1) 2. April 2012 13:38
Wir hatten immerhin den zweithöchsten Turm :)
http://melmelony1.blogspot.de/2012/04/blogsmicroblogs-collaboration-in-der.html#comment-form
2) 6. Juli 2012 15:25
Größtenteils bin ich deiner Meinung. Ich habe ein paar von den Social Games selbst ausprobiert und hatte auf kurze Dauer meinen Spaß aber langfristig wäre das auch nix für mich, wenn ich länger zocken und Spaß haben möchte greife ich auf die Konsolenspiele. Selbst nach Jahren macht es immer wieder Spaß die alten Games auszupacken und durchzuzocken :-)
http://biomechoceanmachine.blogspot.de/2012/04/ich-liebe-videospiele.html#comment-form
3) 6. Juli 2012 06:28
Da stimme ich dir zu, ich finde auch dass eLearning eine wirklich praktische Möglichkeit ist sein Wissen auszubauen. Es ist einfach, man kann sich selber aussuchen wie viel Zeit man sich dafür nehmen kann und hat keinen Leistungsdruck.
http://adamymous.blogspot.de/2012/05/so-what-about-elearning.html
4) 6. Juli 2012 06:45
Die Lampen sind ja wirklich super schön :-)
Kickstarter ist meiner Meinung nach eine super Erfindung, also da frag ich mich nur noch eins:
Wann überlegen wir uns eine bahnbrechende Idee?
http://natefatal.blogspot.de/2012/06/kickstarter.html?showComment=1341582305358
5) 6. Juli 2012 06:52
Nach meiner Farmville Zeit hatte ich die Applikation eigentlich blockiert weil sie einen doch ganz schön vollspammen :-)
Ich habe vor unserem Vortrag für Social Web die Blockade aufgehoben um ein paar Screenshots zu erstellen und muss sagen es ist erschreckend was aus einem simplen kleinen Bauernhof Spiel geworden ist :-D
Inzwischen gibt es weitere "Farmen" auf der ganzen Welt die man besuchen und ausbauen kann. Es hat nichts mehr mit dem ursprünglichen Gedanken zu tun. Also habe ich es schnell wieder blockiert^^
http://melmelony1.blogspot.de/2012/05/social-network-games.html?showComment=1341582733811
6) 6. Juli 2012 13:57
Dein Post ist wirklich sehr hilfreich wenn man mal wieder überprüfen möchte ob man sich genug um seine online Sicherheit kümmert. Es ist schon erschreckend was man alles beachten muss.
http://bastinvader.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/privacy-security-must-know-security-settings-fur-facebook/#comment-21
7) 6. Juli 2012 16:14
Der eigentliche Sinn von Social Networks ist ja schön und gut - mit Freunden in Kontakt bleiben auch wenn mal die Distanz größer ist, Jobangebote finden und bekommen - aber es ist erschreckend wie sehr dieser Sinn sich verändert hat, Leute die Kontakte nur noch über Social Networks pflegen und nicht mehr ganz normal mit ihren Freunden was unternehmen können sind meiner Ansicht nach schon echt bedauerlich. Ich hoffe das wird nicht noch schlimmer...
http://mellipizza.blogspot.de/2012/05/social-networks.html?showComment=1341584099174
8) 6. Juli 2012 16:18
Der Mann ist ein Genie! Also ich stimme dir da voll und ganz zu, wenn ich mal Zeit finde werde ich mir auch mehrere seiner Videos ansehen :-) Es macht einfach richtig Spaß ihm zuzuhören, ich wünschte alle unsere Professoren wären so :-)
http://allabout-socialweb.blogspot.de/2012/06/mehran-sahami.html?showComment=1341584336298
9) 6. Juli 2012 07:30
Ich bin begeistert von dem Video, Jesse Schell hat es einfach drauf was humorvolle Präsentationen und wunderbare Vergleiche angeht, iPhone - Taschenmesser ist einfach genial :-)
http://treelittlebirds2012.blogspot.de/2012/05/reality-vs-fantasy.html?showComment=1341585049839
10) 6. Juli 2012 07:39
Wenn man sowas hört und liest, kann man wirklich froh darüber sein, dass wir in einem Land leben in dem es uns gestattet ist so gut wie alles zu sagen und schreiben.
http://tanrantz.blogspot.de/2012/06/government.html?showComment=1341585578466
11) 6. Juli 2012 16:45
Ich möchte gar nicht erst versuchen dich zu überzeugen, denn ich kann da selber nicht mit unterhaltsamen Geschichten prahlen :-)
Ich bleibe meinen Konsolen treu und zocke sozial nur dann wenn die Leute auch neben mir auf dem Sofa sitzen^^
Ich dachte mal ich kommentiere hier deinen Post zu Social Games weil sonst keine Kommentare da waren :)
http://wermerktsichsowas.blogspot.de/2012/05/social-gaming.html
12) 6. Juli 2012 16:49
I loved the idea of the Khan Academy and like you started asking myself why I wasn't lucky enough to have teachers who were like that.
http://meinelebensspuren.blogspot.de/2012/05/you-know-video-from-salman-khan-lets.html?showComment=1341586166242
13) 6. Juli 2012 08:11
Indeed Kickstarter is a great website and a great idea. I spent hours there and found so many projects that I would love to buy. Although I hated biology and chemistry at school the DNA Molecule Dolls are really funny :-)
http://wer-ist-supercool.blogspot.de/2012/06/kickstarter.html?showComment=1341587515993
14) 6. Juli 2012 05:23
I like how your way of writing makes a (for me) boring topic like government funny to read :-)
http://annihow.blogspot.de/2012/06/government-citizen-journalism.html?showComment=1341588204410
15) 6. Juli 2012 08:32
Das stimmt, Dell ist nicht die einzige Firma die diesen Fehler gemacht hat. Uns wurde mal in einer Vorlesung aus dem 2. Semester erzählt wie eine Hausfrau unzufrieden mit dem Kundenservice von Miele war als ihre Waschmaschine kaputt ging und auf Twitter eine negative Bewertung geschrieben hat, woraufhin so viele sich ihr angeschlossen haben und konkurrierende Firmen der Dame eine Waschmaschine schenkten nur um aus dem Fehler von Miele selbst Profit zu ziehen :-)
http://treelittlebirds2012.blogspot.de/2012/06/die-negativen-seiten-des-social-medias.html?showComment=1341588755590
16) 6. Juli 2012 08:41
I still don't like podcasts. For me there has to be something I can watch as well, not only listen to. When I only listen to something I have difficulties concentrating on the talks. But thats only my opinion :-)
http://rockt4cul4r.blogspot.de/2012/04/entertainment-time.html?showComment=1341589264185
Freitag, 6. Juli 2012
Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012
Book Reviews
These are the two books I read for the Social Web class, the book reviews can be found at Amazon (I will post the links below) and as well in here. But beware, they are written in German ;-)
1. Social Web - M. Glaser, R. Heigl, A. Ebersbach
Dieses Buch eignet sich hervorragend als Einstieg in die Materie "Social Web" da es den Autoren gelungen ist,
die trockenen geschichtlichen Aspekte und die normalerweise schwer zu lesende Theorie mit guten
praxisbezogenen Kapiteln zu Wikis, Blogs und Social Networks aufzupeppen.
