Roman Ramos's List: Digital Media & Learning

This website shows how the creation of the web has changed our world today. It has opened new windows for learning. Thanks to the web, our ways of learning have changed and we are now getting an easiier way to share and recieve information.

THis shows a report on a three year research that the internet develops new interests in youth, self-guided learning, and promoted new environments for socializing.

This websites is for an organization, which uses the web to change the way that we watch TV. It causes us to change how we view TV, by stopping big corporations from ruling what you see in each channel, and allow the actual viewers to control it. It is making the viewers not only buy, but participate, which is participatory culture.

This article that talks about using the internet to allow participatory culture to happen, ironically was published in a public internet websites that allows the users to become the creators. It basically shows how the internet is beneficial for those learning and for teaching, for it creates speed, easy accesability, etc.

Now, with google earth in the iphone, you can finally track down any plce in the world, with you cell phone. You can now carry the earth in your pocket. Just by writting down a place in your iphone, google earth will allow you to see a satelite image of the location of this place, in your iphone. You can also look at pictures of the place thrown from Earth, and information about it, when you click on tabs found in the map made by wikipedia.

Omeka is a simple and flexible system for organizations, cultural institutions, and individuals to manage and publish items, collections, and exhibits on the web. It allows you to make serious websites that you can post on the web.

With this new software, you can easily creat music. It is an easy and simple way to create music, and you can use it in your iphone. Not only is it simple to create music; it is also simple to transfer it into the web. By tapping your fingers on the screen, you can selsct instruments, play them, and make a beat, which your phone interprets into beautiful music!

eTwinning is an easy way for schools in Europe to communicate. It gives information to schools all over Europe, and at the same time, it allows two or more schools to work together in project without having to meet in person! It does not only increase the amount of cooperation between teachers from different parts of the world, it also allows easier communication of ideas. eTwinning is truly a remakable program that might start to spread to other parts of the world other that Europe in the future.