treating them purely as a promotional tool. Yes, in most cases they are used for promoting your services. Hosts start to thin... ... middle of paper ... ...Yes, the audience of webinar won’t see you anxiously twitching the pen. The barriers of web space, however, won’t save you from some pitfalls. You still can have boring slides, squeaky voice and poor narration. Thus, practice, my dear, practice. • Test. Before going live, try out your webinar with a limited audience that can provide feedback
With help of WebEx WebOffice, we can be able to work more easily with co-workers, clients and vendors. Not only these, we will be able to share documents, hold web meetings, manage tasks, build web databases, follow discussions, make announcements and run our business in the web. We can control access to our private files, while also allowing our guests to view public files and allowing them to take part in online polls thus increasing our customer’s active involvement
employees profile on the page. With affordance concept, the organization and researchers can ask “what does the ‘technology’ attribute can afford peoples opportunities to do? In that case the organization could investigate the attributes of other Web 2.0 tools in order to discover whether these technologies have attributes that are distinct from others. 2. Visibilit... ... middle of paper ... ...68 microblogging users (Yammer), interviews, data usage analysis, and content analysis of post. [15]
community. Author of Virtually in the Middle defines the virtual community as a “Web-based communication forum. It is an interactive electronic space on the Internet in which diverse individuals can raise questions, share ideas, plan activities, congregate, and learn. This kind of dialogue and communication that would occur in this kind of virtual community is referred to as “asynchronous” or “delayed” conferencing, which is a time-free discussion of topic strands. ”(Beghettio, 2001, p.22).
Before working: While I’m completely in favor of using social media as a way to communicate information between home and school, I am somewhat skeptical of utilizing it in the classroom as a means of actually teaching. I believe other uses of social media in the classroom can prove to be too much of a distraction. It would be virtually impossible to monitor the student’s use during class time and ensure that they stay completely on task. Also, the devices that students use to access social media
such as web-based conferencing (ibid.). One of the greatest myths surrounding learning technologies is related to what they are. Because of the term technology, it is frequently believed that learning technologies are instructional devices that make use of computers, the Internet, or some other type of electronic technology such as video and television. Newer learning technologies are changing the shape of the landscape in adult education, however. Distance education is burgeoning and web-based
Web-Based Instruction The use of computers and communication technologies in learning has a history going back more than 30 years. Along the way, it has been called by many names, such as computer-mediated communication (CMC), computer conferencing, on-line learning, Internet-based learning, and telematics. The advent of the Web provides a new and interesting environment for CMC that offers a host of new possibilities together with the advantages of previous incarnations. (McCormack & Jones
and maintain an online trading company. Hardware is the first element addressed; servers, system memory, and hosting decisions will be reviewed. The second portion is software and includes items such as design, security and data storage. To make the web site available to customers, connectivity issues and options will be examined. A comparison to sites such as Ameritrade, Charles Schwab and E-Trade is also included. A lot of customer expectations will have been established by those websites and Primus
manual that may be accompanied by videotapes, audiotapes, audio CDs, computer diskettes, CD-ROMs, etc., depending on the nature of the course. As well, many courses incorporate computer conferencing, e-mail, listservs, computer-based quizzes, and the Internet. Some courses are entirely on-line, using the World Wide Web as an innovative learning environment. Distance education provides a contemporary means through which the University may expand in aiding others in furthering their education. The Open
organize vast amounts of essential data. Electronics are improving at a blindingly fast rate. The newest technology from five years ago is literally obsolete today. Electronics are also being used for new purposes continuously. The Internet, or World Wide Web, is a relatively new concept of being “on-line”. This new project has opened a limitless number of doors for our society. Now anyone can use the Internet to communicate with anybody else in the world a lot faster and cheaper. Cellular phones have also
What is the Internet? The Internet is the mechanism or matrix that connects networks around the world to each other and is generally referred to as the World Wide Web. Since the conception of the Internet, those who are not afraid to learn or try something new have benefited greatly in many ways. Businesses as well as individuals reap the benefits from using the Internet on a daily basis. Since the invention of IP, or in other words, Internet Protocol (Microsoft), it has become just as easy as
it” (Anderson, 12). It’s amazing how one simple screen can provide everlasting opportunity for learning. One of the most widely used technologies is the Internet, or also known as the World Wide Web. “In August 1981 about 200 computers hosted Web servers. By July 1998 there were over 36 million Web servers, that are hosts to approximately 150 million people” (Strauss). The Internet proves to be very beneficial to education, since students have unlimited access to millions of websites with tons
The first plan has the potential to assist consumers with access to basic services like electronic mails, web browsing, basic video conferencing and gaming. The second plan has added advantages which allows the broadband customers to stream movies or live games online, HD online gaming and HD video conferencing. The disadvantage with the lower data rate plan is that it will be very difficult to connect a high number of internet enabled devices in addition
Socio-cultural Issues Perhaps the most enriching and obvious societal change influenced by the web is education. The Internet is a library of infinite knowledge, and like all knowledge, some can help us and some can hurt us. Although there are numerous beneficial effects that the web has on education, I will address three: research, interactivity, and advancement. Research Having a virtual library with the ease and convenience of the Internet, students can be more efficient, resourceful, and
availability would skyrocket. In addition, voting would perhaps seem like less of a chore. Could voting be fun and rewarding? Internet graphics, pictures, and sounds could attract young voters in America. Advertising campaign and candidate information web sites could increase issue awareness. Let us get young people excited about voting! Generally, the only government exposure for young men and women is a textbook high school course. Although education about our democracy is crucial, hand-on experience
with, which is spreading with little regulatory oversight and no effective screens against participation by the young and the vulnerable. Internet gambling represents one of the fastest growing segments of online activity with more than seven hundred web sites now providing users the opportunity to wager everything from casino games to sporting events. According to internet research firms, the industry will pull in $1.5 billion in world-wide revenues this year. That figure is expected to hit at least
and talk on cell phones. Should you ever find yourself in a similar, unfortunate situation, know that the Internet contains web sites that can he... ... middle of paper ... ...en made, my case is still pending. With the help of the Internet, I am an informed victim who was able to more than fully cooperate in the criminal investigation into the crime committed against me. Web sites don't have to be directly related to identity theft for them to be helpful. Each of the sites I visited during the
and hunt for journals, articles and other information on a boundless range of topics. Of course, with such power comes responsibility, for students can also visit the seedier and less, shall we say, academic nooks of the World Wide Web. In light of this, UMD began cracking down on Internet access and Networking capabilities on campus last year. First, the students' file-sharing capabilities were restricted. Many students grumbled, but the administration remained firm.
technologies, notably among which are the information and communication technologies (ICT’s). Today in Bangkok one could hardly fail to be giant billboards exhorting commuters to log on the Internet and visit one web site or another. Name cards increasingly carry email addresses as well as personal web sites. In Thailand, new Internet cafés spring up everyday like mushrooms in rainy season. Nowadays it is estimated that there are around four million people on the Internet in the country, up from just one
Abstract: Recently, there has been a rush to create web-based instructional courses. The approach that is being taken to create web-based courses is to create websites that will function as the central distributors of information and materials. Based on the format and content of the course, the student is to go through lesson by lesson to complete courses. In this paper, I address some of the problems inherent in this approach, especially with respect to 18-22 year-old undergraduate education