EDUC 7108 Module 4 Blog

Second Life

Second life is a virtual world technology that allows users to interact with each other as in a real world setting (Wikipedia, 2010). It lets people get real world experiences in society through communication with each other on the levels of personal and business aspects. Second life is considered to be a disruptive technology. Second life allows for people to be very creative and use their higher level thinking skills in making decisions that will benefit them. It’s in a social atmosphere and can promote collaboration.

“Disruptive technology is a new technology with the same function as an existing technology that functions more efficiently and obsoletes that technology” (Laureate Education, 2009). I really think that there are various different forms of virtual world’s simulations/gaming systems that may have been replaced by Second Life because of its sophistication. As technology advances rapidly, I really think that Second Life may be replaced within the next five years.

Laureate Education. (2009). Disruptive technologies. Retrieved from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?CourseID=4199715&Survey=1&47=5847480&ClientNodeID=984645&coursenav=1&bhcp=1

Rosedale, P. (2008). Second Life [Video]. Retrieved from July 24, 2010 from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/the_inspiration_of_second_life.html.

Wikipedia. (2010) Second Life. Retrieved July 24, 2010 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

EDUC 7108 MODULE 3 BLOG

One technology that I think represents a rhyme of history is the telephone. As stated by Thornburg, “A Rhyme in history is an affect or effect of a new development rekindles something from the distant past” (Laureaute Education, 2010). The telephone has advanced over the years starting from landline phones, to mobile phones and even internet phones. The idea behind it is communication. Communication has always been an important facet in history even before telephones were around. Being able to relay information has dated back to even before the mail was delivered by the Pony Express. Telephones just added to the idea of people having the need to communication and interact. Telephones are and have been an important part of business, government and industry, in addition to our own personal lives. Just about everyone I know owns a mobile phone. The mobile phone has more means of communication that ever with its enhanced capabilities. The capabilities being access to the Internet, text and picture messages, and email which encompasses various forms of communication from oral to written.

I have enclosed some Websites about telephones in my references.

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.(2010). Telephone Timeline. Retrieved July 11, 2010 at http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625

Thornburg. D. (2009). Rhymes of History. Laureate Education, Inc. Retrieved July 11, 2010 from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?

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Wikipedia (2010). Telephone. Retrieved July 11, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone