The Journeyman – Brandon Kraft

For STS 321, we were asked to record a “media log” of how we interact with media over a course of a day. Here are my results: Thursday is not a good day for me to do a media log. I’m in class from 8 a.m until 12:15 p.m. with no break, except today I…

I have always had problems with Blackboard, the online course content system that UT uses. It contains a great amount of information and can be very useful, it is organized badly. On the home page, they list every class you have taken since they migrated to Bb 6 in the Spring of 2005. There are…

I’ve had this idea for some time now and I think it is ready for a public forum. Being a full-time college student is a full-time job. We’re in the classroom between 12, at the least, and 30 hours a week, depending on labs. Plus, we’re expected to study at least an hour a day…

In STS 321, we were asked “What are blogs?” Below are the notes I scratched into Notepad before we started discussing it. Blogs are a forum for individuals to share ideas and thoughts on any number of interests. As with every forum, the credibility and usefulness of the ideas has to be questioned and examined.…

I’m now enrolled in STS 321: Intro to Science, Technology and Society. This is the fourth STS class I’ve taken [311, 331 (Wireless Revolutions) and 331 (Multimedia Writing-W)] and so I’m not all that worried about it. The course outline appears to be interesting and overall is looking at topics I haven’t studied much if…