...Integration of Video Games in Classrooms Abstract This literature review will explore the effective ways educational video games enhance student motivation in classrooms and the personalized approach of education through video games. It will also explore the adaptation of educational games in classrooms as well as educator’s concerns. The review is limited to the use of video games designed for educational purposes and does not discuss the educational value of the entertainment video games. The review does not discuss the different effects of video games on diverse groups; it focuses primarily elementary to college level students. Video games have been around for over thirty years; they are one of the most lucrative and prominent forms of entertainment across cultures. A total of $20.77 billion was spent in 2012 in the game industry (ESA, Essential Facts about the Computor and Video Game Industry, 2013). The Gaming Industry is changing and adapting every year to the new technological changes. Video games have become an important form of entertainment to society. “U.S. consumers play video games on… Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 and on personal computers (“PCs”)….on mobile video players such as the PlayStation Portable “PSP”, the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS….“on-line” among multiple players who interconnect over the Internet and other proprietary online networks” (Siwek, 2010). The expanding market of video games and its influence on American...
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...VISION 4.1 THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT As stated above in 2.1, the report identifies key forms of technology that revolutionised the particular era, it was the invention of said technology that has impacted the technology of today. There was at least one form of technology from every era that has made it’s way into society today and remains a large influence to the entertainment industry. The roles of culture and technology in the future of the entertainment industry, all comes down to the digital world. The future is digital. Every form of media and entertainment in some way or another, is in digital formation from music, film and tv and also gaming. With the entertainment industry becoming digital, it allows for easier distribution and access, as well as social interactivity amongst audiences. The dominant forms will be as stated...
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...The role of the e-sport tournaments activities in increasing customer engagement in video game industry in China E-sport tournaments E-sport is basically, competitive gaming that involves computer games and other related forms of games that can be addictive. Many people who involve themselves in the sports can get addicted to them in the case where there are structures that enhance their engagement in the games and tournaments. The customer can easily be engaged when the sports have aspects of addiction that can come as a result of elements of reward. The Chinese video game industry is worth millions of dollars and needs to keep the customers in order to enhance the flow of profits and growth of the e-games through addictive tournaments. E-tournaments do engage customers and make the games addictive because of the continuous engagement in the same and the rewards that come from customer performance. Gaming is a popular TV sport in Korea with channels, leagues, teams, superstar players dedicated, adoring opportunities of multinationals and female fans have ignored. Ongagemenet, the first cable TV channel solely devoted to online gaming, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Star League, which was a testament to the popularity and longevity of a phenomenon of TV gaming that is popularly known as e-sports. The popularity of a single platform of a game, Starcraft has swept the Korean nation through first forming gaming leagues that are private in PC rooms and are delivered via...
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...Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century. Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention...
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...“Are Mobile Phones and Tablets taking over Laptops and Desktops in driving the Media & Entertainment Industry?” Summer Internship Project Report Submitted By: Chintan Desai Roll No: 11028 Batch: PGDM 2011-13 Acknowledgment I owe a great many thanks to great many people who helped and supported me at every stage during the completion of this project. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of them. I am highly indebted to Mrs. Chhaya (MD & CEO), BC Webwise, Mr. Elstan Rebello, Team Leader (Business Development) and Account Planner, BC Webwise and Mr. Alfred D’Souza, Group Head (Media Planning & Buying), BC Webwise for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project & also for their support in completing the project. I would like to express my gratitude towards my parents & member of BC Webwise for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in completion of this project. I would also like to express my special gratitude to Mr. V.V. Naik, Course Coordinator (MET Institute of Management Studies) for giving me an opportunity to take this project and complete it successfully. 2|Page Table of Contents Sr No. 1 2 3 4 Particulars Need & Justification Introduction Company Background and Information Data Collection & Data analysis & Interviews 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mobile Internet Mobile TV Trends in Mobile Device Screen Size Page No. 1 2-5 6-7 12-13 8-10 11-15 16-18 19-20 21-24 25-26 27-29 30-37 38-40 41-43...
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...EDUCATION 1 About Pearson Pearson, the global leader in education and education technology, provides innovative print and digital education materials for preK through college, student information systems and learning management systems, teacher licensure testing, teacher professional development, career certification programs, and testing and assessment products that set the standard for the industry. Pearson’s other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. For more information about the Assessment & Information group of Pearson, visit http://www.pearsonassessments.com/. About Pearson’s Research Reports Pearson’s research report series provides preliminary dissemination of reports and articles prepared by TMRS staff, usually prior to formal publication. Pearson’s publications in .pdf format may be obtained at: http://www.pearsonassessments.com/research. GAMING IN EDUCATION Abstract 2 The use of simulations and digital games in learning and assessment is expected to increase over the next several years. Although there is much theoretical support for the benefits of digital games in learning and education, there is mixed empirical support. This research report provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence behind five key claims about the use of digital games in education. The claims are that digital games (1) are built on sound learning principles, (2) provide more engagement for the learner, (3) provide personalized learning...
