My part in the CityBlog.

Doc Mara, our Electronic Communication professor has us working on a CityBlog page. I hope to be in on all aspects of the process like everyone in class, but really want to work with the graphics and design parts of the blog. This is where most of my knowledge is. I have already graduated with a Certificate of Diploma for Commercial Art so the design and graphics is something I think I will be good at.
I really like working with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, RayDream, and Illustrator. I think it would be great if I could learn some new programs too.
I know that I will be able to handle the time constraints and responsibilities through Blackboard, the Wiki, class blog pages, and email with my classmates and Doc Mara. I know that Doc and my class are all there to help me if I have questions or need help with anything like I am for them.
I am more of a work on your own person though I like to work in small groups also. I think that the design and graphics part of the CityBlog is more of a small group project because this is a class effort that everyone should have a say in, even if some ideas are not used they all should be considered. I would do that because many times a great idea comes from the parts of many individual ideas.

As for the time constraints, I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love them because I know when I have to have something done, but hate having any restrictions on my time. I like that I can be a part of something like this CityBlog page. It could make a big difference for business in Fargo and that makes me happy. I know though that with everyone working together this should be a great Blog. I am really interested to see how it will turn out at the end of the semester.

you are Cyorg

After reading the “You Are Cyborg” I understand better what Donna Haraway was trying to say in her “Cyborg Manifesto”. It is that we as a society are reliant on technologies. That we have become so dependant on these technologies, that they are a part of us –making us cyborgs. Even though I understand what Miss Haraway was/is saying, I still have a problem with some of the things in her Cyborg Manifesto, such as when she says “…teaching modern Christian Creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse.”
I do understand that she is trying to say that in a technological and scientific world this teaching of creation does not fit.