Man kann das Buch also sozusagen in 3 Teile aufspalten, die Einleitung mit historischen Aspekten,
der Hauptteil in dem es über Social Web in der Praxis geht und der Schluss mit Theorien.
Sehr gut am Hauptteil finde ich die Auflistung der Vor- und Nachteile der jeweiligen Social-Web-Anwendung.
Somit kann jeder für sich selbst entscheiden ob er die Anwendung nutzen möchte oder lieber die Finger davon lässt.
Lesenswert ist natürlich auch der Schluss in dem auch ein Blick in die Zukunft gewagt wird,
es ist sehr interessant darüber nachzudenken: Wie werden sich die aktuellen Social-Web-Anwendungen weiterentwickeln?
Welche neuen Anwendungen werden hinzukommen?
Inwiefern werden Realität und die virtuelle Welt noch weiter miteinander verschmelzen?
Leider reichen die Ausmaße dieses Buches nicht aus um all diese Fragen zu beantworten,
aber alles in allem bietet es einen guten Überblick über die Gegenwart und hilft auch Anfängern
in den Bereichen einen guten Einblick zu bekommen.
2. Fundraising - Professionelle Mittelbeschaffung für Nonprofit-Organisationen - M. Urselmann
Ich hatte bei dem Titel eine trockenes wissenschaftliches Buch erwartet, bei dem es schwer fällt sich konzentriert mit der Materie zu befassen. Dem war zum Glück nicht so. Der Autor hat es geschafft mit seiner leicht verständlichen Ausdrucksweise den Leser nicht mit übermäßigen Fachbegriffen abzuschrecken. Mit fast etwas zu vielen Praxisbeispielen in Form von Abbildungen, Tabellen und Beispielen versucht er das Thema Fundraising zu veranschaulichen.
Für mich persönlich war aber das Buch zu lesen eher eine Qual, dies liegt aber nicht am Stiel des Autors sondern vielmehr an der Thematik an sich.
Das Buch ist empfehlenswert für alle die sich mit Fundraising auseinandersetzen wollen aber noch nicht tiefer einsteigen möchten.
http://www.amazon.de/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2AJMNK44IYLVL/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview
1. Social Web - M. Glaser, R. Heigl, A. Ebersbach
Dieses Buch eignet sich hervorragend als Einstieg in die Materie "Social Web" da es den Autoren gelungen ist,
die trockenen geschichtlichen Aspekte und die normalerweise schwer zu lesende Theorie mit guten
praxisbezogenen Kapiteln zu Wikis, Blogs und Social Networks aufzupeppen.
Man kann das Buch also sozusagen in 3 Teile aufspalten, die Einleitung mit historischen Aspekten,
der Hauptteil in dem es über Social Web in der Praxis geht und der Schluss mit Theorien.
Sehr gut am Hauptteil finde ich die Auflistung der Vor- und Nachteile der jeweiligen Social-Web-Anwendung.
Somit kann jeder für sich selbst entscheiden ob er die Anwendung nutzen möchte oder lieber die Finger davon lässt.
Lesenswert ist natürlich auch der Schluss in dem auch ein Blick in die Zukunft gewagt wird,
es ist sehr interessant darüber nachzudenken: Wie werden sich die aktuellen Social-Web-Anwendungen weiterentwickeln?
Welche neuen Anwendungen werden hinzukommen?
Inwiefern werden Realität und die virtuelle Welt noch weiter miteinander verschmelzen?
Leider reichen die Ausmaße dieses Buches nicht aus um all diese Fragen zu beantworten,
aber alles in allem bietet es einen guten Überblick über die Gegenwart und hilft auch Anfängern
in den Bereichen einen guten Einblick zu bekommen.
2. Fundraising - Professionelle Mittelbeschaffung für Nonprofit-Organisationen - M. Urselmann
Ich hatte bei dem Titel eine trockenes wissenschaftliches Buch erwartet, bei dem es schwer fällt sich konzentriert mit der Materie zu befassen. Dem war zum Glück nicht so. Der Autor hat es geschafft mit seiner leicht verständlichen Ausdrucksweise den Leser nicht mit übermäßigen Fachbegriffen abzuschrecken. Mit fast etwas zu vielen Praxisbeispielen in Form von Abbildungen, Tabellen und Beispielen versucht er das Thema Fundraising zu veranschaulichen.
Für mich persönlich war aber das Buch zu lesen eher eine Qual, dies liegt aber nicht am Stiel des Autors sondern vielmehr an der Thematik an sich.
Das Buch ist empfehlenswert für alle die sich mit Fundraising auseinandersetzen wollen aber noch nicht tiefer einsteigen möchten.
http://www.amazon.de/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2AJMNK44IYLVL/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview
12.6.12 - Assignment
1. Crowdsourcing
Wikipedia says: "Crowdsourcing is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline. The difference between crowdsourcing and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body, such as a paid employee."
Well ok, thats sounds promising as a definition. Now everybody should have a good idea what crowdsourcing is all about.
A person who has a task to do can charge an undefined crowd with his task. Like in the case of Goldcorp, the person or company or whatever can offer that undefined crowd a reward for the task.
Goldcorp? Oh yes I should explain :-) In the year 2000 Goldcorp offered 575,000$ as a reward to people who can identify on a property undiscovered veins of gold. That lead to a so called "Gold Rush 2.0" as Goldcorp used the internet to make the geological data available to the crowd.
Wikipedia says: "Crowdsourcing is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline. The difference between crowdsourcing and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body, such as a paid employee."
