Redbridge Games Network Five Possibilities for the Future of Facebook - PCWorld Now that Facebook has hit the 300 million members mark and shown that its free service can rope in dough, we have to wonder what will happen to the social networking giant ten years down the road. Here are five possibilities for the future of Facebook. Evolved Gaming Interactivity Facebook has already embraced the allure of interactive gaming -- almost to the point of obnoxious saturation. (Honestly, do you really want to see one more Mob Wars update?) More Aggressive Advertising Facebook reached "cash flow positive" status through its advertising. A Pointless Offshoot Imagine a Facebook phone, a Facebook OS, or a Facebook retail store. A Busy Catch-All Facebook does a great job streaming friend status and posted items such as videos and hilarious news articles (a recent item a friend posted about girls using Facebook instead of an emergency phone number struck me as culturally telling). A Brick Wall Social networking will eventually plateau, skid, and fall off a cliff.
for Education 2.1 Customize your site layout There are several ways to simply change your site layout, page order, navigation, fonts, etc. Whether you use Sites as a one-stop location for class schedules or links to valuable content, you’ll have plenty of ways to customize. 2.1 Video: 2.2 Add gadgets Several applications or gadgets can be added to your site. 2.2 Video: 2.3 Embed YouTube videos, calendars and forms for very cool instruction In addition to adding gadgets, there are basic needs such as inserting calendars. Here are three examples, starting with inserted videos and calendars, as well as developing interactive instructional videos.
Game-Based Learning and a Whole Child Approach Game-based learning (GBL) is a current trend in education reform and, as it becomes more widely implemented, we must make sure we do not simply focus on the tools. Using games for learning is a great tool, but only if the use is intentional and aligned to best practices for student learning. GBL can, in fact, be aligned to the Whole Child Tenets—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—further leveraging it as a legitimate instructional model to reach all students. Healthy Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle. Many games for learning promote health and well-being. Safe Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults. One of the essential design principles of GBL (and games in general) is the safety to fail. Engaged Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community. Supported Challenged Games are often quite challenging.
FT Magazine - Facebook’s grand plan for the future Mark Zuckerberg is pacing before a crowd in Facebook’s Palo Alto, California, cafeteria just before lunch on a Wednesday in November. Fit and jovial, with pale skin and curly brown hair, his boyish face gives away his 26 years. “Zuck”, as friends call him, is wearing what he always wears: a grey T-shirt with an embroidered Facebook logo, blue jeans and tennis shoes. With Deals, smartphone users who download Facebook’s application can “check in” to a physical location, such as their local coffee shop, and get a little reward. During his presentation, Zuckerberg uses words such as “revolution” and “disruption”. After the public presentation I join Zuckerberg and a couple of bloggers in a glass-walled conference room in the middle of Facebook’s offices. “If you look five years out, every industry is going to be rethought in a social way,” he says. “You can integrate a person’s friends into almost anything and make [it] instantly more engaging and viral,” he told me. B.J.
for Education 3.1 Creating, collaborating and sharing The real-time collaboration of Docs in Google Drive makes it ideal for group assignments, revision cycles, shared notes and creating a more efficient classroom. Built-in tools like autosave, revision history, comments and an equation editor are useful for students and teachers alike and help you save time. Some examples of how teachers are using Google Docs & Drive include: Collaborate and share lesson/curriculum plans Consolidate notes for department or faculty meetings Create a simple webpage with Docs publishing Share and collect assignments without printing Provide instant feedback to students Track instructional interventions Some examples of how students can use online documents: This training video introduces how you can gain more efficiencies in your class! 3.1 Video: 3.2 Understanding Drive filing, folders and sharing Google Drive allows you to save any document, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing or form as a template for others to use.
Free Online Games, Free Games, Play Games at Fupa Games Contents. The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benkler The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler, Yale University Press © Copyright 2006, Yochai Benkler. Contents This online version has been created under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike license - see www.benkler.org - and has been reformatted and designated as recommended reading - with an accompanying Moodle course - for the Education Committee of CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - in conjunction with the Committee's commitment to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World and related international Decades, agreements, conventions and treaties. Epigraph John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) Acknowledgments Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge Part I: The Networked Information Economy
Social media Diagram depicting the many different types of social media There are many effects that stem from internet usage. According to Nielsen, internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site. At the same time, the total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PC and mobile devices increased by 99 percent to 121 billion minutes in July 2012 compared to 66 billion minutes in July 2011.[5] For content contributors, the benefits of participating in social media have gone beyond simply social sharing to building reputation and bringing in career opportunities and monetary income, as discussed in Tang, Gu, and Whinston (2012).[6] Classification of social media[edit] Social media technologies take on many different forms including blogs, business networks , enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.[7] Virality[edit]