Again, I think that Domain is something that will continue to grow because the concept of it makes students more independent in their learning but also teaches students valuable skills in this digital age.

That quote is fantastic but so important because I think students, at least most of all those in public schooling, hate school. The way that the educational system is makes learning not enjoyable so the concept of Domain is super important.

Another great question because before this class I had never heard of it!

I think that is a good question.

Google is an internationally known brand and its name is recognized worldwide. Its made finding and discovering new information easier for everybody no matter what their age or their level of technological knowledge is.

Education is so susceptible to this because communication and connections are so important in the learning process.

New methods of learning and teaching, and most new innovations don't always take right away. They need time for people to really see what they are all about before people will trust them, and make them really useful.

This method of thinking could be a possible hinderance of innovation. If when thinking and creating ideas, one shouldn't be bogged down with wondering "Does it scale?".

Wouldn't this be a good thing for academia? I feel like the organization of the information could only be used as a tool.

There has been a shift in original product produced from Google. Previously used as a means of finding things on the web, there has been a sort of "rebranding" of Google into producing technological innovations.

This poses an interesting point.

The topics given do not explain what exactly Domain of ones own is; rather what it is not or what other companies are.

I feel that the article focuses so much on other products without giving enough up front informations on what exactly domain of one's own actually is.

Why is Google X so secretive if we know most of what is happening in it?

Now with the knowledge of Google X and the number of Internet-connected devices brought to the forefront of my mind, I'm certain Google will be responsible for when the robots take over and become the dominate species.

This article keeps reminding me of this comedy bit by Ben Bailey. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt7wsPARyCo]

Is this talking about collaborative work between domain users? I feel like these types of internet formats promote sharing of information.

Its very eye-opening to realize how important technology has become and evolved in a relatively short amount of time.

Is this implying a range of scales amongst different forums on the internet? Whereas some are more private, where others are open to the entire web?

I don't believe innovation should be described as "coming from the industry" rather than the academia itself. Innovation, to me, is the utilization of these new technologies alongside the university.

That's an intriguing way of putting it.

Our generation is lucky enough to be exposed to this new way of thinking and experience. It's crazy to think of attempting to further our education without all of these new technologies.

Innovation is definitely one of the main focuses that the web forum is achieving.

I have always carried a great appreciation for everything Google has done for education, in terms of all of the free services they provide that help me link with other classmates and workers.

Being free and universal is what I feel makes Google ahead of the game.

The domain pushes the boundaries of traditional education.

Moments like these, where you do what you feel is necessary instead of what everyone else tells you is necessary, are often the defining moments of our lives.

I know that I made the decision to become a teacher because of that look in a student's eye when the knowledge clicks into place, and everything finally makes sense. That expression of victorious triumph facilitated by none other than yourself is absolutely fulfilling, and makes the daily endeavors of education worthwhile, for those one or two students who actually appreciate what you do. Those are the ones I will teach for.

When we take the time to truly focus on how it works and the most effective ways to manipulate the web's power for our benefit, we will be more capable of realizing we have more ability to control our identity than we once thought.

This program basically puts you in charge of how you present yourself in a digital space, whether it be for professional or personal reasons.

This is an overwhelming realization of the exponential growth in the role technology now plays in our lives over the course of only the last 10-20 years. Instead of a luxury for the wealthy, it is now a daily necessity to prosper in the modern world.

This program is a human-fostered development, on the contrary to a naturally flourishing program that requires little human effort to prosper greatly.

This idea highlights the idea that people are somewhat selective in what they consider "innovative"; mainly only that which outwardly replaces a current service.

Most semesters, I have a practicum where I go into a classroom and observe how a licensed teacher, somewhere in the area, runs a productive class. Every time that the class I was in last semester tried to use laptops, they wasted over 10-15 minutes trying to get the computers running, because they are so old that all of them can barely make it through the class without the battery dying. If we want to facilitate proper technological education in our schools, we must provide our students with the proper resources.

As an education student, 21st Century skills are highly emphasized. This is one of them! We are becoming an increasingly digitalized world and if we want to be able to survive in it, we must become comfortable with digital communications

This program is an innovative way to wake up the sleepy routine of writing paper after paper in college and really provide students the opportunity to connect their thoughts to others around them.

I would say this is probably the biggest question most internet users have. Isn't a blog a little "out of the way" in terms of convenience for others to view? Anymore, can't we just see what others post on social media and feel fulfilled? (These are just some of the common threads of thought users have about the web)

I had a hard time understanding what she meant by "scale" but this rephrasing makes it more understandable. With that understanding, it is so hard to think of something replace Google. Google seems to becoming a black hole the spans over everything, even more so after reading about Google X.

This reminds me of Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World.

For lack of better words, this is creepy. Not only does Google retain this information, but we allow them to because the products we buy work more efficiently this way.