Well ok, thats sounds promising as a definition. Now everybody should have a good idea what crowdsourcing is all about.
A person who has a task to do can charge an undefined crowd with his task. Like in the case of Goldcorp, the person or company or whatever can offer that undefined crowd a reward for the task.
Goldcorp? Oh yes I should explain :-) In the year 2000 Goldcorp offered 575,000$ as a reward to people who can identify on a property undiscovered veins of gold. That lead to a so called "Gold Rush 2.0" as Goldcorp used the internet to make the geological data available to the crowd.
12.6.12 - Arts & Sciences
Until now you could read in my blog about how social web influences all kinds of topics like Teaching or Marketing. The last topics of my Social Web class are Science and Art.
In the science section social web improved the sharing of research papers and be able to collaborate online.
Instead of using one super computer people replaced that by many computers and interacting between these many computers is something that is made easier with social web.
Human computing is another topic to be talked about. Humans are still able to do things that a computer can't do. The human brain can solve problems that computers cannot solve yet. I watched the first ten minutes of the video of the talk by Luis von Ahn on human computing:
I wanted to watch the rest but I have to say that I find it very hard to follow his talk without losing my concentration... In my opinion he isn't much of a good talker so I only watched the beginning to get an idea.
The arts are also inspired by social web, I watched those following two videos:
and
I would love to give a summary of those two videos, but the best thing to do is watch them for yourselves, as nothing I could write would show the funniness of the videos :-)
Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012
5.6.12 - Assignments
1. Protect your Privacy
In my opinion it is helpful to use different providers for all the things that people want to share on the internet. But it is important to keep track of what service belongs to which bigger company. But in the end, if anybody really wants to get information about you, they will.
2. Xing or LinkedIn
I have a Xing profile, but am not investing time into it at the moment. I think I will do so after finishing college and want to find a job that fits my career plans.
3. Yasni and 123people
I never notices Yasni but 123people always shows up.
4. Social Engineering
Phishing is the key word. I want to tell about a case of phishing that almost happened to me by my own e-mail provider Freenet. A few months ago I got a mail apparently from Freenet telling me, that my account will be deleted if I don't stop it. Fortunately I ignored that mail, I got similar mails every day for a period of about 4 days. Always saying that my account will be deleted and I had to click on the link provided in the mail and validate my login data.
I am really relieved that I ignored the mails, about 2 days after the last phishing mail I received a real mail from Freenet confirming that those mails I and lots of other users received were phishing mails, using Freenet to get information about their users.
In my opinion it is helpful to use different providers for all the things that people want to share on the internet. But it is important to keep track of what service belongs to which bigger company. But in the end, if anybody really wants to get information about you, they will.
2. Xing or LinkedIn
I have a Xing profile, but am not investing time into it at the moment. I think I will do so after finishing college and want to find a job that fits my career plans.
3. Yasni and 123people
I never notices Yasni but 123people always shows up.
4. Social Engineering
Phishing is the key word. I want to tell about a case of phishing that almost happened to me by my own e-mail provider Freenet. A few months ago I got a mail apparently from Freenet telling me, that my account will be deleted if I don't stop it. Fortunately I ignored that mail, I got similar mails every day for a period of about 4 days. Always saying that my account will be deleted and I had to click on the link provided in the mail and validate my login data.
I am really relieved that I ignored the mails, about 2 days after the last phishing mail I received a real mail from Freenet confirming that those mails I and lots of other users received were phishing mails, using Freenet to get information about their users.
5.6.12 - Privacy & Security
Everybody is talking about it... Privacy and Security are very important topics concerning the internet. First of all, lets check out the issue of privacy on the internet. Is there any privacy at all? Well of course there is, if you stay out of the social networks and don't share anything.
But with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ around, there are only few who can really stay out of all this. So we all need to find ways to protect our privacies, that is, if we want to do so.
There are people who don't care about privacy and share whole their lives on the internet with just everybody.
I for example am signed up in Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook I had to update all the privacy settings after the Timeline was introduced. Before I wasn't worried that much, but the Timeline didn't sound so well... I checked my new settings and found out that I had to change lots of things and uncheck certain permissions, otherwise Facebook would have the right to share my information with everyone. So everybody has to decide for themselves whether they want to share so many information or not.
As I mentioned there are people who want to share information deliberately. There are ways to share them professionally. This is called Personal Marketing. On websites like Xing or LinkedIn people can create a professional profile and look for jobs.
Security is another highly discussed topic when talking about the internet and its usage today.
There is no way to be online and be totally safe, that is just not possible as the hackers can find a way through any kind of security measurement they want to when they try hard enough.
But there are a few things everyone can do to protect themselves, like choosing complicated passwords or making use of security software when working on a computer with Windows on it or switching to a Mac as there are almost no viruses or trojans that can infect a Mac ;-)
I for myself am using Apple devices and until now never had a problem with viruses or trojans, I am using passwords that are really really hard to guess and hope that will keep me away from security problems.
But with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ around, there are only few who can really stay out of all this. So we all need to find ways to protect our privacies, that is, if we want to do so.
There are people who don't care about privacy and share whole their lives on the internet with just everybody.
I for example am signed up in Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook I had to update all the privacy settings after the Timeline was introduced. Before I wasn't worried that much, but the Timeline didn't sound so well... I checked my new settings and found out that I had to change lots of things and uncheck certain permissions, otherwise Facebook would have the right to share my information with everyone. So everybody has to decide for themselves whether they want to share so many information or not.
As I mentioned there are people who want to share information deliberately. There are ways to share them professionally. This is called Personal Marketing. On websites like Xing or LinkedIn people can create a professional profile and look for jobs.
Security is another highly discussed topic when talking about the internet and its usage today.
There is no way to be online and be totally safe, that is just not possible as the hackers can find a way through any kind of security measurement they want to when they try hard enough.
But there are a few things everyone can do to protect themselves, like choosing complicated passwords or making use of security software when working on a computer with Windows on it or switching to a Mac as there are almost no viruses or trojans that can infect a Mac ;-)
I for myself am using Apple devices and until now never had a problem with viruses or trojans, I am using passwords that are really really hard to guess and hope that will keep me away from security problems.
22.5.12 - Assignments
Cyber War
Wikipedia defines Cyber War as following: "...refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage."
Well that gives a good idea of what its all about. Lets see where cyber war is carried out.
I found an article that is quite interesting, it is about the spying software "Flame" that is infiltrating Computers in for example Iran or Israel or other countries of the Middle East.
