Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Enrico’s reflections

In the beginning the Web was made by few willing people but they could only create their web pages if they knew HTML, rarely there were forums or chat and so there was small interaction. Nowadays interaction with users and easiness of use are the keys to success. People is happy to create something personal because in the net they could find for sure someone to share their own interest, or only because you want to express themselves. On the other hand companies have understood that the net is so huge that it's impossible to create contents for everyone and it's easier, cheaper and more profitable to host user-created material and to give the users the tools to create and share they thoughts, images, audio, clips and so on... Furthermore people that find custom made material can effortless reuse it, comment it, reorganized it or tag it, this fact increase interaction and gives birth to a network effect and anyone can have benefit from it because it improves their imagination and their capability to associate things. I think this has helped changing the idea about people that uses a computer. They were imagined as asocial people! Nowadays it's the opposite, since everybody is connected if you're not you're out of this world. I consider myself as one of the 'old' Internet-people: I own a website where I keep the programmes I did and where I wrote some information about me and my career at the university but only some friends of mine know about it. I don't want to expand because I've notice that keeping a blog takes a lot of time.
The cons of this new revolution are that this much freedom creates many problems. First of all there's the usual Internet problem: anyone can access the web pretending to be someone else. Oddly these people are still believed and many teen-agers have been lured this way. I think its a matter of education, in my humble opinion you can't trust someone met on the web because the only things you know are the one he's told you. The second problem is that you must pay attention to what you publish because we're bounded to an elder idea of copyright. Finally not everybody take advantage from these new technologies but in my opinion the things people have to master about the web are not blogs, IMs, or video-casting because there is small commercial feedback from these new technologies. If you don't want to be cut off try to improve your knowledge of E-Commerce, places to get reliable news, security and so on...

Friday, June 09, 2006

E-tivity 8

Now that we’ve arrived at the end of the course I will want to know what your impression of the wiki-blog experience has been. You may have asked yourself or may continue to ask yourself why I decided to conduct the course this way. My decision was based on several issues, e.g. there’s no avoiding the fact that technology is an integral part of our lives, if we don’t keep up with technological developments we will be ‘left behind’, and, finally, for me the most wonderful aspect of the web is the collective intelligence it has created by people sharing knowledge and experience. That’s we’re doing here.

E-tivity 8: Reflecting on the live web and the net generation

Purpose: To carefully read several online articles and develop your own personal opinion regarding new technologies and the role they do or should or shouldn’t play in your life or in the lives of the net generation (be you a part of it or not).

Task: Read at least 3 of the articles in the list of links below. Take notes, you’re your time. Don’t look every word you don’t know up in the dictionary, just look up those that you feel are fundamental to understanding the text. Outline the salient points that interest you most.

Reflect on what you’ve read. Is the live web good or bad, pros and cons? Do you consider yourself part of the net generation? Why or why not? What are the pros and the cons? Do you feel you need to ‘keep up’ with them or are you content falling behind?

Write a post with max 2 paragraphs summarizing your opinions and impressions. Send it to our course blog, please make the subject: Yourname’s reflections, e.g. Sarah’s reflections.

Respond: Read each other’s reflections. Send a comment to at least 2 that interest you, either because their opinions are different or because they say something you agree with, etc.

Timeline: Task - Friday, June 9 – Tuesday, June 13, Respond – Wednesday, June 14 – Friday, June 15 (last lesson!)

N.B. In your “free time” :-) try adding some audio to your own personal blogs (talking about these topics if you want)!

Online readings:

The New Wisdom of the Web (Newsweek)

Educating the Net Generation: Chapter 2 (Educause)

The Myth of Generation N (Newsweek)

MySpace Rises as New Online Star (Newsweek)

Video Napster (Newsweek)

Professional Blogger (Newsweek interview)

Group B – The net generation

Group B – The net generation

3 – Read your article quickly (max 5 min)

4 – Send a comment to this message with 1-2 sentences that summarize the MAIN IDEA of the article you read.

5 – Discuss your comments with the other people in the group.

6 – Mix groups.

Group A- The live Web

Group A- The live Web

3 – Read your article quickly (max 5 min)

4 – Send a comment to this message with 1-2 sentences that summarize the MAIN IDEA of the article you read.

5 – Discuss your comments with the other people in the group.

6 – Mix groups.

Friday's lesson

Hello everyone, today we are going to do a little reading, writing and then speaking. What about? Well, indirectly about you, your generation, this course, its blog and its wiki.

Here’s the task:


1 – discuss what you think “The live Web” and “The net generation” refer to.


2 – go to the blog posting for your group

Sarah

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Wow, it sounds like you really enjoyed this activity! ;-)

I'm really pleased, Pierpaolo, Christian, Carlo, Giovanni and Diego have done a wonderful work speaking about their own experiecences abroad, ...what about the others?

Come on guys (and girls), it is pretty easier than it seems and above all you have received useful tips from your peers - please, read comments to posts :-) and if you still are not able to record your message ask for help: either me or, better, your peers will answer you:-)


Hope to hear from you very soon!
Lisa

P.S. As I already said in one comment of mine, what I like most of this blog is the spontenous and mutual way of helping each other!

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Pierpaolo's reply to Carlo


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Pierpaolo's reply to Christian


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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Carlo's reply to Pierpaolo


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Carlo's reply to Giovanni


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Monday, June 05, 2006

Carlo's vocal message


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E-tivity 7 by Giovanni


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Sunday, June 04, 2006

e-tivity 7 (pierpaolo)

I couldn't use ODEO (it doesn't permit me to log in), so I recorded my audio file in an mp3 and put in my university webpage:

www.dei.unipd.it/~pimarcon/ireland.wav

See you soon!

Pier

E-tivity7 by Diego

It's a live registration! I didn't write down the complete passage before to record, but I used a draft as suggested by Sarah. So it's not perfect, and there are some errors:-p

Nice listening!


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bye, Diego