I can see the use of this definition in many aspects of my life. Something is only innovative if it can be trendy enough to market.

A very emotional and strong comment because we connect with more people online than we do in everyday life, and this allows us to meet people who have similar interests without the awkwardness of physical interaction.

This is interesting because a lot of other people struggle to obtain a degree, only to do something completely different than what they thought they would be doing. The internet really opens up more options for those who struggle with revelation, and who are still trying to figure out who they are as a person.

I try to actually read the Terms of Services, but it's so extensive that it takes me literally an hour to fully read and process the more shorter content ones. If only they made it more easier to read, but also still understand what we are basically signing away when hit the "I accept" button.

I know I've heard this method of describing Google very often, it makes you evaluate how much Google actually knows about, and the pros and cons of that fact. On one hand: it's more efficient and less time consuming, but on the other: it's very invasive towards our privacy. Makes you wonder if Google would still be as efficient if privacy rights were more restrictive with costumer privacy.

Does this mean its function is to tell us how the company does in our technology-ruled world?

I have no idea who Techcrunch is, but I can relate to the question "has it been on such and such media outlet? Because if not, I haven't heard about it." I fall into this category at weird times. For instance, if everyone hadn't been posting about the death of David Bowie on Facebook, I would not have known.

I feel the exchange does foster innovation. Instead of looking at the whole entire web, just think of Pinterest. It is a site completely filled with people's creative ideas, and one person can see an small idea and run with it for 50 miles. Compare that to a bigger scale.

I completely agree because knowledge should not be priced, but as a right to every human being.

Way for people to learn about different varieties of lifestyles in the the world.

So basically, it is about making a name for yourself and to establish individuality in the form of posts. Maybe this is a way to make, not only your life interesting, but also others as well? A way to make yourself famous without going through the music or television industry?

will help in the future

in a way it challenges us

although this is very obvious, it is very mind opening and i feel like people forget that sometimes. there is not a lot of privacy when it comes to the internet

I'm not following this logic. The point of agreeing to the Terms of Service is giving permission to your provider to use whatever data you provide for collection. If you are uncomfortable with a free service using your data, don't agree to the terms of service. It's an understandable, reasonable boundary and if their data collection is something you disagree with, then don't use their program.

interesting

good transformation

Although the idea of human connection has been changed because of technology, that doesn't always mean that it can't evolve or contain emotion in its own way. Emotion and opinions can be expressed through the Internet, maybe not in the same way as a face-to-face interaction, but it is not entirely lost on the screen. Personally, I think that a letter and a status can hold the same kind of emotion through the way that words can still reach us, written in pen or typed. Any time I have ever written a more heartfelt post online, it seemed to have reached many of my friends on Facebook and their friends if the post was shared. Words on any given platform do have impact and the Internet and the way we use it has evolved to better articulate what we are experiencing or feeling and it can be seen by many. However, there can be times when there are problems with reaching an audience based on the time you post or when others are online. This can diminish one's desire to express emotion if there isn't commentary or "likes" on the post, allowing the poster to think that their work or words are unappreciated. This does, in turn, make people rely on validation from others on the internet to feel that their words matter and this inhuman interaction or lack of can inhibit negative feelings such as this.

Although Google may not have been initially geared towards educational uses, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be a useful tool in that field outside of technological innovation. The way an application can be utilized depends on the user and if it is helpful to them then what exactly is the problem?

This is a very interesting section. It's the first time I've ever heard of Google X and its projects. Are most of their projects underground or secret since they are still in the process of development or would there be another reason behind that?

The tone here is clearly implying that we are some uneducated mass just slowly giving away our privacy (aka freedom to be anonymous online) and not caring about the consequences. This is a perspective i strongly disagree with. Privacy online is not a real thing. It never has been. When you're using googles tools, why shouldn't they have a right to collect that information? You're using a tool they gave you for free. If I went into Starbucks and bought a drink, I wouldn't then be upset if they asked me if I wanted the same drink the next time I went into that same Starbucks. They are trying to improv my experience, just like google is by collecting my information. I am definitely over simplifying, I'll admit that.

This shift has been happening for years and is inevitable. People will debate endlessly on whether of not this is a good thing, but thats not stoping it from happening. Research and innovation are absolutely slowly being claimed by private tech companies. If you start to do great research while attending university you will be scouted by one of these companies and given a job offer almost immediately. The money is with the private industries now, and the innovation will absolutely follow.

I feel like as a whole, people who use the entire google interface profit from getting data collected. Data is important to figure out how and why people do the things they do. We can use this data to change what isn't working and to reinforce what is. It may just be because I'm a psych major and I've had the importance of data shoved down my throat, but I don't feel like I lose importance or individuality by being a data point on a spreadsheet. My tiny contribution to the population of Internet users helps improve its functioning.

Google Chrome is one of the biggest browsers that we rely on. I could not imagine life without it.

