second life 6-6

Had a great chat on second life with Valarie and Sandy. Discussed our jobs, what we all plan to do after the course, and the economy. How all school districts are in trouble, no matter where you are.

What are teachers supposed to do? With the advancement in technology, budget costs, how are teachers supposed to cope and teach and make great lessons, when there is not much money. I know there are sites out there to help teachers, such as donorschoose.org for one, or teachers can collect box tops, or coke rewards can also give prizes and gifts to students.

They is just my rant for tonight. Any suggestions?

Annotated Bibliography 2

Schmugar, Craig. (2008). The Future of Social Networking Sites. McAFEE Security Journal, 28 – 30.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/misc/threat_center/msj_future_social_networking.pdf
This article discussed why these sites are growing so fast, as well as determining that an increase will also cause an increase in trouble. A few of the exploitable conditions are: spammers, hackers, and more threats, such as phishing attacks, worms, and leakage. In order for social network sites to have a future, the community needs to continue using. This is what drives the content; it is the combination of the elements within the community channels. The platforms will expand, specific sites will be understood based on behavior, and profiling will start to occur. With these big changes in the future comes both compelling information and threatening information.

What is the future of social networking sites? I personally do not think it will disappear anytime soon. They are a great way to keep in touch with others, meet new people who enjoy doing the same things, and exploring activities and past-times.

Annotated Bibliography

Teens & Social Networking in School & Public Libraries: A Toolkit for Librarians & Library Workers
www.ala.org/yalsa

This article/website I found basically shares with the audience how social network sites can be important for education. It provides reasons - saying it improves the students' reading & writings, for when the students create blogs and posts on other students' blogs.

It also provides reasoning for how students can communicate with legislators, in order to get access to the sites during school hours, by providing them with sufficient evidence.

second life 5-30

Well, I have to admit trying to control your mouse is difficult, when your hand hurts....so tonight's second life, was a bit choppy. I did enjoy visiting the Great Wall of China. I think I will explore more places during the week and post them here. It is like traveling, without the cost...which is pretty nice. Also, no need for baggage/luggage. Where should I go next? suggestions?

second life experience with classmates

Wow, interesting time with people on SL tonight. It was great trying to play chess, watching videos, and flying over really big objects when I was like an inch tall (or so it felt). I hope to have good experiences next time, and hopefully next time, I will have perfected sitting : )

I guess, I will invest in a mic, so I can hear people.

Second Life experience

Well, considering I was going through the walk through of learning the steps of how to move, I some how transported out of the area. Therefore, I have been learning on my own. Doing pretty good, considering I learned how to take a picture, without the tutorial ;)

There are some very strange people on this SL, not too sure about that aspect. I am looking forward to our time online with classmates, gets kind of boring walking, flying or running around yourself.

I will stick with, but any suggestions I welcome. Like, how do buy land?

Podcasts

Social Networks - it is more appropriate to call it "Socialnomics" The technology is increasing, growing, it is everywhere. You cannot buy the new cellular phone, and then not expect to turn around and see a newer version already in stores. I agree with the comment "Listening first, selling second", the networks have accomplished this with advertisements. It is true, who watches commercials on television, I don't. I use those to do work, although lately I just turn my television on for background noise, and I am only online. However, when stores do ask for your email account, the stuff they connect to you with is not always relevant. Usually it is to announce sales, they never really ask for opinions on products of what to sell or offer.

I can agree with the statistic that 96% have joined a social network, that Facebook is 200 million strong, but I am still always iffy about the privacy effect. I like/enjoy my social network experience, but how safe is it. For example, the comparison with "What stays in Vegas.....stays on "social network"........I don't post private things, I lock my information, but not everyone does, especially teenagers.

How do we protect them? It may take drastic measures to actually have them listen!

Also, I understand twitter, but why do people need to know what you are doing 24/7.

We rely on social networks for a lot, some good, some bad, (jobs, connections, entertainment) I think it is all up to the user how much you will "shift" with the times.