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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Week 2 Post - Thesis Question
Going through vast amounts of research on different facets of my thesis on EBSCOHost, I kept noticing different results pop up that didn't have a very acedemic feeling/tone to them. This got me wondering two things:

1. How do you get your work put up on the acedemic search engines? It sure seems the information that we write is not much different than quite a bit I see on there, I have a feeling some of the research that comes up is most likely from other students.

2. Why would you want to submit your information for others to see when it might be on a ridiculous topic that's not even research? I realize the importance of having all different topics of research, but I would think there should be some sort of criteria into having your work be searched for.

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Does Web2.0 tools applied in the corporate world make the users better communicators?
maryseitherJan 17, 2010 23:12:02 GMT Share

I chose to do my thesis on Teaching Web2.0 Tools to Administrative Assistants. Seems like the thesis as become a main theme of my week 2 blog. I will have “thesis” on my brain all this coming week so why not share it with everyone. When ever I hear the term Web2.0 its usually closely followed with in education. That t is expected in an education Master Degree program like EMDT. All the graduate students where the majority are K-12 educators are bound to hear and talk on how any technology applies to education especially to K-12 public schools. Being one of a few non K-12 educators in this course, I am rogue enough to stand up and shout “enough about the kids because they no longer respond to learning through reading and writing like my generation who were better prepared for their adult working years (gasping for air).” K-12 Education is now being taught with games, videos, social networking, and websites. Adults are also quickly catching on to this modern method of learning but so few in the corporate world know much about Web2.0 tools. You do see plenty of adult workers working around with a smart phones attached to their ears lobes anywhere you look. Other than holidays, I forgot the last time I received a written letter from a friend. Now its all about email, twitter. YahooIM, ichat, Skype and Facebook where I mostly communicate with all my friends, family members and aquaintances living far away or just the other side of town. If you have spend at least 15 minutes a day online, you have probably have used countless Web2.0 tools. Ohoh, I am running on with my words here and the deadline time to download is near. To answer the title question Does Web2.0 tools applied in the corporate world make the users better commuicators? My answer: NO especially if they already lack verbal and written communication skills but, they sure can have more fun practicing to be better communicators! One last thing and I am out of here… be sure and stop by GO2WEB20 and check out all the latest Web2.0 tools soon!


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January 21, 2010 at 4:21 am | Reply
Thank you Mary for reminding me about the go2web20 site. I had forgotten to check back to it in the last months or so.
Now about your thesis I do believe that when people are trained properly on the tools and know the tools limitations and best practices for that tool they become better communicators because the tools they use assist them with reaching more effectively their audience. For instance bringing the daily financial stats to a meeting from the accounting department to a bunch of engineers or explaining work flow to someone who starts or ends the work flow process will take pictures or mind maps, work flow diagrams, financials diagrams. When we understand better the information and its limiting factors we can ask more clarifying questions and in business get to the root cause of issues. This is especially true with quality initiatives which use six-sigma for project management. A web 2.0 tool could assist with phone coverage amongst a clerical pool where a few of the clerks are inevitably late by alerting them by email and a telephone reminder. In a legal office the paralegals from different areas could share a google doc to complete documentation for a brief which they could never get the same schedule to do at the same time. I could be incorrect. I just thought I would share. Much success to you on your thesis!

http://docs.google.com/

wk 2 being a contributor

In light of what has happened in Haiti I would like to point a direction to giving. In the book The Art of Possibility I was completely taken aback when it finally sunk in that what I have to contribute is important. The fact that the universe is waiting, listening perched on the edge of itself waiting for what I will contribute to it. This is such a profound awakening that I had to take quite a few breaks to grasp its gravity. All these years I have been saying who would want to listen? not knowing that my perception and my ideas about myself caused me to stop doing things that I loved and contributing to peoples lives even in a simple way. Now back to Haiti anything that you do for someone who has NOTHING is an improvement. I am amazed at the Americans online who say we have people right here who need help too. WHAT?! but they weren't helping them either and Yes this is true however, the level of assistance that my Haitian brothers and sisters need is at a level so far beyond even the most worse off person in America. The country of Haiti has been this way for many decades and America has turned a blind eye. I believe when we give to others that our world will be realized within it as well.

wk 2 Benjamin Zander conference in Davos:

I love his zest for life. He is so passionate about "awakening possibilites" in other people. Its so interesting that his wife is a clinician and he's a musician and they actually collaborate so well together. In the past I would not have listened to him because I would have had so many walls up about what he is saying and where he was trying to "take or lead" me. I am glad that this level of learning came at a time when I am open to experience new and better ways of living my life. It would have been nice to get real time tweets of what people were experiencing while they were with him not to quantify but to be part of the immediate experience. There is a bit about him that seems contagious like someone sneezing on you during flu season. I'm saying that it's not escapable. lol Like someone who hugs you when you don't want one but you feel so much better after you do because what they had to give you needed but didn't even know it. Ultimately, it's people like Benjamin who change the world one "sneeze" at a time. lol

wk 1 remark to Parkers Blog

Wk1-Day3

I have discovered that I really don’t like electronic books. I really enjoy sitting in bed at night reading a book. If I fall asleep and the book hits the floor - who cares. But if you fall asleep with your laptop (besides being uncomfortable) you may break the screen, wrench the screen off the body, or drop it and kill it.
I don’t know that a Kindle (or its ilk) would be any better because of the large number of broken iPods and iPhones that I see at school. Electronic devices just break easily.

