http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:37:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en so this is kind of random, but I thought it was funny...it basically makes fun of the eharmony and match.com commericals. http://youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0 http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/04/14/facebookkkkk/ "the Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy to update as to read" since the article was written in 1994 i believe it makes sense that this is semi-true. It also shows how far and fast the WWW has come ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/04/14/w3/ so i meant to post this after our class, but got distracted. I had mixed feelings about the video we watchthat students made. Part of my was like wow that was intense/impactful and part of my was like o so what thats their fault. I'm still torn. I thought overall ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/04/14/a-vision-of-students/ This reading is similar to that of McLuhan’s addictiveness to television, but right away Turkle makes the distinction that television is something you watch while video games are something you do. As everyone in the class seems to know I am an advocate for the outdoors. However, I do ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/04/07/games-of-the-video/ To me this story drew back the argument/discussion our class was having on the Illich article. For people to go to Kimon they must have extensive tests done and pass an IQ test. I found it interesting that there was a quote which said that the government obviously was interested ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/31/kimon-where/ Elizabeth and I have decided to switch the focus of our final project. We started out with the Facebook idea and creating an application for women’s DIII lacrosse. Creating an application is apparently a lot harder than we thought. With some guidance from Dr. C, we decided to create a ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/27/new-projecttttt-proposalidea/ Since becoming an educator is one possibility for me next year this article was particularly interesting to me. Seeing how one person’s view of education and how it is incapable of functioning as its purpose makes me think deeply about the role of education and society in general.  “The pupil ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/24/so-being-a-teacher-is-harder-than-it-seems/ When I first read this part of Viola’s article I was sure exactly what this story had to do with technology and condominiums. Like someone said in class today Viola’s article was confusing the fact that he had tendencies like McLuhan of jumping around with his ideas. I was going ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/20/porcupine-and-carnot-really-sure/ So does the real world exist anymore? This is one reason why I don’t like video games. It is as if interactions between people are slowly decreasing. Some video game addicts never leave their couch because they have all the human interaction they need through video games. Yes, I do ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/18/so-i-like-the-outdoors/ That was a statement one of my friends said to me and a group of friends when we were in high school thinking about school...Is higher education necessary? To me that question is just as loaded as what is the meaning of life..well maybe not that intense. So, Is higher education ... http://sfinn2id.umwblogs.org/2008/03/14/if-you-dont-go-to-collegeyou-cant-live/