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Hello. This is Linda Kropp and this is my week 3 summary video for the course eLearning
and Digital Cultures. This week we’ve been studying the question, "What makes a 'human?'"
We’ve looked at real vs. digital. We’ve looked at alien intelligence vs. mere
human "meat." We have even gone down the road of creation
vs. evolution, but I think it is a much simpler question than any of these.
Earlier this week while bouncing along the plethora of resources made available through
the Facebook and Google Circle pages associated with this course,
I came to a mosaic of self portraits which appeared to be taken with cell phones.
It seems these pictures, are called "selfies," and they’ve swept the internet. Selfies
are pictures that people take of themselves for any occasion, a new outfit, a new hairdo,
the mood hits them… They take these pictures to post to Facebook or Twitter or MySpace
or some, any other social media site. In my blog post for day 18 of this course,
I shared a selfie taken by a two year old boy. And if you were to look at that picture,
you would see the pure joy on the face of this little boy over his mastery of his moms
iPhone and over seeing his own face smiling back at himself...THIS…I think…is what
makes us human.