Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
The Web has been a work in progress far for more than the 25 years it has actually been in existence. In an effort to put together a coherent timeline of the Web, I’ve added three pieces of information to our class timeline. My first is about the issues that arose as we approached the … Continue reading Timeline Blog Post
For the second nugget assignment, a piece that stuck out to me was this section from “25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday“: “Berners-Lee’s original desire was for a web that would enable people not only to publish, but also to modify, web pages, but in the end practical […]
At the beginning of this week, Dr. Pelzel introduced to us a website called Timeline JS . This is a “tool” where you can create an easy-to-make and beautiful timeline by just adding details into a Google spreadsheet. Well, if you have a Google account you are ready to make one! (or not, you can sign…
“12 The web has unleashed a wave of human creativity Before the web, “ordinary” people could publish their ideas and creations only if they could persuade media gatekeepers (editors, publishers, broadcasters) to give them prominence. But the web has given people a global publishing platform for their writing (Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, Tumblr), photographs (Flickr, Picasa, … Continue reading Second Nugget Assignment →
Hello! My three contributions on the class’s timeline are these: The creation of Mazewar, the first online game where players from different computers can interact with each other online. (1974) Queen Elizabeth send an email, making her the first global leader/international diplomat to do so. (1976) Google surpasses Microsoft as “the most valuable global brand,” […]
Yesterday we worked on a collaborative timeline of the history of the web, and this post is to talk about my contributions to that timeline. My contributions were the slides “Mosaic Comes to Life,” “A Dot-Com Bubble” and “The First YouTube Video.” For our assignment, we’re discussing the significance of one of these contributions, and I’ll be […]
In his article, “Iran’s BlogFather: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are Killing the Web” Hossein Derakhshan speaks about how the hyperlink is losing its value, and social media sites want to keep users within their realms, treating the hyperlink more like an accessory than a necessary thread. “Blogs were gold and bloggers were rock stars back … Continue reading But What is a Blog?: Nugget Assignment
I value traditions so new technologies always concern me as they are replacing all of the “old-fashioned” values. Kids no longer go out and play around with their peers as they have their own tablets, ipads… what-so-ever, you name it! Friends, sitting at the same table, do not talk to each other because they are busy with commenting and liking…
While reading the first assigned article “Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy“, I came across a nugget I couldn’t stop thinking about as I continued reading: “Learning by making is not a new idea. This concept is fundamental to the work of foundational thinkers such as Froebel, Dewey, and Papert (amongst many others). For example, […]
For this assignment, we were asked to find a passage in our required reading that really intrigued or spoke to us. I read this essay by Hossein Derakhshan about the presence of “the stream” and its implications on today’s open web. In the article, Derakhshan writes that “Popularity is not wrong in and of itself, but it […]
