Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship can be a bad or a good thing. Just like in society, there are good and bad citizens. Bad citizens on the internet can hurt themselves, others, or both. If you post the wrong thing, it could go viral and define you. Bad citizens can also post bad things about others.

Click here to read an article that has an example of bad citizenship.

The Independent Project

The independent project seemed like a pretty cool way for students to go to school. It is much easier to learn if you are learning about what you want to learn, and the pressure of a large school is not on you. Not only is it easier to learn, but students want to learn if it is about whatever they are interested in. Without being told what to do, it makes the students learn the way they want to, which is better than having directions and being told exactly what to do.

The back channel on Twitter was kind of like people talking during a video. It seemed just as distracting because it was hard to pay attention to the video and Twitter at the same time, and read tweets and listen at the same time. If you did it enough and got used to it, it could be useful so you can talk during the video instead of talking about what happened afterwards.

Video on Filter Bubble

The man talking in the video was right about the filtering of the news that we get. It would be better to get information that is not always relevant or important to us, but if he read them than we can learn more or get a better understanding of things that are happening. The more variety of news we have, the more we can learn and get out of the internet.

Ipads In Other High Schools

Other high schools around the country are also giving students an Ipad. Each school is doing different things with the Ipad, but all are obviously using it to change education in the schools. Some schools will be the first in their state to make all the students have Ipads. Some schools are totally eliminating books from the program and using the Ipads to get books. Our school has not totally stopped using books, and is transitioning into the Ipads. It is probably a better idea to transition into them so the students and teachers can get an idea of how the education will be different in the upcoming years.

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TargetX CRM Tool

Colleges are using TargetX to track social web chatter. They are using the tool to view the web chatter and using it to recruit students. Since students or potential students post things on social networking sites that are important to them, colleges can find out why or why not they might enroll in their school, and they can see interests of the students. This allows the colleges to see more of the students than how they are in school. The tool helps the colleges see the best students for the school, which can change the colleges a lot.


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Class

Web 2.0 class has taught me some useful things about the Internet. The video he have been making in class is good, and hopefully other people will see it and see how outdated the classrooms in schools are. Before this class, I did not think technology could be as useful as some of the new things about the Internet I discovered. For example, Google reader is useful because you do not have to go keep going to a bunch of different websites to get a lot of information. Also, the ways to limit the searching on Google. The class video project will hopefully spread how useful technology can actually be.