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article106386129/Computervirus-Flame-verseucht-den-Nahen-Osten.html
Wikipedia defines Cyber War as following: "...refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage."
Well that gives a good idea of what its all about. Lets see where cyber war is carried out.
I found an article that is quite interesting, it is about the spying software "Flame" that is infiltrating Computers in for example Iran or Israel or other countries of the Middle East.
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article106386129/Computervirus-Flame-verseucht-den-Nahen-Osten.html
22.5.12 - Government
What am I doing right now? Right, I am blogging about our Social Web class. I could also be blogging about all kinds of things. Blogging can also be a way of journalism, but people still have trouble recognizing bloggers as journalists. Well at least that is right for the countries of the "Free West".
But what about the other countries where the right of free speech isn't established?
Lets find out.
I had a look at this website: http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php
There is a list where 10 of the worst countries to be a blogger are shown. As you can imagine these countries censor the media and do not allow their journalists to speak freely.
There are countries like Egypt where more than 100 bloggers were arrested in 2008, China where nearly 300 million people are using the internet - thats more than in any other country in the world - but the government is highly censoring the content or Vietnam where the government introduced a new agency in 2008 only to control whats going on online.
But what about the other countries where the right of free speech isn't established?
Lets find out.
I had a look at this website: http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php
There is a list where 10 of the worst countries to be a blogger are shown. As you can imagine these countries censor the media and do not allow their journalists to speak freely.
There are countries like Egypt where more than 100 bloggers were arrested in 2008, China where nearly 300 million people are using the internet - thats more than in any other country in the world - but the government is highly censoring the content or Vietnam where the government introduced a new agency in 2008 only to control whats going on online.
15.5.12 - Assignment
1. Kickstarter
There is some really crazy stuff on there :-) But there are also pretty cool projects with products I would buy.
I chose 3 projects I really thought they were interesting.
First one is the "Ringbow" - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/669350010/ringbow-next-generation-gaming-accessory?ref=category
It is a ring that can be used in many different ways. For clicking further in a presentation, for gaming, for surfing, for changing music on your phone... For me the functions I liked the most, are presentation and changing music, in my opinion the rest is not really useful... but thats only my opinion :-)
I will definitely follow this project and see if it gets funded, at the moment it looks like it will.
Second one is the iPen - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipen/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad?ref=category
Well... At first I wanted to write a devastating criticism on that pen because it is against the idea of multitouch and the way an iPad or iPhone should be used. There are so many projects on Kickstarter based on any kinds of pens for smartphones or tablets.
The most funny ones are the ones for Apple products. Why? Well watch this little part of the Keynote of 2007 where the first iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs:
As he said: "Who wants a stylus??!!" Thats the reason why people should stop designing pens for Apple products or trying to sell them... Well at least most of these people, because this iPen really isn't that bad I guess. It looks like it could be very useful for artists designing on the iPad as it is really precise.
And the last project I wanted to talk about is Juicies - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laudowicz/juicies-colorful-cables-for-ipod-iphone-and-ipad?ref=category
It's nothing really special, these are cables for a few Apple devices, so what? They have different colors! Wow amazing :-) It really isn't anything great but the reason why I picked this project is something else. Without knowing about the project on Kickstarter I had already bought one of these cables. It was a offer on eBay and I think I payed 1€ for it. But I think it is not coming from the same person that tried funding them on Kickstarter as my cable was delivered from Hong Kong.
I checked the updates and read the comments and apparently I am right, the project on Kickstarter is finished and was successfully financed but the cables aren't ready to be sold at the moment as the guy who had the idea is working on different methods coloring the cables and hasn't found the perfect method yet.
So I guess this is the bad side of Kickstarter, before you get the chance to finance and sell your product someone else can steal it from you and act faster.
2. Flattr
I have to admit I am very skeptical when it comes to investing money in this kind of thing. I don't really trust these systems.
So I am not interested in adding the Flattr button on my blog and don't want to register wit Flattr and spend money.
4. Dell Hell
Google lists some 41.300.000 results.
Dell Hell is one of the Social Media Crisis, it happened in 2004 and was a big mistake by Dell. Jeff Jarvis is a journalist, a professor and blogger and posted his dismay about the customer service of Dell in his blog.
The biggest mistake Dell made was to ignore him. Readers of Jarvis' blog didn't, they are angry at Dell as well and want justice. Soon the story reaches media and the share prices of Dell as well as their selling numbers start to decrease.
At least afterwards Dell learned not to ignore the needs of their customers and started the "IdeaStorm" so they can find out what their buyers are thinking and what they want so they can improve their products.
There is some really crazy stuff on there :-) But there are also pretty cool projects with products I would buy.
I chose 3 projects I really thought they were interesting.
First one is the "Ringbow" - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/669350010/ringbow-next-generation-gaming-accessory?ref=category
It is a ring that can be used in many different ways. For clicking further in a presentation, for gaming, for surfing, for changing music on your phone... For me the functions I liked the most, are presentation and changing music, in my opinion the rest is not really useful... but thats only my opinion :-)
I will definitely follow this project and see if it gets funded, at the moment it looks like it will.
Second one is the iPen - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipen/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad?ref=category
Well... At first I wanted to write a devastating criticism on that pen because it is against the idea of multitouch and the way an iPad or iPhone should be used. There are so many projects on Kickstarter based on any kinds of pens for smartphones or tablets.
The most funny ones are the ones for Apple products. Why? Well watch this little part of the Keynote of 2007 where the first iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs:
And the last project I wanted to talk about is Juicies - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laudowicz/juicies-colorful-cables-for-ipod-iphone-and-ipad?ref=category
It's nothing really special, these are cables for a few Apple devices, so what? They have different colors! Wow amazing :-) It really isn't anything great but the reason why I picked this project is something else. Without knowing about the project on Kickstarter I had already bought one of these cables. It was a offer on eBay and I think I payed 1€ for it. But I think it is not coming from the same person that tried funding them on Kickstarter as my cable was delivered from Hong Kong.
I checked the updates and read the comments and apparently I am right, the project on Kickstarter is finished and was successfully financed but the cables aren't ready to be sold at the moment as the guy who had the idea is working on different methods coloring the cables and hasn't found the perfect method yet.
So I guess this is the bad side of Kickstarter, before you get the chance to finance and sell your product someone else can steal it from you and act faster.
