The Fishbowl

You Live Your Life Online. Don’t Forget Your Manners Everything connects if you open your mind. Our group picked the article You Live Your Life Online.Don’t Forget Your Manners. We chose this article because it immediately reminded us of our fish bowls. Our fish bowls were an online world where we v...

GENERATIVE, FORMATION, NASCENT, TRANSMISSION, CONSTRUCTION, REMEMBER, FORGET, KNOW, KNOWLEDGE, CONTENT, CREATE Generative: relating to or capable of production or reproduction Formation: the action of forming or process of being formed Nascent: just coming into existence and beginning to display sig...

Brenda Laurel, Ph.D. is a video game designer and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker and an academic. She is also a board member of several companies and organizations. “In the 'world of immersion...

GOAL, POSSIBILITY, COURAGE, MANTRA, LEARNING, CREATE, STRUCTURE, DICHOTOMY, SYMBOL, JUXTAPOSITION, COMPARE, CONTRAST Goal: the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result. Possibility: a thing that may happen or be the case Courage: the ability to do something that frightens on...

We dove into the meaning of learning by listening and reading different points of views. By seeing what others have posted in the fishbowl, and from our interactions with our group, we are able to hear a different side of the story we are all in. No more of just listening to ourselves and only doing...

THEORY, TERM, GENERATIVE, INFLUENCE, RESEMBLANCE, IMITATION, ANALOGY, BECOMING Theory: a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained Term: a fixed or limited period for which something, e.g., offi...

How do you start with a theory, and make it become something real? By finding symbols in your theory, and trying to metaphorically identify them with something else. To link theories with outside knowledge, you may not need to look directly at the theory. You may in fact, use these symbols to justif...

INTIMACY, AGENCY, EMOTION, CREATIVITY, SELF, FORM, FRIENDSHIP Intimacy: close familiarity or friendship; closeness Agency: action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect Emotion: instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge Creativity: he u...

Anthony Giddens: Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. As we grow older, our social interactions begin to change. New forms of intimacy begin to disperse, but at the same time, we may become shy...

DEPICT, MECHANISTIC, WAY, ILLUSION, DISCERN, PICTURE, EXPRESSION Depict: portray in words; describe Mechanistic: relating to theories which explain phenomena in purely physical or deterministic terms. Way: a person's characteristic or habitual manner of behavior or expression Illusion: a thing that ...

Positivism: a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism. The theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they ar...

IMMERSE, DEEP, UNDERSTANDING, MODE, READING Immerse: involve oneself deeply in a particular activity or interest Deep: extending far down from the top or surface Understanding: an individual's perception or judgment of a situation Mode: a way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, ex...