News Report 5

News Report 5

“The Wired Campus”, The Chronicles of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Virtual-Medical-Training-Comes/7277

November 24, 2009

Erica R. Hendry

Virtual online medical training is something that has been around. Now of days it as upgraded but still has some of the same features it used to have. The Second Life application has changed how it works so that now trainees and graduates can get more of a real life situation, and the chance to discuss their decision with doctors and other professors.

For the looks of it there isn’t to many boundaries when using Second Life. Sooner than later there will be more application like this just for everyday use in the classroom. Then again there might not be a classroom to go to anymore. With the Second Life you create an avatar to be about of this on-line world. This sort of reminds me of the XBOX 360 gaming console. You create an avatar to join million online to network and communicate with.

One key benefit of training like this is the decrease in the cost of doing it. For instance no actual people are hurt or harmed in the training, less man hours used, and give you a legit second chance to get second opinion or go over a mistake if one ever happens. All this process of the Second life is already being used at universities across the nation.

No one ever thought that technology would advice this for that medical students would be doing training online. There are some people that a not sold on the idea and would things the more traditional way of training. In all I don’t think the training will eventually go all the way online. There still are some issues that should be done in person for example running real test or finding cures for certain diseases.

Reading Report 5

"Information Navigation 101"

Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education

3/9/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 27

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i27/27a03801.htm

Technology now is an everyday thing. It also changes so often there is not anything new for long anymore. My generation now has advanced technology so far that we are sometimes the only ones that can use it. For example with the cell phones that now have access to the internet, text messaging, and tons of other application with cell phones. We now have facebook, myspace, and other website that we use to talk to people and find old friends. My generation is great at all these things but is horrible at using the technology at doing academic research.

If we can not access the research through google or any other basic search engine we tend to not care anymore and end up gathering a bunch of the same information. In the article here the California State School system is having classes and donating time for the student’s to learn how to do academic research. Its just so easy for students to go to Google and type in a key word and millions of hits pop up. We want something that it fast and quick. Students hate to spend long hours in any library doing research. After awhile it is easy to loss focus and use those non-academic search engines.

I don’t agree with some of the things the school system is doing to make students better at gathering information. The program of giving students test I totally disagree with. I feel as if there should be academic research class that is part of your basic studies and how well you research it yourself stand for the grade.

John T. Carr
October 20, 2009
Reading 4
“The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google”
Steven Bell
Chronicle of Higher Education 02/20/2004

In Steven Bell’s article he talks about the comparison of Google’s easy research and the academic library research. Both are totally different. I use Google research everytime I do have a research paper to do and also do use the scholarly searches also. The article argues that student do want the scholarly research to be easy to access like Google as it. To me it would nice to have the ability to look up something easy and something like Google does. The only bad thing about this is when you do use Google to find something it give you usually a broad search.

The broad searches that Google give me I use them in academic research databases to get more specific. Majority of college students want it right in there face not having to work for it, like traditional “old School” researchers want. Steven Bell that admit that he does want libraries to Googl-ize some of the research process that each one has and make some what universal. Honestly I feel like it would never happen because for one libraries pay for the articles and academic research they have in their systems. I wouldn’t want my stuff to be easy to access for anyone. Another reason is the research time the people spent to have the research. Someone had to do the research first for it to be available for everyone else and they may have taken years.

Google itself has made a lot of things easier in the last five to ten years. It’s to the point now that I hear and know professors that want you to use Google first or other search engines. Google can be a first palce to start just like Wikipedia is. Somewhere you can start but not finish all research. Using academic research engines or databases are the best to find true and accredited research.

Reading 4

Blogger will not let me copy my work over from word.....

Reading Report 3

“The Future of Libraries”
Thomas Frey , Futurist Speaker.com
November 2006
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2006/11/the-future-of-libraries/

The article here discusses the history and the changes the library is going through now. Libraries have been around for centuries. The article itself starts with an abstract about the history of Leonardo De Vinci and his work.
Libraries have changed just like anything else man has made. From being a place to do research and study, it’s now a place maybe you start the research then finish it at home because so much stuff is put online. Regardless of how much is online though libraries will always have the best and most reliable resource to do research.
The ten trends they have in article are correct. I have been around long enough to see some of things happen. For instance the cell phone situations and that CD’s are going away. I work in an electronic and computer store. Technology changes about every four to 6 months updating, to something we want to do the work for us. Libraries are now getting the bad end of stick with all these advances in technology. It’s to the point now that communication has taken a toll on the libraries system also. Overall I still feel like libraries will always be around forever because they provide you with the resources and artifact found nowhere else. Trend 10 is another reason why libraries will stay. If they could become more of diverse culture in each library there wouldn’t be any concerns for anyone.

News Report 3

News Report 3
The Wired Campus
Can removing Computers from Classrooms improve teaching?
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Can-Removing-Computers-From/7279

The article I found was about an university thinking about taking the computers out of it's classrooms. In today’s time I totally disagree with this. We are in an era of technology were computers are part of everyday life and make life easier. I couldn’t imagine going to most of my classes and not having the instructor use a computer. That would be an extremely boring hour. Me personally I would, be knock out in no time. On the other hand professors do tend to just use PowerPoint and just lecture from that. That’s up to the teacher. Speaking from my own experience I have done better when a professor does use PowerPoint and I don’t have to write down eight pages of notes. Another point if the professor themselves would get more involve and include open discussion questions with the PowerPoint the computers could stay and students could get that open discussion we all like to do.

News Report 2

The future of libraries, with or without books
John D. Sutter
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/index.html

The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it. Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. "Loud rooms" that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians. And that's just the surface. By some accounts, the library system is undergoing a complete transformation that goes far beyond these image changes.
Authors, publishing houses, librarians and Web sites continue to fight Google's efforts to digitize the world's books and create the world's largest library online. Meanwhile, many real-world libraries are moving forward with the assumption that physical books will play a much-diminished or potentially nonexistent role in their efforts to educate the public.
Some books will still be around, they say, although many of those will be digital. But the goal of the library remains the same: To be a free place where people can access and share information.
"The library building isn't a warehouse for books," said Helene Blowers, digital strategy director at the Columbus [Ohio] Metropolitan Library. "It's a community gathering center."Think of the change as a Library 2.0 revolution -- a mirror of what's happened on the Web.


When I read this article the first thing that came to my mind was the other day at work. An older man came into the store and was asking for an ebook. At first I looked confused and thought about our service on campus. Then I realize he was talking about the ebooks that Sony and Amazon makes. The older gentlemen easily said, “I hate to go away from the standard way of reading but this ebook is pretty convenient when you are older because having the ability to read in dark is a plus and you don’t have to worry about carrying two or three books around. The article is discussing trends that are according around the country. People now don’t want to wait and read a book about information. It’s now a time in age where getting the information as quickly as possible and the old school way is no longer needed. I feel like libraries are going to stay around with some making the change especially in those rural areas were the library is the place of history for that town.