Tech Tools for Critical Thinking

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.