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Social networks (SN) of education work best with parent-parent collaboration, as well as parent-teacher and teacher-teacher. We use these kinds of websites when we need to work together when there is distance. Imbee is one type of SN that some educators have used. Parents have access to a control panel which lets them set limitations on what their children can do on imbee. Parents will find it safer for their children to use because exposing your identity online is risky for anyone, so representing real-world interactions makes sense.(Cashmore) Ning is another SN used by educators. Ning seems useful to educators because they have applications uch as text boxes, RSS feeds photos, forums, blogs and videos - into the application in the area you want them. Page views have been spiking, reaching 20 million per month, 20x traffic a year ago.(Arrington)

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 * Amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that || The picture is nice representation with collaboration. I think that there should be more images and maybe if possible media files that deal with education and collaboration. ||
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Michael West: A struggling actor.

“Welcome Madame Pompadour, I will be your caretaker here in London.” Michael West was born and raised in London, England. There, in acting school he wanted to become an American actor and moved to New York. Michael West is most notable for winning best supporting actor award at the Oscars, for the movie: Welcoming Madame Pompadour in 2012. Michael was only 25 at the time. Michael had all these aspirations of making it big in the movie industry. He wanted to become one of the best actors and retire as a producer. Michael West thought that because of his achievement in acting, he would be able to audition for roles and get them with ease. Little did Michael know about how pirating and the Internet would affect his career. It was a quiet, cool evening in New York and the sound of the police cars and people’s chitchat could be heard from Michael’s fire escape. Michael was in the process was busy preparing for his role in a new movie : Leaving Jane. His role was the lover of Jane Moira. “I’m sorry Jane, I’m sorry. I will never do it again. Please just let her go.” said Michael practicing for his new role. The whole movie is about a man and woman’s relationship. This relationship may seem odd and make Michael look like a sissy, but Jane is his abusive lover. Michael’s character grew up with no father and was raised with a family of all females. After practice, Michael went to meet with his agent on 65th and Broadway. He was invited by his agent, Pete, because of an important matter that came up in the spur of the moment. He was headed to Janice’s Café. “Hey, Michael, I’m glad you can make please take a seat and order whatever you like.”, said the agent. “Oh, hey Pete you alright. Thanks, I’ll have a coffee.” Pete was a short balding man. By the colour of his teeth you knew he drank a lot of coffee. His rugged, smoky voice was a proof he smoked. Pete was a sincere man, don’t let his voice and looks misjudge him. “So, Pete, what’s up?” “I have bad news” “Well, go on.” “The movie project is cancelled and -” “What!?, no this can’t happen, we are already half way through the completion of the project! “ “There is not enough money for the project because of illegal sales of recent movies by the producer.” “Damn it, I have bloody hard to get the role right and now it’s cancelled in the bloody middle!” “I’m sorry, Michael but there nothing we can do.” “Well, then I guess I’ll get over it, so I call you when I need you, take care.” Michael went home and started thinking of he would now do. He decided that he would go look for auditions for new roles. He decided to go to 65th and Fifth Avenue to look for role at Trump’s Tower. “Let’s see it is the 13th of March 2019, In order to pay the bills I need to have a role in 2 weeks.” The next morning was a dark, grey one. Michael entered Trump Tower and went looking for auditions, he noticed that the amount of movies being produced has decreased. He has seen more of small movies being produced. With little auditions and little success Michael became poor. Michael moved into a different apartment in Flushing with an aspiring music artist who seemed to have no luck either in that industry. Michael and Lisa, his new roommate, went to their local library and researched to what was happening to this industry. Lisa was able to find an article on the Ebsco database. At the dawn of this new digital era, there a many pirate sites on the web, with different movies both famous and amateur. These sights has lowered the monetary values of big movies. The movie industry is slowly declining as is Michael’s career. The movie industry loses money due to pirating of their movies. Online users watch the movies in the comfort of their for free. There are less people going to the theatre and more going online. In less than a year 74.8% users have used P2P file sharing of pirated movies and forms of downloading pirated movies. Michael finally understood why there were many decreases in movie productions. Michael now understood what he would want to do. He saw that some movie producer implant their films into pirate site like Piratebay, to gain popularity. He would also try to persuade other producers to do that too. Michael then started to audition again and persuaded other people. Some producers were not convinced. Michael started looking for other producers. He also read recently that the movie industry is now trying to make 4-D cinema. The industry would now include smell and feeling to the movies. People could smell what the actor in the movie smells and what are they feeling, like an aeroplane simulator. Michael went to the movie industry headquarters and was interested in acting in these new 4-D movies. He went to see the head of the movie industry and his name was Stuart. He asked Stuart if he could partake in the new type of movies. “Right this way Mr. West.” said Stuart’s secretary. “Thanks.” As the glass doors opened there on the big leather chair sat a tall man. Stuart was a man that wore an expensive suit. You can see that he was a man of great wealth and who was used a life of leisure. He wore an expensive blue silk tie with a silk black jacket. His shoes were polished so that you can see your dark reflection of yourself. “Ah, Mr. West, welcome to my office how may I help you?” said Stuart. Stuart had faded Irish accent and by his voice you could tell he was a knowledgeable person. “I was wondering if you can hire me as an actor in the new movie technology. I am really a hard working actor. I have won an Oscar.-” “Ah, an Oscar, haven’t seen or heard of the Oscars since 5 years. Wow, I am impressed but we will see about your skill.” Michael was really nervous and was wondering what was his judgement. “I want you to act in that movie to see your skills. You will star in Stuart wanted Michael to act in that movie to see his skills in the acting career. This movie is called: Escape from Norway. The movie will take about a year (2020-2021) to complete. The producer is planning on seeding his movie into a pirate site so that the producer can be successful and I hope it will help with your ideas of movies being successful.” said Stuart. “Thank you, Sir, thank you.” Michael said. “Now don’t let me down.”

