9/29/10

Wednesday in class:
   Discussion on final response paper;
          -Busy work
          - Writing skills
   Wed 2.0 discussion thread;
           -3 thing we can take from this discussion:
               * use for technology in all different areas of business
               * Always used in social connections (facebook, blogs, myspace, twitter)
               * Endless resource of continuing knowledge
           - Referance the gap between generaltional technology

MOR- Copy write, Proffessor from harvard discussed how in the past a lot were against copy write. Describing how MGM can block things in our country but cannot in other countries. copy write is protecting your property. People can borrow but cannot buy or steal. Protecting something you created.

    * Is the technology satisfactory in the classroms through k-12?
               
Folksonomy:
     Clouding by interest, Book marks, and x marks. Swarming, clashing with public enrests and the use of cell phones. within ten to 15 years swarming will be used within the educational systems. Swarming is similar to requirement, swarming to an idea of technology. can make interests such as facebook and such. How does this relate and what isactly folksonomy? It means to classify or in todays world it is called tagging or blogging.

          

9/27/10

Monday in class:
    *Work on second draft of reading response that is due on TUESDAY!
        - 2 drafts before final is submitted.
    * Discussion on WEB;
(tool)  - 1.0;  Beginning of internet. Less interactive and did not have programs such as Facebookandmyspace. You must go and pull the informtaion. No push
(lifestyle)  - 2.0; RSS, The web pages come to you, process of subscription and everything is pushed to you.
 (Addiction)- 3.0; Semantic,

Tasks for Tuesday:
   Submit response for 2nd draft and discuss on the alexander article


*Will this technology help of hurt us?
      How do we see web 3.0 impact into the field of our major.
             - I think that the web 3.0 will definately impact the field I am going into because I am double majoring in Advertising and Community health. I want to devlop a program for communities as far as health and wellness. I think that in today's society advertising is everything. If the product looks exciting and eye catching then people will use it and want to see more. Many people use this method to sell and advertise to different companies. I honestly think it will affect any field out there at this time in our economy.

9/24/10

Friday in class:
   Discussion on Reasing response
      - Really work on writing and grammer skills within writing
      - Google docs account
   Work on second draft of reading response
  

Have a great weekend!!!

9-23-10

Three thing items I have learned while being in the class; I have learned a lot about programs such as how to set up a meeting through email and how to use the chat programs through microsoft outlook. I have also learned and been able to review proper guidlines for netiquette.



 Three thing I can improve on; I think that I can really improve on my internet searching skills. I also think that I can also improve on expanding the resources that are all around me and taking the time to use them. I also think that I can improve on my procrastination skills, I have always been very organized but sometimes I think that I am so busy that I cannot devote time to certain things that I need to.

9/22/10

Wednesday in class:
   * Discussion of the workshop opertunity Friday the 24th. 9am in the miller in MC 205 PDR
   * The reading response is to be submitted tonight at 8pm into the drop box.
   *  Exercise with groups on wiki organization management
   * Intro to Adobe connect
             -Can be used for long distance meetings
            - impromptu meeting for people in the same department of work
For Friday:
  Work on written response 2 and follow blogs. Enter into discussions.

9/20/10

Monday in class:
    *Discussing issues about the written response and final project
    *Review of reading response to submit on wednesday the 9/22
            Article related to technology (peer reviewed) and a composed reading response of about 3 pages.
    * Discussion on backing up your social network 2.0
           Where is the article?
    *lecture on email uses and the outlook program to teach organization and how to use the outlook, outlook or webbased
    * discussion on wed 1.0 and 2.0 article responses

Overall  the pace of the class today was different but not the most productive. I liked the oppertunity of being able to meet and chat with our group members about the projects and assignments coming up in the class.

Happy Monday!!

9/19/10

I thought that the workshop on Friday was interesting. I think it was very beneficial for those who attended and very bitter sweet for those who decided to sleep in. I think that it is important to learn the things that we will be applying to projects in classes further on in the Mass Comm major. It was very nice to be mixed in with other classes that use the same technology for other reasons. I am looking forward to this week because I feel more organized during the week and I like feeling accomplished.

See everyone tomorrow!!

9/15/10

Today is my mom's Birthday!!!!

