Mash ups

http://mashable.com/2007/07/08/mashups

Mashups are one of the most convenient applications to produce with the knowledge and guidance of producing a mashup have you ever thought to yourself that “I wish there was something that can give me weather updates, hotel info, party info and parking info on my first ever college road game at UNC (or any other college team). Well that something is a mashup you as a individual can build exactly want you want and how you want it with the courtesy of other users who might be interested in using your app.

Before you need to be a programmer and go through the director of products to get an API when applications where made through windows. Now that there is Internet you can take different API’s from different website and create a mashup with UI.

For insists take an app for your weather and app for hotels within a 15-20miles radius of the arena, parties around your hotel/arena and parking info for both arena/party visa versa and you have officially build a mashup and call it whatever you want users will see that and will use it as well because its convenient for them.

This technology to me has opened a lot of ideas as far as building one in the near future. From watching and listening to speakers who talk about make me want to strive for it more. When I was introduced to RED KNIGHT I was floored by all the

possibilities that I can do at this school and one day so one comes up to me and I says “Jermaine I just bought your game off my iphone,” or “I found your app for finding whether updates, hotel info, party info and parking info on my first ever college road game.” It would feel fulfilling know that I put my mind to it and I accomplished what I intended.

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MY PLE

My personal learning experience (PLE) was a big wake up call. Coming into class on the first day I was skeptical about what I was going to learn at first. In this industry its no lie “you must be dedicated” or “you got to have love for it,” because if not your just going to struggle. That’s what I endured; from stress keeping up with the work, to gaining the acquired knowledge to move me forward for the next advance class, to the outcome experience in being in IMD fundamentals class in general.

            With the amount of stress that I put on myself in the class was one of my personal learning experience. Having issues outside of school. Mentally I was always given the dissuion to choose between work and school. Work always won; when I did have time to do somewhat of homework I would always fritter it away on misolaneous things that hurt me in the long run. Inadvertently, that’s just how I am sometimes, a procrastinator. Oblivious to the circumstances of my grade I had to shape up and gain the knowledge for the class that I was being subsidized.

            The weekly lessons being taught were inane to me. With my grade on the line I train myself to juxtapose all my outside issues and do the work, which some of the topics like; Communities of Practice, Twitter and Cloud Computing was very ambiguous to me. Taking the time to dig deeper into the topics everything that was unclear became clear, and how it is used in everyday life to either make money or just for the love of it. Blogging about what I learned each week was very enjoyable when I had the time. Which also taught me to manage my time more if I really want to learn and enjoy the new things that swiping the virtual world.

             With the knowledge gained from this eleven week course the outcome was most rewarding from listen to a instructor who has experience in the my major and teaching us what it takes to be the best, and how to approach things was quiet fulfilling. From having group discussions, sharing with each other collective intelligence on prior weeks and upcoming topics. Some of those in class didn’t seem to find it useful and each week there were attritions of classmates. Which only left like 4 people in class at the end of the course.

            In retrospect the personal learning experience to me was if you’re a student and you think you know everything there is to know about your major and you just want a degree, and coming off with this infallible attitude or inquisitive to weather or not your should be in the class your wrong take what you can get by making the best out of it. The lesson is instructors or anyone that you see to be an asset to your future as far as learning will not come as easily as it does for others. They are here to introduce the rudimentary of the topic and it’s your passion and drive that will learn more about the topic to one day share your collective intelligence outside of class.   

web standards

web standards can be discribed as the best way to learn the basic’s of building a professional website… some web developers argue that its is too difficult.. when in actuality it save money if knowing how to use it right….while also providing a better expirence for the user….

reasons why webstandards can be a good thing

Simpler development and maintenance: Using more semantic and structured HTML makes it much easier and quicker to understand code created by somebody else. You will also thank yourself when you need to change something in your own code months or years after you first wrote it.

• Compatibility with future web browsers: When you use defined standards and valid code you future-proof your documents by reducing the risk of future web browsers not being able to understand the code you have used.
• Faster download and rendering of web pages: Using CSS for presentation tends to make HTML documents leaner, which means quicker downloads for your visitors.
• Better accessibility: Semantic HTML, where structure is separated from presentation, makes it easier for screen readers and alternative browsing devices to correctly interpret the content.
• Better search engine rankings: The separation of content and presentation makes the content represent a larger part of the total file size. Combined with semantic markup this generally improves search engine rankings.
• Simpler adaptation: A semantically marked up document can be easily adapted to print and alternative browsing devices, like handheld computers and cellular phones, just by linking to a different CSS file. You can also make site-wide changes to presentation by editing a single file.  resource: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/full/

Cloud CompUSERting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid192_gci1287881,00.html

cloud computing is going to be one of the best things to happen to virtual entertainment since the internet..  from what is being told to me, cloud computing is a service that anyone with a netbook(computer) and internet access….can use any software they like at anytime of the day without worrying themselves about memory for their computer or their computer crashing because so many apps. is runing at once…. that all that worring will come to an end because the ”cloud” will have everything you need just on a server that you can access which is on a PAY AS YOU GO basis.. thats just crazy……but its true

weather it be shopping for that special someone on amazon, ebay etc… you would be considered  as a public cloud…doing what millions of other people around the world are doing…. shopping!!

