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P2P

File sharing is the ability to share computer data over the internet. File sharing allows many people to access the same file. P2P file sharing is peer-to-peer sharing that allows people to share a lot of data. The data shared over P2P file sharing is; books, music, movies, games, and others. In the reading "Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other" talks about the Lending Club a way to loan money for P2P sharing. There are loaners and bowers and the loaners are able to make some money off of this money and are able to make a decent profit. This is just another way for peer-to-peer sharing. Other then the Lending Club that takes P2P sharing for money, there are other examples of P2P sharing. BitTorrent shares everything from TV shows to songs, they share big files and are very popular. Another example of P2P file sharing is Lionshare that allows you to use P2P for educational purposes.
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Blogs v wikis

A blog as stated in the reading "How can we measure the influence of blogosphere" is a website with multiple characteristics. These characteristics include reverse chronological order, Dates, and passion as well as other characteristics. But what sets apart a blog from a wiki is the contributions, the author of a blog is the only person who can edit whereas a wiki many people can add to it. The information is available to be change and added on a wiki when a blog doesn't allow you to change information. You can comment on a blog and this allows contributions, many people read the comments on a blog because it's like a community. Also, blogs are sometimes causal blogs that are also about people's passions, hobbies and things other then educational. In the reading "An internal Wiki thats not classified" they talk about people asking before contributing and how it is not a problem anymore. This allows companies to be very updated without people checking in ...
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Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

   In the reading virtual classroom it says "With the use of technology, education can surpass the physical boundaries of the classroom and provide students the opportunity to experience more." I think using virtual reality can bring a lot to education, it can be a fun way to get people involved. What I fear is that people will get used to this and regular learning environments will no longer work for these children they will become even more bored. The 50% of learning time in the classroom might become more difficult. I think that virtual worlds for children can foster creativity I have went to the google store and sat through a virtual reality presentation and it really did look amazing, and I started coming up with ideas just sitting there for fifteen minutes. This being involved in classrooms can bring out creativity in so many. One more con of this is it will be expensive, you have to hire a staff who knows what they are doing, most schools don't have extra funds to...
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