Podcast

      Collette Cassinelli (2007) defined podcast as a collection of individual audio episodes typically recorded and edited on a computer and then uploaded to a web server. The video stated the procedure in integrating podcasting in your classroom.  Collette instructed how to listen to a podcast on your browser.  A group of students were an example of the fun ways to listen to materials in their classroom.  In the video they were seen calloraborating with each other.  It refererred to today's students as being digital natives which is an appropriate description of the electronic society today.

Http://studio.odeo.com  

Http://prosoma tic.com. These two sites were listed as ones that you may use in creating a website.

Cassinelli, C (2007).  Integrating podcasting in your classroom.  Retrieved from:

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExkMeQfuLGc

How to Do Something Seismic-and Create a Movement

Aaker & Smith (2010) told some powerful, gratifying and emotional true events that leaves the reader 'on-the-edge of the seat'.  They taught various lesson to be learnt.  One of such from Team Sameer and Team Vinayon on how to do something seismic and create a movement by Robert Chatwani on page 17 of their book.   It is very informative and encouraging especially for the beginner of Social Media.  Take a look!  Grab a read the next time you visit your local library.

Twitter chief in 'The Switch'

The Switch, Washington Post technology newspaper on June 11 discussed that Twitter chief executive Dick Costello will step down on July 1.  Is it due to constant criticisms?  Or a lack of increase in earnings since 2013?  Chris Sacca penned that the service was currently too hard to use, scary and alienating for new users.  Does this mean that the interim chief executive will transform the media service so that it's stock potential will increase, overnight?  Will Dorsey be capable of leading the company into its next phase of growth?  We will sure be tweeting about it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/twittter-chief-executive-dick-costolo-to-step-down-july-1/

Cyber bullying?

    My favorite pastime is watching television.  This week one of my favorite drama, Royal Pains, depict cyberbullying.  Divya was the victim.  She stopped to help a young man in distress on the side of the street, leaving her baby in the car.   When she returned two police officers charged her with parental neglect.  Of course, someone video taped the incident and uploaded it on a Social Media Website wherein others commented.  Complication?  Is this negative SMS or cyberbullying?

Did U...Blog?

      Blogging, from the writer’s perspective, is synonymous to journaling.  Whether personal as a diarist or public as a journalist.  There are times that our thoughts get overloaded and the need to record them gets compelling.  A post it, notepad, scrapbook and more recently taking the form of technology instead of paper the computer is used. Going ‘green’ goes hand in hand with recycling.  Therefore instead of paper notes; that is, not killing the trees, technological devices are used to record our words.

     

      Making an electronic record of our thoughts as it happens can be live blogging.   Twitter microblogging is a popular media for live blogging.  Sharing and collaborating news as it happens is a regular practice on Social Media Sites. There are different types of blogs or means of conveying blogs.  The visual depicts a few such as Qlogs, Vlogs, Splog, audioblog, musicblog, artblog, among others.

    

SMS: Twitter

    Twitter can be used to build PLEs (personal learning environments).  Users can follow anyone they want as the environment is asymmetrical making it perfect for data gathering.  It is simple in creating a platform for social innovations making it useful in forming ad hoc groups with similar interests. #hashtag is used for similar interest groups making it effective, efficient and quite elaborate.  

     For the Writer's bloc, this is a great tool to gather your thoughts.  Just tweet the topic and wait for the 'canary to sing'.   This is what makes twitter so attractive.  It's short; 140 word count, a great way to start the words flowing.  A notepad!  A post it!  Why do users gravitate to twitter?  Rheingold (2012) stated that users like the sites' openness, immediacy, variety, reciprocity, asymmetry, channel to multiple publics, making connections, forming a community, search ability, and above all its a platform for mass collaboration.

Reference:

Rheingold, H., & Weeks, A. (2012). Net smart: How to thrive online. Mit Press.

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SMSs: A Review

I recently read this article by

Boyd, Danah, m. & Ellison, Nicole (2007). Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 1, article 11. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html.

Doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x

     This article looked at the participation and practice of users of a few social network sites (SNSs); that is, Facebook, MySpace, Cyworld and Bebo.  It explained their attractiveness, limitations and attempt to define the broad term social network site.  The definition emphasizes networking in relation to computer mediated communication.

   The paper went on to describe the rise and fall of Friendster another SNS and how MySpace took advantage of the market by offering the consumers what Friendster was protecting.  MySpace capitalized on Friendster’s alienated users. Shark!  This practice is so common in SNSs.  The market gets competitive therefore losing certain privacy controls just to get ahead in the marketplace.

   SNSs grew rapidly and widely encouraging a functional attractive platform to its many users.  They offer video-sharing, network visualizations, messaging, a number of friendship and business links that make their main feature so attractive to users that they forget about the privacy controls.   These networks are widely used in educational settings due to its synchronicity.  What is the cuter of these sites?  How do they secure user information?  What are their ethical standards?

  These are a few questions that came to mind while reading.  It encourages the reader to research SNS a bit further as this is becoming a practice with the every online user today.  It is a good, informative paper.