ENGL303 Spring 2010

This shows how everyone is using this effective communication tool. A student was calling a teacher with rude names and was suspended for his action. Where's the line drawn for freedom of speech?

This is part of a series of provocative critiques by Stanley Fish of the discourse of digital humanities. Essentially he calls for a revised view of digital humanities that takes into account literary critical concerns with reception, ambiguity, and so on. Well work reading.

Millions of PS3 owners experienced problems with the network. Problems included not being able to log onto the system, playing online games, playing games that had online trophies. Apparently, the PS3 Slims were not affected.

A study of student IM usage reveals many advantages and some obstacles to using IM as a classroom communication tool

This paper describes an empirical study on postgraduate students in a local university to investigate whether instant messaging (IM) tools are used as enabler tools for learning in tertiary institutions. We first developed a theoretical model based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM). We then undertook a survey of 104 postgraduate students. The findings indicated that external factors such as technology utility, network externality, media influences, self-efficacy and affection have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU). In our study, PEOU has significant influence on the students' acceptance of IM tools as enabler for learning, contrary to past research result of PU influencing acceptance intention. Overall, the findings suggested students' perceptions of IM tools are easy to use and useful in the context of learning. The paper concludes with a discussion on implication to education.

A site providing a means to track growing trends in social media.

"combine Multiple Description Coding (MDC) with multiple source transport (Multipoint-to-Point transfer: MP2P) in order to maintain smooth video streaming over wireless ad hoc networks"

describes the way people can watch movies legally and for free on the internet. always wondered how this worked...

A site explaining how to follow events in Chile using social media.

I found this website while searching for free educational material for a separate class. While this site may not tie into my research report of "internet advertising", I think it is very important. Academic Earth is a free site that anyone can sign up for. It offers free online video lectures from some of the most prestigous universities in the country (Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton). The lecture topics range from Psychics to Psychology, and everything in between. The importance of this website is pretty obvious. The average Joe that can't afford college tuition can learn much of the same material for free that the wealthy and privileged are receiving for $100,000 a year.

This is a wiki - so anyone can edit - that provides collectively authored and accessible free tax advice. An excellent example of collective effort.

This is a study about how online magazines are not always as thorough with their research as print is.

YAY! I finally found an article about the fight that print magazines are putting up against online magazines.

This is an online community where gays and lesbians can interact without the pressures of our society.

This article talks about the ways companies use what we post on our social media. For example, if we blog about something it can be added to their database. Companies are using this information to find out what and who they should be advertising to.

Pleaserobme.com is funny but is happening all over. People are stating where they are on social media websites and others can see if they are home or not. You can strategically map out who is home and who is not.

This article breaks down the components of multimedia use in education.

This article talks about the use of power points in elementary and secondary school lessons.

Another online photoeditor.

An artwork based on the continual archiving of Facebook pages and then wiping to create new pages. Identity becomes finely controlled and accessed.