Post # 4 Educational Youtube Videos

I believe that YouTube is an excellent source for educational, instructional and tutorial videos.  I understand that this process might take time for some.  Everyone has a comfort zone on how they like to be taught new things so one video might work for some but not others.  However, a plus about YouTube is that you eventually can find what you are looking for and you only had to look in one place rather than several more places.  Also, this way of learning is fast and convenient.  If someone needed knowledge on a specific subject fast the Internet is already top 3 places to find information.  I do not see why YouTube educational videos would make this less true.  However, I also feel that the video has to be a form of entertainment as well.  There is more motivation to get up from your personal computer and not continue with gaining knowledge if the video is boring versus being in a boring class room and you can't (or you paid to much for the class) to leave.  For example, this video that I think is not so entertaining, yet, it's educational as well.

Interactivity

Interactivity is a hard word to define, tough several have tried.  Some definitions being:
1. "New technology that will change way to shop, play and learn." Newsweek
2. "Huge amount of information available to anyone at the touch of a button."
Rooting from the word Interaction which means, 3.  A style of control and interactive systems exhibit that style.

More opinionated definitions include:

Jerome T. Durlak's A Typology for Interactive Media defined Interactivity as a Prototype. 
This system includes telephone, two way television,

audio conferencing systems, electronic mail, video text, etc.

Rockley Miller defined it as Criteria; a recirocal dialog between the user and system.

Then there is Everette M. Rogers who defines Interactivity as the "capability of new
communication
systems to talk back to user almost like individuals in conversation."

He also breaks this definition down into three different Dimensions, 1 2 and 3 Dimensional,
 to help
 present his 'opinion'.  In this three dimensional step process he shows the viewer that

all media is basically Interactivity it is just at different levels.  The beginning of Interactivity
with the telephone, for example, to dimension 2 which is "teletext" and then dimension 3,

"computer communication via video text."  If Interactivity keeps growing the way it is,
eventually, there will be a fourth dimension.

I personally believe that all these definitions are correct.  Interactivity is blogging, emails,
video chat.  The list goes on.  It is DVRs and channel selection. 

You can order anything fast off line or an Infomertial.  Your cellphone
can have Internet connection and different applications that

are never ending supplies of information.  There are times a commercial is on one channel and
an option button pops up suggesting you to hit select which will then direct you

to another channel that contains more information about that particular product. 
This is all Interactivity.I believe that the new I-phone that allows you to view who you are talking to while you talk to them
is a great example of Interactivity. 

Even with several different definitions, one fact that remains is any of these def can be considered similar
to the one def of New Media.  This is because both
mainly deal with the same things.  Twitter and Facebook, along with I-Phones and just Internet in general,
are different forms or New Media. All these things are Interactivity as well
it's just New Media is Communicating with others and Interactivity a form of how they are communicating.

Alright, when it comes to me and my media usage, well, it is slim to almost nothing.  Television, Internet and my cell phone is about as far as it goes.  These seem like the typical sources of media usage these days, which is true, I just consume a much smaller amount than most.
When it comes to watching television I watch it for entertainment rather than gaining knowledge.  I will watch approximately less than five hours of television a week with the rare occasion of watching a move. 
As for the Internet, it is probably the greatest amount of media I consume.  I am on Facebook but rarely and at short amounts of time.  My Yahoo account is full of either spam or emails from family.  I do do a lot of research such as finding information on Google or Ask.com but that is mostly the result of a school assignment.
Then there is my cell phone, the second greatest media usage in my life.  Even with my cell phone though, a Pantech, all I do is call and text others. 
I have knowledge of the basics and details of new media and know how majority of it all works, however, I tend to not make New Media a major part of my every day life. 

Hello Hello!!

My name is Jessica Sepulvado! =) I am a Journalism major and my minor is in creative writing.  I am considering a second major but I haven't decided in what, just yet.  I am a junior here at SFA but I am only in my second semester.  I attended Panola Junior college, where I earned my Associates Degree, in Carthage, Texas before my year here at Stephen F.
My definition of New Media is basically three main pieces of technology.  Cell phones, Internet, television. 
These days Internet has no limits.  It can answer any question you ask it.  From solving a math problem to building an additional room onto your house, the Internet has your answer.  Starting out connecting through phone lines to Ethernet cables to what we now have, Wi-Fi.  Something, I have come to believe, the world would not be able to survive with out. 
Cell phones find there beginning as radios found in police vehicles and taxi cabs.  Today you can't look at a cell phone that doesn't have the ability to text at record speeds, send and receive pictures, and now get on the Internet. 
Television is another story.  In my opinion, television is the least form of new media.  True you have the luxury of recording, rewinding live television, watching several shows at once and now the rumor is 3D on personal home televisions.  However, compared to the limitless things you can do on line and now on cell phones, television is definitely the less of the three.
I consider these three to be the main characters of New Media because they are constantly changing.  Almost every day there is something new that you can accomplish with one of these.