Eric E. Schmidt

Media Ecology Theory – One More Theory “You’ve got mail!” that’s right, I’ve got 66,483 emails in my inbox. That would be the current total in my Gmail account that I opened on 09/17/2005. Over eleven years of Electronic Era media history stored in my Gmail inbox – and during that time, various forms of media were born and became obsolete. The Media Ecology Theory (MET) is used to describe a what I see is a cycle – it depicts forms of communication that are given the symbol of the word…

Online education has been around for many years. Online education was started in the 1960s by the University of Illinois. The college created an Intranet for students, with a “system of linked computer terminals where students cold access course materials as well as listen to recorded lectures” (Hickey, 2014). This Intranet program later changed to PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations). PLATO was used worldwide and “used to create many of the concepts of social networking…

The topic that I am analyzing is known as the foot in the door (FITD) technique. The FITD technique is defined as getting someone to agree to a small favor in hopes that the participant feels helped and/or cared for; the moment the initial favor is fulfilled, the person follows up by asking for an even bigger request. Two researchers in 1966 named Freedman & Fraser discovered the FITD technique. From their research, they concluded that it is one of the most effective compliance techniques. Also,…

Face-to-face learning is students having classes in an actual classroom with their teachers and other students. On the other hand, online learning is students taking classes online, usually at their home. Many students, teachers and other people might think that online learning is better than face-to-face learning because it provides students and teachers more diverse learning resources, and it’s more convenient because they don’t have to come to school every day. However, is online learning…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has many similarities that relate to the world that is lived in today. In the book the city was just like the society today, before everything had slowly changed overtime. Technology was important and everything else, like books, faded away. The citizens, including Beatty, Montag, Faber and Mildred are blinded, and think it's ok for books to be burned and don't question anything. Until one day where Montag decides to actually look into the books instead of burning…

The Effects of Inclusion after Ostracism on Individuals’ Levels of Belonging, Control, Self-Esteem, and Meaningful Existence Ostracism, which is the act of being excluded and rejected in social settings, is a powerful aversive experience. There is a growing body of literature in this area that shows ostracism to produce a number of negative short- and long-term negative consequences toward an individual’s wellbeing. The temporal need-threat model by Williams (2001) specifically explained the…

The essential argument goes: you’re not really multitasking; you’re just task switching. The standard recommendation: better to finish one task before moving on to another. While college professors are under increasing pressure to capture the attention of students during class, competing with the distractibility of laptops and mobile devices. Many students DO believe they can multitask-pay attention in class whilst surfing the internet, sending a message, or checking the status of something…

Context Correlation with Content The context surrounding the author while writing often correlate directly with the content found when reading the book. Frequently readers take fictional works of writing and detach it from the world completely, however, many times the content of the book relates more to what is happening in the outside world than the things the author chose to create out of nowhere. Context has the ability to affect what the writing chooses to focus on and as a result of that,…

A MOOC is an online course for anybody that has the tie and dedication to their education.Most professors that teach the different classes,usually don’t have time to talk and meet face to face with every student they are teaching. You have to have internet access to be able to particapate in these courses.Every course is different in its own way.The best part is that you get to pick any course you want to learn more about and it is also free to enroll into.By examining Gregory’s essay, I have…

A great way for a library to raise money is to allow different proposals for different fundraisers, specifically two different proposals which a committee representing the community will decide which is the most logistically feasible. The two fundraisers the committee will take into account are a proposal for a library book sale and a proposal for a carwash. Though the book sale and the carwash have their similarities and differences, the carwash is the most reliable fundraiser to generate more…