Flat Classroom Project and World Wide Communication

There are many technology tools that people can use for fun that can also be educational. For example, twitter is a fun tool to use to communicate with other people and share ideas. It can be educational as well as fun because my digital communication tools class uses a specific hash tag that allows us to all keep track of what each other is posting. Sites like Pinterest and Edmodo are also very fun to use for educational purposes.  Pinterest has such an incredibly vast amount of ideas on it that allows students to be inspired for projects and Edmodo is a very organized place to keep track of assignments and grades. Edmodo also allows people to easily upload projects and assignments.

Along with social networking sites for collaboration, video sharing and research projects can be done online.  On the Flat Classroom project, we get to work with people from other parts of the world to combine ideas for research papers.  We all have access to edit the same pages, similar to a google document.  We also get to use video soft wares to communicate with people and meet people online. We can take clips that other people created for us and use them in our own videos.  It is fun to be able to connect and communicate with people from around the world.

There are many large businesses in the world today that have multiple locations that do different things. Sometimes the locations are overseas or far away and the company may need to hold a meeting. The only way to do that would be to fly everyone to the same place or use video sharing and face time tools. If I ever work for one of those companies it will be helpful to already know how to use technology like we do in the Flat Classroom Project.

Communication has become extremely fast through the Internet and people in the world today have become very accustomed to instantaneous progress. If we have expectations out of others for immediate responses, then we should know that other people want us to give immediate responses as well. We will work faster for each other and we will work as a team with digital communication.