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=A) Overview =

 How Work flow Software Can Productivity and Communication is considered a flattener because it uses technology to collect ideas. Work flow software has been created to increase productivity, increase visibility, and reduce costs and time. It helps employees at work and it manages time between the workers. Also, it allows a variety of people across the world to edit the same projects. Work flow can improve staff accountability, and better process control. Students and workers can effectively create and manage work. Other than helping improve productivity, these softwares can reduce the amount time spent working on the project/assignment and improve the communication between group members.

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=B) Current News =

Internet Sources are important for students to communicate and discuss ideas. Google Docs is one of the more recent online ways to share and discuss the work that is going on within a group. Google Docs is such a great source because a student or employee could share documents, emails, pictures, etc. Through the documents feature of this software, students and other group embers can chat on the side of each document, not only that every person in the group can edit it. In order to all work on it at the same time, this makes communication more effective.Another software that enhances productivity and communication is Word Press. Word Press has led us to a bunch of plugins on their website, WordPress.org. Also, business software is used to make daily tasks and help employees complete work faster. Each business has a different type of work flow software the is more efficient for their company. To conclude, these new outbreaks in communication/productivity enhancing have led to more successful students and businesses. 

//An overveiw of google docs//. (2012). Retrieved from http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49008 Brauser, D. (2011).  Collaborative Care: Best Medicine for Behavioral Problems?  Retrieved from: [| __http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/754238__]

THE CANADIAN MEDICAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. (2005). Collaborative care: A medical liability perspective .  Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/cmpapd04/docs/submissions_papers/com_collaborative_care-e.cfm__]

Jones, N. (2010). Using the workflow technology in secure software engineering education. Retrieved from http://www.cs.odu.edu/~yaohang/publications/CISSE10.pdf

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kemp, D. (n.d.). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The new game in design: Collaboration and the creation of the xbox 360 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Retrieved from : <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[| __http://www.core77.com/reactor/04.06_xbox.asp__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unknown. (2007). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unified Communications: Use Virtual Collaboration to Improve Environmental Sustainability

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns394/ns165/ns152/white_paper_c11-459857.html__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unknown. (2011). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborative Care Intervention for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[| __http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/171/16/1471__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unknown (2009) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How the Internet Changed Music Collaboration

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://blog.sherweb.com/internet-music-collaboration__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wulf, W. (n.d.). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scientific Collaboration on the Internet

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Retrieved from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[| __http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11603__]

//Graph automatic vs manual//. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/

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==<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">C) Education ==

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**__Overview:__** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Education is so important. It is a major foundation of human kind. People need to have some kind of education in this time period. Education is expressed in many ways depending on the level and knowledge of the learner(s). When the learner is either young or unknowledgeable, they will need to learn basics to understand very complex concepts.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> **__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Elementary: __** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Students starting in the elementary levels of education can be taught from many different approaches. One helpful and popular way is software programs. At this point where they have little knowledge, the students should take to any kind of programs. Popular programs used in schools usually deal with a lot of math and reading. Merit software is a commonly used reading program. It was designed to help students in many ways. Those ways being, helping a student learn core skills and good habits, their is fun in learning and how to monitor their strengths and weaknesses. Merrit software is also beneficial to more than just the students. It also allows teachers to access their students’ progress and learning levels. There are many helpful, well-rounded, and easy-to-use programs available. Most software programs for students at this age and level of education are incorporating some important lesson into a game. This keeps the student engaged and excited about learning. There are many other programs to help students and teachers in a easy-to-use manner which is always nice.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> __**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Middle/High: **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;"> Students at the secondary education level are taking vigorous courses now in technology. They are learning about new programs which help them research better, work better in groups, and help them have some knowledge in technology. One good example would be email. Email enables students to send messages to each other instantaneously. So when you are working on your group project last minute or adding the final touches to your report you could use email to communicate with other fellow peers, which lowers complications. Another good software for secondary students would be Google Docs. Google Docs allows students to create about anything from documents to spreadsheets and they can share it with anyone who has a Google email. One last good software that helps students to get through these two education faculties is Diigo. Diigo allows the user to bookmark whatever they wish and they could make a group to share it with others. This website is really good for researching in groups because you can share all of the information you found with fellow members in your group. All in all, the way students collaborate and learn in the classroom, well not really, has changed dramatically over the years which shows a great of education.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> __**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">College: **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> For college students getting around can be hard. For one, they have loads of studying to do and research papers as far as the eye can see. On good software for college students to use to help them with the complications of school is EBSCO. EBSCO is a search engine that has all<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;"> valuable resources without any worries of there being false information. Another good software is Google Alerts which is a huge help when it comes to research. All the student needs to do is type in what they are researching and google sends them an email everyday with an article of some sort that is related to the topic. Yet another good software for college student is Google Docs. Google Docs is a really great website that allows collaboration to occur amongst peers. Anyone really can use Google Docs because it's extremely user friendly and is a great communicating program. It even includes a chat var to the side of a document, spreadsheet,etc. One last good software for college students is social network sites. Social networks such as Skype and Facebook allows users to communicate with each other even though they are miles apart. Skype could be used to talk with other peers for homework help, group members for planning, or even teachers for help. Facebook can be used to talk with peers,friends,etc. but it can also be used to create groups or pages for school which helps a student organize their plans. All in all, even though college students work really hard, the new technologies allow them to get their work done,faster, easier, and more productively. ==<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #ff8900; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">D) Government, Politics and Employment ** ==

