Monday, October 4, 2010

Reviewing Levinson

Today let's look at the top 6 social media (web 2.0 or New New media): Blogging, Youtube, Wikipedia, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter.

Each group please provide the following information about your social media:
1. What is it?
2. When was it introduce and when did it gain prominence?
3. What are the most important terms or ideas associated with it?
4. In what ways does it use interactivity and intertextuality?
5. What are its contested terms or ideas?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What have you tried so far to reach your digtial audience?

How  have you developed or tried to develop your online credibility?

Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia, "Wikipedia is a free,[3] web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 16 million articles (over 3.4 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site.[4]   


One of the main issues with Wikipedia is the debate over it's reliability:  Accurate or not?  What have been you experiences with the wiki?   Have teachers warned you not to use it?  Have you tried to write an entry or edit one?  Where do you stand on the Britannia vs. Wiki debate>

Wednesday, September 15, 2010