Sean's+Project+Page

__Web 2.0 __
===Before I took BEIS, I had no understanding on how to fully use any of the Web 2.0 technologies. At the beginning of the year Mrs. Cuellar branded into our minds many Web 2.0 technologies and made sure we utilized them. ===


=== It came as a shocker to many of us that we were allowed to use [|Facebook] and [|MySpace] in the classroom. Mrs. Cuellar insisted that we can use these technologies to our advantage, and so we did. [|Facebook] and [|MySpace] are networking sites that are used as a medium to communicate with different types of people across the world. Our company program WINC has even utilized [|Facebook] as a message service. [|MySpace] is highly popular with the teenager population as you can create your own page about yourself on the Web. === === === ===[|BlogSpot] is a Web 2.0 technology that is gaining widespread popularity. It consists of individuals broadcasting themselves on the internet by writing whatever they choose. Most [|blog’s] are over one’s experience or one’s feelings over a certain topic. Honestly, I believe people manipulate this technology by writing about their sorry personal lives that no one really cares about, but what do I know? In truth, [|Blog’s] have changed society for the fact that it gives a more direct insight without a “middle man” such as TV and Radio Stations. Individuals can market themselves freely with very little limitations. === === === ===I have used [|Yahoo] and [|Google] since the beginning of my relationship with technology. I thought I knew everything about them but Mrs. Cuellar proved me wrong once again. With [|Google] you can create an i-Google account which gives you full access to whatever you choose. Google Reader allows an individual to seek different website articles at one place instead at every single web page. [|Yahoo] is a massive search engine and provides quality news and reasources for the public. [|Yahoo]and [|Google] reach to a wide variety of people all over the Globe. ===


===[|Twitter] is another relatively new Web 2.0 technology. It involves yourself by telling the world your status by "[|tweeting]". People who “follow you” can see your status at any single time because they want to know everything single thing about your life at every moment. [|Twitter] has changed the media, for example, for those who follow CNN will receive breaking news around the clock. ===

__Digital Citizenship__
===[|Digital Citizenship] is the concept that helps users understand on how each individual should use technology and all of its uses appropriately. The misuse of technology can lead to problems for any individual. For example, Job interviewers and Companies today may look at [|Facebook] and [|MySpace] profiles to check the applicants past. Just recently, a Football player from the [|University of Texas]was kicked off the football team because his Facebook Page consisted of racial slurs. It is important for everyone to understand that when you are using the internet, you are broadcasting yourself out onto the world; for better or for worse. Anything inappropriate could haunt someone for the rest of their lives. It is important to understand this concept because your future could be greatly affected by the consequences the internet brings.===




=__The Flat Classroom Project __= ===The Flat Classroom Project involves students across the globe working on a project by communicating with Web 2.0 technologies. One of the main goals was to “flatten” the world and get rid of the barriers that prevented us from communicating and working together before. The project received much insight from Thomas L. Friedman’s book, “The World is flat.” ===

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===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Over 18 schools from 8 different countries contributed to the project. Every student participating was split into one of the 11 teams. These teams consisted of many different types of people. For example, on my team, “Workflow Software” had people from different parts of the United States, Australia, parts of Europe and Qatar. Part of the project was for each person to create a topic video. [|My topic video] was Social Entrepreneurship in Workflow Software. What I did was prepare a natural disaster simulation and how society can use Workflow to send out warnings more efficiently to the public. My eyes have really been opened by this project. I have realized that there are greater things and opportunities now with Web 2.0 technologies. By participating I have been able to get a good solid understanding on how to utilize new technologies in the future. ===

===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">At the end of the Project some of the students got the opportunity to go to Qatar for a [|world summit conference]. Unfortunately I was unable to go because of financial issues but three of my peers were given the opportunity to attend. At the conference my peers were able to explore a continent and experience a new culture. They made friends from all corners of the globe and at the end of the conference they were split into teams to work on different Global Initiatives. My favorite initiative was “[|Face Poverty].” There initiative was to help those in poverty by fundraising money by selling wristbands. But they came to a close second place after “[|Eracism].” There initiative was to erase prejudice and racism to further unite everyone across the world. I myself support [|Face Poverty] because I believe that we should help those who may not be as fortunate as ourselves. If I was part of the initiative I would make sure I raise enough money and do the necessary things like planning to insure that the initiative would be successful. ===

= __NetGenEd Project__ =

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The purpose of NetGenEd is for students across the world to collaborate on a project using new Web 2.0 technologies. The project consists of teaching adults how to communicate more efficiently to involve more students in the classroom. All background information and knowledge for this project comes from the [|Horizon Report]. The Horizon report focuses on the future of education in using new technologies such as web collaborating and video. On this project I was selected into the Speed and Semantic Web Applicationsgroup. It was my job to tie in how as a society can we use speed over the internet with Semantic Applicationsto further enrich the classroom. In the classroom we can speed up the learning process by creating a better faster system with new state of the art technologies. Speed and Semantic Applicationscan also impact the business world by creating a more efficient trading process. The world would be able to communicate better and faster on this medium. =====

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