I have tried to start a blog called "Links and Methodologies" several times over the past year or two without any success. I unfortunately have found it somewhat difficult to maintain a blog as I have never been good with keeping diaries or making scheduled entries. Instead, I have always found myself leaning one way or another - pushing my music to hard or posting nothing but poetry, never peppering in the parts of personality which are so essential to make a blog personal. So, this time it's different. This time I will be faithful to you, dear blog, and post everything I am doing or want to think about or say something about or whatever. Links and Methodologies will be a hub for my hypomanic brain. So, enjoy! Or don't, but atleast fight with me about it in the comments - I love good internet discourse.
This quarter plans on being an interesting one. I am taking two online courses, one that is very social and one that is very independent. The one where I work mostly on my own is an Introduction to Networking course. I want to be on my way to accomplishing my Network+ and CCNA certifications (to both increase my payrate and my intelligence). It is boring and the professor is not terribly detailed - he provides many interesting models and his visual representations help me to understand complex concepts - but he will also leave out large portions of information which cause gaps in my ability to understand what is going on. He doesn't explain the "math" terribly well, and often, at the end of the lectures, I find myself very confused and unsure if I actually understood the material or if I just wrote it down.
My e-Learning and Digital Culture class is the exact opposite. Sure, it's liberal arts and education leanings are much more geared towards my original areas of study, but I believe it is the interactivity and the community that has made this course so enjoyable. It has only been the first week and already my classmates chat away in their +Google+ and #Twitter feeds. I am quite excited to participate with all these different members of the international brain-trust.
Woot :)
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