kindle photo from: http://www.amazon.com/
Saturday, January 9, 2010

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joe bustillos
When I was working on my doctorate my dissertation was going to be about the observation that no one does long session reading on their computers. We scan and then move on. I've read on my iPhone and it's doable. I love reading paperbacks but have no nostalgia about it. I'd rather have some device like the Kindle that can mimic the experience but be much more efficient than my library full of dead-trees. Given how expensive textbooks are and, perhaps foolishly thinking that publishers will have to change their prices, moving from dead-tree to e-text will still be a huge cost savings. At $250 a device that's still less than four core subjects x $70 per text (at the last middle school they issue a text book to be taken home but also had to have a class set in the classroom so that students wouldn't have to bring the books back and forth so that added to cost of textbooks significantly). And if some e-reader were to get a huge contract with a school district then that should push the cost of each device down closer to $100 each. This is all assuming that the whole system doesn't just collapse on itself. Ack.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 01:25 PM

BriGette M Ross
I do understand. It took me a good couple of days to get the hang of reading on my laptop. I read from my Ipod touch but only when I am stuck somewhere for an inordinate amount of time with nothing good to do. I like the texture of books but I love the convenience of Kindle and Ipod maybe one day for nostalgia sake they will make a kindle that feels like book pages.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 02:22 AM

week 1 Giving an A

The chapter giving an A reminded me so much about forgiving. It also frees from measuring and comparing relationships. I had to re-evaluate some of my relationships and give an A first before I made any other moves. With some giving an A did not (in the immediate) change anything. However, it will but now I am not hooked into a time or place, which takes so much stress off communication , relationships, teaching and learning. I remember my shorthand and executive office teacher having so much angst for the students who didn't get 80 words per minute before graduation. I hated typing and anything "administrative". She would be glad to know that I did "eventually" get to 75 words per minute and now occasionally assist business owners with "administrative". I didn't get an A in high school but the knowledge that I had gained place me high enough on some tests that I was able to go into the military as a telecom operator with a Top Secret clearance. Did I love typing no I wanted to be an entertainer but I dreaded every day going to that class 2 hours a day 5 times a week and you don't change your major in 2nd semester of your Junior year (so I am told). I may have enjoyed the "time" I spent with Mrs. WIllard more under this new idea I have learned. I like the idea that we are able to change our future histories by inventing them. This fact is freeing and allows for greater levels of creativity and connectedness with others.

Week 1 Universe of Possibility

Each chapter is a map for moving toward transformation. I read this one and actually felt the process of stepping into this "new"  universe - possibility. I started thinking about all of the songs, short stories and ideas for books that I never put to paper or never completed. I started thinking about the possibility of completing these works. Not concerned with how many people are out there writing and publishing but that there are lots of people who are "waiting" to hear what I have to say. I mean that revolutionized my thinking. It started me to thinking about my writings on PTSD and MST and how much information and research I had done long before it was on CNN. I started thinking about the new perspective that I have. I finally became open after all this time. I am looking at the infinite possibilities that are available to me now. The universe is now saying I am listening and interested what would you like to say to me. Wow.. somethings are not easily articulated. I do know that I am excited to press on through these assignments to learn more about myself and others through this process.

Week 1 Its all invented

Wow, already this book is helping me to get my "thinking" about things on track. I mean I have been exposed to this way of thinking however, his orchestration of words and the stories and life examples bring things to a kind of "picture" for me. I can literally see and hear from a feeling perspective this point of view and it has become much more meaningful to me. It may have been that I am now "fertile" ground or ready to receive and now this causes me to perceive. If life is all invented than why would I want to invent the worst possible scenarios for myself? I often tell people about second life and say its virtual world, you can be what ever who ever so why would you want to do and be exactly who/what you are in your real world. Lol. My frame of reference and my thinking had been in a box with limited (very limited) possibilities. Now, I am seeing wonderful things for myself and my future because I have removed this old moldy crusty way of thinking. Kim Clement once said " You're somewhere out in the future and you look much better than you do right now." and that clicks. My life has been pretty well entrenched in the measurement world. Being raised by clinicians and military everything is measurable from grades to how dust free your room is.  This preprogrammed way of doing things had been passed down for at least the last 4 generations. Now, the mental maps and the programing is being erased and rewritten as we speak. I am glad to read a course book that has the potential to change my life as I know it. Learning comes in many shapes and sizes but you have to be open to it and you have to recognize it when it happens.