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I had a great time exploring Flickr. I got so caught up looking at all the different images, I forgot to put the kids to bed at 8:30 pm. My daughter came down around 9 pm and asked if it was alright to go to bed. Yikes. Now I can see how easy it can be to get sucked into technology. The pictures were amazing and it opened my eyes to other perspectives and what other people find fascinating. There is so much to see and explore on the web. It can be extremely fun and helpful, but also a little scary. It is just so vast and seemingly never-ending.
This is precisely one of the reasons why I choose an image of the Earth from space. Space is completely boundless and overwhelming. There doesn’t seem to be an end or, for that matter, a beginning. It is just there ... everywhere ... all around us. Whenever I think about our place in space, the Earth just seems like it is such a minuscule part of something so colossal that it is hard to wrap my head around the idea. As we move around in our daily lives, concerning ourselves with work, school, children, etc., it is easy to forget that there so much out there that we don’t know and are completely unaware of. Only when we step back and think about it, we realize that the limits might really just be limitless.
This can definitely be juxtaposed to the web. There is so much to see and learn. The internet is certainly infinite; one click will lead to another, to another, to another, and the next thing you know you are in a completely different place from where you started. It just goes on forever. In taking this Web 2.0 class, I hope to explore this limitless area and discover new things that I can integrate into my lessons to help my students succeed.
I cannot think of a better analogy than the one you just presented with the limitless aspects of both the internet and outer space. Both seem daunting and mysterious, but attractive and adventurous at the same time.
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