n
As this is my fifth or sixth WordPress-based blog, I think I’ve got the hang of how it all comes together, but I am interested to see how this OAC thing works. \u00a0I really like networking and social media, but I’d say I’m somewhere between a Jenny Aitken<\/a> and a Katie Rosenburg<\/a> on the scale of social media familiarity scale. \u00a0My interests in the more physical machine side of technology draws me towards airplane design and digital cameras. \u00a0I have a great passion for airplanes and studying how designs have changed over the first century of flight, and I am an avid amateur photographer who uses both film<\/a> and digital cameras regularly.<\/p>\n I would love to see this class explore media integration into learning, but not specifically classroom learning. \u00a0As Jenny and I so aptly put, the university is both like a womb and a prison, but what about how we learn outside of school? \u00a0I’ve studied the idea of public history (non-academic-centred history like in museums, movies, walking tours, historical fiction, etc.) and I am heading towards a career in museums, so I would love to see how media and social media has integrated into those areas, and how that affects alternative learning experiences. \u00a0If none of this paragraph makes sense to you, take a look at the Royal BC Museum’s Twitter<\/a> account and tell me how it changes your view of the museum and their programming.<\/p>\n Well, I think that’s it for me. \u00a0Nice meeting you, see you tomorrow,<\/p>\n Ben<\/p>\n PS: This is one of my favourite YouTube videos recently. \u00a0Michael McIntyre on the Invention of the Kilt. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n