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Online Conference 1.0
What is your name? What is your
Email address? Any particular reason you have the name you do? Where are your
from?
Tell us a little about your
family? What is one think you take with you from your family and one thing you
will leave behind?
What five adjectives most
describe your personality? What are your five favorite social-recreational
activities? What is the riskiest thing you have ever done? What is your most
unforgettable experience?
What are the top five things
you would like to do before you are 30? If you have exceeded 30 years of
planetary occupation what do you know now you did not know at 18?
What is something you have
done, that you believe no one in the class has likely done? If you could have
lunch with anyone living or dead, who would it be? What books
have shaped your thinking or
influenced your life in some meaningful way?
Why did you decide to come to
Bradley? What are the five best courses you have taken at Bradley? What are
the five least favorite courses have you taken at Bradley. What do you want to
do when you grow up? What specific entry level position are you going to
pursue. If you are already employed full time, what does your career
trajectory look like?
If at a candidate selection interview
you were asked, "What is the biggest challenge your have had to overcome in
your life so far, how might you respond? Email copy of assignment to
ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Personal Profile
Complete your
Personal Profile in the Discussion Forum
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and
discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 399 Edit and spell
check writing before posting. Read and respond to least five other posts for
this particular Online Conference. "None of us is as good as all of us."
The Internet: Its Nature, Evolution and
Future
1. Construct an Internet Timeline similar to the one I constructed from the years 2000 to 2009.
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/20092000-2009TimeLine.htm
2. Each person in class will be assigned a different decade. You can use the blank timeline found at
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2009BlankTimeline.htm
3. Strategy
a) You can "cut and paste" from existing Internet timelines.
b) Do not "cut and paste" your time-line from one source (integrate information from diverse sources)
c) Do not just focus on the history of the technologies which drove the internet but also the history of the social, political, economic and cultural impact
of this medium of communication.
d) Those doing the 1960's and 1970's will likely focus more on the history of technological developments, given the internet and digital communication
had yet to have a significant impact on our socio-cultural history.
e) Focus first on important historical development which drove the medium of communication forward, but you can also include interesting historical
"factoids" as you discover them.
f) Google Timeline can be a useful tool http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
g) Use hyperlinks liberally they add to the power of your timeline
4. Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 39i9. Edit and spell check writing before posting.
5.
Read and respond to least FIVE other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your course mates who respond to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts
Online Conference 3.0
The Internet: Its Nature, Evolution and
Future
Internet History
Review the Timeline
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/20092000-2009TimeLine.htm
1. Select three historical moments of events from the timeline.
2. No one can write on the same topic. So it is first come,
first serve. Once you claim your three topics is the discussion forum,
than no one else
no one else can write on that topic. You
can of course add a "moment to the timeline which you think is important or
potentially historically
(I constructed the initial draft or the 2000-2009
Timeline, and I am certain that there are important moments in the last 10
years which I
overlooked)
3. Write THREE 250 word essays which develop the three ideas you
selected from the timeline. Write essays integrating information from
multiple sources, do not merely "cut and paste" from Wikipedia.
We all learned how to do that in 4th grade, this should be writing, not
merely "information transfer."
4. Requirements for each of the Three Mini-Essays
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each
each essay will contain at least 1 uses of statistics (charts/graphs)
contain at least two 25-50 word quotations from authority (do not cite URL's if author is unknown)
harness the resources of the internet and the Bradley library; must contain at least 5 references in addition to those furnished on the course website or discussion forum
5. Create at least ONE PowerPoint slide ("create
dangerously") which dramatizes each of your pivotal moments. After you
have completed
each of your PowerPoint slides, "cut and paste" each of your
essays into the "notes view" under the appropriate slide. So you
completed
assignment should have at least three slides, and in
the "notes view" of each slide one should "cut and paste" the content of the
relevant/
appropriate essay.
6.
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by
other students enrolled in Communication 39i9. Edit and
spell check writing
before posting.
7.
Read and respond to least FIVE other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your course mates whorespond to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
8. Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Potential Resources
Online Conference 4.0 Internet Utilization Social Technographics
1) Download and Review the PowerPoint Presentation Social Technographics. Read the content contained in the notes view. Watch a couple of the short YouTube videos.
