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Posted by undhon392 on April 28, 2008
Class period on Friday, April 25th. Congrats to the class for “solving the crime.” Hope you had as much fun as I hoped:
posted here for the HON 392 Web Revolutions class: Today is “Show and Tell” Day, but it’s my turn again…Today is the “Day of Silence” for support for the GLBTQ community and allies.
With that in mind, and to allow for full participation of all our class members, we are going to try an experiment. MY SHOW N TELL IS THIS EXPERIMENT. From this moment on, there will be silence in the room (*with the exception of any guests, and of course, you don’t have to ask to go to the bathroom; you’re grown-ups now!)
We are testing an experiment: can this group, an established working group, one with previous relationships between its members, collaborate completely on-line (or virtually) to come up with the “answer” to a given problem? There is ONE BEST answer to this project, unlike the “real world” in business, in journalism, or even in medicine or aviation. I do not have a prediction or hypothesis either way, if the class will achieve its goal. But it will be interesting to observe the process, and I will be walking around the building to see your progress. Here are the rules:
1. No face-to-face communication of any kind-talking, passing paper notes, sign language, charades, wipe board, etc.
2. There is one best solution; your goal as a team is to find that solution.
3. Each person is to participate fully, and each person will be given critical information that must be shared to find/derive the best answer. You cannot show anyone the contents of your envelope, although you are free to communicate what the contents are.
4. The game is based on a version of the (once) popular Board Game clue (the original). The group must determine who committed the crime, with what weapon, and where. Also one of your classmates is the victim: who was murdered? Hint if s/he is dead, s/he won’t be able to communicate.
5. You are allowed to leave the room at any point, but there can never be more than four people in any room in this building (or any other) at any time between the start of the game and the end time…
6. THE END TIME. We meet back in this classroom (4B) at exactly 11:35am to debrief and process how the team worked.
7. If you have questions at any point before 11:35am, you may text me at 701-739-XXXX and I will answer text messages only (again, with the exception of the guests-and don’t get them to ask on your behalf). If you do not wish to speak in class after 11:35am, you may text me a message that I can read to the group on your behalf.
Let the game begin! No cheating.
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Posted by undhon392 on April 14, 2008
Topic for class discussion: how much “free speech” is there for faculty when dealing with electronic communication? How much should be disclosed on MySpace, Facebook, other social networking sites, or by blogs. For example, take the following article on faculty “office door” communication:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/10/lssu
April 10
Pardon Me, but Your Door Is Terribly Offensive
“Getting one’s own office can be a rite of passage right up there with defending a dissertation or receiving tenure — and many professors’ lairs are reflections of their own attitudes and beliefs. Usually, it takes just a quick glance at the door, as anyone who’s taken a stroll down the hall of an academic building can attest: What a professor finds amusing, outrageous or just plain interesting is there for all to see…”
Kay’s question for class: Do these same (yet controversial) issues arise in electronic communication? Is a quote at the end of an e-mail from a faculty, subject to criticism? How about his or her Facebook page? Where do you stand on “freedom of speech” versus “hostile environment for students”? How much is too much to disclose on a website? Does your opinion change if we were to shift the framework from faculty to students? Does it matter if it’s done on “University computers” or “University networks”? Write for a few minutes, then we’ll discuss as a group. :)KMP
Posted in Facebook, Social Networking, Stuff You Should Read/See | Tagged: Blog, faculty, free speech, Social Networking | No Comments »
Posted by undhon392 on February 21, 2008
Posted in Facebook, Social Networking, Statistics, Stuff You Should Read/See, Web & Enterprise 2.0 | Tagged: Facebook, gender, girls, innovation, MySpace, Social Networking | No Comments »
Posted by undhon392 on February 20, 2008
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Posted by undhon392 on February 8, 2008
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/08/juicy
Gossip and Slander at a Campus Near You
In the annals of online discourse, “did you hear about [student]’s nose job?” isn’t among the best of what the Internet has to offer. It also isn’t the worst. An anonymous Web site that’s caught the attention — and provoked the ire — of students across the country has already unleashed comments like that one, and much worse, in carefree, unregulated and sometimes vicious discussion threads that have raised privacy concerns and condemnations on several campuses… (more at article)
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Posted by undhon392 on February 8, 2008
http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/social-networking-may-be-declining-social-interaction-wont/
Social networking may be declining, social interaction won’t
February 8, 2008
[Vanelsas] read
a Business Week article this morning which suggests that the current MySpace generation is becoming fed up with the ad bombardments on the site. They seem to be spending less time on MySpace because of it. A quote from the article:
The MySpace generation may be getting annoyed with ads and a bit bored with profile pages. The average amount of time each user spends on social networking sites has fallen by 14% over the last four months, according to market researcher ComScore. MySpace, the largest social network, has slipped from a peak of 72 million users in October to 68.9 million in December, ComScore says. The total number of people on such sites is still increasing at an 11.5% rate, but that’s down sharply from past growth rates. “What you have with social networks is the most overhyped scenario in online advertising,” says Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Specific Media, which places ads for customers on a variety of Web sites.
I don’t really know if we are now seeing a decline that marks a steady downfall of the current social networking sites. There seems to be contradicting numbers around. TechCrunch, for example, showed in January that Facebook is still growing in traffic, while MySpace is going down. According to Mashable traffic is increasing and they use a totally different measure, using the traffic measures from one of the largest content delivery networks Akamai. According to Akamai, they have delivered 5 times more data over their network to social networking sites in the last year. this suggests that people are spending more time on social networking sites…
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