How Will Super-Fast Online Impact Online Education & Studying In The Future

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Long ago education can only be accomplished by participating sessions in a classroom-setting. However, with internet and a cellular phone one can now enjoy the hassle-free online academic programs being provided by famous academic organizations and organizations. The impact of the world wide web has made person's life more comfortable and easier that acquiring knowledge is possible even for those individuals who are bus handling their business and for busy mothers at home.

The old saying that "there is nothing lasting here on earth but continuous change" is definitely real and even our method to train and interaction has regularly changed over the past years. Lengthy ago, our source of details was by means of characters, telegrams and word-of-mouth. But now we can access all sorts of details within just a matter of seconds. All it takes is a quick internet relationship and a cellular phone. The biggest modify that our nation has experienced with the use of internet is how education can be obtained. The conventional method of teaching- where teachers and learners can see each other experience to deal with to send and receive details is now changed with video clips and resources that can be easily utilized online.

However, despite the fact that online education is becoming popular in this creation there are still individuals who aren't familiar with the world wide web education factors. So, how does the speed of internet affect online education? How can learners take advantage of online learning? Some individuals claim that the quality to train of our nation is gradually minimizing and this has intensify now that we have the world wide web existing. Is it really real that on the world wide web is a trash?

Many questions continue to bother individuals as we go forward to the creation where internet is regularly changing but many individuals, especially those who have tried online education, can say that the details being provided by on the world wide web is as appropriate and brief as the ones being provided in conventional academic organizations.

In the future, I believe the a quick internet relationship will greatly benefit those who are investing into online education.

The Best Architectural Websites

That sounds pretty important doesn’t it? At the very least it sounds comprehensive … it suggests an extensive and exhaustive collection of the best architecturally themed websites in the world. I’m not sure if that is this list but it is my go-to list of websites. Compiling a list of the top architectural websites is far more difficult than it sounds, particularly if there isn’t any particular manner of evaluation employed other than these are the sites that I go to the most often.

I don’t have a blog roll on my site, something that I struggle with continually for excluding. That having been said – and at the request of enough people, I am finally putting together a list of my favorite websites. To make this list (and since I didn’t want to spend more than a day putting it together) I did have some rules that ended up eliminating some possibilities – most notably that you have to publish new content to your site regularly.

So let’s get to it – in no particular order, Don MIS750 Favorite Websites:

John Hill’s A Daily Dose of Architecture was the first architectural bog that I started reading. Full of critical evaluation and first-hand knowledge, this is a great site to visit for any fan of architecture.

What is there to say about the ArchDaily website? It’s only the most trafficked architectural website on the planet. They have been the leader in aggregate architectural sites from the beginning … and for good reason. If it’s out there, most likely it’s covered on this site.

The Architect’s Newspaper is an aggregate site for projects, news, competitions, job postings and much more.

Better Living through Design is a design and lifestyle website that has something for everyone. It’s easy to go to this site only to look at the clock and realize that you’ve been surfing their pages for a long, long time.

Energy Vanguard is the nerdiest website I go to – and I don’t ever regret going (I just keep it to myself or I’ll lose my “Architects are indifferent” card.) Posts here are written by Allison A. Bailes III – who happens to have a PhD. in Physics that he puts to good use teaching others about building science and energy performance. Normally I might steer clear from a site whose topics generally involve HVAC design protocols but with posts titled “Release the Kracken! – The Ductopus is Bad for Air Conditioning” how could you not take a look?.

Architechnophilia is an aggregate site and a really good one at that. There are a lot of architecturally themed aggregate sites out there but few are as current and as relevant as this one.

Simply put, Design Milk is a bad ass site. If it’s cool, it’s here: architecture, art, furnishings, interior design, style, technology and news … everything related to design. It was originally founded by Jaime Derringer but there is an army of talented and cool people assembling information for you. Based on their website, I bet they throw really good parties (that I will never get to attend.)

ArchiBlog is pretty much what is sounds like – a collection of architectural blogs. Not all architecture blogs are large enough for you to find, although that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth checking out. I go by this site often enough to find some new sites to read and explore … but don’t go looking for Life of an Architect on this site, for some reason they don’t see fit to include me. One day ….

