M.I.T Digital Drawing Board
October 13, 2007
This is very cool. Interactive white board in which this MIT professor of Physics draws a slope mountain and a cart on top of the slope. He then informs the computer behind the whiteboard that gravity is acting on it by indicating using gravity sign.
Check out what happens when he presses run. The next generation of interactive teaching in college classrooms.
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China bans Computers for Freshmen College Students
October 11, 2007
Chinese Universities Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and Shanghai Jiaotong University have initiated university wide rules stating that College Freshmen are not allowed to buy or bring in their computers until the end of their Freshmen year, an effective 1 year ban for freshmen students.
According to china.org, research indicates that the most who surf the internet or play games in the university computer labs and indulge in online gaming or PC gaming are freshmen.
According to college representatives, this rule banning computers for freshmen college students is to help them from becoming internet and gaming addicts. The Chinese authorities believed that Freshmen have weak self control and this constraint would distance them from the Internet and computer gaming.
What do you guys think about this rule and its effectiveness??
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September 26, 2007
There are few opportunities in life to fully explore your inner tool but University is one of them. So let us show you how to alienate people, cause offense and make everybody else’s life miserable!
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September 19, 2007
University of Florida student Andrew Meyer is Tasered and arrested after causing a disturbance at a town hall forum, which featured Senator John Kerry, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007.
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September 17, 2007
The impact of social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook and YouTube on the present generation’s lives needs no explaining. They have profoundly defined the way we choose to communicate and whom we share our lives with. So it is not surprising to see that YouTube is making its entry as a college course in the Fall 2007 semester.
The College course on YouTube is being called “Learning From YouTube” and is being taught at Pitzer College at Claremont, California. The instructor is Ms.Alexandra Juhasz, a professor of media studies. If you think that this course would be an easy A with cool college credits, think again. Ms. Juhasz says that the course will involve more than students just gawking at viral videos. The course will probe some significant issues such as the implications of “corporate sponsored democratic media expression”.
The 35 something Pitzer College students will be meeting in class but mostly online where they will be studying the impact of the corporate videos.
One of the students, Darren Grose, says YouTube is “a phenomenon that should be studied…You can learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general.”
They will also be viewing other viral content on YouTube and posting their comments. Class lessons will also be posted online similar to something like the video below, where people from all over the world are encouraged to post their comments.
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September 16, 2007
SalsaCrazy’s Salsa Dance BootCamp is a dance instructional website, completely online. Members receive access to thousands on line salsa dance videos, and DVDs in the mail. It’s a great, fun, unique service.
SalsaCrazy is groundbreaking as the online video dance school on the web. No other service provides such step by step instruction for those wishing to Learn to Dance Online. From beginners to advanced, to those whom have never danced a step, this is the place to get started.
SalsaBootCamp gives you detailed, step by step, dance instruction for absolute beginners, all the way through to advanced levels of social dancing. It’s always fresh, always constant, and always being added to, with content directly from our classes, parties, workshop, and a dazzling array of the finest dance instructors.
Salsa BootCamp, will be an all encompassing solution for those looking for Latin dance instruction on the web. Beginning with Salsa Dance, at all levels, and every style, the site also has complete instruction in all the other social club style latin dances, such as cha-cha, bachata, and merengue (and even Tango).
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September 6, 2007
I used to remember the days when Facebook was open strictly to college students and the only way you can sign up with Facebook was if you had a .edu email address.
This then expanded to include high school students, then students and then opened up to everyone. When one looks at it from the perspective of Facebook, it all makes sense. Facebook has quickly grown to become the darling of social networking sites and has become hugely popular, more than MySpace which has become a social junkie place now. Another reason why Facebook is better than MySpace any day are the number of privacy options you have in Facebook unlike MySpace or Orkut where anyone can browse through your profile, see what your friends have to say about you, view your friends list and also view their detailed profiles.
Now, in an announcement that will likely anger the privacy advocates and most of the Facebook community, Facebook has announced that it will allow users of search engines such as Google to search for Facebook members. A month from now, when anyone searches for you on Google or any other search engines, they can see a search result from Facebook with a thumbnail picture of you from your profile page. Besides this, the search result will also contain links showing you options on how you can interact with the Facebook member you just searched for. This will most likely include a link asking you to sign up at Facebook and give you an option to add that Facebook member as your friend.
Facebook engineer Phil Fung, writing in a company blog, said:
“We’re expanding search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we’re not exposing any new information, and you have complete control over your public search listing.”
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