New Ways to Communicate
A presentation By Dr. Shauna Schullo, University or Wisconsin – Madison
January 31, 2008 - WEAC
Does this look familiar
Does this feel familiar?
Today, Our Children Have A Different Relationship With Information
The Net Generation
by 21 Years of Age will have …
• • • • • Played 10,000 hours of video games Sent/received 200,000 e-mails Watched 20,000 hours of television Spent 10,000 hours on cell phones And read for under 5,000 hours (Bonamici et al. 2005).
From Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris
What is Changing?
Web 2.0 the Read/Write Web People are contributing to information on the web rather than just passively reading it
Go2Web20.net
Mobile Computing
Cell phones PDAs iPhone
Text Messaging Photo taking/sharing Voting Music - VCast
Sharing Audio and Video
GarageBand
Sharing Other Things
Social Bookmarking Collaborative writing an projects
Slideshows Photos and Images
Social Networking- Globally
Online Social Networking
My Space
Growing up Online
PBS Special http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontli ne/kidsonline/?campaign=pbshomefe atures_1_frontlinebrgrowinguponline_ 2008-01-22
Facebook
Virtual Worlds
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. This habitation usually is represented in the form of two or three-dimensional graphical representations of humanoids (or other graphical or text-based avatars). Most, but not all, virtual worlds allow for multiple users. (Active Worlds, ViOS, There, Second Life
Secondlife
http://teen.secondlife.com/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nGMH_1 VnnaY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bk24qW huMwI
Top 100 Tools
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top10 02007.html Neat idea to explain social networking http://www.langwitches.org/blog/2008/01/24 /power-of-social-networking/ Good place to learn about all types of things for teaching EdTech Talk – a weekly podcast