Rounding out the triumvirate of magazine/ websites is the aptly named Architect. This is THE magazine of the American Institute of Architects so what does that tell you? It’s relevant, engaging and always full of interesting articles on all things related to the built environment. Recently I was lucky enough to make it onto the pages of this fine magazine – an experience neither of us will soon forget. The article can be found here [brace yourself -shudder]

Materialicious is a designers aggregate site – plenty here to explore, be prepared to lose track of time for a while … don’t be surprised to learn so much time has passed that you have to shave again.

Everyone knows that architecture students are always in the studio … Stuck in Studio is an architectural blog geared towards architecture students and the excitement, opportunities, and challenges unique to architecture students. There are plenty of architecture student blogs, I just think this one is the best. This is the one site that sort of breaks my rule since they haven’t posted in a while – my message to them? Get it going! [oh yeah, they are probably in stuck in the studio]

Not so much an architecture site but rather an art and interior design site. Most of the Interior Design websites that I traffic have so much product information that it all becomes noise … and in a just a very short time my brain becomes quite addled. What I like aboutMoCo Loco is the balance they strike between design and designers, art and artists. They have made the effort to bring me the story behind the products and as a result, I love their site.

Because she can say it better than I can – from Blueprint editor Vicky Richardson: ‘Blueprint aims to use the subject of design to reveal the workings of society. The magazine is about the important role that design and architecture can play in shaping the world.’ The online version is as good as the printed version – if you aren’t subscribing, you are missing out.

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The 2modern site is unique on this list for the simple reason that they sell the stuff they tend to talk about … but I don’t care. There is so much eye-candy on this site that I simply couldn’t leave it off this list. This was one of the first sites I added to my RSS feed and after two years when most sites than I can remember have been put on only to find themselves removed, 2modern is still there. Nice job folks, keep up the excellent work.

Metropolis Magazine is one of my favorite design magazines so it stands to reason that I would like the website as well (surprise!) Hard to really back this up with empirical data but I seem to find stuff on the Metropolis site that I don’t find anywhere else – and in this day and age where people seem to freely borrow from one another that’s really saying something. From their website, “Metropolis examines contemporary life through design—architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.”

So there it is – my top 15 websites. I’m quite sure that you have some that you love that didn’t make this list … just put them in the comment section below!

Marvelous Things The Future Still Hasn't Delivered

Science fiction movies really fed us a line of baloney about the future. From fun popcorn flicks like Back to the Future: Part 2, to highbrow entertainment like 2001: A Space Odyssey, films portraying the future have shown us a whole host of cool stuff we could expect by now, from hovercrafts and flying skateboards to sentient robots. People are seriously embarking on asteroid mining missions, but we have yet to experience hovercraft use on a mass scale. There’s something wrong with that! Priorities, science. Priorities.

We still don’t see people zipping up to the moon for a quick weekend — and that’s a real shame. Here are some innovations we thought we’d have by now.

1. A Moon Base

Yeah, yeah, the Mars rover is cool. But we were expecting a full-fledged, settled, bustling, Starbucks-stocked moon base, with cities and suburbs and lines for brunch and lots of wacky moon high jinks. We wanted a Moon NFL team. Moon-cations. And while Lance Bass can semi-realistically aspire to go to space, the rest of us have no destination to lure us there.

A moon base would solve all of that. They could hire David Bowie to perform there, kind of how they get people in-house in Las Vegas. It’d be a huge draw, since every sane person ever would have a hard time passing up the opportunity to see Bowie perform “Major Tom” from the moon.

2. Hovercrafts Whizzing Through the Streets

This is a serious disappointment. Traffic is a massive problem, especially in China, where jams can last for absurdly long periods of time. There are aircraft in the works that can transition from car to plane, but they’re exceedingly expensive and just plain impractical, even if they do run on normal gasoline. We need to get hovercrafts — cars that can hover about 20 feet or so off the ground, max. Then we could just have two or three vertical lanes of traffic. You wouldn’t need a full-on pilot’s license, and there would be clear rules for where you could go so that the FAA wouldn’t have a heart attack.

Google managed to make driverless cars, yet still no hovercrafts. Technically, there are hovercrafts on the market, but at $190,000, they’re way too expensive for the average Joe.

3. Immortality

Even though making humans immortal would be a big problem for the planet, since overpopulation would happen in a devastating way in like five years, it would still be pretty much the best thing ever for everyone ever. Not dying would rule.

