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 * BEIS Final Project **
 * Throughout the enitre school year, the BEIS Course in fifth period has taught and brought many new ideas to myself and my peers. We have learned many new ways to interact with people with ways other than Facebook and Myspace. We went in depth with blogging, found out about Twitter, and learned the wonderful world of Wiki and many more things. Going further, we applied those skills and took it globally. I was fortunate enough to be one of the students able to participate in the Flat Classroom Conference. While there, my mind expanded to a whole different level. After the Conference, we decided to participate in a similar project called the NetGen Ed project. This project took the idea of technology and explained how far it has come. The entire year in this course has taught me mnay things in which I am grateful for and I hope many future students get to experience what I have experienced.

Web 2.0 Technologies: Can be defined at the second generation of the world wide web, as in have content sharing websites rather than stationary websites. **

Video-Sharing Sites:** Websites such as [|Youtube] where one can go online and upload a video of themselves or basically anything, and share it with the whole world.
 * Social Net-working Sites**:[[image:facebook.jpg width="171" height="64" align="left"]] The building of online communities of people who share interestsor are interested in exploring such as [|Facebook] and [|Myspace].
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 * Wikis:** Wikis such as [|Wikipedia] are pages or collections of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify the content.
 * Blogs:** Blogs are websites such as [|Blogger] that are maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary or descriptions.
 * [|Diigo]:** A social bookmarking website website that allows signed users to bookmark and tag web-pages.
 * Twitter:** [|Twitter] is a web 2.0 technology where people follow each other. What that means is that poeple update their accounts or status's and people "follow" them. Everybody that is in your networl then knows what you are doing. Some updates can be entertaining and others can be helpful.

From the words of Ms. Vicki Davis, " As a Digital Citizen, you want to be inclusive and helpful to others AND a good communicator."[|1] Which basically means that whenever you are writing or speaking to someone through the internet, you should write to them as if you are still in school. Which means no IM talk and slang. Try to be as grammatically correct as possible. Along with that, being a good digital citizen means being as responsible as you are in the real world. That means that modesty in the real world would be the same as in a computer. If you are trying to get an accounting job in a Top 4 firm in Houston and you meet with the HR Department head, you would not confront them shaking their hand and hollering as if you would wiht your friends. You would'nt pick your nose in front of them or make obscene gestures. The same goes with the computer. You are not going to have obscene pictures of yourself online because chances are, if you do, it shows to your potential employers what kind of person you are.
 * What is Digital Citizenship and why is it important?**

--What is Flat Classroom? The Flat Classroom is the idea of a classroom with plenty of technology. The term flat comes from Thomas Freedman's book __The World Is Flat__. Being flat means that technology has made us a flat. The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. -- On what team did you participate? I participated on the mobility and ubiquity of technology team. --What topic did your video cover. My video covered the progression of Mobility and Ubiquity in Technology. I basically did different eras thhroughout time where different types of technology were created. Here is my video. media type="custom" key="3848645"
 * __ The Flat Classroom Project. __**

That video game me a third place spot in my category for the awards. Yes!!!

-- How did participation in the Flat Classroom Project impact you? Well, the project did allow me to go to the middle east which was pretty crazy. So I would say that it impacted me in a very huge way.

**__The Flat Classroom Conference.__** A couple of new friends that I made. Spring Woods people on the border of Saudi Arabai and Qatar.
 * --Attendance** : My attendance on the Flat Classroom Project was downright life changing. I was awarded the opportunity to go all the way to Doha, Qatar in the Middle East. While there, I learned many different thigns from many different people. The attendance changed my mindset on the world. Mainly the youth. The reason I say that is because before, I had never interacted with kids from another country. So I never knew what they would be like and how would they respond to meet me. I most definately loved the response. They recieved and welcomed us with open arms. I made new friends from all over the world and I am very proud to say that. I made friends from Qatar, Oman, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. Our friendships grew sp strong that we have planned on visiting our home countries sometime in the future. The most important thing that I learned was that everybody in this world is the same as a teenager. We are all the same, which explains how we interacted with each other so easily. Along with the social aspect, I learned many business attributes that I can use in my future since I plan on going into the business world. So overall, this experience changed my life.

Spring Woods and Oman Students at the Corniche.

Here is a reflection video done by Myself, Karla, Erika, and Mrs. Cuellar. media type="custom" key="3860963"

I would choose the Tech Trust initiative which is the project where money is lent to aspiring entrepreneurs who are in third world countries. You would think that I would choose it because of bias, since I am in that group, but the idea of the project is just too good and can be very succesful. What makes the world go 'round? Money. So what this does is that it makes the economy better in the respective country of where the business is. It also brings many people in poverty out of it by supplying themselves with jobs and making profits. Here is the ad. media type="custom" key="3860959"
 * -- Which Global Initiative Project would I choose?**

-- **How would you enhance the project?** The way I would enhance the project is by obviously pushing forward with the project. i would start working with Kiiva, which would be our partner in this effort. i would also work with the other team that was in the running for the top spot which was FacePoverty. Here is their advertisement. media type="custom" key="3860987"

--** What is NetGen Ed? Net Gen Ed Project is a project that Don Tapscott brought up on the fact that the world is revolving around technology and fast. The project brought the idea about different generations and their experiences with technology, ours being the the most fortunate and "corrupted." What I mean by corrupted is that according to the critics, technology has made my generation lazy and irresponsible with no ethics. The project was an effort to show the world that our generation isn't messed up, it is actually better than the rest.
 * The Net Gen Ed Project

-- What is the Horizon Report? The Horizon Report is a report that explains how technology has affected and can affect our education system. It argues with the notion that our generation is the dumbest of them all when in reality it is the strongest and smartest of them all. It argues that we have become more productive in our work against the critics that say we have become lazy. The report shows how we can be more succesful in our education system if we just put more emphasis in technology with education.



-- On what team did you participate? I participated in the Innovation with Cloud Computing team.

-- Describe in detail the two paramaters that define your team area. Cloud Computing is "The emergence of large-scale "data farms" — large clusters of networked servers — is bringing huge quantities of processing power and storage capacity within easy reach. Inexpensive, simple solutions to offsite storage, multi-user application scaling, hosting, and multi-processor computing are opening the door to wholly different ways of thinking about computers, software, and files." [|2]  That basically means that it is a system of computers that work together. With all of these computers or machine working together, they mkae the cloud. Information goes into the clouds and we all have a better world. The reason it is better is because there is a lot of access to information that can be helpful to the student. If a student is doing a project, he can easily go on the computer and type up what he needs and in a matter of seconds, he has the information needed to complete his project. In business, this can mean a whole lot of profits and a booming economy. The way it brings a booming economy is by elevating the level of competition. Improving on the cloud can bring in many resources that can be profitable to many businesses. Innovation to the cloud can bring in money by the amounts to business and it can bring more successful students in education because it gives more to the people. It offers so many resources that can only help us.

-- What topic did your video cover for this project? My video covered the topic of adding more incentives to our education system. That is, if a student has a wonderful idea in some type of subject, he should be allowed to go further with his idea. Here is my video.

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-- How did participation in NetGenEd impact you? NetGen Ed had a pretty good impact on me. It showed me how lucky my generation is. If I went in a time machine to the 1960's, I really do not know how I would live. I would feel horrible without my cellphone or computer. The project opened my eyes and showed me to not take for granted the amazing opportunities that I have as a Net Gen'er. It also has motivated me to prove the critics wrong. We as Net Gener's need to prove the critics wrong an show them that we can be the most productive and succesfull generation of all time.

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