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Monday, April 25, 2011
Taking WIKIs to the classroom
Students in English 206 at the University of Delaware began this wiki in the fall of 2007 as a kind of online handbook to complement the work they were doing in class. Working in collaborative teams, students chose a writer, a specific work, or the cultural contexts of a literary period, and did some research. The students presented their findings in a way that would be useful to other students and took advantage of the multimedia possibilities of the wiki.
Their goal is to build a wiki of British Literature from 1660 to the Present. In our new new media class we are blogging about our findings and sharing them on our facebook page. There seems to be a move to not have class online but share class online. Take what you would be writing in class and put it out there for others to read. This is a great idea. I think it will make people better writers knowing that not just their professor will be reading their work. Also if something is good enough it my get discovered and be a stepping stone for that writer.
http://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/
Students in English 206 at the University of Delaware began this wiki in the fall of 2007 as a kind of online handbook to complement the work they were doing in class. Working in collaborative teams, students chose a writer, a specific work, or the cultural contexts of a literary period, and did some research. The students presented their findings in a way that would be useful to other students and took advantage of the multimedia possibilities of the wiki.
http://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/
Problems of media engagement
Problems of media engagement
In chapter 4 of Jenkins, Jenkins talks about the problems of illegal media online. There is a growing problem of movies and tv shows being available online illegally. Jenkins raises the idea that its bad but at the same time it can be a good thing. The idea that if the people producing the media can get advertisements in the product that is going online illegally than there is a way to still make money.
This raises the idea of product placement in the media. For a while product placements in media like this had died out because people were getting tired of it, but because it is hard to have commercials and advertisements on these illegal sites then the producers are thinking product placement is the way to go.
Also another idea that Jenkins brings up is that it is hard to measure what is being viewed because of the illegal sites. The thing is there are sites like YouTube and other sites that can give a count to the exact number of times it has been views. Television cannot do that. Their numbers come from random sampling.
In other words there seems to be a problem measuring what is being viewed out there as well as that there are problems finding the right way to advertise to the new new media audience.
In chapter 4 of Jenkins, Jenkins talks about the problems of illegal media online. There is a growing problem of movies and tv shows being available online illegally. Jenkins raises the idea that its bad but at the same time it can be a good thing. The idea that if the people producing the media can get advertisements in the product that is going online illegally than there is a way to still make money.
This raises the idea of product placement in the media. For a while product placements in media like this had died out because people were getting tired of it, but because it is hard to have commercials and advertisements on these illegal sites then the producers are thinking product placement is the way to go.
Also another idea that Jenkins brings up is that it is hard to measure what is being viewed because of the illegal sites. The thing is there are sites like YouTube and other sites that can give a count to the exact number of times it has been views. Television cannot do that. Their numbers come from random sampling.
In other words there seems to be a problem measuring what is being viewed out there as well as that there are problems finding the right way to advertise to the new new media audience.
Dynamite media
The Today Show did a piece on how that there are more and more people doing their own version of popular hits. They got together with Mike Tompkins to do their own rendition of Dynamite by Taio Cruz.
Tompkins video has over 6 million views while the Today Show only has 50 thousand. The numbers do not really matter but the idea that news stations are realizing that there are movements out there on youtube and new new media that people are interested in.
Yes Tompkins does all of his sound effects on his videos witch makes him unique in that sense but it seems that more and more people are trying to recreate that. It seems that new new media has people that try and just mimic what they see out there. It seems that there is a wave of people just copying what they see instead of being new.
Does this mean that new new media is leveling out? Or is this the way new new media will evolve.
also 15 years ago, referring to an old post, the Today Show did not know what the internet was.
also 15 years ago, referring to an old post, the Today Show did not know what the internet was.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wikihood
Once again as I stumble around the internet I have come across another application for smart phones. It is called Wikihood. Wikihood uses your current location and then tells you what is around you either historically or what ever is on wikipedia in your current location.
What companies are located here?
Using Wikihood you can get on the spot answers to questions like:
What persons are most relevant to this location?
What rivers, mountains are in the area?
What companies are located here?What museums or famous buildings are nearby?
Wikihood's ultimate goal is to organize the world's knowledge - stored
in the Wikipedia - for any location worldwide, accessible to anyone anywhere.
Specially designed for mobile devices,
Wikihood gives you fast access to the data
you need by intelligently showing you
articles according to their
- distance ("What is next to me?")
- relevance ("What are the most prominent sites?")
- popularity ("What do people like most?")
People can help build wikihood as well. You can help rate how accurit the site is as well as add any information about that area as well.
Monday, March 14, 2011
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