Open Source Software has revolutionized the internet. As a part of Web 2.0 open source software has allow greater creativity among users of the content. To think that the term was coined by in a marketing campaign for free software. Today it allows users to edit and change content at the speed of thought. There are ten different criteria that must comply with to be considered open source. The criteria’s are free redistribution, source code, derived works, integrity of the author’s code, no discrimination against persons or groups, no discrimination against fields of endeavor, distribution of license, license must not be specific to a product, license must not restrict other software, and license must be technology-neutral.
In Telecommunications, open source software is very valuable to multimedia distribution. Sharing content today is necessary to have a successful media company. Though many traditional media has failed in their attempt to use open source content there is a growing number that are succeeding. Windy Citizen, The Huffington Post, and TBD are a few of those that are succeeding very well. I will be using open source software to create video content, audio content, mind mapping stories, posting those stories on blogs, YouTube, and Facebook. I am not currently as familiar with many of the open source software out there. I still don’t have a Facebook account but will create one soon I hope. I will have to gain knowledge of these sources to become an effective production student.
Tech tools for critical thinking conveyed knowledge for students to think openly about how they learn. Learning to use mind mapping in Inspiration to show how certain tools work with your major. Learning Theories and styles and critical thinking show that I am a Visual Modality and Tactile-Kinesthetic Modality learner. I always knew that I was a visual learning, you show me how to do something and I can grasp what to do. The open source software taught me there is software available to users for free. It is interesting to learn that companies basically give the software away for free and charge you for support help if you ever need it. The use of text cloud in Wordle to summarize, word content was cool. I liked the 16th way to use Wordle to compare Romeo & Juliet to West Side Story.
The reason I chose this video was because it was about what open source software are available on Mac.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Multimedia
Web Resource, Multimedia, and Hypermedia are the growing trend in society. Everyone today has the opportunity to create a form of multimedia today. Our cell phones are now smart phones. We take pictures of everything and send to our friend, hypertext, hyperlinks, and video all the time. The world today operates in a multimedia format whether we like it or not.
Multimedia is becoming more a part of my life. When I volunteer at WUFT I am operating a camera that is sending live video, uploaded by a satellite to your home, so you can watch the 6:30 news. When I start taking production type classes and learn how to use different forms of multimedia. Creating fonts on the news cast to inform the people at home the name of the anchors or the names of the people in the story. I will have to edit videos for production using still pictures and video. This is the creativity that I am looking forward to learning when I get into my core classes for Telecommunications.
The lesson this week was very enlightening the Designing Instruction Media using the four key guidelines; Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. The power point templates that is bad to use. What background to use, the type of text to use. The information of what is a hypertext, multimedia and hyperlink are terms I have to know and use in Telecommunications. The exercise on the WTO website is something that will allow me to be more careful of sites that exist. Learning how to find the publisher of a website and history of a website will be something I use when doing research. It is amazing that there are so many tools out there for educators to use to in teaching our children. We will have to be more careful of the sites that our children use to conduct their homework. Web based resources are great tools to help your child learn in a fun environment. BrainPop is a site that an Assistant Principal told me to have my daughter use to help her with math. Multimedia will be used both critically and creatively when creating content for me. It is something that I use now, but will use more and more as I learn how to use more of the products that exist. Hypermedia is something that would be a great tool for teachers or even trainers in the business world to pass on information for people they are trying to educate about a product or new policies.
This video is about a Multimedia University in Malaysia.
Multimedia is becoming more a part of my life. When I volunteer at WUFT I am operating a camera that is sending live video, uploaded by a satellite to your home, so you can watch the 6:30 news. When I start taking production type classes and learn how to use different forms of multimedia. Creating fonts on the news cast to inform the people at home the name of the anchors or the names of the people in the story. I will have to edit videos for production using still pictures and video. This is the creativity that I am looking forward to learning when I get into my core classes for Telecommunications.
The lesson this week was very enlightening the Designing Instruction Media using the four key guidelines; Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. The power point templates that is bad to use. What background to use, the type of text to use. The information of what is a hypertext, multimedia and hyperlink are terms I have to know and use in Telecommunications. The exercise on the WTO website is something that will allow me to be more careful of sites that exist. Learning how to find the publisher of a website and history of a website will be something I use when doing research. It is amazing that there are so many tools out there for educators to use to in teaching our children. We will have to be more careful of the sites that our children use to conduct their homework. Web based resources are great tools to help your child learn in a fun environment. BrainPop is a site that an Assistant Principal told me to have my daughter use to help her with math. Multimedia will be used both critically and creatively when creating content for me. It is something that I use now, but will use more and more as I learn how to use more of the products that exist. Hypermedia is something that would be a great tool for teachers or even trainers in the business world to pass on information for people they are trying to educate about a product or new policies.