for the people who need to listen to some music to get work done for school or their job and needs to use an application…. no problem its provided to you, you can also you big name advertisers like google, yahoo ect… to type up a paper do some excel make a power point presentation so on and so forth, by having basically microsoft office on a server with only jus paying  for what you really want to use it for thats jus brilliant. now some applications are free and will remain that way form waht i read which makes things a lot easier.. you would be a private cloud i guess because your using an application in a private way i guess…..it makes sense in my head i jus cant type it right now

but anywhooo…as far as cloud computing goes its a great idea what it provides for the everyday user and how it can help the economy but us cutting back on buying unnecessary software like cs3 and then buying cs4 the months later it doesnt make sense….but cloud computing is changing that…as a matter of fact… “WE”…the users are changing that its all about us now a days making it easier for us, and how we comuicate and do work… we’ve been doing it all this time its just life is passing you so fast that you dont even realize it…..but think about this…..if you have a email account are you paying for it???

HAs TwitTer BEen RePlaCing YoUr TExt MEssaGE???

Well thats what it seems like. Day in and day out more and more people are connecting to twitter to once again stay socially connected in a more advertising, stalking, educational way.

From the HOTTEST! celebrities promoting the hottest way to stay connected with them and their everyday lives or for people who want to stay connect with the people they think is important to them. it has been the one of the greatest thing since texting. since everybody is using the technology they are keeping people informed on what and how there doing. which brings everyone close together in a way it keeps them feeling like they are there with the other individual with the use of  a little imagination every know and then for those who live a great distance from someone.

“Follow me” has been the slogan for some who really put where they actually can turn in too a problem that you didn’t want to happen. for celebrities, fans may take the follow me button to heart and with the dumb celebrities out there not thinking about the consequences in telling your fans where you are 24 flippin’ 7  may cause your career and life  into a stressful or disasterests upset depend on how far they go. i would be suprise if twitter bcame the cause of a celebrity breakdown when they cry to the cameras and say that “they dont wanna be a celebrity, its to stressfull so many people they never get their privacy”  blah blah blah save the drama for someone who cares. i think i have a cures to lessening your chances of that happening to you dont always tell what the hell your doing… for those who dont mind it and can deal with all the fame and what it comes with more power to you.  that means you was really built for it then.

education can be sent thru twitter as a resource in a way i was jus thinkin that if someone hasnt already doe it but if you think about it twiiter can open doors to alot of this with people jus interacting you can have blog on various topics in a plethora of  catigories with people sharing the collective intelligence share information with a 140 characters or less to give  anxious devoters to the site/application some useful to know each every time the turn their phone or computer off 

 

CoP AKA Communities of practice

   after reading  and doing reseach on CoP it has come to me that since one can not accumulate all the information in the world on a broad subject of ones choice. you find the true individuals who are willing to seek and find solutions, answers, and even ask questions to a subject that someone craves for, or that they cant live without knowing the answer to. 

  when an individual comes up with an idea or tries to find a way to succeed in their job field, there are thousdand if not millions of other people out there thinking the same…. so you being the individual thinks hmm lets see what the internet has to say, you find your medeocor answer. with finding that your jus not satisfied….but you stubble across a shared domain with people from all around the world engaging and sharing their intellengence with to make you a better person of that degree with the honest that you will do yuor part and reflect something back with the community. when you do share your expierence or your thought and get fee back your feel important and happy about what your doing…jus at that second you made an identity for yourself which will try to be up held by hard work and dedication in helpin the community,  becaue trust the community will help you back.

in closing words i feel this is more than anyone can imagine by far,  you have people who become successful in their careers jus because a person in the community suggested a approach on a certain slogan.. whatever the case may be. the people that are egaging with each other should really be called family because they are all helping each other out the best way the can by listening to what they have to say and giving their opionion/fact. thats one way of  what family is…..the fun thing is that most people dont even meet the ones who helped them the most its jus in black and white… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.ewenger.com/theory/

1. The domain:
2. The community:
3. The practice

1. A community of practice is not merely a club of friends or a network of connections between people. It has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people. (You could belong to the same network as someone and never know it.) The domain is not necessarily something recognized as “expertise” outside the community. A youth gang may have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with their domain: surviving on the street and maintaining some kind of identity they can live with. They value their collective competence and learn from each other, even though few people outside the group may value or even recognize their expertise.

2. In pursuing their interest in their domain, members engage in joint activities and discussions, help each other, and share information. They build relationships that enable them to learn from each other. A website in itself is not a community of practice. Having the same job or the same title does not make for a community of practice unless members interact and learn together. The claims processors in a large insurance company or students in American high schools may have much in common, yet unless they interact and learn together, they do not form a community of practice. But members of a community of practice do not necessarily work together on a daily basis. The Impressionists, for instance, used to meet in cafes and studios to discuss the style of painting they were inventing together. These interactions were essential to making them a community of practice even though they often painted alone.

