Technology Autobiography

Ranika Blakeney

SPCM 390

Instructor Sorensen

January 26, 2018

Technology Autobiography Prior to this class, I didn’t truly reflect on or consider the impact and importance of my communication connection to technology. Nonetheless, thinking back, I understand that technology has had a huge effect on my life. Technology has swayed how I think and what I do since I was a very young little girl. From playing The Game Boy as well as different video games and learning the keys to my first home dial up computer as a kid, to essentially undertaking numerous ventures in technology in high school and college; such as using a projector or using the e-reader. In other words, I have been wrapped up in a culture of technology without much conscious thought

Particularly, one of my favored audiovisual aids assignment was for a class called Introduction to Shakespeare. In a group we had to recite one of Shakespeare’s sonnets as well present a visual PowerPoint. The primary objective of the task was to coordinate pictures, music, and content to arrange in a way to display the group’s performance in an imaginative and engaging way. In general, this assignment in addition to countless other PowerPoint presentations gave me involvement in utilizing distinctive composing styles as well as diverse media to express my thoughts and concepts. It is as well important to realize that when composing a PowerPoint or Movie Maker task, you have to position your images and words as well as music in a way in which you capture the audience attention dissimilar from a regular essay which I had to

To clarify, in relations to excitement, my laptop serves as my CD player, my DVD player, and my way to get to social networking channels such as Instagram and Facebook. Educationally, my laptop is used to write papers and do research, in addition to communicating and connecting with professors via email. At any time when I feel myself start to get overwhelmed with all of technologies innovations, I recap how life would be if there were no library databases and boy would that be sad. For one thing, in more or less ways in my opinion, this form of technology has helped me momentously. It has made me a quicker, more proficient analyst and given me contact to the best up to date and exact data. Then again, I need to address whether individuals are ending up excessively becoming reliant on technology, making it impossible to arrange their regular day to day existence. For example, if my laptop broke I would feel absolutely lost. Not to mention, emails will go unread, papers and projects would vanish for good leaving no trace. We have come to a point in our society where steady contact to technology is nearly a