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Facebook, for example, is understood by students as “real” with a complex web of rules that guide playful misrepresentation, for example.

In our study, it was evident that student use of Facebook was governed by the degree to which students felt that they controlled self-presentation or digital agency

A code of Facebook ethics for faculty currently exists on the site and I would recommend that faculty review it.

The company's product: videotaped study aids with up-tempo soundtracks, flashy graphics, and undergraduate-age actors who look like they just danced out of a Gap television advertisement. Students can watch the review tapes on their VCR's. Soon the guides will also be available on DVD and over the Internet.

Other observers wonder whether the company could one day compete with colleges.

In the videos, complex concepts are explained with skits, jokes about dating and drinking, and the occasional song.

Media literacy is the capacity to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms.

Like literacy in general, media literacy is applied in a wide variety of contexts—when watching television or reading newspapers, for example, or when posting commentary to a blog. Indeed, media literacy is implicated everywhere one encounters information and entertainment content.

The foundation of effective media analysis is the recognition that: • all media messages are constructed • each medium has different characteristics and strengths and a unique language of construction • media messages are produced for particular purposes • all media messages contain embedded values and points of view • people use their individual skills, beliefs, and experiences to construct their own meanings from media messages • media and media messages can influence beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and the democratic process Making media and sharing it with listeners, readers, and viewers is essential to the development of critical thinking and communication skills. Feedback deepens reflection on one’s own editorial and creative choices and helps students grasp the power of communication.

When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.”

since dialogue is the encounter in which the united reflection and action of the dialoguers are addressed to the world which is to be transformed and humanized, this dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person’s “depositing” ideas in another; nor can it become a simple exchange of ideas to be “consumed” by the discussants.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people.

An anonymous comment on a random blog, by contrast, starts with negative credibility, say –26 or –27. Why on earth should we believe anything said by someone who’s unwilling to stand behind his or her own words? In most cases, the answer is that we should not.

For all this, anonymity is essential to preserve. It protects whistleblowers and others for whom speech can be unfairly dangerous. But when people don’t stand behind their words, a reader should always wonder why and make appropriate adjustments.

Vuzix CEO Paul Travers said, “The Wrap 920AV will not just change the portable video industry, but how consumers view and interact with information. From watching a Civil War video reproduction battle reenactment on the actual battleground to walking through the streets of New York City with an animated virtual tour guide, the possibilities are endless.” Available in Spring 2009, you can check out the device in action at CES, Sands Expo Convention Center Booth #73810.

Watch this short video to see how AR is going to transform the way we learn. From AR books with interactive images and characters, to museums and learning centers with additional virtual layers of information, learning will be an experience that we can interact with and enjoy.

Wikitude AR Travel Guide