Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

What are different ways these virtual worlds can be used? What are the pros and cons? Be specific. How do virtual worlds foster creativity? What do you think the future of virtual worlds will look like?

There are many ways these virtual worlds can be used. They be can be used to create new innovation of technology and develop an outlook of the real world. It also can be a place to foster creativity within these virtual worlds in order to expand their knowledge about the world. In the article After Second Life, Can Virtual World's Get a Reboot?, Diane Mehta mentions that "Minecraft is a virtual world" that helps kids to expand their imaginations to connect with others and create or build new things. They have the ability to build upon their thought process to become a better critical thinker. Virtual world's gives us the opportunity to collaborate with others. It can be used as a platform of economic ventures to provide growth in different industries on a global scale. Most of these virtual worlds have many advantages. One of these advantage is that we allow these online users to continuously explore the virtual world to obtain some sort of "entertainment, social connection, and learning." Virtual worlds allows developers to construct their view of the world. They can gather pictures of different types of environments and texturing the pictures to make it what they want it to look like. After the process, there is enormous emphasis of brainstorm collaboration within this groups to understand how will the avatars interact with their surroundings. Likewise, one of the major disadvantages of virtual world is that they don't posses no future goal advancement in the business world. No one has been able to become creative enough to think outside the box or to go beyond the limits of the virtual world. Virtual worlds still isn't capable for "a full monetization plan" to provide funds towards this project.

Virtual world's do foster creativity for individuals that have a disorder. It can promote social interaction to break away from their shyness. In the article, iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction, by Nicole Said, describes how virtual world can help people you have autism gain the ability to become more creative. By walking into this virtual name "Naught Auties" created by David Savill, a virtual resource center for those with autism you encounter several avatars that help others with autism to help cope their fear with the conditions. They are allowed to find more information about the condition and spread the awareness through this virtual world. It creates a "comfort zone" for others to become comfortable to speak with others with the disorder. It generates them to break out of their shells and allows them to be themselves.

In the future, virtual world will continue to evolve and become a huge influence on our daily lives.  Virtual world will begin to push beyond the boundaries of the human body and become acquaint with the real world. You will be able to live inside this virtual environment. The brain will be to smell, taste, touch, hear around your surroundings.

Social Networking Sites

Many of these social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube have similarities and differences of functioning on the Internet. Individuals that rely on social media have their own preferences to obtain that latest trend or information. Facebook it contains a friendly interface in which it's a simple layout and it's easily to understand for the non-tech savvy person. You're allowed to share links for different websites, videos, blogs, post videos or pictures, and interact with family and friends. LinkedIn useful intention is directed at the professional commodity to obtain a job position in a organization or to network yourself. You're allowed to post resumes and apply to job postings. It gives you the ability to connect with professionals to seek advice. But, I believe you need to act in a serious robotic professional manner to interact with others. Twitter is somewhat similar to Facebook because it invites users to collaborate with across the globe. But, Twitter tends to get clutter with non-sense garbage that has significant meaning. Twitter strictly allows you to use only 140 characters to process your thoughts or feelings. I believe that Twitter has become somewhat in the past couple of years a hostile environment because users are using offensive behaviors and remarks to prove a point. YouTube allows billions of individuals to discover, watch and share all various  videos. You're given the advantage to watch videos to your preference and have the ability to comment on them. But, overall you can only brand yourself through only visual and that is somewhat a downfall because LinkedIn allows you show off your professional skill sets. Furthermore, out of the four major social networking sites, I believe Facebook standout as being the world's best fundamentally sound website to grasp various amount of information to your preference.

Blog about Twitter

Twitter and Blackboard discussions are two different entities. Twitter is usually used for to engage with random users online. Likewise, Blackboard discussions are generally focused within the classroom and your classmates can have access to the discussions. Twitter can become quite confusing because it's open to the public and eventually you can't keep up all the posts that's being sent from various Twitter users. In contrast, Blackboard discussions can be easily traced back to the student. Also, Blackboard discussions can become productive to voice your opinion or to ask for advice on a particular subject. Some of the Twitter discussion can generate a hostile environment in which users can be highly offensive by using foul language and inviting trolls to continue the tirade of aggression. I believe Blackboard discussions are more beneficial for students to learn or generate new ideas. There is a presence of an actual person monitoring these discussion, so intolerant behavior is not welcomed. Furthermore, Blackboard discussions contains an unlimited amount of characters that can be used to freely speak your mind. In contrast, Twitter is strictly uses 140 characters to post a response and I believe it's not enough.