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/SocialTechnographics.ppt
2) Write a 500 essay answering the following questions?
- What is social Technographics?
- Are you a creator, critic, joiner, collector, spectator, or inactive
- Do you know friends of acquaintances who fit into these categories?
- How is there use of social media similar to and different from you own?
- Do you envision you use of social media will increase in the future?
- According to the data provided in the PowerPoint how does your use of social media different from your parents?
- Are you parents typical of their generation or atypical?
3) I am a little suspicious of the validity and reliability of these "quick and dirty" online survey/quiz, but take the quiz and see if you are a creator, critic, jointer, spectator or inactive?
http://www.gotoquiz.com/discover_your_groundswell_social_technographi
4) Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 39i9. Edit and spell check writing before posting.
5).
Read and respond to least FIVE other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your course mates who respond to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.6) Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
O
nline Conference 5.0Internet Utilization/Internet Typology Test
1)
Download and read
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/PewTypologyInternetUsers.pdf
Navigate to:
http://www.pewinternet.org/
3) Take the Internet Typology Tests
http://www.pewinternet.org/Participate/What-Kind-of-Tech-User-Are-You.aspx
5. Write a 500 word essay in which you answer the following questions:
- What were the results of your test?
- Are you a Omnivore, Connector, Lackluster Veterans, Productivity Enhances Mobile Centrics, Connected But Hassled, Inexperienced Experimenters, Light But Satisfied, Indifferents, Off the Network?
- What are some of the defining characteristics of your type?
- Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
- How would you say your utilization compared to that of your peers?
- How would you classify each of your parents?
6. Resouces
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by your coursemates. Edit and spell check writing before posting.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your courses makes who response to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
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Additional Resources
Online Conference 6.0
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) Navigate to http://www.pewinternet.org/Topics.aspx2) Select, read and read one of the Pew Internet Research Reports from 2006 to 2009) It should be a "Report" and not a "Commentary," "Media Mention," or "Presentation."
3) Each person must select a different research report and write on a different topic. Declare your topic taken in the Discussion Forum.
4. Write a 500 word essay summarizing the major finding and arguments contained in the research report.
5. Essay should include at least 5 25 to 50 word quotations from the research report.
6. Internal citations and end of essay reference list should use APA style.
7. Post
completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by your
coursemates. Edit and spell check writing
before posting.
8.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your coursesmakes who response to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
9. Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Online Conference 7.0
Relational
Communication on the "Net"
Navigate and peruse eharmony.com
1) Click on Go Free Personality Profile
2) Create an account. I might consider creating a new email account on gmail for the purpose of this execise.
3) Congratulations!
You have taken the first step towards finding a successful relationship. Now it is time to complete our comprehensive Relationship Questionnaire and receive your detailed Personality Profile. The results will provide you with insights about yourself and will enable us to find people who are highly compatible with you.
Complete the Relationship Questionnaire. Takes about 15 to 30 minutes depending on how much time you reflect on each another, and how many words you write in the two or three open-ended questions.
If you find your mind wandering during the personality inventory, save your work and pick it up again. Your answers are saved and re-logging picks you back up at the point at which you left off. If you do not take the inventory seriously you decrease the validity of the inventory. This year's relationship questionnaire is actually much shorter to complete. It used to take 30 to 45 minutes to complete, and there was an obvious fatigue factor.
In completing my profile, I did not not upload a photo, I think it is prudent not to, but that is your own choice.
4) Click on the circle "Free Personality Profile"
5) The profile analyzes the personality about five dimensions (hyperlinks to these dimension are in the left-hand frame)
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6. I "cut and paste" my profile here. http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2009KaschEharmonyprofile.htm
7) If anyone is serious about using the service you
would probably want to complete your personal profile (photo, your
"Must Haves."
and "Can't Stands" and your RelyID ($5.95) in which your
name, location and age are independently verified. I imagine that
the more flexible you are on "must haves" and "can't stands,"
and your willingness to verify you name, age and location will
likely increase your total number of matches. Likewise, when
completing the relationship questionnaire, stating that you want
matches from all over the country will get you more matches,
than if you specify within 100 miles.
