scott.turner's blog

In class, I was always the quiet kid.  Both my teachers and classmates either hardly knew me because I didn't exist.  My presence was only spoken to others by the obnoxious  sounds I would make as my losinge interacted noisily with my saliva.  Truth be told, my relationship with the losinge did not exist because I had lost my voice, but instead because I had no voice.

Now, I have found my voice; and, as the rain drizzles down upon me, I have found another way to preserve it.  Under this umbrella is joy, friendship, and love.  Outside of the umbrella is the losinge-sucking kid with no voice.

 I thought Michael Wesch's keynote speech, given this morning, was truly inspirational.  At times, during presentations centering around technology, I feel like presenters get lost in "cool" and often very interesting applications of the technology and, in doing so, lose track of the questions of why and how the technology benefits us.  When this happens, the connections between technology and humanity can become obscured, which does not allow us to clarify and modify efficiently our notions of how the technology presented can allow us to foster the interconnectedness that technology can be a great tool in fostering.  During Mr.