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

Facebook

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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