You will likely receive matches which according to the personality inventory are compatible with you. Only one student in the history of Com 399 online has failed to receive a match. You know who you are Alex. :)
8. Write a 750 word essay in which you:
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synthesize the e-harmony profile including a brief discussion of each of the dimensions
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discuss the areas in which you think the profile provide a reasonable accurate description of who you are
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discuss the areas in which you think the profile does not provide a a particular accurate description of who you are and furnish necessary amplification, corrections, and clarifications.
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discuss the strengths and limitations of initiating relationship in online environments.
You may also want to address some of the following questions:
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What are the underlying assumptions (state or unstated) that are being used to match people. Try and write a little more reflective or critical analysis looking at the validity and reliability of matching people using a personality inventory.
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What are the strengths? What are the limitations?
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How might the process be enhanced or improved? What are the sources of customer/user satisfaction? What are some of the potential sources of customer dissatisfaction, and so forth.
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Do you think inventories such as this should be used as tools for hiring and job placement?
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Many of you make have taken other similar personality inventories e.g. Briggs-Meyers, MMPI (Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory) Have you found these to be useful tools for fostering self-insight and or guiding behavior.
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Many companies use personality inventories such as Social Styles and DISC for helping employees understand their personality and communication style and how to interact with those who have a particular style. Strengths? Limitations?
9) Navigate and read articles about e-harmony.com and online dating.
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2008OnlineRelationshipResources.htm
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2008OnlineDatingResourcesAcademic.htm
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2005AboutEharmony.htm
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2005HowEharmonyWorks.htm
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2005OnlineDatingIndustryAnalysis.pdf
The Psychology of Cyberspace Relationships
In-person versus cyberspace relationships
10.
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum as a attachment
for review and discussion by other students enrolled
in Communication 399 Edit
and spell check writing before posting.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your courses makes who response to your work.
You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
11. Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
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Assignment Options for Online Conference 9.0 Second Life |
| Option 1 Play the Game - Write Your Story | Option 2 Analytical Essay Focusing on Second Life |
This assignment has two options. You can either joint SL devote several hours playing second life, and write a essay/journal/story describing your participant observational experiences during your sojourn through the "metverse."
OR
You can write an analytical research-based essay exploring nature, functions dynamics, and use of Second Life in various contexts.
The metaverse is a fictional virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. The word metaverse is a compound of the words "meta" and "universe". ~ wikipedia
Metaverses are becoming immensely popular, with millions of active users worldwide. The growing collection of metaverses used for social networking, workplace collaboration, retail sales, virtual tourism, marketing, distance learning, disaster recovery training, and threats is often called the 3D Internet. Some virtual worlds grant access only to specific groups of users. For example, Forterra Systems (www. forterrainc.com) creates or hosts private virtual worlds based on their On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment platform. These metaverses focus on staff training or collaborative decision-making and typically replicate real-world locations. Most metaverses, however, are open to all users and serve as vehicles for social networking, commerce, education, or entertainment with some fantasy-based elements. The first metaverse, CitySpace, was launched at the 1993 Siggraph conference and was active until 1996(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityspace). Since then, numerous metaverses have emerged, including
ActiveWorlds (www.activeworlds.com) and There (www.there.com).The most popular metaverse today is Linden Lab’sSecond Life (http://secondlife.com), in which many corporations, universities, cities, embassies, artists, andindividuals have created a virtual presence.This assignment serves as a basic primer into the virtual world of Second Life. The assignment will furnish the opportunity to learn how to interact with real people in a virtual environment. This assignment also allows on to think about how virtual experiences are applicable to the real world (i.e. relationships, business, education, corporate training and so forth.
In 2003, Linden Labs created Second Life, a virtual world focusing on the communication and building aspects instead of the competition and game playing. The concept of virtual worlds was already under development for massively multiplayer role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, Matrix Online, and Call of Duty, but the underlying focus of these systems was on the game playing element. To new onlookers, Second Life appears to be a game. The visual nature of avatars exploring a world is very similar to the games incorporating virtual worlds. But Second Life is not a game; it does not contain the typical elements of game play, such as points, weapons, damage, competition, and winners. Instead, Second Life is a new method of communication over the Internet, and is the most popular Internet-based virtual world that is not part of a game.
