A student's view

Hello, all -

As a new contributor to MITE and NROC I'm excited to start posting with views on education and the Internet from the view of a college student. To start, I am attending California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, a school known mostly for it's programs in engineering and architecture although the list of majors is quite extensive.

To provide an underlying theme to my future posts, my main hope is to see my personal use of the Internet expand beyond just social networking and emailing my family back at home. As a graphic design student I am fascinated by the prospects of Web 2.0. As I look at sites like Digg and Facebook and seeing how much interesting and exciting content can be created and how such a strong sense of community can be fostered by intuitive, functional software, I'm eager for the same technology to spread to more "practical" aspects of everyday life, particularly as a student, education. With the software that is available and the strides that have been made by current designers and programmers, there is no reason that a majority of my web usage shouldn't be dedicated to expanding my education.

Hence, I find myself working on projects and writing in this blog for MITE, hoping to contribute in someway to this goal of taking the web off the sidelines and putting it at the forefront as a functional tool.