Final post of this class – paper

This is the final post of this class.

I learned a lot from this class.

1. Research

Research is a powerful tool that i learned from this class. Through research, I can find history of the the topics, i can find out what others have done regarding to the topics, i can collect all the information regarding to the topics. All these information together will be a ground that my understanding of the topic can stand on.

The acuracy of the research data. There are different places that research can be done. Internet resources, scholorly database. It does not matter which resource the data is coming from, proof of acuracy is still very important. Schorlary database relative more reliable resources at this moment.

2. Peer review

In my classroom, we have over 30 students, and over 40% of them are from differnt countries outside of US. They are in the age arrange from 20 to 60, evenly distributed male and female ratial. Most of them are passionate to multi media as they choose this field as their master degree field. Classmates and teacher are the best resources for reviewing my work.

Because of the diversity of the class, students feedback are very diversify. It is a great chance to learn from them about their perspective. Thanks to my classmates and teachers’ feedback during this class. The feedback lights up my path of research and predict the future.

3. It is changing my way of looking at technology and life

Predict the future of the technology is such an interesting topic and challenge topic. From what i learned in the classroom, i am able to predict the future with solid research data as ground.  The future is becoming more clear after the presentation. I am very confident to my prediction in terms of cell phone’s future.

Mean while the thinking path to predict the future become one of the perspective that i use to see other technology. In my daily work when we work on the product, i am able to thinking further and design features and architect the design fotowards the direction of future. This helps a lot to my work. I appreciate this opportunity of learning.

Click here to see my research paper

Where does it end from the first cell phone? Final Presentation

Reflection after Presentation

Last Tuesday i gave my classmates the presenation of Why say yes to high tech.

It was a reflection to an article i read. Because my research topic is about Cell Phone, so i chose a topic related to cell phone.

The presentation went smoothly thanks to my classmates participations.

The research in the article is about Mobile TV. Then i thought, would be good to related to my classmates. This way i can hear their opinion about cell phone. My classmates are a group of young active high educated group, they are from different tregions and countries (China, TaiWan, Mexico, different area in USA). Because of this program is an advanced area in Communication with Digital Media, most of the classmates are high tech oriented, they are passionate about technology, they are passionate about social media, they are passionate about what media and technology can do for them.  The answers i got from them is very representative of will people say yes to Mobile TV here in America and other countries and regions?

I am amazed to see how expressive my classmates are. They activelly participated, answered questions, asked questions that they are interested. Their answers tell me, Mobile TV is not ready here yet.

The presentation and discussion was a reproduction of the research in the article here in the classroom.

I also pointed out the TAM the well used method to my classmates. As it is the classic method and very useful, I would like to share with the class, so that they leave the discussion with some take away that could benefit their life.

I love the discussion, it is a great way to know people and communicate between each other and share ideas with each other.

Looking forward to have more chance like this.