Download - New Ways to Communicate
New Ways to Communicate
A presentation By Dr. Shauna Schullo, University or Wisconsin – MadisonJanuary 31, 2008 - WEAC
Does this look familiar
Does this feel familiar?
Today, Our Children Have A Different Relationship With Information
The Net Generationby 21 Years of Age will have …
From Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris
• Played 10,000 hours of video games• Sent/received 200,000 e-mails• Watched 20,000 hours of television• Spent 10,000 hours on cell phones • And read for under 5,000 hours
(Bonamici et al. 2005).
What is Changing?
Web 2.0 the Read/Write Web
People are contributing to information on the web rather than just passively reading it
Go2Web20.net
Mobile Computing
Cell phones PDAs iPhone
Text Messaging Photo taking/sharing Voting Music - VCast
Sharing Audio and Video
GarageBand
Sharing Other Things
Social Bookmarking
Collaborative writing an projects
Slideshows
Photos and Images
Social Networking- Globally
Online Social Networking
My Space
Growing up Online
PBS Special http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/
frontline/kidsonline/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_frontlinebrgrowinguponline_2008-01-22
Virtual Worlds
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. This habitation usually is represented in the form of two or three-dimensional graphical representations of humanoids (or other graphical or text-based avatars). Most, but not all, virtual worlds allow for multiple users.
(Active Worlds, ViOS, There, Second Life
Secondlife
http://teen.secondlife.com/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nGMH_1VnnaY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bk24qWhuMwI
Top 100 Tools
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top1002007.html
Neat idea to explain social networking http://www.langwitches.org/blog/
2008/01/24/power-of-social-networking/
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