WordPress Research Log for Project 4

This are sources I used for my Final Project for WRTC 332: Computers and Writing, discussing education and the medium of Video.

Arroyo, Sarah and Geoffery Carter. “Tubing the Future: Participatory Pedagogy and YouTube U in 2020.”:  Carter and Arroyo have a grasp that because so much of media has moved onto YouTube for news or entertainment, that YouTube has a promising future of being a platform for education. Even though the website requires very participatory actions, the way people subscribe to YouTube and view it as powerful relies on a sense of involvement from the users and creators. It has spawned a Memetic culture with this way of editing or changing the video structure in order to make video content. However, YouTube can be prized as a video-sharing service if it’s programs and setups can be used for education, as it allows all forms of visual rhetoric to thrive. Similar to Blackboard, it just needs to be understood the correct way.

Barseghian, Tina, and Catlin Tucker. “Teachers’ Ultimate Guide to Using Videos.” Mind Shift. KQED: This great pdf guideline really represents how teachers can use video as an incredible medium to teach children. It offers so many examples of what students can watch from TED Talks, to PBS, to NOVA and Cosmos. It evaluates how teachers can create content and incorporate it into YouTube thanks to groups and systems available. It brings up some fascinating examples and I think it covers so much of what I wanted to cover in this essay from the creation process to the impact YouTube has to students and what it can do for education.

Dubisar, Abby and Jason Palmeri. “Palin/Pathos/Peter Griffin: Political Video Remix and Composition Pedagogy.”: Dubisar and Palmeri wanted to focus on the political aspects of YouTube, as many campaigns and politicans are viewing the Internet as the biggest platform for connecting with potential voters and listeners. As YouTube handles several issues in a comedic fashion (like remixing their speeches so they sing songs), they want to become modern satirists who can change a person’s perspective by looking at their more fallible qualities. New media is very significant for political rhetoric because it can reach new audiences while simultaneously being indirect. YouTube’s influence extends to several important societal concerns for students.

Rheingold, Howard. Net Smart: How to Thrive Online: Rheingold makes it clear that every website has a core following because it provides a service that can’t be matched in size, quality, or content. We value thoughts differently due to how social networking has changed with programs like YouTube and Facebook and we view each user with a greater value by attaching a visual representative or avatar to that person. People are required to connect with a greater level of depth, which can lead to stronger relationships between creator and audience.

Thompson, Cadie, ed. “YouTube Reaches 1 Billion Users Milestone.” CNBC. <http://www.cnbc.com/id/100575883&gt;: I wanted to cover CBNC’s opinion on this YouTube milestone to emphasis the potential YouTube has for people to experiment by creating videos. Many videos have broken the 1 billion-viewer mark, so I want to emphasize you can grow an audience outside of your students to teach or influence more people. And this is very recent, considering YouTube has only been around for about 8 years.

Workpress Research Log for Project 2

Hey everybody, I’ve made a great image about the history of laptops in society, using the website Piktochart. I think you’d all really like this presentation.

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/8614870d-4592-42ed-ac46-387c2c9336e6

Here are the sources I used when researching for the project and why I used them!

http://blog.laptop.org/2010/07/15/impact-of-laptops-in-education/#.UZ1DPuv3ikK: The One Laptop Per Child Organization has goal to offer laptops to all students because they believe that the Internet is such a large-scale phenomenon, that it has changed the course of all natural education. It provided some good details about what one of their laptops would be if the project could reach full funding. 

http://blog.laptop.org/2010/07/15/impact-of-laptops-in-education/: This presentation provided a lot of great information for the project as a whole, covering the history of Laptops from the 1980s to the 1990s. He especially highlighted the importance of the Omission 1 and the GRiD Compass 1101. 

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-10378240-10355804.html: This set of reviews and guidelines from CNET gives a great amount of representation of the market and current availability of the Netbook. Netbooks were looked at as the new future for laptops as they were faster, lighter, and aimed for students.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=213: This website was one of many that highlighted the influence and cost of the famous Tandy Computer TRS-80. However, it noted a lot of information about the first Apple computer, the Macbook Portable. It’s primarily because it was the first device to send e-mail through space, but the Macbook is infamous for it’s costs, than anything else.

http://sllapontamentos.blogspot.com/2011/07/history-and-origin-of-laptop-batteries.html: This blog gave a very nice detail of the history of laptop batteries through the decades. Batteries started with heavy lead-acid batteries, then moving to Nickel, and finally ending up with Lithium-Ion batteries we use now. Unfortunately, the blog was not updated that much, but it did provide very adequate information. 

WordPress Research Log for Project 1

I wrote an article for my first project related to writing an article about Laptops to Wired.com. These were some great sources I found through my research.

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2011/11/08/history-of-laptops-portable-computing-from-1997-to-2011.aspx: A 15 year timeline of the technical restraints and hardware specifications of laptops through the years, observing all of the major companies of Dell, IBM, Toshiba, Apple, Sony, and Hewlett-Packard.

http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/warschauer_m/docs/writing-with-laptops.pdf: This study reflects on the positives of giving students laptops for an easier understanding of the lectures. However, there are concern to hooking up children to laptops, usually by a necessity for feedback and interaction using the programs. But this does benefit those children who have issues with handwriting.  There’s also the matter over how the text and information is exposed to the same students.

http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/9.1/coverweb/meeks/: This scholarly article emphasizes the importance of space and how a student with a laptop separates him/herself from other students and the teacher. There are different perimeters for how the education is set up as well, considering the development of Blackboard and learning through websites and documents/pdfs that are sent through e-mail.

http://blog.laptop.org/2010/07/15/impact-of-laptops-in-education/#.UZ1DPuv3ikK: The One Laptop Per Child Organization has goal to offer laptops to all students because they believe that the Internet is such a large-scale phenomenon, that it has changed the course of all natural education.