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.

Social Gaming

Yes, what should I tell you...?!
->  I think you all tried more social gaming as I :D
I'm not the fan of social gaming. I never played a social game very often and for a long time, it doesn't inspire me!! I once played at a friend "Counter-Strike", but I didn't understand what's so funny. Also this new game "Diablo III" what you can buy since some weeks..... yeah, there is a story behind it which makes it more interessing for some people to play it, it is a challenge to find out the secret. I could be fun I think.
But for me it will never be fascinating!!!

What about you?

The popularity of the terms ’web 2.0’ vs ’social media’ has changed over the years

 

 blau = web 2.0    rot = social media

The development of "web 2.0" and "social media" can be good compared with Google Trends. It shows that the "social media" term becoms increasingly popular as "web 2.0".

What do you think about it? Is web 2.0 something of the past?

Sorry guys!!
In my last post I wrote about the wrong Milgram experiment - in which I was also interessted ;)

Now, read about Milgram`s SMALL WORLD EXPERIMENT

Milgram selected some participants from two US cities and created a sort of information packet that was sent to randomly selected participants somewhere else. The task of the participants was to send the package not directly to the target person, provided they doesn`t know them personally, but to one person, who they thought that they might know this person. At the same time, participants were required to record basic information about yourself in a table and they must send a postcard to the scientists, so that they could understand the chain. The result was, that a total of three packets of the target population reached with an average path length of 6. The investigators concluded that each person in the U.S. population is separated of any other person in the United States by an average of six people. 

A little unbelievable, or?

 Milgram experiment

Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. The experiments began in July 1961, shortly after the trial of the World War II criminal Adolph Eichmann had begun. It was originally intended to explain the crimes of the Nazi era social psychology and should analyze if the Germans have a very authoritarian nature of hearing.

The experiment consisted in the fact that a "teacher"(the actual subject), a "student" (an actor) failures in the composition of word pairs each dealt a shock and an investigator (also an actor) made the statements.  Milgram developed an intimidating shock generator, with shock levels starting at 30 volts and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts.  The teacher have to give a shock to the student every time an incorrect answer was produced. He believed that he was delivering real shocks to the student, but the student was a real actor who was simply pretending to be shocked. During the experiment the teacher would hear the student plead to be released or even complain about a heart condition.Once the 300-volt level had been reached, the learner banged on the wall and demanded to be released.

A terrible idea i think.......  especially for the person who has to be the teacher.
Yeah... and at the end the level of shock that the teacher was willing to deliver was used as the measure of obedience. The result was that 65% of the teachers in Milgram’s study delivered the maximum shocks.

An extreme result I think!! 

Conclusion: The experiment showed that most teachers were prompted by the situation, to be guided by the instructions of the experimenter and not the pain of the victims. So, the presence of an authority figure dramatically increased obedience.

 

What do you think about it? Could that be?

Other psychologists argue that obedience is heavily influenced by both external and internal factors, such as personal beliefs and overall temperament. Maybe that`s the fact..... ?!

Social networking services

The social networking service is an online service, platform, or site. It consists of a representaion of each user,
his/her social links and a variety of additional services. This platform or site focuses on facilitating the building of social networks, so that you can interact over the internet such as email and instant messaging or to be online in a community and chat with other people.You can share ideas, events, activities and interests for example, because of this web-based social networking services.
A big and most visited social networking site all over the world is Facebook.
I think you all know and use some social networks so i don`t have to tell you much more about the features.
People use social networking sites for social interaction, for finding old friends or for meeting new people with the same interests and so more and more friends- and relationsships are being formed. But social network is not only used for communication with friends, also teachers and students use it as a communication tool. You also can find companys there which make advertising or that you can network with professionals for internship and job opportunities.
About the issues that came up with social networks like for example privacy we can discuss many hours or days. And i think everyone how decide to join some social network should know the problems about privacy!

Do you know the problem? Do you care about it?

I think most of the people haven't thought about it. They don't care, because they don't know something about the consequences. They join the social network and never change the settings or don`t care about the rights they give up for example after uploading pictures. Especially childern don`t know about the disadvantages and danger! ...sad but true...