CIS 3810 Term Research Project overview.

Second Life, Webkinz, and the Future of Virtual Worlds in Higher Education.

World Wide Web, or so called Internet, as a technology of information transmitting and a new media, has become the focus being paid much attention by the whole world in the twenty first century. In our time the information technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society. It has been changing the way in a striking speed that people work, study, think, communicate, and even the style of living. I have heard a lot about Second life and Webkinz and its applications in higher education. I became curious about this, so, I decided to make a research.

http://secondlife.com/

http://www.webkinz.com/us_en/

List of sources:

Second life in education http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses

How and Why to use Second Life for Education? http://scienceroll.com/2007/09/19/how-and-why-to-use-second-life-for-education/

101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf

Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment http://dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html

Webkinz http://milife.typepad.com/michigan_leadership_impro/2007/10/webkinz.html

Webkinz Is Great Education For Kids http://webkinz-secret-code.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D110EE9A3565B462!119.entry

The Best Educational Games for Kids on Webkinz http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1032110/the_best_educational_games_for_kids.html?cat=4

New Technology.

Here you can find many interesting information about our new technology:
http://technology.newscientist.com/home.ns

What's new in Microsoft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKQNwqNLLk&feature=related

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

The future of apple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f9RF57RlNA&feature=related

Nokia 888 New Technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2P6rXcd6F0&feature=related

Amazing Technology from Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ptixSbHzJ4&feature=related

How far will technology advance in 20, 30, even 50 years from now? How will it affect our lives? Here are some scenarios and technologies predicted by science fiction writers, futurists, and technology experts.http://www.futureforall.org/

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New Media

New Media is a combination of technology, communication and design to develop ways in which we can get our message across. In a nut shell - New Media is anything that is "cutting edge". This can include everything that deals with technology from phones to computer games.

"In the short space of a current college student’s lifetime, the internet has gone from a specialized, futuristic system to the network that most significantly structures how we engage daily with the world at large. It is now obvious to anyone who uses a computer that intellectual exercises as basic as reading the newspaper or doing research have become fundamentally different activities largely because of the internet. So too have our views of communication in general; the very notion of globalization, so consuming in today’s world, is predicated on the possibilities engendered by a technology barely twenty years old. Such is the nature of “new media.” Computers, and the digital systems and products for which they are currently a shorthand, are what most of us think of when we hear the words new media. And why not? The world of computer hardware, software, email, and ebusiness is for most of us the latest communication and information frontier. Part of our experience of digital media is the experience of their novelty." (Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman).

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