Multimedia Project

For my multimedia project, I am doing a longer video on the history of my fraternity, and what it has to offer. Some people in our class may think I have an obsession with my fraternity, but I assure you that I do not. It is just that we are looking for ways to branch out our recruitment strategies, and I see this class as killing two birds with one stone.

So what is it that my video is going to offer? Well like all my work, it will be fantastic. The filming is going to take you around the different parts of the Agricultural Campus across the river, and then it will take you to our current house, the one we have had for many years. It is going to feature our housemother, our advisors, and different active members of the fraternity. This multimedia project will be marketed more towards the parents of potential members so that any stigma of fraternities may be laid to rest. I hope that it goes the way I need it to.

Podcasting...whoa!

First off....my blog is finally posted. After another week of battle with blogger, my blog is now up and available for people to read. So lets talk about podcasting.

Podcasting is a very cool new offering to the digital world on another way not to have to go to class and still survive. How cool would it be to download your classes on to your computer and learn that way instead of actually going to class. Think about it, the classroom was created to offer a center for learning, and in the beginning it was easiest for all the students to come to one room. Now we have the capabilities to not have everyone come to the classroom, because this is the first step in a virtual classroom. With podcasting, and other digital components, we are on verge of finding a new classroom. This is just the beginning of another phase in the evolution of the classroom. And to think, it all started out in a one room schoolhouse.

That is what is being offered, but is it all good? I think Vygotsky would be disappointed if we abandoned the social aspect of education. I too also think that removing students from will cause a downward spiral of education because education thrives when the sense of community is high.

The great digital divide

The digital divide is a concept that keeps evolving with time. In the beginning the digital divide was a concept that was about the distribution of the material possession of computers. In the early days of computerdom there were realatively few computers distributed across the population. This left a divide among the population because there were those taking advantage of computers and those who did not have the opportunity, thus creating a divide. Now with time and evolution of computers, computers are really cheap and they are virtually everywhere, and the gap of "material possession" has evolved as well into an intelligence gap.

This is a really big problem, I don't think people realize it though. In our competitive world everyone has to have some mandatory skills to be efficient. But when we have this divide, what is it doing for education? I think it is throwing a wrench in and confounding the whole system. But how? Our society throws our education system so many wrong signal. They want this or that, but don't give us the time and ability to implicate processes to reach those goal, so the bigger goal now is how to work together and reach our education goals as well as filling in the hole that makes a great divide.