flattening the world

1a. It means germans were united and that flattened the world.
b. windows 3.0 went up
c. It transefered memory cards and dvd's to a computer.
d. It let people learn, explore, and communicate.

2a. It was Tim Lee.
b. It allowed people to create links.
c. It was netscape.
d. Its outcome was high speed internet.

3a. Workflow software allows people to communicate efficiently in different areas.  They work from Chicago, Florida, newyork, London, LA, and India.

4aIt is transeferring information from your computer to a network.
b. Community developed software is done by a team of random programmers that do it for fun  and come together for a big outcome.
c. Uploading represents a flattening of the world by breaking down the barrier and alowing users to communicate.

5a. It saves money and teaches people about other softwares.
b. It is so popular because they get internet really cheap, they are the second largest population speaking english, and India has a lot of internet related classes.

6a. It is when a country moves its production from its home country to another country.
b.China's wages impact others wages throughout the world
c. Companies can cut costs dramatically by moving to another country.

7a. The store scans an item and after it is scanned, it sends a message saying that they sold it and demand has gone up.
b. Many of the employee's feelings are overlooked and workers are not paid fairly or treated fairly. Also many illegal immigrants are hired.
c. It's alright I guess, things are cheap.

8a. They have also become an insourcing company

9a. It makes information easy to access and ddisplays thousands or even millions of results.
b.People can look up a lot of information about you.

10. They combine all photo, video, sound, and text into one category

b. They shift power from institutions over to the individual.

Flattening the world does not mean much to me. I don't think that by doing this we will flatten the world.  I'm really just doing the assignments to get points. I really dont care much about the competition or flattening the world, I just dont want to fail.

fcp

The fcp was made to bring different classes together for one common purpose.

Elements of the project for students include:

• A deeper understanding of the effects of technology on our world that leads students to not only study but actually experience the ‘flattener

• An opportunity to be grouped with global partners to explain trends, give personal viewpoints and create a video containing an outsourced video segment from their global partners.

• Access to an educational network, blogging, posting photos, videos etc and a wiki, to plan their topic and build a web page on the topic.

• Being assessed on a common criterion based rubric

• Real-life flavours of deadlines, accountability and interdependence

• Having completed videos reviewed by global judges

• Participating in a virtual student summit, using Elluminate, to complete the project and showcase their learning.

FCP-01: January-April

• Application Deadline: December 1 (previous calendar year)
• Online Teacher Information meeting before January 15
• Classroom and student handshake January 15-31
• Wiki editing and collaboration: February
• Non-participating classrooms removed from participating: February 15
• Video pitches and creation: March
• Student Summits and video judging: April 1-15
• Awards ceremony: After April 15 as determined

Google for students

this shows how many capabilities that google has, and demonstrates the technologies.

horizon project

this shows all the different social networking cites and how they operate.

2008 1st place winner.

this shows that the capabilities of the future are endless and much is in store.

internet then and now.

Internet has changed dramatically in the past 15 years, internet used to be expensive and only the richer people could afford it, but now it is extremely rare for a household not to have internet access. The internet we know now used to be extremely basic, and did not have nearly as many designs as the new web pages now have, and they also took a lot more time to load because broadband was not around.  However, this was not a big deal at the time because people mostly used the internet for research and work purposes, while now it is used mainly for communication and online games.  Internet explorer was the main browser in 96, but now we use google chrome, or mozilla firefox most of the time. Even though we didnt have myspace or facebook in the 90s, there was still email or instant messaging in 1996, which was the prefered communication.