Science has successfully kept a line of human cells alive for decades. That line, called HeLa, may be immortal. Unfortunately, it’s cancerous. But if they can keep human cells alive long after their host human died, perhaps the key to keeping the whole enchilada alive and kicking indefinitely isn’t too far off.

4. Sentient Robots

OK, maybe this one’s better left uninvented. Sentient robots don’t usually lead to good things in sci-fi films and books. Although the idea of a Rosie the Robot maid is sorely tempting, “reaching self-awareness” in terms of robots and computers is generally code for “trying to kill all the humans.”

5. Teleportation

Teleportation offers a lot of advantages, although we imagine the people behind hovercrafts won’t be too happy if science figures out how to make a commercially viable hovercraft and then immediately proceeds to render them obsolete by figuring out teleportation. Of all the things on this list (besides possibly immortality), this is probably the least likely to happen.

6. Contact With an Alien Civilization

Alien image courtesy of Flickr, Markusram

Science can only do so much when it comes to making contact with aliens, since communication is a two-way street. And since most of the alien encounters portrayed in science fiction involve invasions and conflict (fromWar of the Worlds to Independence Day), we might be lucky to hear radio silence thus far.

Still, if the more optimistic alien encounter films are any indication, like Contact and Close Encounters of a Third Kind, we might be missing out. Scientists thought they may have discovered an alien mummy in Peru, but they probably just found a human mummy with a deformity. Even if they had, dead aliens aren’t very useful for contacting their living brethren, so it’s back to square one.

7. Cure for the Common Cold

This one’s not quite as exciting as alien meet-ups or eternal life, but it’d still be nice to say goodbye to pesky sniffles, sneezes and wheezes. We’ve managed to eradicate smallpox, but the less lethal cold virus is very much with us. People are even getting rhinoplasty to alleviate their symptoms, so colds are definitely still a major problem, albeit one with a low mortality rate.

8. Snazzy One-Piece Future Suits

Pop culture has made it very clear that future people favor monochromatic jumpsuits. Think of all the time and money we could save if we agreed as a society on one utilitarian outfit. Plus, we hear they’re very slimming.

9. Food in Tablet Form

Imagine: Instead of spending your days confronted with a myriad of food choices, you could just pop a pill to ingest total, optimal nutrition. If scientists found a way to mass-manufacture total food pills, a lot of good could come from it, including an end to world hunger. And this would really help solve the obesity epidemic, although it would cause some major damage to restaurants, grocery stores, the farming industry, the diet industry, and the way we mark and spend our days. Taking a food pill sounds boring, but it would definitely be futuristic.

Hopefully scientists can hurry up with all of these developments. We’ve left out time travel here because it’s confusing and we don’t want to get Looper‘d (that’s when your future self comes to kill your younger self and vice versa — sounds like no fun at all).

Apple iPhone 5 First Impressions: A Remarkable Achievement

Apple iPhone 5 isn’t the biggest or most powerful smartphone on the block. But that may not matter to iPhone purists, those who have fallen in love with the original iPhone 4 designs and were horrified at the thought that their precious device might develop a glandular condition and grow to near-tablet sized proportions.

I got to spend a little time with one of the many iPhone 5 phones Apple had lying around the demo room (and in the hands of demonstrators).

At first glance, I’d say Apple has achieved something remarkable: making the iPhone bigger, more powerful, and possibly even better, without changing the way it feels in your hand.

In case you haven’t seen, the new iPhone 5 looks a lot like the iPhone 4S. It’s got the same curves, the same half-inch-plus margins above and below the screen, the same single button on the face and the same volume and lock buttons on the side, but there are crucial differences, some more significant than others.

First of all, this phone is light. As soon I pick it up, I noted the lack of heft. The iPhone 4 and 4S both feel somewhat substantial in your hands. The iPhone 5 feels different (at 112 grams, it’s 20 percent lighter than the previous iPhone). It’s noticeably thinner (7.6 mm, or 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S). Apple did away with the glass back, which may have helped the phone shed an ounce or so.

That back is now the same brushed aluminum as the edges (or brushed black aluminum, depending on your choice). It looks good and feels great. You won’t miss the glass back.

Apple also moved the audio jack to the bottom of the device; I like it there. It’s a lot more elegant than having that cable jutting out of the top and possibly draping over you screen. That same base also houses the new lightning jack. It’s positively tiny compared to the old 30-pin jack, and it doesn’t care which way you plug it in.

