Class 6 Readings (2/21/08)

Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy practices in the production of a MySpace profile

From what I understand of this article, the idea of cutting a pasting means that we have become very repetitive in our social interaction and that we are cutting and pasting the same information about ourselves to each other. The literacy of technology is making it that our identifications are not changing and nether are we; it has come to us being totally unique. It has also given us the ability to cut and past things that we think serve to represent our personality.

Perils and Pitfalls of Wikipedia

This article is very much related to the “what’s new” blog I recently posted. This article talks about the fact that things like My space give us the opportunity to express our selves, but it can cost a lot on our reputation. Web sites like this must be monitored and parents must be held accountable for there children. Sites like this have the ability to make or break a person without them even knowing what has happened.

Class 5 Readings (2/11/08)

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the
21st Century

It is funny, this article has the intent to show us that the world is different and that we must accommodate the youth of today for some reason. It is the fact that with a change in technology, comes a change in society. However, I think that change will come naturally as they need too. We face a problem with the way that children are being raised and that is, we are teaching kids that if something is broken, someone else will fix it. We are making it the standard that kids will be accommodated, and that they have no work to do in there own development. I think that this PP shows exactly that, we must accommodate and they must do nothing.

Class 4 Readings (2/7/08)

Rise of the Participation Culture

Well, the one thing I can say about this PowerPoint is that it was really long and terribly redundant. I also finally figured out that it was talking about an advertising business and that the whole thing was an ad for the company. The one thing that I will give it is that if you have been living in a cave (even a virtual one), then is great information and give great detail on some of the ideas of web 2.0.

Review: Meet me at the Xbox Arcade

This article is the one I chose for gaming technology. This is funny because I remember arcades, the idea that one could go and put money in a game and play it. Then we have today, were the whole arcade is at home in a little box connected to the TV. But, Sony has the idea to introduce a new and yet old concept of the arcade. This time you are still at home, but with things like Xbox Live, you are joined with other gamer allover the world.

Class 3 Readings (1/30/08)

What Is Web 2.0

This article gives a great overview of the differences in web 1.0 and web 2.0. This article was very simply laid out and provides the most basic ability for any one to understand differences.

The New Wisdom of the Web

This was an article mostly on my space, but I gather the primary purpose of these types of web sites is so that people may keep in touch with each other. I on the other hand see these types of web sites and nothing more then internet graffiti. It has become a place for kids to say anything the want with out fear of reprisal. I feel that these web sites do nothing more then give them another median for them to create there own propaganda. On the flip side, in the right hands it can also be the greatest tool for friends and relatives to keep in touch worlds apart.

Social Bookmarking
This article is about the uses of “social bookmaking” or make a web page of web page links. This would be something that is useful in a mass media environment, not something that I would recommend for the average individual that is sharing a few links with there friends. This would be a great idea for teacher and alike.

Class 2 Readings (1/28/08)

A Day in the Life of Web 2.0

All I can do when I read these types of articles is think that it must me nice to work in an environment where they are not worried about standardized tests and directors of curriculum that leave the teaching to the teachers. However, at my school I have to deal with the above things and that allows very little room for imagination and teaching.

Web 2.0 Blog

Open Web identity, which will ultimately form the global "primary key" for social graph nodes, will not get anywhere soon. The need to keep the web “open” ended, to keep the internet free from control and to allow the user to be in control of there use and not by corporation or the government. The Web 2.0 industry consolidates as it begins to mature. The use of the internet comes together as more of an organized tool and less of a “neat” idea. The Web moves into the living room as sites make it practical and rewarding to participate on the Web using a large screen for entertainment. The idea that we can watch movies right off the web to seeing a slide show on our big LCD TV in our living rooms. There are so many diverse things going on in the universe that we need to keep on top of a universal means by witch to communicate with, the internet.

Welcome

This is my Blog for reading responses for EDT 547, Spring 08 semester.