Timeline+signup.

To complete this assignment, we will be experimenting with a new collaborative tool-Gliffy.com. I will invited you to a shared space as soon as I get your collective emails. Warning: we may be pushing the limit of this tool and we may run into problems that we will have to solve. This might not work. Think of this as a learning adventure. As each of you adds to the timeline you may suggest ways that it could be changed. This is open source development. Think creatively about how to cite your sources as you add elements to the timeline (You could add a file folder with a link to a page on your cite with all your sources for example, or you could create a link for each site. This is an opoortunity to talk about how you cite sources (and to alert you that Pepperdine has a zero tolerance approach to plaguarism). Even though the information is minimal, a source is a way to validate as well. Due Date August 24
 * Activity 4: Timelines (Collaborative Drawing)** Using the materials from the books we are reading supplemented with materials from the web, we are going to create a time line of technological inventions and uses of a particular hardware or software. This is not meant to be extensive assignment. It is to help you develop an historical orientation to what you read. A timeline is one of many ways of charting information. You will be choosing one tool, invention or use of technology to profile. We will use the wiki (below) to sign up so that each of you will take something different.


 * Name Tool Dates**

Heather: Virtual Globes/Maps 2001-present Todd: Email 1970's-present Rita: WiFi Wireless 1998 - present Tracey: Cellular Phone 1979-present Leigh - Interactive Classroom Technologies 1960 to present Samiya: Messaging 1980 - present Salina: Webconferencing; 1980 - Present Marie: digital camera 1972 - present Brandy: Smart Board 1991 - present Brent: Second Life 2003 - present (Virtual online world that replicates our own) Karen: Wiki 1994 to present Jessica: Windows Operating System 1983-present Nancy Linden Henry -Social Software & Skype 1960's -present Greg: the P.C.- 1950-the future Israel: Podcasting, October 2000-present Jodi: My Space, from the beginning to present Cindy: YouTube, beginning - present Jackie: GoogleEarth, beginning to present David: Landmark Technologies (those that do not fit into these various categories) Dervin: Technology "Tipping Points", (Distinctive events in history that have changed the focus and realization of Technology)