Week3Lecture

CCT205 Week 3: Guest Lecture Guest Lecturer: [|Dr. Joan Vinall Cox]

=Blogs and Wikis: Educational and Business Uses=

Wikibooks:
 * A Wiki:**
 * is an Online Collaboration tool
 * is a specialized website
 * can be edited regardless of where you are
 * allows open editing
 * are sometimes only limited to defined users
 * means 'do the work fast'. In Hawaiian, 'wiki wiki' means 'quickly'.
 * is 'iterative'
 * turns the web from a medium to a media platform
 * iterative
 * collaborative
 * not meant for one person to produce an academic tone
 * more objective tone
 * open source textbooks
 * aimed at thrid world countries/less fortunate
 * free online textbook

Media Possibilities includes: -- turn medium that transmits to medium platform
 * text
 * links
 * attachments
 * documents
 * audio
 * images
 * videos

[|Blogs:] -- Blogs are very similar to Wikis in terms of media possibilities
 * are Web Logs
 * come from **we__BLOG__**
 * are frequently updated websites
 * take little or no technical knowledge
 * do not require you to be technical adapt
 * tend to have a personal tone to them
 * have a variety of styles
 * have many topics
 * highly time sequenced
 * chronological
 * discuss and inform
 * share opinions
 * present themselves on a single page
 * informal tone
 * standard English

The Early Web
 * started in 1989 (late nineties)
 * was very slow
 * had a huge technical interface
 * has a huge barrier known as HTML
 * requires FTP knowledge
 * made most people an audience NOT creators

EMAIL became a precursor to ONLINE CHAT as people start to reply email at the same time that it becomes a asynchronous chat
 * Precursors to WEB 2.0**
 * EMAIL
 * ONLINE CHAT
 * P2P (Peer to Peer)

[|WEB 2.0]
 * does not require coding
 * allows WYSIWYG
 * codeless or little coding
 * forms
 * pre-built applications
 * allows 2-way communication
 * shifted the web from a web consisting of technicians as an interface and users as audience to a **Read-Write Web** also known as **[|The Social Web]**


 * INTEREST BUILDS**
 * teachers
 * educational businesses
 * businesses at many levels
 * a whole new way of social interaction

__The Power of the Web__ [|In 1996, life insurance costs dropped dramatically.] Why? Because in 1996, [|Quotesmith.com] was created. Quotesmith.com put up comparisons of life insurance costs which enabled the public to see the drastic differences of life insurance costs. This shows the potent of the web.

BLOGGING STYLES - Authentic v. "Faux" A 'faux' blog is a blog where the person who is suppose to write a blog has a ghost writer. 'Faux' blogs are extremely associated with businesses. Many CEOS have commercial blogs and some of them have ghost writers for their blogs. Only 17% of CEOS write their own blogs.

-- Additional notes taken during lecture

=Review=


 * ===Blogs=== || ===Wikis=== ||
 * Time-sequenced || Interactive ||
 * Chronological || Collaborative ||
 * Discuss & Inform || Inform & Share ||
 * Single page || Multiple pages ||
 * Informal in tone || Object in tone ||