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Sergey Ryazanov, a Software Engineer on the Toolbar Team, explains to us about the various new features of Google Toolbar 5 beta 2 has to offer. One of the new features is that of the new tab page. When you open up a new tab in Firefox, instead of seeing a blank white page, you will see a page with thumbnails of your favorite websites (up to nine). You can get to the tab page by double-clicking to the right of the tab pages or by pressing Ctrl + T. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-toolbar-in-firefox-personalized.html
Look in particular at the news section of this list, which, for example, links news videos and stories geographically: Google Maps Tools
A rather belated welcome to NCLC 249 but very sincere, all the same. I've posted below the key concepts you should be able to define and attempt to apply from our first week's readings. It's OK if you're not quite sure of some of the concepts, but make sure you keep a note of them, and we can talk about them in more detail when next we meet.
From the Mark Warschauer reading:
Social capital, including:
- Bonding social capital
- Bridging social capital
- Norm-related social capital
- Macro-level social capital
Out-of-group networking
Community Informatics
Social Alliances
Synergy
Citizen Feedback
From the Marie-Laure Ryan reading (sent to those who attended last week's class as a .pdf entitled Levy.pdf):
The two definitions of virtual contrasted in the Marie Laure Ryan extract:
- The virtual-as-fake
- The virtual-as-potential
Fictionality
Authenticity
Actualization
Levy’s concept of creativity
Virtualization, including two examples:
- Virtualization of the economy
- Virtualization of the body
Let me know if you have any questions, and make notes of anything that seems unclear for our next meeting.
