Blog Reflections of site visit research findings

I personally feel that the physical EIR class is much easier to understand than going through slides from the computer. At times when I read the slides it’s hard to understand what the writer is talking about. When I am at a physical class I feel that I can absorb more as the lecturer explains things to me in more details. On the other hand I find that the site visit was an interesting activity too. I could have a feel of what the future is more likely to be during this site visit. There were many interesting things I experienced there and the most interesting one for me is the station where they showed about the Interactive IPTV. The Interactive IPTV can harness the full potential of the internet with useful features which are more likely for us to find in our computer rather than TV. It can also find TV related online content and information, while also enabling us to share movies, photos and music online. I find this technology very interesting as it would enable me to use the internet on my TV itself during the commercials rather than having to use my I phone and I can watch my online YouTube videos with better sound and digital quality. 

One of the ethical issues which I learnt about would be Wiki ethics. Basically what Wiki ethics in brief is a way to behave when using Wiki. According to the lecture notes we have to be:


  Be bold about making changes if you feel that it will improve the page
  Follow the site conventions by following the structure of other pages
  Be a good community member

           -  avoid being involved in an edit war 

           - learn to tolerate edits from other people on your wiki contents
 Do not vandalize posts of others by putting in irrelevant information or deleting others’ good work                 Avoid using public wikis for marketing or self-promotion

      

 Now a days a lot of schools are using computer to conduct their lessons in the class. But the teacher are not connected with the students PC because all the students have to use their own personally PC. And students have do online Wiki discussions which means that the teacher will not able to look at the discussion of the student and the manner they are doing it as it happens. They will only be able to view it once it’s submitted by than one student could vandalise another student’s work. This can be one of the ethical issues which can be present in Wiki. To prevent it I think the class room like the one in iexperience could help. In this Next Gen Classroom teachers can interact and check on the students work as and when they are doing it rather than doing it after they submit it. I think this could help.