Wiki Dissection

1. What is the purpose of this Wiki? The purpose of this wiki is to give information about disruptive technology in the classroom. 
2. When was the last post? The last post was november of 2007
3. How was this Wiki created/designed? This wiki was created by someone who had research/information about disruptive technology in the classroom, they made an account and posted it. Other people edited this and added more information as well. 
4. What would you add to this particular wiki? I would add more up-to-date information, resources and links.
5. What did you learn after reading this wiki? I have learned that an Internet Telephony allows your computer to be used like a telephone, you can send voice overs to someone. 
6. If you had to create a Wiki with a team, what would be the specific topic (s)? If I created a wiki, I would make one on allstar cheerleading. 
7. How can Wikis be used in the classroom or in education? Wikis can be used to look at research on a specific topic. 

W-R Wikipedia Findings Page

• Wood-Ridge allows 7th-12th grade now, on the wiki it says we only have 9th-12th
• We do not have tennis anymore
• Wood-Ridge High School is now Wood-Ridge Junior Senior High School
• In the snapshot, it says that Dr. DeNobile is our principal but Mr. Petrocelli is our principal
• We do not have a cross-country team anymore
• No golf team
• faculty to student ratio is now 23:1
• We have 578 students now (7th-12th)
• Increase of 8 students per grade (9th-12th) 33 in total
• Add our school youtube channel and take out the Devil's Advocate 

Smart Lense

• In South Korea, Samsung has been testing a new type of contacts since September of 2014

• The contacts that they are designing allows you to send videos and pictures that are from the contact's built in camera by blinking. 

• The photo and/or video will be sent through the paired smartphone

• Although Google is said to be testing smart lenses as well, Samsung just got a patent last week 

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               Samsung Headphones could help you feel VR (not only see it)

• The Entrim 4D headphones were unveiled last week in Austin, Texas

• The headphones are from Samsung's Creative Lab 

• Different from other headphones, the purpose is not to listen to music, even though it allows you to do that too. Its purpose is to trick your brain into thinking you are moving.

• They send electrical signals to the nerve of your ear, which regulates balance and motion.

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                                                       Moving Ink

• In the past summer Oskar and Gasper staged an event in Portugal called "Ink Mapping" 

• They used projection mapping to transform tattoos into works of art

• Projection mapping is combining traditional projection technology with software that forces the  projected tattoo to fit within the boundaries of a three-dimensional surface

• This allows artists to design motions that follow the certain pathway of planes and curves

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

         This article is very helpful because it helps you better understand the laws of copyright. Copyright is a federal law that protects your work that could include literary, artistic, written, musical and some other types of work. Your work that you produce is already copyrighted without any paperwork. Someone can comment and research your work and it is now against the law.  Also, if your work is license, it is not fair use. This article will help me when I am working on a project, research paper, or any school work.

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                                                     Unhackable iPhone

• Even though the fight between Apple and the FBI is still happening, Apple is starting to ensure security measures that would prevent a hacker to hack an iPhone using the methods at Apple's source

• The heated arguments between Apple and the FBI will soon come to end at a hearing on March 22

• Apple is willing to bring this fight between them and the FBI to the Supreme Court if necessary

• The feud is said to be the reason for Apple's new software