For the first several years of its existence, Second Life was not popular. Those expecting to play a fun virtual world game were disappointed by the lower quality graphics and lack of competitive purpose, feeling like their avatars were wandering aimlessly around a virtual world. Those using Second Life for communication purposes were disappointed because so few people had avatars and thus there was not much point to enter the world. But times have changed. Since 2006, the usage of Second Life has exploded rapidly. There are now over 13 million unique accounts, with around 60,000 members in the world during peak usage. There are virtual stores, dance clubs, meetings rooms, classes, etc… It is growing exponentially, similar to the way the World Wide Web grew a decade ago.
In Second Life people create 3D avatars as representations of themselves, build structures and objects, and socialize. There is no cost to you to go to Second Life and create an account and avatar. You will have to download a rather large client program that you run on your own computer when you log in. And the Second Life experience requires a broadband connection and a computer with significant graphics and computation power.
Linden Labs, the company that owns Second Life, makes money by selling virtual real estate and services like uploading your own media for display. It's a big and complex environment. There are many "mature" areas in which simulation is open and graphic, in many ways a 'digital frontier," There are "griefers" who can pull pranks on the unsuspecting. However, for the most part, the people you meet in Second Life are helpful and eager to assist you in finding your way.
Additional insights about Second LIfe can be found without playing the game by searching YouTube and Google Video and Blip.TV (search second life for user-generated video)
For example, the founders
of Second Life are invited to Google to give a Tech Talk to interested employees
in this vdieo.
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=Second+LIfe&sitesearch=#q=Second%20LIfe&sitesearch=&start=10
Assignment Option 1 Play the Game, Write Your Story
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Download Software, Register your Account: There are several steps that need to be taken before you can successfully begin using Second Life.Downloading Second Life Client (It is also possible to join Second life through the New Media Center Consortium http://sl.nmc.org/join/
Create a Second Life account. Go to the join second life web page to create an account and avatar. Use your email address for the email contact, and select a name for your avatar.
Attend SL’s Orientation Island. Gain familiarity and comfort with the movement controls, communication methods, and menu command interface.
Alter the appearance of your avatar. Create a distinct avatar appearance you like. It may look just like you or be completely different
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Devote several hours, at least, to exploring. You can't do it in ten-minute bursts. Create an avatar and try to customize it. Use the search facility to explore the virtual world. Learn to walk, fly, and move your "camera" -- your point of view. You can't do it in ten-minute bursts. Create an avatar and try to customize it. Use the search facility to find the avatar named Profesor Skytower and offer friendship. Learn to walk, fly, and move your "camera" -- your point of view. Hint -- pointing at objects and control-clicking (command-clicking on Macs) on the object often reveals a menu. Try the "touch" and "edit" options on one of the pie-chart menus that appears.
3. Some suggest going on a scavenger hunt to become familiar with the virtual world.
- Avatar with wings (yours avatar or someone else’s)
- Large group of avatars (at least 10)
- Place to make free money and free clothing, skins, shapes
- Superhero costume (either on an avatar or for sale in a store) \
- Skill game, such as bowling, putt-putt, darts, etc…
- Star Wars world
- Your avatar dancing
- Your avatar in a karate pose
- Medical training simulation \
- Your avatar in a vehicle (car, plane, boat, hovercraft, skateboard, etc…)
- An extravagant house
- Volcano (far away shot
- Moon landing
- Geometric figure (cube, pyramid, prism, cylinder, icosahedron, (the sandboxes)
- Game or activity (checkers, chess, monopoly, sudoku, etc…)
- In a virtual classroom (teaching or sitting)
- Playing an video game from the 80’s
- Visit several locations in Second Life and documenting them. You will document them by taking pictures, learning as much about them as you can, and hopefully talking to the people who run them or spend time there.
- Go to secondlife.com/showcase, and watch some of the Arts & Culture, and Photos & Machinima galleries. This one is quite interesting: SecondHealth.
- Links to some Orientation/Getting Started Tutorials Can Be Found at
http://www.kaschassociates.com/399web/2008SecondLifeGettingStarted.htm
- Howard Rheingold's video introducing his office in Second Life
- Howard Rheingold's video on creating objects in Second Life
- John Suler on Second Life
- The Unofficial Complete Fool's Guide to Second Life
- Amy Bruckman's students' selection of articles on Second Life
- Second Life Wiki
- Complete the tutorials on Help Island
Here are some points
of interest.
