First let me apologize to those who had presentations that going on, when I entered the room or missed. I do apologize that my school workload has been a little heavier than I expected and I apologize for any rudeness on my part towards my fellow school mates. Brent I am sorry I missed your presentation. Now to get on with my comments on the presentations...
Tuesdays and Thursdays presentations were very nice and professionally done, I thought.
TUESDAY, April 27Th PRESENTATION
Daniel Anderson's presentation was about exploring the relationship of Video Games and Virtual Learning. It seems to me that there is plenty to say about this subject that I never considered before. The learning principles of games and the ongoing stat. information of how many persons actually play video games seems to me a little intriguing. I learned about Games Paul Gee in my HCI class and I thought his principles were of an interesting nature, and now I can see them in the workings of networking of the social kind. I think your essay, is going to be interesting, nice presentation too.
Michael presentation on Cybercrimes: Real vs. Virtual Space was an interesting topic. I have known of cybercrimes for quite a while. And cellphone harassment has been around for many a year that I can remember so it seems that this kind of treatment would continue online. I do feel that it is a real sadness that physical property and ID theft has invaded our email because I really like to keep my text messages. But I guess that will have to change now. Thanks for the presentation Michael on Cybercrimes.
Lee's presentation on Cyber activism on YouTube was very interesting to me. Considering that I get most of my news updates from the Net and my paper is about political activism kept me intrigued. I am a cyber activist and truly believe that most of what is happening now within the Net is just the "tip of the Iceberg" of what our future holds for us and who share goals on whatever they feel that needs to be spoken about... I really liked the presentation. Just last night I watched about the killing, no, slaughtering of Dolphins in Japan for meet and whatever reason that they might have made me want to go over there and slap them silly, and maybe knock some sense into them, then the other thing is about that trash floating in the pacific... I thought there was only that one, but now I find there are 5 such deposits...of trash and plastic...
Great presentation Michael and hope you air your essay on your blog so I can read it.
Angel again brought up James Paul Gee on the learning principles. Self knowledge principle was a interesting comparison. I am glad that there are a lot of students that has knowledge of his principles because it has helped me a great deal presently to know about them now, and I wish I had, had the opportunity in High School to have known of them. I agree that computers and the Internet is about creating and having these 'critical learning principles' are important.
Derek's presentation on Bridging the Digital Divide with mobile technology is I feel an important topic and a good one. The statistical information is going to be hard to bare down on since cell phone users are growing everyday. I think cell phones should be free, but that's me. I like how he compared the Virtual with the hybrid communities to help with the digital divide and political change. I would like to bring up though that Haiti is one of the biggest mobile cyber 'sale' or 'outlet' now called on for the help through cyberspace. I would like to see if he adds any futuristic possibilities to his essay.
Kristin's presentation was a pretty deep subject to cover in an essay. The 'White masculine environment' of the Internet was and always will be aggressive. I think that her acknowledgment of the information literacy and existing programs implemented by the masculine is a little over-whelming to believe. Except on the points of Pornographic solicitation. The information illiteracy I think really does not have a leading presence either feminine or masculine qualities. There are male and female educational implementations for younger and the older students on line. Interesting topic though.
Thursday, April 29Th Presentation
Brent, I am sorry that I missed your presentation, but I will check others blogs and will make a special effort to write about what I have missed at the end of this blog.
Cynthia's presentation about the visual and traditional media race on gender and ethnicity was interesting. I know we have made quite a bit of a stride from how it used to be on TV, but I did not know that it was continuing into cyberspace. That is pretty sad. The changes that have been made I know took centuries but it surprises me today that cyberspace discrimination is continuing. But, I guess I really did not look as hard as I should at the media. I have noticed that stereotyping does continue, and censorship (we probably will have that forever), but to have race discrimination in the U.S. seems so outdated. Great topic Cynthia... I will keep an eye open more now then in the past.
Neal's presentation on Cell phones and the development of the mobility of it has me interested. That story about Nairobi, Africa was very interesting, I really would liked to have found out if anything came out of the call for help, like what is happening for Haiti. The diplomacy factor would make for an addition to the 'narrowing of the digital divide.' Interesting.
Josh's presentation on Internet Activism as a necessary tool in the real world was impressive. As usual Josh's work just shines. His presentation together with the topic was outstanding. I thought he looked very comfortable up there speaking to the class. The information that he brought out was typical with the topic, I just thought that he would of brought up how people have been responding to calls for help after the china earthquake and the Iceland volcanic eruption and all the people stranded without help. But cyber-communities getting the message out non-the-less. And yes, I agree that "Virtual spaces often translate in physical change with the World" on a global scale. Great presentation.
Don't forget Papers are due on May 7Th, by 9pm. Good luck to everyone.
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