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Why Education Technology Doesn’t Exist. Over the last few years — seemingly bound up in the mix of post-Recession money flowing into new and different streams of the American economy, awareness of American students’ pitiful STEM preparedness, and a new breed of tech vision — updating legacy to digital on the one hand and the rise of educator/tech startup innovators on the other — this thing called EdTech supposedly has come into its own with teachers, students, incubators, and investors.
EdTech itself really isn’t so much about the product that we use to do the doing — it’s not so much about the lumber and nails — as it is about the doing itself. You can have the best looking lumber on the street and still wind up with a hideous barn. And you can have the most modest lumber on the street, and wind up with a work of art.

Wiki so far…….

I will be contributing to the section on fashion and New Media.

I plan to work in a variety of areas (including street photo sharing, trade)

I will contribute to consistent categories for each brand . I know that some are already present, but I will update and add on to these offerings and focus on social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook) as well as devoted sites, blogs, and Facebook pages.

P2P

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking.

The term P2P refers to “peer-to-peer” networking. A peer-to-peer network allows computer hardware and software to function without the need for special server devices. P2P is an alternative to client-server network design.

P2P is a popular technology for file sharing software applications like Kazaa, WinMX and Overnet. P2P technology helps the P2P client applications upload and download files over the P2P network services.

P2P technology can also be found in other places. For example, contains a component called “Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking.” P2P is especially popular in homes where an expensive, decidated server computer is neither necessary nor practical.

Is Internet access a fundamental human right? Or is it a privilege, carrying with it a responsibility for good behavior? That is the question confronting policy makers as they try to bring Internet access to the masses while seeking to curb illegal copying of digital music, movies and video games.

Privacy

Internet and new media open a lot of doors and let many thing more accessible. The privacy and confidentiality are the issue we need to look at it. Like social network site, sometime people post their information, photo, or thought on his or her page. They think only their ” friends” can see it. This is wrong! Whoever want to get the information they interesting,they can get what they want. These concerns are what can prevent new media from being a tool for the spread of information rather than just fun things to do online.

Advice

My suggestions to use new media to improve Baruch college will be the following:
Using social networking sites, like Facebook or Twitter to create an online platform for class. It’s will help students can easy to connect with each other in the same class. Also create online chat to help students. Departments and offices can online solve students problems immediately. This will save time also money to hire employee sit in the psycle office.

CREATIVTY

Nickelodeon, part of Viacom, sees the humorous videos as fair use of its copyrighted content. “Our audiences can creatively mash video from our content as much and as often as they like,” said Dan Martinsen, a Nickelodeon spokesman. “By the way,” he added, “that was a very nice edit job by whoever did the SpongeBob mash. ” (That laissez-faire reaction, it should be noted, comes from a company whose corporate parent has a $1 billion piracy lawsuit pending against Google, the owner of YouTube. ) Disney’s view is starkly different: any unauthorized use of Disney property is stealing.

The fact that the postings have not been removed — YouTube regularly yanks videos that media companies identify as pirated material — highlights the situation mash-ups pose for media companies: are these videos parodies of cultural icons and thus protected under copyright law, or do they trample on intellectual property?

 

Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds

My first impression about virtual world is the movie Avatar which create the second life for some people.

Pros:Second Life offers major opportunities for enriching learning in the vocational training and education sector. Its 3-D perspective allows interaction in a very realistic way. One walks into buildings and undertakes activities. While photographs and videos can offer something of a similar experience, this is restricted by the photographer or video maker. In Second Life, for instance, a design student can walk into room, put furniture in it, get a real sense of proportion and perspective and quickly change the ambience with colour, textures and furniture. In many areas, few classroom experiences can offer the same level of reality.

This chaotic scene isn’t real—it’s part of an online simulation designed to help nurses make quick, sure decisions in emergencies. Dozens of hospitals, medical schools and health foundations have staked out space in the online community Second Life, where participants can build their own virtual clinics and stage just about any training drill they can imagine. Interest is so high, both Stanford University and the University of Michigan last month held workshops on medical training and education in the virtual world.

Cons:For newcomers, Second Life can be a little daunting. Whilst most students involved in the project took to it enthusiastically, some of the mature-aged students felt quite unsafe when not on the project’s private island. Strange avatars, conversations and activities were often confronting and sometimes disturbing. Whilst most regular and long-term Second Life residents strive towards a safe community within the world, there is an element among avatars which enjoys causing disruption and discomfort to others. There is a complex abuse report mechanism within Second Life and avatars are encouraged to report any abuse. Reports are investigated and offending avatars can be confined to what’s called ‘the cornfield’ for a set period.

In the feature, we may going to the virtual office in Second Life. Virtual community Second Life is seeking to tap into that market by creating a new tool that allows businesses to have virtual meetings on their own computer networks. The company’s Enterprise tool will let employees’ avatars — animated alter egos — meet in virtual worlds from the privacy of a company’s own network, rather than the public networks used in standard Second Life. That extra security could encourage more companies to take up the technology.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909804575124470868041204.html?KEYWORDS=avatar+ii+the+hospital

https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_50_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_793265_1%26url%3D

Blog about Twitter

We have a lot of ways to discuss with people now. We can discuss face to face. For Cuny student, we know blackboard discussion. For technology people, we even can use ” Twitter Discussion”. For me, in-class discussion can get more direct reply. Blackboard discussion is only for the classmates whom from the same section and the same class. New way is twitter discussion, which is fast and a lot of people will reply you.

Social networking sites

Facebook user must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”.

Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake.MySpace had a significant influence in pop culture and music and created a gaming platform

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”.
Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.

WeChat provides multimedia communication flexibility and convenience with text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange. WeChat also supports social networking via shared streaming content feeds and location-based social plug-ins (‘Shake’, ‘Look Around’, and ‘Drift Bottle’) to chat with and befriend local and international WeChat users.

Social Networking

Nowadays, Social Networking become our daily actives. Some people hate it and some people love it. It’s always has two sides.
In New Delhi, city is famous for its snarled traffic and infamous for its unruly drivers — aggressive rule-breakers who barrel through red lights, ignore crosswalks and veer into bicycle or bus lanes to find open routes. Now, the city’s overburdened traffic police officers have enlisted an unexpected weapon in the fight against dangerous driving: Facebook.
The traffic police started a Facebook page two months ago, and almost immediately residents became digital informants, posting photos of their fellow drivers violating traffic laws. As of Sunday more than 17,000 people had become fans of the page and posted almost 3,000 photographs and dozens of videos.
Of course, there is a dark side of social networking, like Campus-Gossip Web Sites. Students have more ways than ever to post anonymous attacks on classmates, thanks to new and expanded online forums promising to be bigger and juicier than the infamous JuicyCampus, which drew fierce protests from harassed students before it shut down earlier this year.
The site is planning a back-to-school marketing push, including a happy hour near Arizona State University where a rap artist named Sabotage will perform a song about the pleasures of campus gossip.
These spawn of JuicyCampus are likely to give college administrators grief this academic year, and some legal experts say current laws will not help them fight back.

http://chronicle.com/article/Theyre-BackTheyre-B/48220/