subject: The personal touch of high-tech in education [print this page] There are some of the things which students will be able to explore and experience in virtual labs. Virtual reality goggles and gloves are to be standard fare in a drive by high-tech in education. A plan to increase the use of innovative infocomm technology. However, some institutions are speeding along the infocomm technology highway. A virtual reality lab is more about preparing students for the 21st century workplace. It's not simply coming up with high-tech gadgets and infra-structure all over the school, but about how to prepare the students for an environment dominated by technology and information. ICT can very quickly pull data and resources together, so it's very convenient tool to facilitate different types of learning, in very ICT savvy environments. The Internet is the system backbone; the World Wide Web is really just one of its applications. Others include VOIP ( or Internet telephony ) , ftp ( or file transfer protocol used to upload files to the web ) etc. Beside, there are personal online journals. ( Blogs ). Readers can put down their remarks in a section of the blog called a thread ( which can be read in reverse chronological order ) to discuss a particular issue. If video is used, the blogs are called vlogs. Using a blog search engine like Technorati, you can sort out the trillions who are already online to select and organize those whose most recent posts you wish to see each time you return to the homepage.
At del.icio.us and others. It makes sense to get as many users as possible to categorise and index that information. You submit your links to del.icio.us, along with keywords and some text describing the links. Then del.icio.us aggregates your links with posts from others with the same keywords. If someone submits similar links, a loose classification emerges. The practice is called as free tagging or folksonomy. Using this service, you will not lose what are portable bookmarks which you can access anywhere you login. You can also share them with friends. Therefore, it's called Bookmark-sharing. Whereas, for Video-sharing at YouTube, Google Video, and others which host trillions of short video. They give users free and fast bandwidth for videos. Users do not need any special software. Users can also email their YouTube video to one another. Advertisers are increasingly looking to such sites; EMI and Walt Disney have already made deals with YouTube.