2. Flattr
I have to admit I am very skeptical when it comes to investing money in this kind of thing. I don't really trust these systems.
So I am not interested in adding the Flattr button on my blog and don't want to register wit Flattr and spend money.
4. Dell Hell
Google lists some 41.300.000 results.
Dell Hell is one of the Social Media Crisis, it happened in 2004 and was a big mistake by Dell. Jeff Jarvis is a journalist, a professor and blogger and posted his dismay about the customer service of Dell in his blog.
The biggest mistake Dell made was to ignore him. Readers of Jarvis' blog didn't, they are angry at Dell as well and want justice. Soon the story reaches media and the share prices of Dell as well as their selling numbers start to decrease.
At least afterwards Dell learned not to ignore the needs of their customers and started the "IdeaStorm" so they can find out what their buyers are thinking and what they want so they can improve their products.
15.5.12 - Corporations and Marketing
The class about Corporations unfortunately wasn't about how to make a lot of money ;-)
Amazon, eBay, Kickstarter, SwapTree and Flattr are the topics that are introduced here.
Everyone knows Amazon right? Amazon is a platform to buy all kinds of stuff with a section of customer reviews. These reviews help to make the decision for a certain product easier. If you want to find out what the product you are interested in really is like, you have to read especially the bad reviews. What disturbed the customer? Why do they criticize the product? Was it only because it took too long to be delivered or was there a technical problem and the product wasn't working as it should?
These are questions need to be answered when buying a product, so Amazon is being pretty helpful with these reviews.
eBay also relies on the evaluations made by the users, you are interacting with people all over the world or just in your own country and have to find a way to trust the other person your money and be sure you will get the product you bought for it.
So, evaluations made by customers is on the one hand a very good way to find out whom to trust, but still you have to be careful and not just check one or two evaluations but a few more to find out if these are really true.
Kickstarter, I have to say I hadn't heard of that before. Kickstarter is a new way to raise money for projects. For example, if you have a great idea you want to bring to life but don't have enough money on your own, you can place your idea in Kickstarter with videos and descriptions etc. and ask for a
self-chosen sum of money. If people like your idea they can invest money in your project.
SwapTree is kind of a modern bric-a-brac market on the internet. People who want to get rid of their own stuff place it on the online market and create a whishlist with things they want to have.
So people sell their own junk and at the same time buy the stuff others don't want anymore.
Amazon, eBay, Kickstarter, SwapTree and Flattr are the topics that are introduced here.
Everyone knows Amazon right? Amazon is a platform to buy all kinds of stuff with a section of customer reviews. These reviews help to make the decision for a certain product easier. If you want to find out what the product you are interested in really is like, you have to read especially the bad reviews. What disturbed the customer? Why do they criticize the product? Was it only because it took too long to be delivered or was there a technical problem and the product wasn't working as it should?
These are questions need to be answered when buying a product, so Amazon is being pretty helpful with these reviews.
eBay also relies on the evaluations made by the users, you are interacting with people all over the world or just in your own country and have to find a way to trust the other person your money and be sure you will get the product you bought for it.
So, evaluations made by customers is on the one hand a very good way to find out whom to trust, but still you have to be careful and not just check one or two evaluations but a few more to find out if these are really true.
Kickstarter, I have to say I hadn't heard of that before. Kickstarter is a new way to raise money for projects. For example, if you have a great idea you want to bring to life but don't have enough money on your own, you can place your idea in Kickstarter with videos and descriptions etc. and ask for a
self-chosen sum of money. If people like your idea they can invest money in your project.
SwapTree is kind of a modern bric-a-brac market on the internet. People who want to get rid of their own stuff place it on the online market and create a whishlist with things they want to have.
So people sell their own junk and at the same time buy the stuff others don't want anymore.
8.5.12 - Assignments
1. Evaluation: MeinProf.de (RateMyProfessor)
Done.
2. Evaluation: GoogleDocs
Done.
4. Stanford's "Introduction to Computer Science"
"How many people can recognize a computer that is on?" - Hilarious :-D and its getting even better
"More seriously, how many people have actually used a computer for anything?" :-D
It is really fun listening to Mehran Sahimi.
5. Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
Courses that might be interesting:
Internetkompetenz - Webdesign für Anfänger
Einführung in CAD mit solid edge
Computergrafik
Rechnersehen mit Anwendungen in der Augmented Reality sowie beim bildbasierten Rendering Teil 1
Done.
2. Evaluation: GoogleDocs
Done.
4. Stanford's "Introduction to Computer Science"
"How many people can recognize a computer that is on?" - Hilarious :-D and its getting even better
"More seriously, how many people have actually used a computer for anything?" :-D
It is really fun listening to Mehran Sahimi.
5. Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
Courses that might be interesting:
Internetkompetenz - Webdesign für Anfänger
Einführung in CAD mit solid edge
Computergrafik
Rechnersehen mit Anwendungen in der Augmented Reality sowie beim bildbasierten Rendering Teil 1
8.5.12 - Teaching
Wow, finally I have time to blog again ;-)
Todays topic is Teaching and Learning. First of all I am watching the video of Salman Khan now, so hang on a bit... or check out the video for yourself :-)
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
... I have to say I am impressed. I absolutely agree with Khans ideas about teaching. Students being able to work on the subjects on their own pace by watching videos and doing challenges online is a great way of improving the way students are learning things. I wish this kind of teaching had existed in my school when I was a kid. I guess I wouldn't have so many leaks in my math knowledge then ;-)
Being able to ask your teacher questions about the topics you have problems with in class is a great improvement, as in normal ways of learning the teachers only have limited time to offer real help to students.
So I really agree with Salman Khan and would love to turn back time and start school again with these new teaching methods :-)
I think all these tools like Podcasts, YouTube videos, Moodle, and any other platforms are helpful to make teaching and learning more interesting. Learning new things isn't always easy stuff, especially if a student is for example only interested in one part of the whole topic but has to know all parts to pass his exam. With those tools the student might be able to learn the things better because most of the students nowadays are interested in social media and all the tools and platforms around it.
Of course, in the end everybody has to decide on their own, how they want to learn their stuff.