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The government is also affected by workflow. They use workflow software to improve public services delivery with less cost. The government is using workflow software called ICT (modern public sector) which is the ability to create better quality of public services and efficient government. Although, there are risks of information being leaked, workflow software has become essential in maintaining the various works and employees. Some benefits the government can gain include: increased productivity through routing of work tasks across departments, increased operational visibility, and increased accuracy which reduces errors. Governments also use workflow automation to effectively execute, track, and archive the business processes which make them easily accessible to the employees. This can significantly increase the productivity with the companies. <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">

==<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">E) Arts, Entertainment and Leisure ==

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__//** Overview: **//__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Work-flow software plays a huge role in enhancing social activities such as communications or productivity. There are so many ways work-flow software can enhance social activities, but in this case were going to talk about entertainment. The entertainment industry is basically coming of age when it comes to the Internet. Some may notice the changes in how music is produced now or how arts are now available online as a digital medium. Now in the case of video games, the consoles are now able to connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi which enables players to communicate with worldwide players and battle against them in various games. Let’s go more in depth with each topic.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> __** Entertainment/Leisure: **__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Music has gradually changed over time, but no one would’ve thought that music can be made from people who aren’t even in the same room. A good example would be YouTube. YouTube is a social network site where users can post videos of any genre they desire. YouTube has their own philharmonic where half of them aren’t even from the same country. Another website would be Ninjam. On Ninjam users can collaborate on music, record their piece of the music, and have their own band. Here’s how it basically works. Let’s say you have a guitarist from California with the drummer being in Maine, the singer from Arizona, and the bassist from Florida. Each of the members would record their own part and send it to someone to be edited/put all together. Then the music editor will post the song on Ninjam and hopefully it becomes a hit. All in all, music has changed in ways man could have never managed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Video games have advanced a lot from 8-bit 256-bits, but <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> now players can actually play against one another even <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> though they’re miles apart. Remember the good old days <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> when you would walk to neighbor’s house to play <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> video games and only two or four could play all at the same <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> time, well now as many as 32 people can play together <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> even though they aren’t in the same room. In fact XBOX <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has come out with a system for their console that allows <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> users to do so via Wi-Fi, this is called XBOX Live. XBOX <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Live has to be paid for either by card or annually <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> subscription. Gamers use headsets to chat with one <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> another and collaborate on strategies/game-plans to <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> succeed their goal. Communication along with technology <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has changed how our gamers today play.

==<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">F) Science, Environment, and Health ==

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">__ **Environment:** __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The environment is greatly improved because the process to create safe buildings can't pollute the air because the buildings aren't even being made. And after the buildings won't be producing any paper which saves the environment greatly because it won't be destroying all the trees in the world. But the downside of the whole thing is that shipping which causes pollution to the air. Also, a program called Paypal benefits the environment by allowing users to send money digitally versus mailing in money, which using gas and paper. Paypal only uses electricity, which isn't too bad for the environment but it is better than using non-renewable resources such as oil/gas. Email also benefits the environment by sending digital messages rather than sending actual letters which also use gas and paper. All in all, our environment is slowly improving due to these new softwares.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> __** Science: **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;"> In the science world studies/researches have always taken place either in a library or in their lab, but now scientists are taking advantage of the Internet and the softwares available to help enhance their investigations. One program that allows these scientists to do so is Google Docs. Using Google Docs scientists can share their data on spreadsheets, their lab report on a document, or one of their future lectures on a presentation. To conlcude, information and communication technologies allow cooperation among scientists from diverse locations.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Health:__ ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;">The health environment is all the time by these to other doctors. The medical field has always needed these softwares from transferring medications to help on a patient <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;"> during surgery. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Also, a new breakthrough in the medical field <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is leading to more productive and reliable care for the patients, this is called Collaborative Care. Collaborative Care is “multidisciplinary, inter-professional, shared or team care are often used interchangeably.” Numerous researches have been done with collaborative care and one study shows that in a clinical trial of more than 70 children, those who received collaborative care had higher scores of mental/emotional/behavioral improvement. All in all,the communication in a medical field is very strong and needs to stay that way to <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 101%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> keep a healthy/successful en vironment.

