Status-Seeker, Critic, Em-Cee, Lurker, Pundit,...Which are you in the Web 2.0 world?
The basic premise of the personality type, then correlated and referenced within the group dynamic, is the entire rationale behind why social interaction technology naturally developed in the virtual world back-boned on the internet. Why? Demand. You say demand?…from who?…, no one could anticipate why we would like ability to attach our blogs to other blogs, but the fact that we could was much like getting our voice and personality displayed in a newspaper, tv spot, magazine, book, article, or radio show. Most often on a much smaller scale of exposure, but vastly larger in the duration and accessibility of an audience to reach you or see you or reach the group or see the group. From the early days of message boards and message threads (all text i remind you with no colors, no graphics, no flash), it was like being able to ‘cross-pollenate’ message boards of users with ‘their’ message boards, not message boards of message boards. So now, much like in the ‘Real World’, we as humans socialize into groups and units. All of the groups/units, require a set of knowledge or to-be learned knowledge. All of us also fit, within a group, into certain roles statistically. This is the same in virtual group/social environments as well. So much focus has been placed in physical school and work environments to learn and work in groups. Why? Faster learning, better grades, higher output of production, group control vs. individual control, etc. The e-learning community is just now starting to focus on ‘How do we measure an individuals learning within the virtual online communities and dynamic components/modules/apis a user interacts with? What is a rising standard which e-learning technology can tap into that is currently being used by community/social driven sites in the commercial/social networks of todays internet environment?
1. Status Seeker - constantly posts ‘Cool’ ‘New’ stuff on their sites and works like mad to get 275,000 feed burners.
2. Critic - every write-up talks about everything ‘wrong’ with the subject matter at hand.
3. Socializer - puts out the event notices and party announcements for everyone and follows-up after the events personally to everyone’s emails, blogs, posts, and sites.
4. Em-Cee - the ‘Moderator’ role with a WebCam of cool performances of the latest hip info out - keep the folks watching is most important
5. Lurker - Most often will not be a high contributor, but will login often enough to keep up some site visits, last listened to song on Last.fm, make a face for the ‘online now’ status.
6. Buddy - This is just straight forward, all about relationships and friendships. Just like going to a friends house, talking on the phone, writing letters, socializing in communities at organizations, coffee shops, sports, games, outdoors,….the friend ‘buddy’ is there for the friendships and how the internet provides the outlet for this to be accomplished.
7. Creator - online/media development is their ‘trade’ or ‘craft’, just as if one were a banker, carpenter, doctor, teacher, etc. Often these roles are graphic designers, programmers, database developers, application developers, systems development, audio technicians, video engineers…you know, the people who make all the stuff we use on the internet.
8. Pundit - the ‘authority’ on their chosen field of industry and commentates as expected
9. Rebel - fully embraces new technologies and tries it all. Often thought of as against or opposite as ‘authority’. So why is embracing technology opposing ‘authority’????….that is a thought to consider of the ‘Rebel’. I think the rebel can be the pulse/heartbeat of any socialization/group/activity/initiative.
10. Officiator - well this is the project manager, blog leader, clan leader, or team leader.
If you enjoyed this read, please go see Adrian Chan’s site: Gravity7.com and his ideas on SOCIAL INTERACTION DESIGN - *the terms of 10 listed Personality types were pulled from his list and i defined the terms for this write-up.
Somehow this ties to e-learning, and hopefully i made the jump. So, be your personality type and correct me, complain to us, tell us we are right, tell us new ideas which throw us all off-course but makes us think, be idle and say nothing (this is most probable, as still no comments, maybe there are now readers…haha), wait for someone else to chime in then blast in your rightful and quality opinion, comment, feedback, or analysis.
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I thought I would bring the XH-A1 along with a family outing during this Christmas Holiday in downtown Pensacola, Florida. Just the Bogan/Manfrotto tri-pod and the camera into the misty/foggy night on the streets and in the park. I focussed specifically on low-light shooting with gain +/-0, Shutter no lower than 60, and F-stop usually 1.6-2.0max for short depth of field (dof). The output was to full 1990×1080i HD, then used Handbrake to compress a 1280×720 H.264 .m4v optimized for web, deinterlace - fast, no detelecine, no deblocking.
The video displayed was also part of the new use i have been working out with the preferred quality of Vimeo. I notice little to no re-compression on upload to vimeo, if you follow their specifications in the instructions documentation for video compression/sizing/deinterlacing, etc. Vimeo has became my new favorite site, once again.
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I cannot say enough about how HandBrake as Open Source has continued to create a solid stable tool for 2008. Last major release February 2008, today is December 19th, 2008,…a few more months and it will be 1 year. Why does this matter? This open source project is being used by many and the performance has spoken to its success. I have been only using it for a few months, since Anthony Aukamp turned me on to it. I have typically used Apple Compressor and the Final Cut Pro export suite for all my video conversions and size/type exports. I also had been kicking around, in light use, FFMPEG - which is a mostly command line app until recently. Whether you needed full size HD 1990×1080 or exporting out a dvd rip to put on your iPhone or iPod,….HandBrake is the only tool you need. Compression, the quality looks like no compression.
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This is short, but i would like to hear anyone’s comments or listings of what they think are solid CMS systems listed by either open source or commercial. Of your listings or others listings, which do you prefer and your opinions on the use of.
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Great visual camera control using XH-A1, LETUS 35MM Adapter, & range of 35MM lenses. The cinematic script followed with great cinematic control, completely moved me to excitement over the experience one takes in persuing naturally to be an interactive developer, programmer, or gaming developer. Most of all the piece seems that it would be a universal experience dispite ones background experiences to be moved to attend St. CATHARINES and recruiting for NGEN - Niagara Interactive Media Generator.
I like the fact that SCORM 2004 provided the use if cmi.interactions for use in assessments for providing a very granular question by question set and get of the data. That is great. Wait…? Once the student has completed the package, what about addressing how one were to be able to get that data out for learner(s) who have completed the package for all scos that initialize with all cmi.interactions? This keeps coming up over and over with many of the clients I service. How could this not be addressed at some point? This is such a key component, and given the spread of SCORM, allowing for measurement at this granular level shows the forethought put forth to address assessments used in SCORM. Otherwise, another spec would have been addressed or integrated. I don’t know how many SMEs, IDs, Instructors, and Content Owners have asked this fundamental question of, “OK, we had our developers created the tests using all the interactions cmi data, now we want to get that data out for Question Item Analysis. …. What, there is no way to do that? Are you kidding me?” I don’t know how many of these questions i have had, but it must be infinitely larger for everyone else.
I know, if anyone even replies back to my ‘Comment-less’ posts, LMS vendors have added this integration into their engines and they support it. Great, so bring it to the community and share it. The community shared the entire model for commercial companies to provide products which profit from SCORM, a model given to them to go forth and charge for services…Rightfully so.
This must be addressed in SCORM 2.0. I believe, so far of what i have been apart of as well as the foundation topics and use cases from the LETSI workshop in Pensacola, that this will be addressed. LETSI is thinking in the whole picture of the system, as a SOA (Services Oriented Architecture), not just the runtime. http://LETSI.org
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