I for myself like to use YouTube videos to understand better the topics that were discussed in class, especially when it is a course I am not so good at ;-)
Todays topic is Teaching and Learning. First of all I am watching the video of Salman Khan now, so hang on a bit... or check out the video for yourself :-)
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
... I have to say I am impressed. I absolutely agree with Khans ideas about teaching. Students being able to work on the subjects on their own pace by watching videos and doing challenges online is a great way of improving the way students are learning things. I wish this kind of teaching had existed in my school when I was a kid. I guess I wouldn't have so many leaks in my math knowledge then ;-)
Being able to ask your teacher questions about the topics you have problems with in class is a great improvement, as in normal ways of learning the teachers only have limited time to offer real help to students.
So I really agree with Salman Khan and would love to turn back time and start school again with these new teaching methods :-)
I think all these tools like Podcasts, YouTube videos, Moodle, and any other platforms are helpful to make teaching and learning more interesting. Learning new things isn't always easy stuff, especially if a student is for example only interested in one part of the whole topic but has to know all parts to pass his exam. With those tools the student might be able to learn the things better because most of the students nowadays are interested in social media and all the tools and platforms around it.
Of course, in the end everybody has to decide on their own, how they want to learn their stuff.
I for myself like to use YouTube videos to understand better the topics that were discussed in class, especially when it is a course I am not so good at ;-)
Montag, 7. Mai 2012
24.4.12 - Assignments
1. Social Network Games
Hmm write about a social network game you have already played... well here we go.
The very first social network game I played was FarmVille by Zynga on Facebook.
I was pretty new on Facebook, it was summer holidays, everyone was on vacation except me and I was bored to death :D
So I started playing FarmVille which also was pretty new as it hat started only a few months ago.
For those who don't know what it's all about:
You as the player are a farmer with a very small farm at the beginning. You have to plant and harvest crops to earn money, buy farm animals to also earn money after a period of time after collecting from them, expand your farm and become a super farmer ;-)
After playing for a few weeks it was really fun because you had enough many and you could design your farm as you like. The first few months I really enjoyed playing FarmVille on a daily basis for about an hour split over the whole day or so.
I stayed on the game for about a year but I have to say the last half of that time was more a habit that really playing.
All in all I think these sort of games can be really fun and are great to spend some time if you have nothing else to do. But it shouldn't become an obsession or something ;-)
2. What makes Games successful
http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life.html
In 2010 Game designer Jesse Schell talked about Games.
I don't really know what to write about it, watch it for yourself it is really worth it because Jesse Schell has really a great way of presenting stuff...
"Moooooom can I have 6 bucks so I can be a payed member?" :D
3. MMORPG
I have no experience with MMORPG, I never played any game that can be called that.
Hmm write about a social network game you have already played... well here we go.
The very first social network game I played was FarmVille by Zynga on Facebook.
I was pretty new on Facebook, it was summer holidays, everyone was on vacation except me and I was bored to death :D
So I started playing FarmVille which also was pretty new as it hat started only a few months ago.
For those who don't know what it's all about:
You as the player are a farmer with a very small farm at the beginning. You have to plant and harvest crops to earn money, buy farm animals to also earn money after a period of time after collecting from them, expand your farm and become a super farmer ;-)
After playing for a few weeks it was really fun because you had enough many and you could design your farm as you like. The first few months I really enjoyed playing FarmVille on a daily basis for about an hour split over the whole day or so.
I stayed on the game for about a year but I have to say the last half of that time was more a habit that really playing.
All in all I think these sort of games can be really fun and are great to spend some time if you have nothing else to do. But it shouldn't become an obsession or something ;-)
2. What makes Games successful
http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life.html
In 2010 Game designer Jesse Schell talked about Games.
I don't really know what to write about it, watch it for yourself it is really worth it because Jesse Schell has really a great way of presenting stuff...
"Moooooom can I have 6 bucks so I can be a payed member?" :D
3. MMORPG
I have no experience with MMORPG, I never played any game that can be called that.
24.4.12 - Social Gaming
Todays lesson was really fun^^
Why? Because it was about Social Gaming. In the first about 30 minutes or so of the lesson we talked about Social Network Games such as Facebook Games like e.g. CityVille, The Sims Social or Bejeweled Blitz.
Then There was Second Life, a 3D virtual world which was very popular in 2007/2008 and still is.
And there are also MMORPG (= massively multiplayer online role-playing games) such as World of Warcraft.
The rest of the lesson was going over to the computer room and well... playing some social games ;-)
3.4.12 - Assignments
1. Social Networking Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service
Well as all articles in Wikipedia it is not so funny to read and makes me unbelievable tired...
To summarize the article which contains 14 chapters I can divide it in 3 main chapters.
1. The history of social networks and its development regarding emerging trends
2. The issues that come up with social networks like e.g. privacy
3. Applications, coming from the government, enterprises or schools
2. Try another Network
I hope its ok but i'd rather prefer not to become a member of another social network... I am already member in Facebook, StudiVZ (yes my account is still existing^^ but unused) and Xing (unused as well)
and I really don't want to try Google+ or any other of the existing social networks. I had accounts in some other social networks as well but I deleted all of them (e.g. Lokalisten, SchuelerVZ, mySpace).
3. Small World Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment
Well what can I say, the Small World Experiment by Stanley Milgram is social networking in the 1960s.
That means the idea of social networking was developed long before it was as easy as today with the use of the internet.
4. Web 2.0 vs Social Media
This is the Google trends graph about the popularity change of "Web 2.0":
And this is the graph of "Social Media":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service
Well as all articles in Wikipedia it is not so funny to read and makes me unbelievable tired...
To summarize the article which contains 14 chapters I can divide it in 3 main chapters.
1. The history of social networks and its development regarding emerging trends
2. The issues that come up with social networks like e.g. privacy
3. Applications, coming from the government, enterprises or schools
2. Try another Network
I hope its ok but i'd rather prefer not to become a member of another social network... I am already member in Facebook, StudiVZ (yes my account is still existing^^ but unused) and Xing (unused as well)
and I really don't want to try Google+ or any other of the existing social networks. I had accounts in some other social networks as well but I deleted all of them (e.g. Lokalisten, SchuelerVZ, mySpace).
3. Small World Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment
Well what can I say, the Small World Experiment by Stanley Milgram is social networking in the 1960s.
That means the idea of social networking was developed long before it was as easy as today with the use of the internet.
4. Web 2.0 vs Social Media
This is the Google trends graph about the popularity change of "Web 2.0":
And this is the graph of "Social Media":
As you can see, the graph of "Web 2.0" had its peak in 2007 and is decreasing constantly since then.
Whereas the graph of "Social Media" has been constantly rising since 2008.
