Power Law Distribution

1.  The “power law distribution” or “long tail” phenomenon, as seen in behavior online on the Wikipedia, suggests that the concept of an average user of wikipedia is meaningless. Support your answer: how do you think a local, “JMU only” version of the Wikipedia would compare to the worldwide version? Would it be very similar? Higher quality? Less quality? Why?


Wikipedia is worldwide and has a wide range of diversity. JMU honestly does not have that. The only similarities is that all of JMU would have their ideas and facts that they want to put on their. Many people would continue to pile on information about a subject or topic. How the two would differ, a JMU only version lacks size in comparison and would not have the same ammount of contribution. There a small age range of contributors unless alumni can be a part of the JMU only version. I think that would help.  There are a lot of intelligent people who know there stuff here at JMU but I think the quality would be lower because who is checking the credibility of what is put on there? and I believe we would be a little biased depending on our views of what we put on our version.

Scratch

2. After reading the article about Scratch and exploring the Scratch website, what are some observable benefits in creating a space to share student work?

I feel that Scratch is amazing. I have never heard of it before reading this article. Scratch is great because you can be creative and create whatever you want from stories to animations. It is good for young children to be expressive and be able to be social with others while learning computer skills. This is a site where you can have fun and learn at the same time. It isn’t like other social networking sites where you upload pictures and videos and comment, you have fun of Scratch playing games and such things being creative. I believe all schools should use Scratch for students to learn more in computers, mathematics, editing, interdependence, creativity and having fun.