Is Second Life Ready for Business?CASE STUDY 1. How can Second Life provide value to businesses that use it? Second Life can be a birthing ground for new industries and transform business‚ commerce‚ marketingand learning the same way that the Web did in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It alsocan facilitate internal communications and to position themselves at the forefront of the digital landscapein order to recruit tech-savvy employees. Second Life is a low-cost business tool
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References: Baker‚ M. J. (1991) The Influence of Dialogue Processes on the Generation of Students’ Collaborative explanations for Simple Physical Phenomena. Proc. of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences 1991‚ pgs 9-19 Bruner‚ C. (1990). Designing INQUIRE. Center for Children and Technology Colbourn‚ C. J. & Light‚ P. H. (1987) Social interaction
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10/4/2010 The West Side Community Collaborative The west side of Buffalo‚ NY has had a bad reputation for a long time now‚ but it hasn’t always been that way. Many years ago the area known as the west side was a popular and extravagant place to live. Through years of economic hardships however‚ the west side took a wrong turn somewhere. It is now viewed by many people as “a lost cause.” The crime rates have skyrocketed and the standard of living has plummeted. Gangs are a huge issue in the
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The banking sector is often viewed as rather conservative when it comes to the adoption of cutting-edge technology. It’s not a surprise to many if some banks are still on the IT infrastructure they first started out with years ago. One bank‚ however‚ knew that it had to ditch its archaic infrastructure if it wanted to move with the times. Two years ago‚ the leading financial group in Malaysia‚ Malayan Banking Bhd. (Maybank)‚ embarked on a massive IT project to revamp its communications and collaboration
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Tanza Bauer MBA 510 December 21‚ 2014 Collaborative Learning: Article Review The article “Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking” is a study that examined the effectiveness of individual learning verses collaborative learning in drill-and-practice skills and critical-thinking skills. (Gokhale 2) . Collaborative learning was first defined by Gokhale as‚ the grouping and pairing students for the purpose of achieving an academic goal. (1) . Collaborative learning is referred to as an instructional
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Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by an abnormally high number of CAG repeats (polyglutamine) in the huntingtin (HTT) gene (also known as IT15)‚ found in the short arm of chromosome 4‚ specifically‚ p16.3 (Buetow et al. 1991). Symptoms of this disorder include chorea (involuntary jerking movements)‚ cognitive deficits‚ motor deficits‚ and changes in behavior. This disease gets progressively worse over time‚ starting with subtle behavioral‚ cognitive
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Cisco Systems Case Study The nature of the marketing structure in today ’s world is very different from 10 years ago especially for the company Cisco systems. Technology is a big part of everyone ’s life now days‚ which makes the need and the market for products like the ones Cisco manufactures to be in high demand. Most of what Cisco systems manufactures in not for the average consumer‚ but the business to business market‚ although recently they have gotten into the consumer market for home
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Office Automation and Group Collaboration Software Office automation is the use of automated or electronic equipment for office operations‚ such as computers. Office automation includes the hardware‚ software‚ and network applications used to enhance office work. My company uses office automation for word processing‚ spreadsheets‚ databases‚ desktop publisher‚ presentations‚ email‚ internet browser‚ and financial systems. My company will purchase off-the-shelf software then upgrade to new
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Summary of Collaboration and Collective intelligence According to Howard Rheingold in his essay Collaboration and Collective intelligence‚ collaboration and collective intelligence are applied to many fields of life and play a more and more important role in modern society. Howard Rheingold first paraphrases the differences between networking‚ coordination‚ cooperation and collaboration in the article written by Arthur Himmelman who made a particular distinction among these four terms in his article
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perfect example of how collaborative leadership is most effective when implemented appropriately. Collaborative leadership works best when the people develope a relationship where they honor their collaborative leader. Authoritative leadership is less effective than collaborative leadership because fear and power create anarchy and dissent‚ while respect and decency create a harmonious society. This claim can be supported by Machiavelli‚ Plato‚ and Macbeth. Collaborative leadership creates love
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