Class #9: Mobile devices and immovable opinions.

Class today began with a barrage of questions directed at the professor regarding the our google sites and blogs. While I must admit that I am one of the many who are somewhat flustered by this, I feel that I have a relativiely firm grasp on the concepts, and was also happy to find that I am not the only person who isn't 100% savvy with this.

We then moved onto the discussion of mobile devices. Devices such as smartphones, ipads, tablets, digital cameras, and even portable gaming devices. This led to an assignment to read an article about Digital Devices and their effect on people in the workforce, who work through their phones even when away from the desk, part of which I read during class. This part sort of scared me because it is becoming even more popular for people to be expected to be available for work, even when they are clocked out. Not my idea of a happy and fulfilling career. The article also mentioned that as of now about 2/3 of the U.S. population owns a smartphone, which again, made me uncomfortable as I do not own a smartphone, nor do I wish to. I do not like the idea of being so dependent on a phone, as many people are, and I often enjoy distancing myself from technology and being completely unreachable and secluded, however morose that may sound.

The next activity was to take our discussion on mobile devices and direct it towards smartphones, and the different versions of them. We then created a smart notebook presentation of them. This was at first difficult because I was very confused as to the expectations of the short assignment, and also I hate cellphones and don't really know much about them, nor can I tell any brand apart from each other. But with some help from the professor I pretty much got it down, along with the help of interet photos of phones with their brands obviously visible in the photo.

Finally in class we were supplied with ipads to use and our professor went over an introduction of its functions. I hadn't really used one before, other than holding the one my cousins owned, so I found it quite enjoyable to get used to one. And I drew a tree. Maybe owning one of these wouldn't be so terrible.