Friday, May 8, 2009

Knowlegde and Exchange

Long Time Everyone. Well I went to play the games and I really didn't know what I was doing. I tried playing Balance of Power. It isn’t until the second level that I realized that I was supposed to conquer land and build on it. Really boring game.

I decided to read the article from Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman on “A Socio – Technical Vision of Democratic Knowledge Exchange”. This article had a lot of great points and facts based on how we view our systems of exchanging knowledge to each other. Whitworth and Friedman created the KES which forms three roles that help create: creation, discrimination, and development and dissemination. Each system breaks down how we have communicated knowledge in the past and even today.

I totally agree with Whitworth and Friedman when they say, “The problem lies not with these old theories but with a system that seems unable to grow new ones.” I have always said that we need to let go of the old when necessary and get on with the new. At my job I have experience this. I work at the African American Academy and they are closing the school down. But during the process we got lost in the old and new ways. And I strongly feel that if we would have taken our B plan and submitted it instead of the same old A plan then maybe we would be returning next year.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

King of Kong

King of Kong is differently portrayed as a good guy vs. the bad guy thing, which in this case the good guy has lost. Billy Mitchell would be the bad guy and Steve Wiebe is the good guy. These two guys I feel started the gaming war. I found it very funny and unbelievable at first, but as the movie went on I started getting upset with Billy and how wrong they were doing Steve. Acourse they edited the film to make Billy to look really bad. But I'm sure they did not have to do that much editing.

After viewing this video I became alittle more interested in what can make a grown man act so crazy over a game. So I decided that during this course I would try my hardest to play at least once a day a game of my choice to get a feel of it.