Todd. "The Future of The Movie Industry." [Weblog Billboard Blogs] 25 June 2005. 7 Mar 2008 <[|http://billboard.blogs.com/billboardpostplay/2005/06/the_empires_new.html]> This source was a blog. It talked about the different ideas and opinions of the future of the movie industry from many top directors and producers in the movie industry.

Reisinger, Don. "Movie industry admits it doesn't know pirates." [Weblog Techradar] 24 January 2008. 7 Mar 2008 <[|http://www.techradar.com/news/video/home-video/movie-industry-admits-it-doesnt-know-pirates-207281>.]

This was an article on a blog. The article basically says that the movie industry does not know who are the pirates.

Sells, Mark. "Judgment Day for Movie Theaters." MovieMaker Magazine 01 June 2007. 7 Mar 2008 <[|http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/judgement_day_for_movie_theaters_3397/>.]

This source was an article. The article talked about different effects and factors of the decline of the movie industry.

Cole, Doctor Jeffrey I. . "Ten Years, Ten Trends." 5 Mar 2008 <[|www.digitalcenter.org/downloads/DigitalFutureReport-Year4-2004.pdf] >.

This source was very helpful. This had 10 detailed Future trends in the upcoming ten years. This Source has statistics and graphs for trustworthy information.


 * Topic:** Making technology easier to use.

Touchscreens are a new trend that are appearing in different machines. In the HP Pavillion tx1000, a new laptop, has a new flip screen.

The Nintendo DS is a new portable gaming system that includes touchscreens. The way of playing portable games have changed. The new experience of human interaction makes it easier for users to play. The Nintendo DS is one of the leading portable game systems in the market.

Doug Desjardins "[|Nintendo DS]". DSN Retailing Today. Jan 24, 2005. FindArticles.com. 12 Feb. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_2_44/ai_n9522854

Touchscreens have helped the world run easier. Some technology related to tochscreens are Multi-Toch tecnology. Multi-touch technology enables a person to interact with a system with more than one finger in one time. People can now "create sophisticated multi-point widget for applications large enough to accommodate both hands and multiple users."(Han, "Multi-Touch Interaction Research") Han, Jeff. "Multi-Touch Interaction Research." Jan 2007 10 Feb 2008 < [|http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/] >.

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Another exampleof touchscreen technology is Tablet PC. The tablet PC enables the user to interact with the PC with his/her finger. The latest tablet PC is the HTC which is a Taiwanese PDA. Essentially it is a mobile PC. It has a telephone, camera, and all the functions of a laptop and fingerprint reader. This machine makes human interaction with computers simpler and still can revert to the laptop form. The Pc uses Windows Vista. Blickenstorfer, Conrad H.. "Does this novel ultra-mobile "hybrid" PC show the way? ." __HTC Shift__ 30 Jan 2008 10 Feb 2008 <[>.|[[http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_htc_shift.htm%5D%5D%3E.|http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_htc_shift.htm]>.]] media type="custom" key="493228"


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Touch screens are making a revolutionar change in technology. Touch screens were used to present the presidetial campaigns. The touch scren boards showed the percent wins of each democratic and republican state. It was helpful to represent data and new data as it came. "John King, CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, used Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel touch screen throughout the night, and man, does he know how to play with pie charts. In order to convey the difference between voting districts and how a small percentage of votes can impact the electorate map, Mr. King used a touch-interactive pie chart that allowed him to immediately estimate varying scenarios on the spot, and watching the visual representation of the votes is much easier than just hearing about it. Moving Obama’s pie slice up and down also forced him to get next to the screen, which makes the interaction seem more relevant."(Fermoso, "[|Super Tuesday's Gadgets: Touch Screen Monitors, New Notebooks, and 3D Graphics Drive TV Coverage]") Fermoso, Jose. "Super Tuesday's Gadgets: Touch Screen Monitors, New Notebooks, and 3D Graphics Drive TV Coverage." __Wired: Gadget Lab__ 06 Feb 2008 06 Feb 2008 <[|http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/]>.

Smart Phones

CNET Networks, Inc, "Crave: The gadget blog category: phones." [Weblog Crave: The gadget blog] 04 Feb 2008. CNET Networks, Inc.. 4 Feb 2008 <[|http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.xml?categoryId=1006&tag=sb_cat&keywords=Phones>.]

CNET Networks, Inc, "Mobile and Wirless." [Weblog TechRepublic] 04 Feb 2008. CNET Networks, Inc.. 4 Feb 2008 <[|http://feeds.feedburner.com/techrepublic/wireless>.]

Game system hardware

CondéNet, Inc., "Section: gaming." [Weblog Wired] 17 Jan 2008. CondéNet, Inc.. 4 Feb 2008 <[|http://www.wired.com/gaming/>.]

Cars

CondéNet, Inc., "Cars 2.0." [Weblog Wired] 04 Feb 2008. CondéNet, Inc.. 4 Feb 2008 <[|http://www.wired.com/cars/>.]

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