Week 3 for Eugene
Eugene Lee, CEO of SocialText was our guest speaker. SocialText is web based share point where people from any organization connect and elaborate on projects and keep up with each other. We learn about how business are streaming updates on projects by having a central point or platform where one can track a twitter, blogs, RSS feeds, etc. and thus the idea or the need for SocialText.
Our perception about how we connected in the past is rapidly changing to a even greater challenge for how we share data. Connectivism is changing the way we are learning, what we need, whom we need it from; these ideas are for us to elaborate and to search with the tools that are available to us right now. An ever changing technology will show us that the more we share using new better, more efficient tools are possible because it is what connectivism is all about, push the tools and learn by aiming not what is available right now but what should be available in five years.
Some of the tools out there right now are, for me, still in the making, shaping everytime we tavckle the reasons we should embrace such technology. For example, to me, the whole twitter idea is really more of a cell text boradcasted for the public, for the whole world to know. I also see it as another way to stalk people and to keep an eye on someone. Twitter to me is something in the making. I hope it sheapes up to be something better.
Here is one wiki I found, it's from the educator at Discover Channel. It is an educational wiki with a visual approach. Pretty cool.
http://visualwikipedia.com/en/Discovery_Kids
2 comments:
Nice post and I agree that a healthy dose of skepticism about any emerging technology is a good thing, but try keeping an open mind. In defense of Twitter...it offers an innovative communication tool and has millions of active users. The best part about it, is that it's free and stable.
-ethan
Even though you don't use it, as you will need to know how to use it as an educational technologist.
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