I may not be fully understanding, but how is google not innovative? Why the airquotes? One may say that organizing content on the internet isn't incredibly innovative or scholarly, but I feel like it definitely is. Innovation is, in my opinion, changing a flawed design for the better. Organizing basically the entire internet is groundbreaking to me, even though it sounds quite simple.

Never realized how many useful tools google has created for people to use for free. They have made communicating and working together in class drastically easier.

Very interesting question.

Having students go through even just all four years of high school with their own domain would be interesting because you could see how they have grown and changed.

That has literally been the only thing teachers have told me about my digital presence and I think that having their own space would be so helpful to students to really be able to express themselves.

All of that is so cool! I didn't even think to do any of those things!

This is really so important for students to make us enjoy what we are learning.

That is so wonderful because education for students is just making sure we pass our classes and get our degree and then get a job. Having education be more about ourselves than pushing us into the "adult" world is a great idea because it would make students be more interested in learning.

That's so interesting!

This quote is wonderful because it is so true.

I understand that because I feel students are online the most out of any occupation but legislative efforts are used in favor of placing restrictions on people. So while better security would be great, legislative efforts are not the way to go.

Can also serve as a personal filing cabinet. Useful for things like building portfolios, where you can go back and present past work.

Sort of draws similarities to getting a child a puppy of their own and making them take care of it themselves, therefore teaching them responsibility.

Or by association, monitor themselves what the post, and how they present themselves online.

It could also translate as a warning about other previously used forms of social media. It demonstrates what little control they have of the content they post of other sites.

This also can somewhat instill a sense of pride in what students produce. Instead of just turning it in for a grade and never seeing it again past that point, it follows the student making them want to only produce the best they can.

UMW Blogs is a tool that has been encouraged and made necessary in many of my other classes. The blog is your own however, it is run and managed by the school itself.

This is a perfect example of what learning should look like. Students being able to show the work they have done on one website about them. Grades are letter in the alphabet but work done over time shows what they know and what they have learned.

his is interesting because it makes sense to have this kind of program Todays world is mostly online and why not have something that will benefit students.

What a great way to summarize the importance of student-owned and operated domains, well-put.

It must be a challenge to monitor a few hundred students and their social media presence, better yet a few thousand.

I have a gut feeling that a small part of this is really for the sake of holding prestige so that potential freshman do not place labels or stereotypes on schools that they have not yet attended.

I am fond of that idea

A domain like this to control one's own digital identity helps to foster the idea of "metacognition" where a student is able to decide for his or herself what is appropriate/ what is not to include in a digital portfolio and develop a sense of responsibility for one's own image and learning practices. A common meme on Facebook says something along the lines of "How can they expect me to make a major life decision like which college to attend when just yesterday I had to ask if I could use the restroom?". The more responsibility students are given to manage themselves, the more they will be engaged and develop self-sufficiency.

This idea demonstrates how schools almost vilify technology instead of embracing and teaching students how to use it appropriately as a beneficial resource.

These kinds of programs give students the opportunity to truly define themselves in a digital space, rather than allowing pictures and timelines define their intellectual aptitude.

So a little more about my experiences as an education student- More and more trends are growing in instructional design to provide a greater variety of learning opportunities for students, to ensure that learners of all strengths and weaknesses have the chance to learn and thrive. Education is a personal thing, and we need to put the individuality back into a largely standardized system.

This also teaches students how to responsibly maintain a professional and scholarly online identity.

This statement is astonishingly true. Often students feel that the work they have completed is not their own because teachers and administrators maintain possession throughout early education.

A more efficient way to learning is to not tell them they are wrong, but to tell them how they can improve.

The ability to gain experience through hands-on and interactive activities is a big asset to my education. The digital world has helped shape a new form of learning.

Our generation has grown up in the technology age, so the rate at which we become acclimated to the web domain is much quicker than other generations.

As far as I am aware, a Google Doc is safe from advertisers and other companies as it excludes those who are not in the selected group of emailers. Unless this is in reference to being able to keep a blog that other students can post on.

I did not know the website was founded based on Woolf's idea. It's very clever and the website does follow that intended goal.

I believe that usually students have more confidence posting their opinions online rather than in person. Therefore, having a place to freely express opinions increases discussion material.

This is an interesting bit because I'm getting the vibe that Watters is undermining the importance of digital citizenship being taught in schools. I understand and agree that giving young people their own independent web domain is a great case for individuality, but I'd sooner have a high schooler learn about the repercussions of cyber bullying than running a website. I find this ironic because she seems to think this isn't as important but later mentions that students who were given domains still talked frequently about proper digital citizenship. I may not be understanding her properly, but I'm not exactly following this train of thought.

good that they teach students about what they should/should not post. it is always good to be cautious on social media

good to have

did not know that that was the purpose for the domain of one's own

I feel like this is actually the most important part of the entire concept.