 Wednesday in class:
    - Review and discussion on the Kiminski article
    -Questions in class about confusion on articles and the final project
    -Go over written response from articles:
               internet security and backing up your social network 2.0
    - Follow blogs
    - Cookies and Crackers
    - Lessions on educating yourself on the internet and technology!!!
    - Principle VS Action
    - Meet in atwood Friday for video


It is very surprising that students in the class are so defensive. I believe that the confusion comes from the other students individually that do not want to work and be active in the class. The boundries of respect were broken to day and it was uncalled for. The ignorance level was way to high in the class today. But i liked how more people talked in the discussion today, that is the only plus.



"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself"



                  

9/14/10

A little frustrated with how this day is going so far. There is just not enough hours in the day to get everything done it feels like. I do have a lot on my plate right now but I enjoy being busy. It just bothers me when people waste my time especially when I feel like I try to fit so much in to my daily schedule... Im excited for the weekend to come because it will be nice to realx and have some time to myself... :)
   I am choosing to follow a few blog's. Maria and Chris whom are both in my group for the IM 260 Class.

9/13/10

SO I printed the syllibus out and I feel more confident with this class. At first I wasnt understanding what we all had to do for the final project and what was required of us in class but now im feeling a lot better. Making an outline for the final project has really helped me in the process of worrying less and no being so stressed out for this class. I realy liked the discussion today in class on interet. As the discussions continue I feel more confident in knowing the material on things such as networks and internet and netiquette. From here on out im am really gonna continue to be active in class as well as discussions. I do not want a lack of points to reflect my grade. Although I am looking forward to midterm and knowing where I really stand in the class.

Jusqu'à la prochaine fois
(until next time)

9/13/10

 I hear a lot of good feedback from the speaker we had in class on Friday. I heard that they want to devlope and application for the droide and the iphone. In the future I would like to see other speakers in class throught the semester.

Today (Monday) in class:
  *Review of Friday's speaker. Complete the speaker survey
  * Discussion of Kiminski "workforce rediness"
      -Nettiquette and keeping it professional in the workplace
            Rules and work conditions
  *Using the discussion thread on D2L, reflect professionalism of using technology
  * What is INTERNET
      -research, chat, community connection, wikipedia, exc.

  * Defining a reliable sources
  * Establishing boundries for the final project (MLA foramat)
  * difference between www and internet
         - Internet
                All of the computers and the servers connected together
         - WWW
               a connection to all of the documents on the internet

   * Histroy of the internet
        Why do we bring it up? if we dont understadn certain things then we dont know how we can improve it.

 

9/12/10

Sooo im not so sure how im feeling about this class. I mean I like learning more about technology and expanding my knowledge on certain things but im not so sure what this class is even about. I have taken computers in society and learned about general technology but im not so sure what this class is even about so far. Hopefully it gets better as the semester goes on.


3 things I learned
    I like learning about how everyday technologies effect us like texting. I also like having discussions in class but sometimes i feel like its a little unorganized. Maybe its the class or maybe it is me, I havn't figured it out yet. And finally I like how we are prepairing now for the final project but I feel like I havnt had time or my group hasnt had time to meet. I dont wanna get pts. off for the final project.

9/8/10

Today in class:
    Review of friday's class
    web to trend 2.0
    final project
    Welcoming the write place helpers
    Looking and analyzing the hard drive and processor and RAM
    participating in D2L discussions on networks (what is network)

Goal for today:

-Move away from file managemne and start learning about networks

Discussion on :
Folders
  create folder
  copy folder
  move folder
 delete folder


Files
  Create file
  Copy File
  Move File
  Delete File

Types of networks CAN,LAN, WAN, HAN, CAN, exc.
 - Networks do not need to have a server, home networks

3 things to learn in class:
   I want to learn how to manover more efficently arount the internet
   I want to learn how to manage everything daily so it is not only on certain days sucha s class days
   And finally I want to learn mor about how networks keep us connected and how they work more indepth


3 things I like /dont like about class
   I like how it isnt super hot in the class room
   I liked the discussion today about networks and the following exercise with the class
   I also want to discuss the final project more just so everyone is more clear.
  
I need to meet with my group!!!