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Video Artifacts =

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//Students may work individually or with member of their team to make a 1-3 min. video about their topic for 100 points extra credit. Upload the video to Schooltube and embed here.//

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<span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A) Overview: Kayla Clark, [|Morgan Zimmerman]** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">B) Current News: Kayla Clark, [|Morgan Zimmerman]** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **C) Education:** **[|Ivan Jones] Tae G** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">D Government, Politics and Employment: Fallon Eaton Tae G Ryan T** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">E) Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure: Fallon Eaton Christina S. Ivan Jones** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">F) Science, Environment, and Health: Ryan T Christina S.**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **Team Roles** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (Click here for a description of team roles. <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> ** Content Editor: Christina Stein  ** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **  Image/Graphics Editor: Ivan Jones  ** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **  Discussion Monitor: Ryan Trosky, Morgan Zimmerman  ** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **  Presentation Editor: Fallon Eaton  ** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **  RSS Editor: Tae Gong  ** <span style="color: #01d3d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **  Mind Map Editor: Kayla Clark  **

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<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">Best content in Group 3C | Diigo - GroupsBest content in Group 3C | Diigo - Groups <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> Unified Communications: Use Virtual Collaboration to Improve Environmental Sustainability - Cisco SystemsSunday, February 26, 2012 12:34 PMComments:A "green IT" strategy is becoming a must for organizations in both public and private sectors. Businesses are beginning to respond to the impacts of climate change and increasing energy costs by taking action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. - Christina SteinHighlights and Sticky Notes:Cisco® believes there are several ways in which IT can help organizations improve their environmental performance. These include improvements in energy efficiency that can be achieved from the products and systems deployed internally; using the network as a platform to monitor, measure, and manage electricity consumption; and implementing solutions that empower flexible, collaborative working processes to reduce the need for travel.According to a Cisco sponsored report from the Economist Intelligence Unit1, the future will belong to those who collaborate effectively. In today's globalized markets, with their distributed corporate functions and complex supply chains, old boundaries - physical, cultural, and organizational - are melting away. Success in this fast-changing environment will depend on the capacity for continual innovation, and an ever-increasing organizational agility.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinAre the Internet and digital technologies changing the way musicians collaborate on recorded music?Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:02 PMComments:Collaboration is inherently a social act. For collaboration to occur between people there must be some type of communication channel set up to handle the shared information. In the case of music collaboration, the exchange of information has historically been manifest in written musical notation, aural communication, and playing music in a face-to-face situation. - Christina SteinMore recently, technology has diversified the means in which people can communicate with each other. While email and instant messaging have changed one-on-one communication between individuals, online bulletin boards, news groups and, more recently, wikis and blogs have changed the way people discuss ideas and collaborate online. New technologies have also changed the way in which people collaborate on recorded music. Because of the Internet and other digital technologies, musicians can now collaborate and record music online, without ever being in the same room. - Christina SteinTags: arts_entertainment, wctaflatclassroomproject, workflow_softwareby: Christina SteinCollaborative Design EnvironmentThursday, February 23, 2012 1:05 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:The “Collaborative Design Environment” (CoDE), located immediately next to the Collaborative Visualization Environment, is a dedicated facility enabling the analysis and conceptual design of complex systems by supporting the cognitive processes and functions of researchers and subject matter experts. The CoDE fosters multidisciplinary collaboration for rapid-turnaround design and analysis.The CoDE also features a mobile High-Definition (HD) Video-Tele-Conference (VTC) system which includes a state of the art Codec, a high-definition camera, a teleconference phone, and a remote control to interface with the system. The system can support live camera as well as computer output feeds, and can host up to 5 other VTC systems to enable 6-way collaborative VTC sessions.making it ideal for collaborative endeavors that rely on graphic-heavy information processing and manipulation such as CAD, CFD and FEA results, and operational-environmental information such as contours and flight tracks within Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geographic visualization platforms like Google Earth.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinAwarepoint Launches New Version of aware360 degreesSuite of Real-Time Location System Solutions at HIMSS - MarketWatchThursday, February 23, 2012 1:03 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:Awarepoint's aware360 degreesSuite translates real-time data intoactionable intelligence by enabling hospitals and health systems tomonitor the location of patients, staff, and assets.Users also canaggregate that information with their scheduling systems andelectronic health records to improve operating efficiency, reducecosts, enhance equipment workflow, and augment staff productivityacross their enterprise.Recent enhancements to the aware360 degreesSuite allow administratorsand care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience,and economics of healthcare.the company will showcaseaware360 degreesSuite, the industry's only complete RTLS solutionthat optimizes healthcare workflow, increases care team efficiency,and improves asset management and availability.