I have updated the Wikipedia article for Watchung Hills Regional High School. I added a paragraph to the top portion of the article talking about how the school participates in Project Graduation. Project graduation is a school sponsored alcohol free party that takes place right after graduation.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
STIUQXELA
I need to really update this blog alot since I seemed to have missed 2 blogs for the past two weeks. I'm falling alittle bit behind with all my work, but today is my catch up on everything day. First I updated a wikipedia article. I updated the website for my home town Warren, NJ. I edited the section for the type of government in Warren. The original Wikipedia article said that meetings were held three times a month, but I found on the Town Website that town commitee meetings are held on every Thursday of the month. I will be updating two more wikipedia articles by the end of today, but for now that is all i have.
As for the title of this post, Stiuqzela, My BUAD477 class has decided to do an experiment to see how often different search engines do a scroll of the internet. We'll see how many classmembers blogs appear on the different search engines. We are also supposed to link the phrase Stiuqzela to the Green Bay Packers website, to see if a completely search term will bring up a completely unrelated article. I know I'm getting a late start but hopefully my blog will make it high up on the list. Wish me luck on the Stiuqzela experiment.
As for the title of this post, Stiuqzela, My BUAD477 class has decided to do an experiment to see how often different search engines do a scroll of the internet. We'll see how many classmembers blogs appear on the different search engines. We are also supposed to link the phrase Stiuqzela to the Green Bay Packers website, to see if a completely search term will bring up a completely unrelated article. I know I'm getting a late start but hopefully my blog will make it high up on the list. Wish me luck on the Stiuqzela experiment.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Wikipedia Update
Now that I have finished editing the Wikipedia articles, I have started trying to figure out which ones I want to edit for the second time. I decided when reading the Watchung Hills Regional High School article, that I would edit that one because it only stated the street the school was located on, but not the address. I added the address number to the wikipedia article.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
VALS survey
So last week we were talking about Primary research methods that can be used for data collection. One of the survey topics that was mentioned was the VALS survey. When I was on the class website I found a link to a website where I could take the survey so I decided to take it and do a little research on the survey. The VALS survey places consumers into one of eight categories based on the responses they give to the survey. The categories are innovator, thinker, achiever, experiencer, believer, striver, maker, and survivor. When I took the VALS survey i was classified as a Striver as my primary motivation and experiencer are my second. I was interested in what each of these meant so I decided to look that up also. a Striver is someone who is fashionable and trendy, which I never would normally categorize myself as, and they love shopping as a social activity and as the ability to show friends they have good taste. I guess the VALS survey doesn't lie althought I normally wouldn't classify myself that way. An experiencer is motivated by self experession and are open to new possiblities and are excited about them. Experiencers are avid consumersand spend alot of money on fashion, entertainment, and socializing. That sounds a bit more like me.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Another Wikipedia Update
I decided while I was still on my computer to also update the Wikipedia article for Watchung Hills Regional High School. I noticed that some of the Administrators listed on the Wikipedia website did not correspond with the one listed on the website for the Student Handbook for the year 2006-2007. I updated the Administration on the webpage, then added the Student Handbook webpage to the list of external links used for the page.
I also checked up on the other wikipedia articles that I updated. There still hasn't been any new updates to the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union wikipedia article. My edit on the Seinfeld was updated though. I was not 100% positive about George Costanza's characer being based upon Larry David so I stated it as a rumor, but another wikipedia member edited the article to confirm it was true.
I also checked up on the other wikipedia articles that I updated. There still hasn't been any new updates to the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union wikipedia article. My edit on the Seinfeld was updated though. I was not 100% positive about George Costanza's characer being based upon Larry David so I stated it as a rumor, but another wikipedia member edited the article to confirm it was true.
Wikipedia Articles Update
I have updated the Wikipedia Article for Warren Township. This is my home town which is why I decided to change from updating starbucks coffee chain to updating Warren Township. The beginning of the article didn't have very much history on the town, so I went to Warren Townships main webpage in order to learn alittle bit more about the history. I then added a few lines to the beginning of the Wikipedia article about the history of Warren:
"Warren was originally inhabited by Lanape Indians. In the early 1700's European farmers settled the land and in 1806 Warren was officially craved from the surrounding towns and incorporated into the area."
"Warren was originally inhabited by Lanape Indians. In the early 1700's European farmers settled the land and in 1806 Warren was officially craved from the surrounding towns and incorporated into the area."
Video Games being put in School
I was checking out some of the required blogs for the class and came across one blog that caught my attention on Slashdot. The blog discusses how schools are at the beginning stages of creating video games to integrate into the classroom and be used as a learning tool. The blog also has a link to an article which goes into more detail about the plans. Apparently a school in New York is being designed for students in 6-12 grade who will have video games intigrated into the entire curriculum. An example of one of the games that is being created is students play the role of a virtual investor and try to discover why fish are dying in a virtual park. This game helps them experience real life problems showing how different choices can affect the parks business.
There are some people who are complaining about this transition from book learning to virtual learning saying kids will develop ADD and aggressive behavior and are against this new method of learning.
After reading both articles, I begain to really think about how this new method of teaching would work. While I am not going to be affected for a while, til I have children old enough to go to school, this is still an issue I will eventually have to face. The idea of learning through video games seems like a great idea to me. We are moving into a new age of technology, as the article says, and everyone needs to be kept up to speed or be left behind, which is one benefit to virtual learning. Children will be aware of the new technology advances and be capable of using them. Learning how to do thingsis much easier at a young age. Also, learning with a video game alloows for a much more "hands on" experience with the problem. Reading from a book only allows one to participate in so much of the problem, where as learning on a computer, for example, allows the student to become part of the problem and test how their solutions would work. Virtual learning could also benefit science classes where a teacher wants to show students how mixing two different types of chemicals together can be deadly or dangerous. Telling a student not to do something because of the outcome is effective, but most of the time (I know from experience) they want to see the explosion, or see the reaction. With a virtual learning device, Students can mix different chemicals together an see the reaction without being put in immediate danger.
While I believe a virtual learning experience is a great idea, I don't think that books should be abbandoned all together, which will not happen. The article stated that books will always be incorportated into the learning experience, but the virtual aspect will just enhance the learning more.
There are some people who are complaining about this transition from book learning to virtual learning saying kids will develop ADD and aggressive behavior and are against this new method of learning.
After reading both articles, I begain to really think about how this new method of teaching would work. While I am not going to be affected for a while, til I have children old enough to go to school, this is still an issue I will eventually have to face. The idea of learning through video games seems like a great idea to me. We are moving into a new age of technology, as the article says, and everyone needs to be kept up to speed or be left behind, which is one benefit to virtual learning. Children will be aware of the new technology advances and be capable of using them. Learning how to do thingsis much easier at a young age. Also, learning with a video game alloows for a much more "hands on" experience with the problem. Reading from a book only allows one to participate in so much of the problem, where as learning on a computer, for example, allows the student to become part of the problem and test how their solutions would work. Virtual learning could also benefit science classes where a teacher wants to show students how mixing two different types of chemicals together can be deadly or dangerous. Telling a student not to do something because of the outcome is effective, but most of the time (I know from experience) they want to see the explosion, or see the reaction. With a virtual learning device, Students can mix different chemicals together an see the reaction without being put in immediate danger.
While I believe a virtual learning experience is a great idea, I don't think that books should be abbandoned all together, which will not happen. The article stated that books will always be incorportated into the learning experience, but the virtual aspect will just enhance the learning more.
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