(You must have created your avatar and be in Second LIfe for the links to take your avatar to your desired destination
Once you are inside SL you can use the search engine to navigate around SL by clicking Search
12 Things To Do In Second Life That
Aren't Embarrassing If Your Priest Or Rabbi Finds Out
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/10_fun_things_t.html
The following "most visited" sites in Second Life were taken from the following persons who blog about Second Life (I have not not visited these sites)
| http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/03/sls-most-visitedphotographed-sites-last-week-koinup-1.html |
| http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/12/koinups-top-t-1.html#more |
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Requirements
Write at 1000 word story about your sojourn in Second Life. Write your story as a narrative but include discussion of such things as:
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Challenges you found. What activities were harder to get used to, which ones seemed natural.Interactions you had with either things or people.
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Was it easy to chat, buy clothes or meet people.
- Your expectations for future interactions within second life?
- What things you think would be interesting to explore or what activities seem like they would be fun to do within second life.
- Do you think second life can provide a good environment to foster a community? Why or why not
- How do graphical simulations such as Second Life avatars affect how you think of yourself online, how people interact socially
Option 2 Analytical Essay Focusing on Second
Life
at least 1000 words of text
contain at least 2 images per page
contain at least 8 hyperlinks embedded in the
essay
contain at least four 25-50 word quotations from
authority (do not cite URL's if author is unknown)
Use as least five sources. Cite your sources using APA style (No credit is sources are not cited in correct APA style)
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 399 Edit and spell check writing before posting.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your courses makes who response to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
Email copy of assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Potential Topics
- Pick a topic of your choice -- If there is some aspect of Second Life that you'd like to concentrate on, feel free to choose for yourself. You may check out your choice ahead of time by emailing the course staff to ensure that it is acceptable. Are there potential applications or uses of virtual world like Second Life in journalism, advertising, public relations, electronic media, public relations, corporate communication and so forth. Email the topics you may be considering.
- Communication 300 Flashback. Discuss the uses and gratifications perspective on media utilization than discuss why people participate in virtual world, what needs, wants, goals, motives are gratified through playing virtual games.
- Check out the Journal of Virtual Worlds for potential topic ideas (http://www.jvwresearch.org/v1n2.html). All of their articles in this relatively new online journal can be downloaded for free.
Here are some general topic areas which may serve as a catalyst for decided
what you would like to write on. I will add resources for
these areas as I find
them.
- Business -- Second Life is full of businesses of all kinds. You can either choose a selection of different types of businesses or focus on a particular business area. Some of the more vibrant areas of business are clothing design and sale, real estate, electronics, gambling , sex, and so forth.
- Education -- There are lots of kinds of education happening in Second Life. There are places devoted to teaching Second Life building, other school campuses, Campus Island, and islands devoted to educating visitors on particular topics. Anything with a mission of educating SL residents qualifies ( e.g. Virtual Worlds in Education)
Warburton S (2009) Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potential for and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds in learning and teaching. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (3), 414-426.Edirisingha P, Nie M, Pluciennik M and Young R (2009) Socialisation for learning at a distance in a 3-D multi-user virtual environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (3), 458-479
- Government and Law -- This is a very interesting but tricky topic. There are lots of places in Second Life that are modeled to look like institutions of government or law but that have little or no government or practice of law happening at them. These do not count: you are looking for places where actual attempts at governance or law are happening in SL. Some possibilities are the town meetings held by Linden Labs, government or housing association meetings of privately held land that is shared by a group of residents, law offices in Second Life, the Second Life Bar Association, Democracy Island. Also, for this topic you may consider Groups as well as places in your paper because there are many that are interested in questions of in-world governance. What are some legal issues in SL? Do avatars have rights? Laws of virtual worlds. Intersection with real-world law
- Art -- There are quite a lot of places showing art in Second Life and trying to use the 3D modeling capacity to its full e extent. You can consider physical art installations as well as live or recorded visual or audio performances that you may find in clubs or other social spaces. You may also wish to visit sandboxes where experienced builders are creating new objects, pieces or art, avatar designs, etc.
Specific Requirements The Analytical
Essay
at least 1000 words of text
contain at least 2 images per page
contain at least 10 hyperlinks embedded in the
essay
contain at least four 25-50 word quotations from
authority (do not cite URL's if author is unknown)
Use as least five sources. Try to use "serious" resources, not just "pop press fluff" If you do not know the author do not use the source.
Cite your sources using APA style (No credit is sources are not cited in correct APA style)
Post completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 399 Edit and spell check writing before posting.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your courses makes who response to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
Virtual Worlds and Education
| Second Life: The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW), David M. Antonacci and Nellie Modaress |
| 7 Things You Should Know About Virtual Worlds, Educause |
| Get a (Second) Life! Henry Jenkins |
| Game On for Learning, Sara de Freitas |
| Digital Game-Based Learning: It’s Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless, Richard Van Eck |
| Simulations, Games, and Learning, Diana Oblinger |
| Gaming the System: What Higher Education Can Learn from Multiplayer Online Worlds, J.C. Herz |
| Meet the Gamers, Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler |
| Understanding the Importance of Exploring Virtual Worlds, Jenny Levine |
| How Gaming Could Improve Information Literacy, Ameet Doshi |
Identity and Online Relationships in Virtual Worlds
| Donath, J. S. (1998). Identity and deception in the virtual community. In P. Kollock & M. Smith (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. |
| boyd, d. (2006). “Friends, Friendsters, and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites.” First Monday 11(12). |
| Ellison, N., Heino, R., & Gibbs, J. (2006). Managing impressions online: Self-presentation processes in the online environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2 |
Some General Resources on Second Life
• Putnam, R. (1995) "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," Journal of Democracy, vol. 6 (1), pp 65-78.
Online Conference
The State and Future of Digital Gaming
Navigate and Read
http:/www.kaschassociates.com/399web/Gaming.pdf
Read the Executive Summary carefully. Read/scan the remainder of the document depending on your specific interests.
Make a TOP TEN list of the most important things you learned from reading this report. Write ten paragraphs describing what you consider the most important insights contained in this report. Include a five source reference list of current (2007) citations which support and amplify your Top Ten list.
Harness
the power of the Internet to construct your answers.
Use a least
five references. Construct a list of references using APA Style. Use at least
five different references for each strategy. (Ten points off if correct APA
style is not employed)
Post
completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion
by your coursemates. Edit and spell check writing before posting.Read and
respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference.
Respond at least once to any of your coursemates who response to your work..
You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
Email assignment tot he instructor. ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Report Overview
Online Conference Podcasting,
What is a Podcast?
Podcasts are audio programs that are broadcasted over the Internet. They are MP3 files which can be downloaded onto a compatible digital player or played on your computer. You can download one or many, for free (generally), or you can subscribe to an RSS service for downloads so you can be alerted when new postings are made available. The name podcast comes from compounding the words iPod and broadcast.
Definitions:
- Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting)
- PBWiki (http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com/)
- Yahoo (http://podcasts.yahoo.com)
- PodcastAlley (http://www.podcastalley.com/what_is_a_podcast.php)
- iLounge (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/understanding-the-podcasting-revolution)
- Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70884-0.html)
- Apple’s page (http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/)
Links to Learning
A good tutorial (http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com/)This is the same link above (PBWiki).
An ipod tutorial (http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/)
How to subscribe and listen to them:
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You will need a ‘podcast software client’ that will download the feed via your Internet connection:
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For Windows, Mac or Linux (multi-platform podcasting application) see: iPodder (http://www.ipodder.org/whatIsIpodder).
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For windows see: NIMIQ (http://www.nimiq.nl/), podfeeder (http://www.podfeeder.com/), or Doppler (http://www.dopplerradio.net/).
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For Mac see PlayPod(http://www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/).
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This will create a download of a small text file called “.pcast”. This tells your music software what podcast to download, then notifies you of new episodes whenever they are available.
