Monthly Archives: April 2013

Do I Care About The NFL Draft?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by maxlolbutzlol

I guess?

Maybe.

I don’t really know.

I don’t care about professional football, nor do I spend much time following college football.

And yet…

I’ll still watch it, provided there isn’t anything better on.

But why?

I honestly could not …

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Why People take online courses.

Posted on April 24, 2013 by jmcmurray1

Online course are becoming the new way learning for students. Online courses were not even a question when my parents or grandparents were in college. Partly because the internet was not invented yet. The thing with online course is that …

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Social media and the Boston bombings

Posted on April 24, 2013 by emilylupfer

As the semester draws to a close and because we weren’t presented with new reading material to blog about, I would like to take this last week to talk about some current events: social media in regards to the Boston …

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Transition to Online Learning in Grade Schools

Posted on April 24, 2013 by ch828667

So as college students we all know the wonderful benefits of online classes. My question is when do we start teaching online classes in high school, or even Jr high? Should we have some kind of orientation class in grade …

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Why Internet Dating is Like Buying a Used Car – And Why I Hate Them Both!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by tvguy321

I never imagined in a million years that I would ever find myself single again, and especially at my age. My (ex)wife and I were introduced on a blind date by her sister in 1996 and were two of the …

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Solitude: A Thing of the Past

Posted on April 24, 2013 by allysonhenning

In today’s technological world, it is very rare to be completely out of contact from the world. Just about anyone you can think of is available via phone or email in one way or another. Years before this communication technology …

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Defining Collaborative Learning.

Posted on April 24, 2013 by julysanchez

Collaborative learning can take on many meanings and be interpreted and view differently based on an individual. When we think of the term the most common definition as pointed out in “What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’?” by Pierre …

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Where are we headed with technology?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by srice

It is unbelievable how much technology has advanced in just the past ten years. It makes me wonder where we will be in the world of technology in another ten. We live with smart phones now and wonder how we …

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A Gamers World: Role-Playing in a Virtual Environment

Posted on April 24, 2013 by khathaway

Today’s technology has brought video gaming into a new dimension. Games now exist where it’s players can interact with others and in a sense take over the “body” they inhabit in it’s virtual environment. All these games involve social interactions …

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An Awakening of Solitude

Posted on April 24, 2013 by eduardo rolon burgos

A text here, a status update there, a Tweet here, an instagram picture there: Social media, and the way we have been conditioned to use it, has drastically changed the way that we behave in ways that probably would not …

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