Today I attended the first lecture in the semester course called Digital Identities. We got an introduction to the structure as well as the content of the course. I even interviewed and got interviewed by one of the other students as part of an exercise, trying to ask good, qualitative research questions. Following a presentation by the teacher, Annette from USA, about her teaching philosophy based on open-endedness, exploring, inductive- and inventive learning - the american way. The difference apparently being that in Denmark we are theoretically strong, and in America they are methodolically strong and faster experienced in that matter. The implementation and completion of the american way of teaching (discussion-oriented instead of traditional lecture-oriented teaching) in all educating aspects is not something that I'm used to. It seems neither are my fellow students in this course.
Annette went easy on us after the exercise and did a quick, little lecture, the traditional way, about the history of the Internet from way back when computers only had Command Line Interfaces (CLI's) and only experts were able to interact with the machines, through the time where the terms world wide web (WWW), online, offline, virtuality, cyberspace etc. became new and publicly discussed subjects, way up until now where the implementation of the concept Web 2.0 seems to get and keep everybody online 24/7, or at the very least offers the potential for you to go online at any time, 24/7. This era or digital age raise a lot of questions and subjects for us to consider as designers and researchers.
I met some very nice people today, and I have a feeling that following this course will be an awesome and new experience for me. I'm looking forward to it.
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