EDUC 628
Ethnography of SNS Facebook
SNS ethnography of facebook
According to Wikipedia, an ethnography, such as the one we were assigned to do, which is an online study on an SNS was for a time called a netnography and more recently, a webnography. Wikipedia contends that there are several distinctions between a study done on an online culture and on an [...]
Update on SNS and . . .
I was checking out my SNSs when I ran across this post from http://twitter.com/jsarnett and decided to check it out.
http://tinyurl.com/58ks2h
It is a bit thought provoking and a bit scary. According to BBC, Face Book has a security flaw. One of the main characteristics in Facebook is the availability of applications that members add to [...]
21st Century Learner Video
I just posted my 21st Cenury Learner Video on UTube. I was a bit wary of doing this since Utube is blocked at my school. I figured it would not be embraced by my district. However, I think it is a video in good taste. I will post more tomorrow. I am very sleepy and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )High Tech Heretic: Intro – Multimedia comics
I have been reading High Tech Heretic and from the introduction to Multimedia comics it has been nothing but a negative viewpoint at computers in the classroom. Stoll does have a point in some of what he says.
He mentions replacing teachers with computers which is not an improvement however there can be a balance from [...]
Face book
I was just on Face book and I was trying to get into the culture by accepting some of the invitations that my students had sent me to various groups. One was a racing group that said I could build my own hot rod to race but first I had to allow them access to all my [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Life in Twitterville…. « Jsarnett’s Weblog
Life in Twitterville…. « Jsarnett’s Weblog
Life in Twitterville….
Just as Jsarnett says, I too have been trying to grow in Twitterville by searching for and inviting friends to join me. It has been very slow and difficult to locate people. If you don’t know their email address then you can not find them. I have also [...]
Where does the time go?
I can’t believe the week went by and I didn’t get a chance to blog! I am so sorry! I have been trying to keep up in Facebook and in twitter. Facebook continues to grow but I can’t find any others to add on twitter. I have requested some but have heard nothing back.
I keep [...]
My SNS
I know that I need to be starting on my ethnography of my SNS so I thought I would read up on what that entails. I see that I must know the culture well enough by friends actually participating in the daily life and exchanges with the natives. I have been in the Facebook culture [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Why teach?
Teaching was not something I always knew I wanted to do. I worked in the school system for 11 years prior to making my decision to earn my teaching degree. The exposure to the school setting did confirm that I wanted to teach. I chose Spanish becuse it was my native language and because there was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Chapter 11
Solomon’s chapter 11 was interesting and easy to read. It reiterates what the prior chapters state concerning the obvious need for change in the educational system. I agree that we need to learn how to be 21st century teachers. We must learn to incorporate the new technology into daily activities that engage our students in [...]
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