This Is How We Dream Part 1 & 2

I thought both of these videos had some great points. This is how We Dream Part 1 & 2 was done by Richard Miller. He is a professor in the English Department at Rutgers. Both of these videos are about the internet and how you can basically do anything you want as far as books and research on the internet. Richard Miller says in these videos that he dreamed of books, where he works he is surrounded by books and he finally wrote a book. The book is now on sale at amazon.com for 59 cents, but it lives forever on the web for free. Everyone works now on a laptop because that is all that you need because all the riches in the world as far as research are stored on the web. People are no longer looking to newspapers and print for their information they want visual information such as during the election, you could see on the web the states changing colors to figure out how everyone was voting and who was going to win the election.
For example Richard Miller did a piece on violence and teaching after Virginia Tech. He did all of his research over the web using images, film, and archives. People do not want just print anymore, so he came up with a document that had print, images, and sound, it was a very visual yet very informing piece. I thought it was great. He got all of his material from the web and a few things that were being passed out around the college.
It is amazing how popular academic lectures are on iTunesU where ideas are being shared freely. Teachers are now able to "push ideas into our culture" for free. Richard Miller said in the video that a friend of his is working on an emotional profile of the world; you will actually be able to tell which city is the "happiest" city in the world! This is a little hard to believe for me! Richard Miller is inspiring teachers everyday I know he inspired me.
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