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Evaluation The reason we are all creating videos around the world is to elaborate on the different aspects that are shown by Thomas Friedman in his book 'The World is Flat', and the lectures he has made about his ideology. We were divided into four sectors with students in different regions in the world. I was put into innovation, invention and prediction and connecting the world online. I will show how i carried out the different stages of the design cycle below. The first stage was the inves… Continue

Dr. Roth, the dean of North Western came to us today to talk to us about 'Citizen Journalism'. What is Citizen Journalism? What I had understood from the lecture we got from the dean is that citizen journalism, is the news that we get from people. Not professionals in a job; for example the Tsunami, there were not professionals waiting there so citizens, and tourists had to take pictures and give them to the news broadcasts. This is an example of Citizen Journalism where the people actually cont… Continue

For the Thomas Friedman book The world is Flat. Each student was assigned a chapter summary; I had summarized the section I was assigned. Hope you get a better understanding of this chapter. … Continue

Hello people, this is not the first time I use the ning seeing that we have done a similar project last year which has helped prepare for this. I am exited to see what we get in the projects and the videos we all create seeing that we need to create outsources and interact with other students to do so. Learning this new topic about 'The World is Flat- Thomas Friedman'. Hope to get some invitation's from people to create a wider understanding of where you live, and create the world Friedman is ta… Continue