Reflections

We are all learning something.

The blog project has been an enlightening and fun experience throughout this semester.  This was my first blog that I have ever done and I may even continue to do some type of work in this setting in the future.  Aside from just a learning experience, I would prefer this over all of the traditional research papers and essays.  Creating a blog was greatly interactive and has taught me some traditional skills, such as citation, along with nontraditional skills involved with writing online.  Using visual rhetoric has also taught me to us more cognition when examining any old picture by breaking it down into pathos, ethos, mythos, and logos.  It has been an emotional journey writing about my past experiences with video games.  I have come to learn not just the outer layer of gaming, but also the inner workings of the human mind and how it all relates to video games. One question has to be asked, are video games helping humans progress towards a brighter future or is it all just a waste of time?

Citation:

Picture of human in front of screen obtained December 11, 2010 from the World Wide Web. http://gamerlimit.com/files/2010/02/videogame_addiction_32.jpg