3. A community of practice is not merely a community of interest–people who like certain kinds of movies, for instance. Members of a community of practice are practitioners. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems�in short a shared practice. This takes time and sustained interaction. A good conversation with a stranger on an airplane may give you all sorts of interesting insights, but it does not in itself make for a community of practice. The development of a shared practice may be more or less self-conscious. The “windshield wipers” engineers at an auto manufacturer make a concerted effort to collect and document the tricks and lessons they have learned into a knowledge base. By contrast, nurses who meet regularly for lunch in a hospital cafeteria may not realize that their lunch discussions are one of their main sources of knowledge about how to care for patients. Still, in the course of all these conversations, they have developed a set of stories and cases that have become a shared repertoire for their practice.

Professional bloggers

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/06/27/a-z-of-professional-blogging/

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-requisites-for-professional-bloggers/

http://www.problogger.net/

when talking about professional bloggers and how they keep their readers active and intuned to what they have to say about topic, i found a good source that can help anyone who wants to pursue that career. the source is http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-requisites-for-professional-bloggers/. when doing something that intrest you its always about time staying connected with people always updating communicating with the people that comment on what you have to say and its a everyday cycle and if you wanna be the best at it you would have to be dedicated and devote all the time that you have to do what you want to make a career out of

talking about a topic is key and having general information on a topic would be step 2 by having updates on the topic and know the basic to the advance would help in your favor

step 3 is passion for the topic which means having a topic that you know inside and out spend the whole day or eevne more than that and jus blogging about it sharing your thoughts and writing it your point about it in so many ways that it repeats it self so that your audiance can understand you.

it takes good basic writing skills to become a professional blogger but as you write more and readmore your thinking and writing prosess will expaned giving you more and more to write about

5. Technical Knowledge: like it or not blogs are based on content management software, which in turn is backed by databases, located on web servers and so on. Hosted blogging solutions (i.e. Blogger or WordPress.com) probably eliminate the need for such technical knowledge, but those platforms do not offer advanced features and they are not completely customizable. If you are planning to create a professional blog you will want to have your own domain name and run it on some paid hosting service, meaning that you will need a basic knowledge of PHP, DNS servers, MySQL (mainly for backup and server transfer issues), scripts, plugins and so on. http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-requisites-for-professional-bloggers/………………..

this is one of the best job in the world if you like expressing yourself but the chances of you getting paid for it is slim to none because everyday its more and more people trying to be heard for what they have to say and its a very competative industry

Collective Intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence

http://www.socialtext.net/mit-cci-hci/index.cgi?what_is_collective_intelligence

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public/CI%25206-pole1,%2520small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public/2004/10/what_is_my_collective_iq_boost.html&usg=__LxbWscRxHjcWPrkoIPedsp3Or2M=&h=485&w=647&sz=302&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=KRhbIOAfYzTwEM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcollective%2Bintelligence%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

collective intelligence is a very broad subject but from my prior knowledge and what i researched it seems to be groups of individuals  not matter field get together to brainstorm about coming up with solutions wheather good or bad or finding out the answer to/about something or someone. from making money to shooting the game winning shot in a basketball game those gropus of individuals came as one to find a solution and put it to the test and succeeded.

What is Web 2.0????

       what is web 2.0 seems to be the topic of discussion in most classes. I personally didnt know what it was until i researched it and found out that i do it everyday from going on youtube, to checking to see who was thinking about me on myspace and facebook….  web 2.0 has change the way people think from pull the couch potatoes away from the tv to getting into the world of the internet.

      wheather its from talking to your buddies online…. or talking about the subject of your choice with people around the world to gain more knowledge thats what web 2.0 is making connections with people around the world and communicating. some call it the second generation because more and more people with no computer knowledge are adapting to understand how to upload pics vids posting comments and even making their own websites. it has generated millions if not billions of people to use the internet for social interaction day in and day out and from the way its looking its only going to get stronger

what i also learned was the difference between web1.0 and web 2.0. web1.0 was more of an information platform for people to read information at that time it was less people with about 250,000 websites and not that much collective intelligence because there was know one on the other side interacting with another and sharing there thoughts. thats where web 2.0 came into place and change the way people  think and interact it has helped alot of people, made people alot of money and help users share there ideas and thought on just about anything.

 

http://www.oreilly.de/artikel/web20.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5

http://www.oreilly.de/artikel/web20.html

What does a Personal Learning Environment mean to people?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Personal_learning_environment

http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/personal-learning-environments-46423

Personal Learning Environment has an impact on everyday people, from finding the answer of a topic you are interested in or getting insite on a subject you didnt know about. It opens doors to alot of opportunities, to engage with people who you jus wanna say hi to, or talking to people who can further your career in life and open your mind to different elements and subjects. Sharing your ideas and thoughts with people has turned to be an everyday thing. by getting out there and being socially active and networking to the best of your ability can help further your learning .