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinCollaborative Care: Best Medicine for Behavioral Problems?Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:04 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:Integrating collaborative mental health services into primary care might lead to improvements in pediatric psychiatric behaviors, new research suggests.Results showed that both treatment groups had significant improvements on almost all study measures.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinCollaboration and the creation of the Xbox 360 - By David KempThursday, February 23, 2012 12:55 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:and other major media understood that Xbox 360 is not just a powerful new gaming machine--but also a new model for social activityand global communication centered around digital entertainment--this message is communicated literally by design: advertising, packaging, visual merchandising, and trade-show displaynformal communication was critical: JDK and Microsoft people discussed the future of gaming and invented ideas for faceplate design at 3 a.m. in London's Covent Garden. Later, JDK designers--many who worked on Burton snowboard graphics--came up with over 100 unique faceplates.Team rituals such as engaging cross-functional groups in creative exercises helped to change the rhythm of the process.Strive to break down barriers between functional groups and to achieve common understanding.While not perfect, the collaborative process worked well to bring a product to market that arguably was the most high-profile consumer-product launch of 2005, and that quickly developed iconic status within popular culture. Great industrial design alone, without the close involvement of other disciplines, would not have made this happen.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinHow The Internet Changed Music Collaboration | Sherweb blogThursday, February 23, 2012 12:59 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:The internet has brought the world together and that includes bands and musicians. You don’t need to live in a bustling city with a booming music culture to take part in the music scene. Now you can jam with talented artists from around the world with just an instrument and a computer.YouTube has become a common meeting place for many musicians and composers. There are a myriad of professional and amateur musicians exhibiting their skills through their video submissionsGuitar and drums are played in Ontario, Canada and vocals in Texas, America but despite the distance they come together to perform a great sounding cover version of Heart’s Barracuda.Ten musicians from six countries collaborate to make the largest Irish online music collaboration in history.YouTube invited users 14 and up from across the world to submit video samples of their musical talent for consideration into the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Every video was judged and those who were selected we flown to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall to a live audience in-person and streaming over the net.Users submit audio tracks using the website interface or their free external program and other users contribute their accompanying tracks to create a song. You can even submit lyrics with tempo/style specifications and request someone to sing according to your description.Ninjam is one of the first online jamming software to become popular with artists. The program allows musicians to do close-to-realtime jamming for freeTags: no_tagby: Christina SteinAdvantages Of Collective Collaboration in Online Art Collectives | Psdtuts+Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:58 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:A collective is a great forum to get your worked reviewed by professionals and critiqued by peers.By working together unique opportunities arise for fusing style and stretching your creative abilities. You can grow close connections with other talented artists, and learn to solve design/illustration problems by tackling themes. Through this article, we examine numerous advantages found by participating in online art collectives.Online art collectives provide a special brand of effortless and efficient critique that can help improve the skills and attitude of any artist.What typically happens is that within the hidden area of an art collective (commonly called the artist area) exists the control panel, where each exhibition is worked on. Typically artists will submit a work in progress (WIP) or a finished piece to be voted on.Once a piece is submitted, it will automatically become open to all of the collective’s artists for commenting, voting, and most importantly critiquing the artwork. At the online collective slashTHREE, each time a WIP is submitted it receives an intensive set of critique from Creative Directors, Senior Members, and Artists.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinCMPA - Collaborative CareThursday, February 23, 2012 1:05 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:Collaborative care advocates have identified a number of potential benefits. While there is currently insufficient evidence available to support all of the assertions, many of these benefits may be achievable. Two of the most important goals for collaborative care include: optimizing Canadians' access to the skills and competencies of a wide range of health professionals; and improving primary and even specialty health care by further encouraging and facilitating health promotion and the prevention of illness.Collaborative care is the most common, but the terms multidisciplinary, inter-professional, shared or team care are often used interchangeably.Collaborative care has significant potential to greatly enhance the delivery ofhealth care in Canada. By making the best use of all health professionals,collaborative care practices should be able to improve patient access to certaintypes of care and deliver that care in a more efficient manner.Tags: no_tagby: Christina SteinWhen two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists | Art and design | The GuardianThursday, February 23, 2012 12:56 PMHighlights and Sticky Notes:Medical research charity the Wellcome Trust has long tried to make artists and scientists work fruitfully together by funding collaborations."Science simply means finding out about stuff, but in that process science is the greatest driver of culture," says Sulston. "When you do something like decode the human genome, it changes your whole perspective. In terms of genetic manipulation we're not just looking for answers but modifying what's there."Tags: no_tagby: Christina Stein