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You can listen to podcasts directly from your computer. If you want to take a podcast with you, any MP3 player or iPod will work. You do not need iTunes.
iTunes info (http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-itunes-49-with-podcasts/)Yahoo info (http://podcasts.yahoo.com/start?i=3) Podcast Alley info (http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
These are samples of subscription ‘badges:’
(http://podcasts.yahoo.com)
(http://podcasts.yahoo.com)
(http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
(http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/links.php)
(http://www.dopplerradio.net)
(http://www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/)
(http://nimiq.nl)
Podcasts on Podcasting
- Podcast: Using Video in Training and Documentation, Interview with Todd O’Neill
- Podcast: Analyzing Your Users and Needs Before Creating the Help Deliverables; Interview with Nicky Bleiel
- Podcast: How to Create User-Centered Documentation, Interview with Joe Sokohl
- Thinking About a More Personal Style of Podcasting
- Podcast: Workspaces, Collaboration, and Information Sharing — Interview with Emma Hamer
Assignment
- Subscribe to or find at leave five Podcasts that are relevant to your intended career or areas of concentration within the communication major. Furnish us with their title and location.
3) Write a 750 word essay/reflection in which you address the following questions:
How might podcasting, moblogging and vblogging be integrated into the
teaching-learning process in your
major
generally, and in some of the courses you have taken so far.
What are the pros and cons, upsides and downsides, promise and perils,
strengths and limitations
of
thesetechnologies as teaching tools, both from the students and teachers
perspective?
PodCasting
- (Audio Blogging) - rather than write text to a blog, podcasting enables people to record their voices and post that to a blog. The key here is ease of use and convenience. The end user can subscribe to a podcast and have it automatically download the latest MP3 file to his/her computer (or iPod or whatever). So, it's like subscribing to a radio show that you can listen too at your convenience. By the way, the term is derived from another word combination.... iPod + Broadcasting = PodCasting This really has nothing directly to do with iPods - it's just the way the name evolved. This is really quite a powerful medium. Imagine the potential in foreign language classes or at a place like Duke University where they give all incoming freshmen iPodsMoBlogging
- (Mobile Blogging) - posting to your blog using hand held devices such as a cell phone or PDA. Not a huge stretch, but a powerful thing nonetheless. This allows bloggers to publish from remote locations such as the beach, conferences, the car, the classroom, etc. There are lots of sites and bloggers dedicated to the 'art' of moblogging. Additionally, this allows podcasters to tape themselves from remote locations. Get your cell phone, dial into your blog, talk, press pound, and bada bing - your voice is published for the world to download. The ultimate in remote broadcasting.(3) VBlogging or Vlogging
- (Video Blogging) - rather than write text to a blog why not post video clips? Video tools are cheap and easy to use. Video is built into our cell phones and our web cams. It's a natural evolution for blogging tools to adapt themselves to make publication of video clips as quick and easy as posting a message to a blog. so what's the difference between this and streaming video? Again, the answer is ease of use, convenience and subscriptions. This format lends itself to a single person publishing his/her own videos at will. Streaming video requires lots of planning, preparation and configuration. The time investment is often a deterrent. Vblogging puts video production in the hands of the individual - no technicians required. A product by Serious Magic is designed to do this very thing. Visual Communicator turns your PC's web cam into a mini production studio so you can sit , tape, and publish your videos to the web using your computer's web cam. Biology Course Outline(1:16) - Windows Media Mission To Saturn (:59) - Windows MediaPost completed assignment to the discussion forum for review and discussion by other students enrolled in Communication 399 Edit and spell check writing before posting.
Read and respond to least five other posts for this particular Online Conference. Respond at least once to any of your courses makes who response to your work.. You must respond to any response the instructor makes to any of your posts.
Email a copy of your assignment to ckasch@kaschassociates.com
Potential Resources
| Instructional Podcasting Resources (Multiple Articles) |
| Podcasting Lectures - Pros and Cons |
| Podcasts: Why? |
| The University of Southern Mississippi's Podcasting Pilot Project |
| Giving the students what they want: Short, to-the-point e-lectures |
| Podcast Pros {and Cons} |
| Podcasts & Vodcasts: Educational Applications |
| Technology – Pros and Cons for Schools |
| Podcasts and student feedback |
Crossing the Digital Divide: A Road Map to Technological Success |
| Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? |
Podcast Brothers Podcasts |
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