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...children born recently to imagine a world without social media, it is quite new after all. Social media are web 2.0 based applications. They rely on user-generated content that is maintained by the organization. The U.S. Digital Consumer Report shows that 47% of mobile phone users use social media apps daily (Wee). Social media has become a way of life in this modern age of technology. It seems that everyone and their cat is on at least one social platform. The challenge is using these tools in a way that is beneficial to our personal and professional lives. Social networks hold a lot of advantages over traditional paper-media including reach, usability, immediacy, and frequency (Wee). Facebook is the most popular social media site in the world, averaging about 1.1 billion visits a month (Wee). Launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, it was originally designed for college...
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...Research report: November 2010 Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Caroline Chapain, Phil Cooke, Lisa De Propris, Stewart MacNeill and Juan Mateos-Garcia Disclaimer This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. This work uses research datasets which may not exactly reproduce National Statistics aggregates. Copyright of the statistical results may not be assigned, and publishers of these data must have or obtain a licence from HMSO. The ONS data in these results are covered by the terms of the standard HMSO ‘click-use’ licence. Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Foreword No one doubts the economic importance of the creative industries to the UK. At 6.2 per cent of the economy, and growing at twice the rate of other sectors, they are proportionately the largest of any in the world. But there is some evidence that the UK’s creative industries support innovation and growth in other parts of the economy too. The significance of these spillovers has only recently begun to be examined rigorously. And we know next to nothing about their geographical dimensions. This gap in our understanding is what NESTA set out to address in Creative Clusters...
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...Essentials of Management Information Systems KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 3 CASE 1 INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND STRATEGY NBA: Competing on Global Delivery With Akamai OS Streaming VIDEO CASE Systems TAGS SUMMARY Firm strategy; IT strategy; value chain; network based strategies; strategic ecosystems; strategic partners. The NBA uses Akamai’s global streaming video service to reach customers and strategic partners in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America with high quality video streams of NBA rich media content and programs. http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/testimonials/nba.html The Akamai video is a high quality video that requires a broadband connection of greater than 5 MBPS. The video plays best at connection speeds of greater than 15 MBPS (Cable or FIOS ISP speeds). If you have trouble playing it on a Mozilla browser (Firefox), switch to Internet Explorer. Also, if you let it play through once, the second playback will be smoother because some of the content is cached on local servers and your computer. Alternatively, find a campus or corporate network which has the requisite bandwidth. URL NOTE CASE “The National Basketball Association (NBA) is North America’s premier professional men’s basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. It is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing...
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...published June 22, 2005 Journal of Economic Geography (2005) Page 1 of 30 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbi001 Video games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness Jennifer Johns* Abstract This paper has two main aims. Firstly to conceptualize the production networks of the video games industry through an examination of its evolution into a multi-million dollar industry. Secondly, to use the video games industry to demonstrate the utility of Global Production Network approaches to understanding the geographically uneven impacts of globalization processes. In particular, three key notions of value, power and embeddedness are used to reveal the most powerful actors in the production network, how they maintain and exercise their power, and how the organization of production is manipulated as a result. It is argued that while hardware production is organized by console manufacturers using truly global sourcing strategies, the production of software is far more complex. In fact, software production networks are bounded within three major economic regions: Western Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. This paper seeks to explain how and why this has occurred. Keywords: video games, global production networks, value, power, embeddedness JEL classifications: L14, L23, L82 Date submitted: 4 October 2004 Date accepted: 12 April 2005 1. Introduction The video games industry1 was born during the early 1960s and has rapidly, and almost continuously, grown in size and...
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...just taking technology to a new level. Apple sells its products world wide through online stores, retail stores, and third party resellers. Apple does a fantastic job when it comes to advertising. From television commercials to print ads, Apple has been very successful with all the great products Apple has to offer. How can you not love Apple Inc? Apple Inc. Apple Inc are the best example of a company that has completely influence an entire nation. Apple Inc has maintained on extraordinary image with stunning modern design, appealing usability and durable function. Apple is really involved in two businesses; the computer market and the entertainment and media market. Its approach has been to integrate its new products around its core industry to construct a digital lifestyle that surpasses not only its line of computers but its new product such as Ipads, Ipods, the Iphone and online services such as Itunes. Apple Inc manufacture and market personal computer, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices and sell a variety of related software, services, and networking solutions. Apple sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct salesforce and third party wholesalers resellers, and value-added resellers. One of Apple’s biggest product is the Ipod. Ipod is a line of portable media players that were released on November 10, 2001. The product line up consists...
