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 * Business Education Independent Study Final Project **

 =Web 2.0=

Web 2.0 technologies are the second generation of the World Wide Web emphasizing human collaboration. These include:
**Flickr:** Image and video hosting website. One of the earliest Web 2.0 applications.
 * [|Flickr]


 * Blogging sites: [|Blogger], [|LiveJournal] [|Myspace]
 * Blogger:** blog publishing system, it was created by Pyra Labs which was bought by Google in 2003.

**Wikipedia:** a free multilingual encyclopedia operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. With an account, people can go in and edit information about different topics.
 * [|Wikipedia]

**Delicious:** a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. **Google:** a search engine.
 * Bookmark sties: [|Delicious], [|Diigo] ,
 * [|Google]
 * [|Twitter][[image:twitter-logo.jpg width="170" height="76" align="left" link="http://www.ning.com/"]]


 * Twitter:** a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates.

**Skype:** a software that allows users to make telephone calls over the internet.
 * [|Skype]

=Digital Citizenship= ====Digital citizenship helps teachers, tech leaders and parents understand what teenager and young adults should know to use technology in its appropriate ways. ====


 * ====[|Etiquette:] People often don't know how to behave when using the web, though there are rules out there for behaving on the web, not every gets their eyes on them. The lack of etiquette may lead to cyber-bullying and other harmful things. ====


 * ====[|Communication:] Electronic change of information. With new internet programs such as Skype, people are now able to communicate via web as though they are in the same room as the person they are speaking to. People can have a conversation much more easier and for free with skype even if they are not in the same state or country. ====

====It is important to have digital citizenship because with knowing the right things, surfing the web and gathering information will be a lot more easier and safe because there wont be as many typos or misuse of grammar or cyber bullying.====
 * ====[|Security] (self protection): Everyone has to be careful about the cites they visit and have the ability to tell the difference between the right type of websites and wrong. The wrong click of a link and whatever you type is phished by unwanted eyes. ====

=Flat Classroom Project= == ====The Flat Classroom project is global, collaborative project using [|Web 2.0] technology to foster communication, collaboration and creation. (Inspired by Thomas Friedman's book "[|The World is Flat]"). ====

Virtual Communications (10A)

 * ====allows friends or co-workers in another country or continent to talk instantaneously.====
 * ====My video covered the different types of Virtual communications and how each one of them makes communicating with others around the world easier. ====

Impact:
====The participation in this project was interesting. I would of never imagined working, being in a class, with student's from Australia and other foreign nations. I guess I am that I did have that opportunity because well, the Flat Classroom Conference came right after it was done and THAT was (to me) the better part of this project.====

=Flat Classroom Project [|Conference]= ====Being able to attend the conference in person was amazing. I had never before dreamed of traveling outside of the country yet alone, the middle east. I am so glad and honored that I was chosen as the lucky third person.====

I never really did notice the BIG culture difference, at times I didn't notice I was across the world, the students all spoke English, and everything was just so homelike in the non-home way.
====The project that I would support would be [|Eracism]. The team did a wonderful job in putting the video together, every group did, but I find it that by Eracism having it in the point of view of the audience makes much more impact on the audience because maybe once they were victims of such crime that they can relate and would want to help get Eracism off the ground. Something I would do to enhance the video, I would suggest for them to start off with the young children, to have it in their mind that racism is wrong. Since more things stick to the young kids minds, the process of "erasing racism" would be a lot easier once they got the be old enough to truly understand why it's wrong.====

=Net Generation Education=

====The Horizon Report was a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. It was created to identify and describe emerging technologies. The NetGenEd group was to read and understand the Horizon Report to fully understand what their task would be within the project.====

====I was in the Integrity and Personal web topic under the NetGenEd project. In the project, as a team we had to show exactly what was the personal web and how they should behave while surfing it. The personal web allows users to customize blogging sites such as [|blogger] and [|myspace], and with being able to customize it, [|integrity] kicks in. There are ethics that [|students], educators, and instructors have to follow. The way that both work in education is that they provide an alternative way for teachers to teach and students to learn.====

media type="custom" key="3877381" My video for this project covered the different types of social networks can work together to help the education of absent students in school. [|Vimeo] could be used to upload class lessons, recording class and uploading then give absent students the ability to catch up with out having to stay after school to make up the day. Watching the class would be as if the student was never absent.