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Ins and Out of Gadgetry
As we all may be very aware, technology can be a difficult thing for a lot of people. Sometimes we don’t know all the tricks to everything. In the article Ins and Out of Gadgetry, the author explains how all this technology does not come with a manual on how to do different types of tricks. Sometimes but us exploring our technological device we learn these tricks. But it will be much easier if you can just find everything in a manual for technology. He gives shortcuts for your most common devices such as Iphone, Blackberry, internet browsers, cameras, and the web. I actually learned a couple of tricks myself by reading this article.
If this book is ever invented, then it will give those who are technology challenge a chance to be up to date with society. Nowadays, usually the younger crowd know all these tricks to their devices, but the older generations should still have the chance to learn them as well. I saw this book in Barnes and Nobles the other day, where it was a dictionary for acronyms, such as LOL and G2G, and as i skimmed through it, i learned a lot of things that i usually don’t use in my everyday typing. In the long run, you can be learning information about devices that you don’t have, but you see all the cool stuff that you can do in it, and then you have to get it.
-Armenis Perez
Making Future Plans of a Social Network…
In the new york times article A social network for making future plans, it talks about a new website where you can make plans in the future. This is different because usually when you log in to Facebook or Twiter, you talk about your current plans, or plans that have been done in the past. With WhereBerry, you can share your future plans. Its actually pretty easy, you log in with your Facebook information and all of your friends that are using the website will come out in your feed and they can let you know what they are planning in the future.
This is an interesting website, because all of your ideas for planning for the future can be done and maybe you can find a buddy or two to do them with. It is also a good idea, because you can see what your friends are doing, and get ideas of what you can also do with another set of friends as well. Maybe you didn’t know that the backstreet boys were going to be in town in October, but you just found out that your friend Jane bought tickets for their concert already, and now you must have a pair. This can also work with restaurants that you want to visit. When you like celebrity pages, they can let you know what they are doing in the future and maybe you can go ahead and meet them at a certain place.
Twitter makes you Stupid… Huh?
I came across the article The Twitter Trap, and I though it was really interesting. The author starts talking about how he let his 13 yr old daughter get a Facebook, (I don’t have the slightest idea why he would let his 13 yr old get a facebook) and how she had 171 friends within a few hrs. He talks about inventions such as the calculator diminishing our math skills, “GPS has undermined our mastery of city streets,” and how typing has “killed penmanship.”
So what has Twitter done to us!? Not only can our tweets be 140 characters long, (if you don’t use one of those special websites) you have to figure out how to say what you want to say in 140 characters. This causes us to make up abbreviations, misspell words, and not use correct grammar. Its fine for twitter, i’m pretty sure 90% of the people who follow you will understand, but more than often you will find yourselves writing a paper for class and using the same characteristics. Instead of writing “you”, you write “u.” It takes you more time to write a paper because you have to be going back and correcting what you are misspelling. This is just one of the few ways that twitter makes you stupid. I am guilty of all of this, because as I sit here writing this post, I have to go back and fix my misspelling of u and r.
-Armenis Perez
In the world of Apps
Applications on your electronic devices can make your life very easy. In the article, Navigating the World with Social Media, we learn from a couple of people that apps can save your day. If you need a taxi and you couldn’t find one, then there is an app for a taxi services around your neighborhood. If you need to find a restaurant at an airport terminal then there is an app for that as well. A lot of hotels, airlines, restaurants and more have their own app for you to make reservations without having to pick up the phone. This makes everything convenient for us.
Since we are always in the run, and don’t have time to make a phone call while at an important meeting, we can always find the app on your electronic device, and just do what you have to do. Nice, simple and straight to the point. With all of these new apps for pretty much everything, it makes me wonder what would the app world look like in a few years from now. You can pretty much do everything through an application, but what is going to happen to the human interaction? You can call a customer service representative to plan a trip or book a flight, but isn’t much easier to just use the app? Are we really the ones who are causing unemployment in our own country, because we want everything to be done much easier? Just some things to think about…
-Armenis Perez
Twitter in the Classroom
This article in the New York Times called Students Speak Up In Class, Silently, Using Social Media, talks about using a sort of like a twitter in the classroom. It is a backchannel system where students could ask questions and participate in lectures without having to raise their hands. This is great when it comes to those students who are shy and do not like to speak up in class. I hate speaking up in class, it gives me anxiety, and i get nervous. This is how a lot of the students who are shy in class feel, and this new program helps them get through their fear and earn some participation points in class. Its much easier to type in a comment or an answer to a question where no one has their eyes on you and are judging you.
This has become a little controversial. Some say that schools worked so hard to keep text messaging and social networks away from schools and this type of program brings it back. Some say its a great idea to create participation within the whole class, and let those people who do not participate in person, do so by the computer. It encourages dialogue within the students, and a classroom experience that almost no-one has yet to experience.
This blog for example is a great way to communicate and give your opinions about the different articles that we each post. It creates communication within the students and the professor even for those who are shy to say anything in class.
-Armenis Perez
