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Topic no.2 How Has The Internet Affected the Way We Communicate?
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Topic no.4 What are the mobile phone applications of the future and why?
Topic no.5 What Are The 3 Most Important Web Sites and Why?
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Topic no.7 What are the mobile phone applications of the future and why?
Topic no.8 Are you concerned about privacy in the age of facebook and social networking?
Topic no.9 How has the Internet changed the way people communicate?
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Topic no.11 How does technology influence culture?
Topic no.12 How do you use multimedia, and for what?
Topic no.13 What blogs do you read? what podcasts do you listen to or watch?
Topic no.14 How do you use multimedia technologies and for what?
Students Testimonials
I think the difficult thing about IT is that it contains elements that are difficult to grade. It would be easy enough to grade “name two elements of mashups” or “name three ways to communicate via the Internet.” Some elements of the class such as how different people choose to communicate on the Internet how to use social networking platforms cannot be graded. There is no correct answer. To find the answer for yourself one must experience and experiment themselves. That is why in our class we had projects with Romanians and were asked to use Twitter, so we can learn for ourselves how we can deal with these new elements of Web 2.0 and how we can incorporate them into our lives.
For example, through the Romanian project we used software’s like Skype to communicate, Jing and Camtasia to make videos, Google Docs to send out surveys and Slide Share to present our PowerPoint.
With the example with the collaborative project with Romanian students, a huge roadblock for my team was that the Romanian students were not contributing and were not communicating effectively with us. Collaboration was a significant part of the project, and the team was doomed without it.
To be honest I think my experience in the class lost a lot when trying to do the project with the Romanian team. Not being able to really communicate effectively and having to take on most of the work communicating with the Romanians lead to alot of stress for our team on top of which we were then docked on the project, overall just something that brought down my personal opinion of the class.
The experience that I had gained as a result of the Romanian Project is a another positive point in the class. Although we had difficulties communicating because of the different Time Zones, I had learnt how to solve problems and work successfully as a team with people I have never met before in my life through the usage of Skype, email, IM, and Google Docs.