Create: Microblogging

To continue with my posts on Digital Labs that I recently learned but didn't know it, I am going to talk about micro-blogging! At first this sounds a bit strange, how do you get smaller than the little snippets of thought I post to my blog already? Apparently through services such as Twitter and Facebook, where you again create profiles and connect with people, only your "posts" are limited to 140 characters (for Twitter). It has been fun to create these pages, and I have found that there are actually people and organizations on these sites the I love to keep track of! (The Onion, for example)

Consume: Screen Capture

So after all the interviewing last week I realized that I had not posted that many Digital Literacy Labs, but through the process of posting on my blogs and other things I had actually learned a lot more than I originally thought I would. Here I will talk about how I learned to screen capture and then share how you can do it too! I had first learned this when I wanted to put up a screen shot for Yugma, and it took me all of five seconds!

Dual Personality of the Enlightenment

The Renaissance and the following Enlightenment represent two of the greatest times in history that have produced some of the world's greatest thinkers and ideals. While most of the Enlightenment focused on the individual, and man's progress, each of the thinkers of the time had their own ideas, some of them seemingly opposites, especially in terms of government.

 John Locke a world renowned philosopher and thinker of the Enlightenment, his opposite?Jean-Jacques Rousseau, another world renowned philosopher and thinker of the Enlightenment.






These two men start ought with similar assumptions about man, and human nature, but their personalities twist these ideas into two completely different concepts of how men should act, especially in relation to one another.

Mirrored Posting: The Three Seas of Digital Civilizations

Consume, Create, Connect

 These are the three seas, err that is Cs, of Honors 202 Digital Civilizations. Through each area our class is to expand their digital savvy, or in the spirit of the Renaissance and Enlightenment improve our Digital Literacy. I believe that in this, the first month, of this class I have found success in all areas.

Mirrored Posting: What have I learned?

All standardized courses in public education begin with objectives for their students, and a teacher's performance is measured (theoretically) on how well they meet the standards set for the subject, or student group, they left in their care. Having moved past grade school, I have found that courses here have a similar pattern for much the same reason: to record a student's progress through the educational system. Although at the university level learning outcomes reflect more on the student, and what they have learned, than on the teacher and what they taught.
"Gone with the Wind" are the days when learning was a passive verb, and personally I like this action a little bit more. In direct relation to the Digital Civilizations course, that serves as the spring board for this blog, I have reviewed my progress towards the established learning objectives below.

Capitalism: On the out?

In 1776 Philosopher and early Economist, Adam Smith, helped to radically change the way that the world viewed economics, and particularly the type of system that America's founders would set up for their little country. In the 18th century, the shift was from a Mercantile system to the Capitalist system, the close parallel of a shift from Monarchy to Democracy. But now, nearly 250 years later, could Capitalism itself be on the way out in the Free World? Chris Anderson thinks so.