3.4.12 - Social Networks
Today in class we had the topic Social Networks. I guess in todays world, most of the people know what Social Networks are... (*start irony) Thank you Facebook... (*stop irony)
At first we heard a wikipedia definition of social networks in general, I don't want to rewrite it so check it out for yourself:
At first we heard a wikipedia definition of social networks in general, I don't want to rewrite it so check it out for yourself:
As a next step we had to answer following questions:
1. Which social networks do you use?
2. How much time do you spend in each one?
3. What do you do there?
The answers to the first question wasn't really surprising, almost everyone is using Facebook.
More interesting was the answer to the second question. Most of us claimed to use Facebook only 1-2 hours a day, well I guess some might say the truth but I think a few among us didn't want to admit how many hours they really spend on Facebook, or they don't want to admit it to themselves :D
As to the last question, mostly it was posting pics or communicating with friends or relatives (especially ones who are not in Germany).
The next step in our lesson today was the popularity changes in social networks.
Do you remember studivz? Or even schuelervz? Yeeees those were the social networks BEFORE Facebook :D
As you can see, social networks have a big problem in common: it is hard to keep the users happy.
As soon as the user isn't happy anymore it is only a meaning of time till he goes over to the new trend in social networks.
I for myself was in studivz for a period of time, even after Facebook came up I still didn't just move over to Facebook (as FB for me was not so promising^^) but after most of my friends moved to Facebook I didn't really have any choices left...
The last part of the lesson was about a site called "Google Flu" which is a web site that predicts flu epidemics based on the search terms the people enter in their browser.
I thought that was very funny, as I would never search "flu" when I have a flu, but apparently lots of people do, and the predictions weren't even that far away from the truth :D
We also watched a video about how social networks predict epidemics by Nicholas Christakis:
Well thats it for this lesson. Have fun reading :)
27.3.12 - Blogs, Microblogs & Podcasts / Collaboration
FINALLY I found the time to blog about last weeks lesson :)
I know it's kinda late, as the next lesson is tomorrow, but anyways, here we go.
Well at the beginning of the lesson we heard some general knowledge about blogs, microblogs and podcasts.
Blogs are some kind of journal or diary but they are not in private but published on the WWW.
As to microblogs, the most popular one is Twitter. They are called microblogs because in the sent messages only 140 characters are possible.
And least we have podcasts. Podcasts are blogs made out of videos and audio. A significant percentage of audio podcasts are also used for getting information about a specific topic or learning.
That was the short overview about blogs and so on. As an assignment we had to find podcasts that interest us and write about our favorite one.
That was not very easy for me, as there are many topics I find interesting and i haven't listened to podcasts before :)
I must say that after looking around for about an hour I couldn't really find a podcast that I would list as my favorite. I will blog about that at a later time, when I can find anything interesting about podcasts :)
So, now we reached the next part of last weeks lesson: Collaboration
In the following I want to name the topics and write a little about them.
Group Sizes
Groups can consist of 3-20 people. 5 or less members are called primary groups and 6-20 individuals are called secondary groups.
Small groups are more like few people pairing up in teams, but their advantage is that their structure is defined faster so they can start working after only a little amount of time.
Stages of Group Development
Groups that consist of 6 or more members need to pass some stages of group development so they can start working on whatever they have to work on.
In 1965 Bruce Tuckman was the first to propose a model of group development - the "Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing model" - which became the most accepted model and the basis for models that were made later on.
Group Members
Basically there may form different role types in a team, but the team can control wether these roles are allowed or not in the different states the group is in.
Those role types can be for example: "der Redselige", "der Ablehnende" or "der Clown".
Hierarchy in Groups
Members of groups can often have certain roles as for example the leader. Raoul Schindler developed a theory about these roles and calls them Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta.
Alpha:
As the name anticipates, the Alpha is the leader of the group and is the one who wants to fulfill the goal of the group the most. In every group there is an Alpha.
Gamma:
These are other team members who support the Alpha. But Gammas are the decision makers.
Omega:
This kind of group member is not interested in the common goal of the group. It could even happen, that the Omega sympathizes with the "enemy". There is an Omega in every group.
Beta:
A Beta is the expert in the group. He knows everything about the goal. There is not always a Beta in the group.
It is interesting that the Alpha can possibly turn into an Omega and the other way round.
Teambuilding
Building teams is the first step to work together on one goal. As we reached this point of the lessen, we had some activity going on in class.
MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE
In our teams we had the goal to build the tallest freestanding structure. That sounded interesting at the beginning...and it also went on very interesting ;)
We got 20 pieces of spaghetti, a marshmallow, 1m of tape and a long piece of yarn.
The rules were that the structure had to stand without falling off and the marshmallow piece had to be on top.
The winner of the challenge, that means the group with the tallest structure, was promised the rest of the marshmallows in the bag as a prize, so our motivation was very high :)
Here is the result of our group:
I know it's kinda late, as the next lesson is tomorrow, but anyways, here we go.
Well at the beginning of the lesson we heard some general knowledge about blogs, microblogs and podcasts.
Blogs are some kind of journal or diary but they are not in private but published on the WWW.
As to microblogs, the most popular one is Twitter. They are called microblogs because in the sent messages only 140 characters are possible.
And least we have podcasts. Podcasts are blogs made out of videos and audio. A significant percentage of audio podcasts are also used for getting information about a specific topic or learning.
That was the short overview about blogs and so on. As an assignment we had to find podcasts that interest us and write about our favorite one.
That was not very easy for me, as there are many topics I find interesting and i haven't listened to podcasts before :)
I must say that after looking around for about an hour I couldn't really find a podcast that I would list as my favorite. I will blog about that at a later time, when I can find anything interesting about podcasts :)
So, now we reached the next part of last weeks lesson: Collaboration
In the following I want to name the topics and write a little about them.
Group Sizes
Groups can consist of 3-20 people. 5 or less members are called primary groups and 6-20 individuals are called secondary groups.
Small groups are more like few people pairing up in teams, but their advantage is that their structure is defined faster so they can start working after only a little amount of time.
Stages of Group Development
Groups that consist of 6 or more members need to pass some stages of group development so they can start working on whatever they have to work on.
In 1965 Bruce Tuckman was the first to propose a model of group development - the "Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing model" - which became the most accepted model and the basis for models that were made later on.
Group Members
Basically there may form different role types in a team, but the team can control wether these roles are allowed or not in the different states the group is in.