It’s simple, smart touches like this that appeal to me. I’m certain most customers will appreciate them as well.

A New Screen

The biggest and most obvious difference between the iPhone 4S and the new iPhone 5 is the screen. It’s still a super-brilliant, high-resolution Retina display, but this one is noticeably longer than any iPhone that’s come before it.

It’s a neat trick, because, while the screen is now bigger (1136 pixels deep), the phone feels exactly the same in your hands. You simply get more vertical real-estate. On the home-screen, this means another row of app icons.

For apps and content, the screen offers more room to deliver interaction and information. Put another way, the old iPhone had a 3:2 aspect ratio screen and the iPhone 5 has a 16:9 ratio screen.

This will be a better screen for HD movies and TV (for which it won’t have to show black bars on the top and bottom). Some movies aren’t shot in 16:9 (the Avengers is, and it looks great on the new screen), but pretty much all modern TV is.

Apple obviously packed a lot more power into the new iPhone, adding the new multi-core A6 CPU (no one seems to know if it’s dual core or quad core) for faster performance and richer onscreen graphics. The game demos during the unveiling looked impressive — especially Real Racing 3 with the real-time rear-view mirror view. Unfortunately, none of the iPhone 5s in the demo room were loaded with games.

Even so, I did notice that app loads and switching seemed a bit peppier. The new iOS 6 Apple maps looked sharp, especially the 3D flyover, which basically draws 3D-rendered buildings with real photography draped over them in real time.

On the other hand, I did a similar walkthrough on the new A5-based iPod touch 7th generation and it was almost exactly as good.

Big Picture

iOS 6 also brings a redesigned camera. Powered by the A6 chip, it’s supposed to deliver better low-light performance and noise reduction. I couldn’t really test that out in the demo area, but I was able to test-drive the new Panorama mode. The idea is not new: take a 180-degree arc, or even a 360-degree circle of pictures, and the camera stitches them together.

I’ve tried this already on Android tablets and my Sony NEX-5 camera. That said, the iPhone 5’s implementation is good. It offers just enough guidance as your shooting (“slow down,” “move lower”) that almost anyone can create interesting panoramic views.

Siri got a little work done, too. As promised, she can now tell you sports scores and launch apps. I asked her how the Mets did today, and she responded with information and a nice visual for the upcoming game. When I asked about the Giants, she gave me a score for the football team, but neglected to ask if I meant the football or baseball Giants. When I pointed out her mistake, she apologized, but didn’t rectify it.

Siri’s new-found ability to launch apps was pretty impressive. I asked her to launch Passbook and it appeared almost immediately. I got the same rapid respond with third-party apps such as CNN.

No NFC

Passbook looks just as good as it did when Apple unveiled it at WWDC earlier this year. But seems no nearer to becoming a true digital wallet app. Yes, you’ve got important things like plane tickets and coupons, but nothing for making mobile digital payments. Perhaps this is because Apple chose not to include NFC in the iPhone 5.

As with Passbook, many of the best things about the new iPhone 5 may come from iOS 6, which will launch along with the phone and is available as an upgrade for all iPhone owners going back to the iPhone 3GS.

On the other hand, not all of the phones made prior to the iPhone 4S will be able to take advantage of these new features (Siri is one obvious example). They should all see the new iTunes store, though, which happens to look at lot like the Apple TV interface.

I thought it was well organized and more navigable than any previous versions of iTunes on the iPhone.

The iPhone 5 is, finally, an LTE phone, but until I get it in the real-world it’s hard to assess how much of an impact that will have on day-to-day use. Likewise with the new 802.11N radio; I know it’s going to be faster, but I’d need a lot more real-world use to assess the quality of that connection.

Over the coming weeks, many will compare the iPhone 5 to a variety of Android devices, including the large and powerful Samsung Galaxy SIII. I’m not sure how the iPhone 5 will hold up. It does not raise the bar much further than competing devices. Its screen is still smaller, its CPU may not be as fast and it lacks NFC.

And yet, I wonder if iPhone customers will care. The iPhone 5 offers myriad differences that will improve their day-to-day smartphone experience, while still delivering one of the most aesthetically pleasing handhelds on the market.

For many, I bet that will be enough. Of course, I won’t have my final say until we get a review unit and pound the heck out of it. I can’t wait.