March 19 SIPS Class

Started the day with a showcase on Social Media by Kate, Chloe and Sandra.
(designed on prezi.com, great presentation tool) Slide show found here.
-ethics and responsibilities
-many possible uses for social networking
-FOIP, concern with unintended sharing of personal information
-can be a source of great distraction to users
-write a rough draft in txt msg shorthand, then edit the essay later wiv proper English
-alternatives to the big public networks
-www.elgg.org requires some programing background, powerful
-www.edmodo.com easier to use but a little more limited
-www.socialmediaclassroom.com
-www.ning.com can block specific things, free and web-based

Blocking sites...
-distraction
-teaching responsibility versus forced responsibility
-we end up blocking useful sites

Last week in Pro Sem a group presented on social media and its implications. It was really interesting to me because the majority of my Pro Sem class was actually dead against the use of things like facebook or twitter in the classroom. They claimed these networks (possibly societies) had no place in the classroom; they were inappropriate, immature and unregulated. This came as a shock to me because in SIPS we have 25 people all thinking about how we can use these technologies, not how we can avoid them.

Web 1.0: broadcast, one-way, reader separate from publisher
vs
Web 2.0: interactive, sharing, collaboration, reader is publisher

Wiki: anyone can edit.
On a side note, I previously wrote about my observations around the Chilean earthquake and its flooding of the net. I looked back at the history of the 2010 Chilean earthquake page edits on Wikipedia and not surprisingly, the page developed in less than an hour of the first rumble. Throughout the day the wiki grew from a simple two line news post to a full on encyclopedia article as new information was announced and users created and published visual documents related to the quake.


Questions and Googling.
To whom were these questions asked to before Google? What's after Google?