Those role types can be for example: "der Redselige", "der Ablehnende" or "der Clown".
Hierarchy in Groups
Members of groups can often have certain roles as for example the leader. Raoul Schindler developed a theory about these roles and calls them Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta.
Alpha:
As the name anticipates, the Alpha is the leader of the group and is the one who wants to fulfill the goal of the group the most. In every group there is an Alpha.
Gamma:
These are other team members who support the Alpha. But Gammas are the decision makers.
Omega:
This kind of group member is not interested in the common goal of the group. It could even happen, that the Omega sympathizes with the "enemy". There is an Omega in every group.
Beta:
A Beta is the expert in the group. He knows everything about the goal. There is not always a Beta in the group.
It is interesting that the Alpha can possibly turn into an Omega and the other way round.
Teambuilding
Building teams is the first step to work together on one goal. As we reached this point of the lessen, we had some activity going on in class.
MARSHMALLOW CHALLENGE
In our teams we had the goal to build the tallest freestanding structure. That sounded interesting at the beginning...and it also went on very interesting ;)
We got 20 pieces of spaghetti, a marshmallow, 1m of tape and a long piece of yarn.
The rules were that the structure had to stand without falling off and the marshmallow piece had to be on top.
The winner of the challenge, that means the group with the tallest structure, was promised the rest of the marshmallows in the bag as a prize, so our motivation was very high :)
Here is the result of our group:
Unfortunately we didn't win, but our 47cm tall structure was second ranked :)
And all in all it was a very fun challenge and we learned how it is to work as a group especially with the pressure of time (we had 20 minutes).
As to the assignments of last weeks lesson, I will continue in the next post, this one is long enough I think. :)
Montag, 2. April 2012
27.3.12 - Assignments
Now lets go, here are the assignments we had to do, and what I want to write about them ;)
1. Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing
Forming:
This is the first stage of teams. It is all about organizing meetings, discuss who does what and information is being gathered. This is the most comfortable stage but also the one in which only little is being done.
But still the forming stage is very important as the members meet, get to know each other and make new friends.
Storming:
This is the stage where the team members have different ideas and a competition is starting. Problems to be solved, functioning together and independently and the leadership model are discussed.
This stage can either be resolved quickly and the team can grow, or the team is stuck and will never get out of this stage.
Norming:
In this stage the team manages to concentrate on the common goal even if that means that some of the individuals have to give up their own ideas and agree with the ideas of the others.
Performing:
Some teams reach this stage and can deliver a high performance on their own without the need for external supervision. The team members work as a unit and find an effective way to work without conflicts.
As for my own experience with groups, I can say that it is very important to stay motivated throughout every stage. It is very hard to work together with other team members who don't invest as much time as needed, or are not interested in working together or even working for that matter.
2. Group Dynamics
It is too early for me to identify the Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta in our team. Fortunately it seems that, although the theory states that there is always an Omega we have none.
That makes me think about this theory. I think it is in general like described and that it is a good way to get a group working, but I think this cannot be applied on all groups.
For example when the group members know each other before they form a group it is more likely to be different. When the members know each other, most of the time there is no Omega who opposes to the goals of the group. There can be a leader but doesn't have to be as the team members can work together like in a democracy with every member having the equal rights.
I think this theory works better in groups that don't know each other before they start working together.
3. Team Building
Well it looks like I have to write about this assignment later on as we haven't tried one of the activities mentioned in Teampedia or at the Sandstone website.
4. Creative Commons
At the moment there are 6 different types of creative commons licenses, I think their names show what they are about, in every license the name of the copied text or whatever has to be mentioned. In other licenses it is declared if the copied things can be given to third parties with the same conditions, that it cannot be edited or used for commercial stuff.
1. Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing
Forming:
This is the first stage of teams. It is all about organizing meetings, discuss who does what and information is being gathered. This is the most comfortable stage but also the one in which only little is being done.
But still the forming stage is very important as the members meet, get to know each other and make new friends.
Storming:
This is the stage where the team members have different ideas and a competition is starting. Problems to be solved, functioning together and independently and the leadership model are discussed.
This stage can either be resolved quickly and the team can grow, or the team is stuck and will never get out of this stage.
Norming:
In this stage the team manages to concentrate on the common goal even if that means that some of the individuals have to give up their own ideas and agree with the ideas of the others.
Performing:
Some teams reach this stage and can deliver a high performance on their own without the need for external supervision. The team members work as a unit and find an effective way to work without conflicts.
As for my own experience with groups, I can say that it is very important to stay motivated throughout every stage. It is very hard to work together with other team members who don't invest as much time as needed, or are not interested in working together or even working for that matter.
2. Group Dynamics
It is too early for me to identify the Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta in our team. Fortunately it seems that, although the theory states that there is always an Omega we have none.
That makes me think about this theory. I think it is in general like described and that it is a good way to get a group working, but I think this cannot be applied on all groups.
For example when the group members know each other before they form a group it is more likely to be different. When the members know each other, most of the time there is no Omega who opposes to the goals of the group. There can be a leader but doesn't have to be as the team members can work together like in a democracy with every member having the equal rights.
I think this theory works better in groups that don't know each other before they start working together.
3. Team Building
Well it looks like I have to write about this assignment later on as we haven't tried one of the activities mentioned in Teampedia or at the Sandstone website.
4. Creative Commons
At the moment there are 6 different types of creative commons licenses, I think their names show what they are about, in every license the name of the copied text or whatever has to be mentioned. In other licenses it is declared if the copied things can be given to third parties with the same conditions, that it cannot be edited or used for commercial stuff.
1. Namensnennung
2. Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen
3. Namensnennung, keine Bearbeitung
4. Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell
5. Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen
6. Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitung
Alright, this is enough from me for today, have fun reading, I hope its not too boring :)
Montag, 26. März 2012
YouTube Video: Rethinking Education
This Video that I embedded below is pretty interesting. It is about new technology that should be used in our education systems to improve learning.
I think that it could be a very good way to improve the way of learning for students of all ages.
Most students are bored with the classical methods and would be much more interested and engaged in their studies when they are combined with things they like doing for fun, like surfing on the internet, blogging or sharing things with their friends in social web pages.
There are still teachers and even some professors (yes, even in technical courses) who do not allow technical devices like laptops for working. And their reasoning may be true - most students really use them only for fun not learning - but they should find a way of integrating these things students enjoy with their teaching methods.
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