When Ways 2 Interface became a Study Log and Personal Journal

The focus of the Ways 2 Interface blog naturally shifted as my time and attention gradually moved more towards the building of my MTA Portfolio.

For me, I had a deep and keen interest in researching how we interface with reality (I still do now) but it all boiled down to being able to perform legitimate research to explore those concepts.

In my mind, legitimate research requires the backing of a fully accredited master’s degree which I didn’t have and wasn’t likely to have anytime soon because I elected to construct my own master’s degree.

Therefore, if I was not going to pursue a fully accredited degree, preparing the research for one was largely a waste of my time, which was already being eaten up with the task of building my own master’s degree from scratch.

For a time, Ways 2 Interface served much the same role as ibuiltmyown.education, it held the identity and progress of my MTA Portfolio (or Postgraduate 2.0 Studies, as it was then known).

Ways 2 Interface studies progress page

The studies page is no longer present as a page on the Ways 2 Interface blog, but I have re-posted it as a blog post.

I also used Ways 2 Interface to blog about the MOOCs I was studying (something I have not really done on ibuiltmyown.education as I implemented its blog after I had completed the majority of the study component).

Parallel to this, and partly because many of the MOOCs I was studying delved into this, I was continuing to dabble with post about my interest in mass communications and media studies.

So, in addition to it being my study log, I also increasing viewed Ways 2 Interface as being the wider media focused blog space to cover anything that Something to do with Film could not cover because of its film-centric focus.

But eventually even its more general media focus fizzled out.

In hindsight, I wish I had kept Ways 2 Interface going a bit longer because I could have used the blog to document the further development of my MTA Portfolio and the building of ibuiltmyown.education and then handed over the duties when ibuiltmyown.education.

I’ve properly tied up the blog now that I have written up this component page as part of my Creative Technologies Sandbox.

But will I ever pick up the research I started first in my Ways of Being dissertation and then in my Ways 2 Interface blog?

Possibly.

It all really depends if I ever do get around to studying a fully accredited master’s degree.