A Quick Review

Let me take this post to recap what I've learned thus far in Digital Civilization.

-Transition from Ptolemaic to Copernican system shifted authority; similar to shift from Britannica to Wikipedia

-Humanists elevated the power of words; Microsoft Word doesn't compare, but I use it anyway

-Metadata details and categorizes data; metafiction attempts to define the importance of writing fiction

-Open source is interesting, and I am still trying to grasp the concept surrounding the idea

-Protestantism and Personal Learning Networks work in a similar fashion; both break from traditions (Catholicism and traditional organizations) to create something new. I posted about this earlier.

-I read Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam to understand the decline of traditional organizations, but I took his ideas further into the digital age.

-I interviewed and was hired for a job teaching English using Skype.

Digital media or concepts that I've tried so far this semester:

-Skype

-Wordle

-Google Blog Search

-Crowdsourcing (Goodreads and Amazon)

-Diigo

-Just Paste It

-Google Docs publishing

-Edit Html on Blogger

-Flickr Commons and the Commons on Wikimedia