week 8- summary

Harmony Dashut
http://notebase.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/week-7-operating-systems-and-domain-names/#comment-5 

Meng Meng
http://silivimoon.blogspot.com/2011/10/input-output.html?showComment=1319760130158#c4424722616912480320

Xiaopei Feng
http://amy-feng.blogspot.com/2011/09/week3spreadsheet-essentials.html#comments 

My entrepreneurial idea  was generally on to help students save money on buying heavy textbooks, and rely on their laptops or computers and do studying at home. Because technology is growing and the usage of laptops and computers are more and more popular to students and others, this can be a better way to help education and bring a new meaning to education. Usually the costs for each book  can cost hundreds, and brings stress to students and parents because the chance of using the textbook again is slim. I brought up many ideas and detail information on what the ITP can do for students and for teachers. This program gave many options to students whether they are visual, or auditory learners. This can also help connect with classmates and professor easily by searching up which class you are in.

I thought the Blog review i found was very interesting and made me realize that i was not the only one thinking about this plan. The blogger even had a non profit organization to gain funds for this idea. I agreed to everything he has mentioned from students wasting so much money to how this idea can bring much better ways for students to learn and understand education. I hope to see that this idea can grow soon or in the next generation and show people that studying does not only need to be buying an expensive textbook and by end of the semester you end up not using it.

This idea was gradually evolved through realizing HOW many people study. In some cases, i brought this idea up by the way how i studied as well. I noticed that there are people who have to take hours and days taking up the information before the day of the test. So as i thought of why people learn in certain ways, i brought the idea of visual and auditory learners. Because there are students that highlights, and know by sight and colors, this way it can help students to use this option in ITP. For auditory learners, they also have the option of converting it to mp3 and listen as they study. Also, after seeing some people who can only rely on group studies, that brought up the idea of web chat in their homes.

My experience with this project made me realize how much textbooks were affecting some students. Sometimes, as schools have dates before returns, some students misses the dates and aren't able to return their $300.00 book that got because they dropped the course. This can somewhat be unfair and all they end up doing is wasting the money. This project also made me learn about the ways how some students study. Just sitting down with their books open doesn't mean that they will not go on their computer and stay on facebook for 3 hours. Instead, having this program on their computer can be much more efficient for students.