PRIVACY

Have you ever used Google to look up your own name?
Try it!! Is that really you and do you like what other people could find about you in the internet??

I very often search my name and I can say, that people can find information about a person (also a girl, funny thing :D ) who has the same name as I. But it isn`t me and the things you find about this girl aren`t evil, so all right ;)

What about privacy? Do you care about your settings at Facebook, youtube, Twitter and so on?!
YOU SHOULD!!

kickstarter.com

This is a funding platform for people who have a idea for a creative project and who need some money to fund this project. So, on this platform you describe your idea and if people like it they support and finance your project.
It's a good idea!!
I found some projects I like in different topics, because these people are so enthusiastic :)

Look at it:

Technic:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/669350010/ringbow-next-generation-gaming-accessory?ref=popular

Dance:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timonunez/timo-nunez-flamenco-presents-pasion

Film&Video:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/452010736/bridegroom-an-american-love-story?ref=popular

Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern

http://www.vhb.org/

This a website for any registered college or university student in Bavaria to take online courses and get credit for it. The site is good structured and you can study many things there, like languages, medicine, teacher, rights-/nature-/economy-/social-/computer- and engineer-sciences and so on!

Interesting for me are:

  - Internetkompetenzen- Internet für Anfänger

  - Internetkompetenzen-Webdesign

  - Softwarequalität

  - Methoden des Software-Engineering

Teaching

"Introduction to computer science / programming methodly" - this is a course at the Stanford University.

Mehran Sahami is the professor who submites the semester and who filmes his lectures.

It is fun watching his videos!!
And if you don't like the topic he talkes about, agree me, you are getting more and more interested in it after watching his videos. It's a good way of teaching his students!! :D

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Do you know the video from Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education ?

Watch it if you don't know it: www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy.
It is a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He mentioned the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script.
Why didn't my teachers use interactive exercises like giving us video lectures to watch at home or doing challenges online?!?
I find this concept of online learning and teaching fascinating. Students can learn and work on their own, but also getting help from the teacher if they have problems with a topic.
This kind of learning when integrating youtube videos, moodle, podcasts and other platforms makes it more interesting for students and other people. I'm also such a person who likes to watch tutorials for coming easier in a new topic.

Do you knwo what MMORPG is?

It is a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. 
I never tried such role-playing games like World of Warcraft or somethine like this. I don`t like it and I can`t imagine being in this world and be a kind of mythical creature. 
Do you like playing this kind of games?

A video from Jesse Schell

Hi there,
i watched this video from Jesse Schell: www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life.html
He speaks about social networks and the games you can play there. But also about the xbox, wii and so on.
Most peolpe play such games because they want to flee in a dream or fantasy world, he said, and explained the psychological background. 
You should watch this video!! I think allmost erverthing he says is comprehensible.