Week4: Educational Blogging

Blog is personal publishing.This tool is introduce successfully in the educational environment.I see blog as tool that allows communication, generate discussions, motivate groups, create a virtual community.I do not believe that all this applications define a different way to learn. I think the approach is different to formal expository class environment. Blog brings positive, dynamic and rich landscape to school.

Week3: 21 st Century Education

All the efforts and work in the teaching and learning environment are planning to improve the education for the 21st century. The No Child Left Behind project wants to target specific areas of the studies to prepare not only students ICT literate but also students with global awareness, civic literacy and learning skills that will lead communication, thinking and problem-solving,and interpersonal skills. The Information and Communication Technologies has an big role as a learning environment. Technology tools provided by emerging technologies create an remarkable impact and generate opportunities to anybody to be a producer, journalist , and publisher.These opportunities apparently are not available to every students. The article shows measure used in different states may vary. Emerging technologies like Web 2.0 should provide access to students to equitable 21st education.
I added this video I made for a flash class about art history. I want to illustrate how students can use accesible new media to develop multimedia forms of communication.

Week2: WEB 2.0 v/s Interface Design

It seems that the new concept of globalization is not only have access to information but also have an active participation of this global communication. WEB 2.0 is simple. I just need a computer and No software is required to deliver the content I want. No programming background is require. WEB 2.0 is the virtual dynamic personal agenda/newspaper/everything at once and anywhere thing. No time to wait.
RSS, web feed, agregator amongs others concepts are introduced as a common language of a web culture.
Now everybody is a web designer. Is it that true?. Do we need to know user-centered concepts when facing a challenging design project?. Is the template the solution to the new contemporary communication needs?. One of my mayor focus in this program is Interface Design. I always recall a great design for the educational department used for the SFMOMA.



Could we deliver this same content using a generic template?.

How WEB 2.0 can fulfill my designer interest?. This new technology is great to create communities and connect limitless people, deliver rich multimedia content without having the tech support. Where is the balance between these applications and Design? I have the entire semester to elucidate this.