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= Virtual Communication = Team Members go to your assigned team page. = TEAM A = = TEAM B = = TEAM C = Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over IP
 * The Steroids ** - // Flattener #10, p 185-199 //
 * Emerging and new technologies Nathaniel Jones
 * Digitized content (connections, protocols and standards)
 * Mobile: anywhere, any time, through a variety of devices (wireless connectivity)
 * Personal: By the individual, for the individual, on their own device
 * What does the flat world look like taking into account all of these new forms of collaboration?
 * The first steroid: Computing power
 * The second steroid: Breakthroughs in instant messaging, peer-to-peer networks
 * The third steroid: Breakthroughs in making phone calls over the Internet (VOIP)
 * The fourth steroid: Videoconferencing
 * The fifth steroid: Advances in computer graphics
 * The sixth steroid: Wireless technologies and devices Nathaniel Jones


 * Virtual Communication, ideas to get started **
 * Explore and discuss the use of online and virtual communication tools such as VOIP, peer-to-peer networks and video-conferencing
 * Find current evidence of how these being used in education and business in your respective countries
 * Discuss social and ethical issues to do with the digital divide, security and privacy with the use of virtual communication in each country