The Resumption of Belief

 1. W ho are you as an individual in the digital age, and what characterizes your journey so far? Online I have been/can be many people. I have run multiple social media pages for companies across platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. This included designing posters and creating content videos to even filming live events. My dad worked in IT from the '80s through to as recently as 2020, so I have been exposed to the digital world from an early age, from chat rooms to online games, but only in recent years did it really begin to play an important role in life. It was always a part of life, but never with such importance to the extent, it is now. Now I work online, play online and learn online. I have watched Google searches go from "we can't find anything on this random topic after years of searching" to "here are two million articles on this in 0.000005seconds". I was there for Facebook when it was just statuses that started with "So and so ...

This week we first got to know our PBL groups and it was very informative and fun, it was really nice getting to see everyone's different bits of their worlds, I enjoyed putting together the video and seeing and hearing everyone's interesting facts and subjects that they lecture in. I fell behind in blogs due to the load of work that popped up all at the same time at my own campus and then having to facilitate a house move. So it had been really busy. The course has lined up quite synchronously with everything currently happening, and I've always enjoyed that part of the job, where things make sense and you have an ah-ha moment, well I have had a few in the past few weeks and days, and quite a bit has been informed about the subjects we have discussed in ONL.  Little did I know that this connecting week would be more about me and my footprint, and coming to certain realizations that have informed my decisions both personally and professionally, thanks to new ways of thinkin...

It has been a busy month since I wrote my first blogs. It feels like only a week or two ago that I typed out those pages. And how much as changed since then. It appears the world is moving rate of several wow's an hour. It feels like it hasn't stopped. And it isn't slowing down. Who knows, next week the world could be even more different again. Everyday is something changing. Every where we look we see uncertainty, in the world, in politics, in others, in ourselves. And we have become so accustomed to fending for our own we kind forget that there are other people around. Forever preparing for the inevitable uncertainty. But we are raised in an era of instant gratification, and because we can't have our uncertainty delivered from us with understandable knowing in a moments notice, we feel anxious. So we cling to any remnants of our self and memory and repeat it over and over to try reinforce its affirming belief that it is real. But what is real? Especially now in a post...