No Power No Problem!

 On Tuesday there was a major power outage in the Westman area and it wreaked havoc on our e journalism class. With no power to the University all the servers were down and we were unable to log onto the internet as we normally would.

But don’t worry we made it through and still were able to communicate through our cell phones and obtain relevant information on the event. For the students lucky enough to have tethering capabilities they were even able to use their laptops by creating a wifi hotspot. This hotspot then could be used by up to four others in the class. This allowed if we needed to for everyone who attended class be able to use internet on their pc.

When we gathered in class no one had any idea why the power was out or what the problem was, but because of what we learned in class about twitter and other social media outlets we were able to engage the right players to obtain the scoop on the outage.

Class may have taken a strange turn on that day but I think we all learned a lot about how much we really can do with the power of a cell phone. As long as you are able to keep a charge you can communicate with the outside world through Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and almost any other digital media available.