This video is about a Multimedia University in Malaysia.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Presentation: Copyright & Issues in Educational Technology Resource
Copyright and issues in educational technology resource goes hand in hand. There are more online classes that require students to create interactive content. If you are going to create content and use music or video in your assignment you have to be familiar with copyright and intellectual property rights. It is great to know that in the classroom we may receive special consideration under the fair use doctrine.
Knowing that there is special consideration I will be somewhat at ease when applying copyright laws and the code of best practice in fair use. In Telecommunication College we have to create a lot of content. Many of the courses in this major call for video and written creation. It is very important that you use attribution to what you have created properly giving credit to the original creator. I will have to make sure that I do not obtain things illegally or in bad faith.
The material in this week assignment was very informative. The technology that is available to us today at the Go2Web20 directory of Web 2.0 applications. The web 2.0 companies that I chose to review were Socialwok; they help organizations improve collaboration and communication. Vanityvid allows you to have video profile picture shows on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Wibbitz allows its users to take static web content like images, and turn them into interactive video. I truly liked the “What is Copyright” and “User’s Rights, Section 107” videos. That was either very creative or someone had too much time on their hand. I would like to believe it was very creative. It is not easy to write a song and to take a law and make them into a song that is pretty cool. I learned in the Copyright PDF that the preferred way to register a basic copyright is to complete it online. The “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education” places my mind at ease. To know that I do have some rights when it comes to using other people creation I don’t always have to pay to use it. The articles were a little long but as a Telecommunication Production student it was something I need to learn.
The source that I chose started with a young man singing a parity of a Beastie Boys song about copyright. The video discuss using www.myfreecopyright.com to register you original content and you want to protect it and receive credit for your creation. The video talks about someone that had registered with the above site was able to shut down someone that later open a site with the same content after he did, because he had registered his content on my free copyright website.
The issues in Educational Technology give a good understanding of the things that teachers are dealing with. I always heard many complain about NCLB, saying that they are passing children who are not doing well in school. It was good to see the four reform principles the law is based on. The National Ed. Tech. Plan and Teacher Preparation/Training, where teachers continued education is important in our classroom. I do wonder if this access to online learning course is free. I’m not certain that the digital divide can ever be closed. Technology is big business and as much as some of these companies offer free software to schools or computers, it is still not in ever home.
Knowing that there is special consideration I will be somewhat at ease when applying copyright laws and the code of best practice in fair use. In Telecommunication College we have to create a lot of content. Many of the courses in this major call for video and written creation. It is very important that you use attribution to what you have created properly giving credit to the original creator. I will have to make sure that I do not obtain things illegally or in bad faith.
The material in this week assignment was very informative. The technology that is available to us today at the Go2Web20 directory of Web 2.0 applications. The web 2.0 companies that I chose to review were Socialwok; they help organizations improve collaboration and communication. Vanityvid allows you to have video profile picture shows on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Wibbitz allows its users to take static web content like images, and turn them into interactive video. I truly liked the “What is Copyright” and “User’s Rights, Section 107” videos. That was either very creative or someone had too much time on their hand. I would like to believe it was very creative. It is not easy to write a song and to take a law and make them into a song that is pretty cool. I learned in the Copyright PDF that the preferred way to register a basic copyright is to complete it online. The “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education” places my mind at ease. To know that I do have some rights when it comes to using other people creation I don’t always have to pay to use it. The articles were a little long but as a Telecommunication Production student it was something I need to learn.
The source that I chose started with a young man singing a parity of a Beastie Boys song about copyright. The video discuss using www.myfreecopyright.com to register you original content and you want to protect it and receive credit for your creation. The video talks about someone that had registered with the above site was able to shut down someone that later open a site with the same content after he did, because he had registered his content on my free copyright website.
The issues in Educational Technology give a good understanding of the things that teachers are dealing with. I always heard many complain about NCLB, saying that they are passing children who are not doing well in school. It was good to see the four reform principles the law is based on. The National Ed. Tech. Plan and Teacher Preparation/Training, where teachers continued education is important in our classroom. I do wonder if this access to online learning course is free. I’m not certain that the digital divide can ever be closed. Technology is big business and as much as some of these companies offer free software to schools or computers, it is still not in ever home.
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