  
 

9/7/10

• read an article (one of the following 2 options)
  • do your research for a peer-reviewed article of interest. After you find one, please write a short outline and post the outline to the article with the the correct bibliographic citation of the article (choose one of the 3 most prevalent citation styles) and the correct (permlink) Web address the D2L topic
  • respond to an article from the the D2L topic. Post your response to the article and make sure that you are entering the correct bibliographic citation of the article (choose one of the 3 most prevalent citation styles) and the correct (permlink) Web address to the article you are responding to.
• wiki: http://2010im260.pbworks.com/FrontPage
  • do a research for an article you will be writing your written response about. Enter the information in the wiki and start working on a draft of your written response. Alert the peers of your group and one of the Write Place consultants that you have material for review. Read their comments and incorporate in your next draft
  • enter in the appropriate folder and page your title, outline and plan for final project. Start working toward a first draft of your final project. Alert the peers of your group and one of the Write Place consultants that you have material for review. Read their comments and incorporate in your next draft
  
  
  Yea so still kinda unsure as far as what we all have to do specifically. Hopefully this becomes more clear when discussing in class tomorrow.
  
  Until then...........
  

9/10/10

    Friday in class I thought we had a good discussion on texting. It was somthing that everyone in class could relate to and I believe the discussion was able to get more in depth as in past descussions on technology.I have always been good at texting and very fast at sending and replying but as I have gotten older I have found that I like to talk more on the phone and being more involved in the conversation. I am more of a interpersonel type of person. With a comment that was brought up in class about answering a text while having a face to face conversation was sort of an eye opener for me. I know that I have dont that in the past but hearing it from someone else made me feel as if I have been rude in the past. I will be more cautious about doing so from now on.



       Some things that I really need to improve on is my discussion skills. Most of the time I think things but am not too quick to say them out loud. I do like discussion but not arguments. I also am trying to work on my technological skills. this is one of my many downfalls when it comes to knowing a lot about technology in the discussions. I know a good amount about technology but only the technology I use on an everyday bases. I want to get better at knowing more about sofeware exc.
 
 
See everyone tomorrow!!

9/3/10

Today in class:
   * Mike is comming next friday, meet in Atwood
   * group work
         - Wiki exercise
              Post title, outline, edit title and outline (Does it make sense?.... Yes)

   * Read an article and respond to it in the wiki and work with group members and the write place to work and correct grammer and quality of content.

   * Libruary, working with databases and how to subscribe. ( resource for fianl project)

   * Discussion and clarity of the BLOG
   * Texting as information technology (Txtng)
   * Information on Networks
  

Homework task for today 9/3
   - File Management:
               Good Practices of file management would be basically saving files in there proper storeage space. Either saving something to the desktop and then moving it to a proper folder for a certain subject or certain space. I like to make specific folders for things such as Dance team , Work, and School classes. There also can be folders for other things such as pictures and videos. Once these specifc folders are created I like to save all of the documents for each in their own folder so I know where to find it.

               Somthing that I could be better about reguarding file managment is to keep all of my documents orgaized on the school computers. I feel as if they are very un organized and I usually save everything to the desktop since its just right there. It does get stressful because I wish I had the time to make this organizxation happen.


3 things I like about class:
   I like that I am understanding more about this class and how things work. I feel like I am learning more and gaining more knowledge on technology. However I dont like how it has gotten hotter in our classroom. :(



Homework for Wednesday:
     Kininski article, read and discuss. Enter in blog 3 things we learned today and blog on SMS and how we would resolve the problem or issue on texting.

9/1/10

Today in class:
   Processor Speed
   RAM
   RSS
   Working on blogs and the Wiki

Tasks for friday:
    Share in your blog 3 good practices of file management as well as 3 things that your don't do that you should reguarding file management.

“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology"

9/2/10

 Thursday September 2nd 2010,
   Feeling a little hard on myself because I missed two classes yesterday becasue of mainstreet. I like to be actively involoved in my classes and have the enjoyment of doing very well in my classes. I am getting used to the wiki and learning how to make pages within the folders and work on netiquitte. I like the discussions in class and how we have been getting time to work on things and learn more.

 Just a little side note that I thought I would mention. SCSU Dance Team tryouts are being held next week. Sept. 7th and 8th. from 8-11pm. We recently sent out a mass emial to everyone who signed up at mainstreet and wanted more information about Dance Team. Sooo Excited!!! :)

At Home Technology 9/1/10

 Gateway Laptop

• 3 GB RAM

• Intel Centrino Dual Core Processor

• 32-bit operating system

• 298 GB Harddrive

• Windows Vista Home Premium 

• Wireless adapter 

• 3D business and gaming graphics

• 4.8 calculations per second