Digital Worlds:Leonie Jones

=Leonie Jones=

My Academic Career
I am in my final year of a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Auckland. I have and major in Chemistry and a specialisation in Marine Science. I intend to start a Master of Science degree in Chemistry at the beginning of 2006.

Geog 103
I chose to take the Geog103 course because I felt that it would tie in with my degree, and it seemed interesting. The latest lectures relating to surveillance have struck me as the most interesting. The lecture given by Gordon Winder introduced the concept of the Panopticon which was new and interesting to me and it related to my essay topic. Another interesting aspect of the course is that it is current and is easily relatable to real life things. An example of this is the lecture given by Chris McDowall entitled 'Media and the Web'. He introduced the technology used to illustrate the effects of the tsunami caused by the earthquake in the Indian Ocean at the end of last year. It was interesting as to how the news from inside the devastated area was made available to the rest of the world instantly via such methods as wiki's and text messages. Chris also explained and demonstrated how to set up a wiki page during the lecture using Josh Knight's name. For those who didn't attend class on Wednesday, you might like to see what Chris wrote.