As we're beginning the slow descent to the end of term I want to encourage all of you to continue blogging about technology in education. We've finished our chapter reading and have no more quizzes so I'm sure the self-motivation is going to wane a little. However this is now the perfect time to start being more aware of the technology around you, not only in the classroom but everywhere else in your daily lives. If you haven't already I encourage you to subscribe to some podcasts related to technology and education, read the papers, check out some websites, make technology relevant to you, personally.
I've been thinking a lot about social technology lately - you know the whole Facebook, Second Life, MySpace, online social networking phenomenon. Facebook have just announced their move towards social advertising; that is taking a user's shopping and lifestyle preferences and habits and using them to advertise directly to that user's friends. So for example, if Jeff buys the latest Coldplay album he can choose to have that broadcast out to his friends network, along with an advertisement from Amazon. Does anyone else see a massive potential privacy issue here? Of course for many of the college and high school generation, posting one's social life acitivites on the web is done without a second thought so maybe for many of those using Facebook, having their picture posted next to the latest copy of Harry Potter isn't a problem. Facebook has always been pretty good about responding to its users so it'll be interesting to see what users make of this next development.
Marketing preferences - Facebook
And because it's Friday, some gratuitous advertising fun from my homeland, extremely loosely technology related!
Translation for the next one: CO = Commanding Officer, MP = Member of Parliament, queue = line.
Because I love Transformers...
You just can't go wrong with the ole' Mac v. PC ads
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