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... or television. Digital media comprises both Internet and mobile mass communication. Internet media comprise such services as email, social media sites, websites, and Internetbased radio and television. Many other mass media outlets have an additional presence on the web, by such means as linking to or running TV ads online, or distributing QR Codes in outdoor or print media to direct mobile users to a website. In this way, they can utilise the easy accessibility and outreach capabilities the Internet affords, as thereby easily broadcast information throughout many different regions of the world simultaneously and costefficiently. Outdoor media transmit information via such media as AR advertising; billboards; blimps; flying billboards (signs in tow of airplanes); placards or kiosks placed inside and outside of buses, commercial buildings, shops, sports stadiums, subway cars, or trains; signs; or skywriting.[1] Print media transmit information via physical objects, such as books, comics, magazines, newspapers, or pamphlets.[2] Event organizing and public speaking can also be considered forms of mass media.[3] The organizations that control these technologies, such as movie studios, publishing companies, and radio and television stations, are also known as the mass media.[4][5] Contents 1 Issues with definition 1.1 Characteristics 1.2 Mass vs. mainstream and alternative 1.3 Mass vs. local and speciality 2 Forms of mass media 2.1 Broadcast 2.2 Film 2.3 Video games 2.4 Audio recording and reproduction...
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...Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet by William H. Dutton Anna Dopatka Michael Hills Ginette Law and Victoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom 19 August 2010 A report prepared for UNESCO’s Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of UNESCO or its Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. Preface As stated in its Constitution, UNESCO is dedicated to “Promoting the free flow of ideas by word and image”. Part of this mission, therefore, is to promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press through sensitization and monitoring activities, as a central element in building strong democracies, contributing to good governance, promoting civic participation and the rule of law, and encouraging human development and security. Media independence and pluralism are fostered by the Organization, providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments and parliamentarians, as well as civil society and relevant professional associations. However, UNESCO recognizes that the principle of freedom of expression must apply not only to traditional media, but also...
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...CIS 246 Week 8 Final Exam Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/cis-246-week-8-final-exam/ Question 1. (TCO 2) The _____ is a specialized United Nations agency that regulates international telecommunications, including radio and TV frequencies, satellite and telephony specifications, networking infrastructure, and tariffs applied to global communications. IETF IANA ISP ITU Question 2. (TCO 12) When using an analog telephone, a VoIP adapter that performs analog-to-digital conversion is known as a(n) _____. VTA (voice telephone adapter) ATA (analog telephone adapter) DTA (digital telephone adapter) DTA (data telephone adapter) Question 3. (TCO 5) At the customer’s demarcation point, either inside or outside the building, T-carrier wire pairs terminate with a _____. terminal adapter smart jack CSU/DSU switch Question 4 (TCO 1) _____ is the means through which data is transmitted and received. Spam The network adapter Transmission media NOS Question 5. (TCO 12) _____ messaging is a service that makes several forms of communication available from a single user interface. Unified Instant Diversified Open Question 6. (TCO 12) _____ is the use of one network to simultaneously carry voice, video, and data communications. Multicasting Unicasting Divergence Convergence Question 7. (TCO 5) The portion of the PSTN that connects any residence or business to the nearest CO is known as the _____. demarcation...
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...capture new topics for standardization activities. Technology Watch Reports assess new technologies with regard to existing standards inside and outside ITU-T and their likely impact on future standardization. Previous reports in the series include: Intelligent Transport Systems and CALM Telepresence: High-Performance Video-Conferencing ICTs and Climate Change Ubiquitous Sensor Networks Remote Collaboration Tools Technical Aspects of Lawful Interception NGNs and Energy Efficiency Standardization Activities for Intelligent Transport Systems Distributed Computing: Utilities, Grids & Clouds The Future Internet ICTs and Food Security Biometrics and Standards Decreasing Driver Distraction ICT as an Enabler for Smart Water Management Using Submarine Communications Networks to Monitor the Climate Standards and eHealth The Optical World Trends in Video Games and Gaming ITU-T Technology Watch Report September 2011 Video gaming is a global phenomenon, a fast-moving multibillion dollar business, cutting across all age groups and gender. This ITU-T Technology Watch Report surveys some of the latest developments in the world of video games, describes the most common gaming platforms and terminals and highlights new technologies enabling a better gaming experience and associated standardization activities. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/techwatch Printed in Switzerland Geneva, 2011 The rapid change of the telecommunication/information and communication technologies...
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