Diigo is useful when I search information on the internet because it can highlight the sentences on the screen.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Just install the button (toolbar) to the browser.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can highlight the sentences wherever they think those are important or interesting. People also can annotate to the sentences with Sticky Notes. However, as same as highlight on the paper, too much highlight and notes may cause confusing.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I do not know much about Diigo yet, but maybe people can post their highlighted sentences to their blog.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
If I can use this, reading on the internet will be more easier because I can find important points easily when I read again.
2007年11月15日木曜日
S3 post #3 - World Mapper
World Mapper is useful to the presentation. It is also interesting just by watching the maps.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Maybe people do not need special skills to watch the map. They only have to know how to find the maps.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can find and watch that they are interested in. The maps tell about how the world is really like. However, the numbers of the people etc. would not be true, so deeply depending on this map may be dangerous.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
This is very useful when learning about the world. The maps tell the world by visually, so it is easier for people to understnad.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can use maps when I presentate something relevant.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Maybe people do not need special skills to watch the map. They only have to know how to find the maps.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can find and watch that they are interested in. The maps tell about how the world is really like. However, the numbers of the people etc. would not be true, so deeply depending on this map may be dangerous.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
This is very useful when learning about the world. The maps tell the world by visually, so it is easier for people to understnad.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can use maps when I presentate something relevant.
2007年11月8日木曜日
S3 post #2 - skrbl
The skrbl is useful to online discussion. People can meet and talk on the skrbl board.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
I think people do not need special skills to use it.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can create their own massages or drawings, and also they can rewrite other people's things. I think it would be messy if people write or draw anything as they want.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
If people become to want to share their boards, it is a good way to tell URL and pass word in their blog or something like that.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
If I can use this effectively, it can be a good place to discuss something.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
I think people do not need special skills to use it.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can create their own massages or drawings, and also they can rewrite other people's things. I think it would be messy if people write or draw anything as they want.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
If people become to want to share their boards, it is a good way to tell URL and pass word in their blog or something like that.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
If I can use this effectively, it can be a good place to discuss something.
2007年11月6日火曜日
2007年11月5日月曜日
S3 post #1 - MindMeister
MindMeister is useful to organize the thoughts if they learn how to use the tool.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
I think no special skills are needed to use this tool.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can change nodes or connections easier than writing on the paper. However, it may take the time until they get used to using it.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
People can see other people's mind map, so they can get ideas from others.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
If I master how to use it, it can reduce the time to organize my works.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
I think no special skills are needed to use this tool.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can change nodes or connections easier than writing on the paper. However, it may take the time until they get used to using it.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
People can see other people's mind map, so they can get ideas from others.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
If I master how to use it, it can reduce the time to organize my works.
2007年10月28日日曜日
S3 post - Teacher Tube
Teacher Tube
URL: http://www.teachertube.com/
Teacher Tube is a video site; everyone can watch the video. People do not have to sign up when watching the video. If people want to upload the videos or leave comments, they have to sign up, but only educators can sign up to the sites. If people signed up to the site, they can make groups and communicate with other people; and also they can add RSS of the people who upload the video.
Write a one paragraph review of the application, in which you have selected one set of questions from below to answer - Independent Learning.
Teacher Tube is useful for Independent Learning because if students learn how to use it, they can learn individually by searching the videos. Everybody can watch videos without sign up; just type the key words and press the SEARCH button. Some videos are difficult for students, but others may be good for student learning level. Also, I am not sure what kind of sites are "safe", but this site may be safe because there are no videos such as for adults only as far as I can see. Also, there is a system that people can alert inappropriate videos with comments, so I think it is safe. In addition, it is good for students to be explained by video pictures with voices or sounds, and I think it is easier for students to understand the materials. In addition, during watching the video, students can stop it if they want to do, and this also can help students good understandings.
My Presentation
My Screen Shots presentation URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15950778@N07/sets/72157602749621512/show/
***People do not have to sign up to watch videos***
A. I will introduce a brief summary of how to use Teacher Tube.
a) How to search the videos
b) How to watch the videos
c) Where to know the details of the videos
d) Some different ways to search the videos
B. I want other people to use Teacher Tube.
a) Search a video that they want to watch
b) search videos by channels/groups
C. Conclusion: Lead a critical review of the content and functionality of the application using the SCICU Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
2. What are the affordances (what does the service make possible, what it impedes)?
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
URL: http://www.teachertube.com/
Teacher Tube is a video site; everyone can watch the video. People do not have to sign up when watching the video. If people want to upload the videos or leave comments, they have to sign up, but only educators can sign up to the sites. If people signed up to the site, they can make groups and communicate with other people; and also they can add RSS of the people who upload the video.
Write a one paragraph review of the application, in which you have selected one set of questions from below to answer - Independent Learning.
Teacher Tube is useful for Independent Learning because if students learn how to use it, they can learn individually by searching the videos. Everybody can watch videos without sign up; just type the key words and press the SEARCH button. Some videos are difficult for students, but others may be good for student learning level. Also, I am not sure what kind of sites are "safe", but this site may be safe because there are no videos such as for adults only as far as I can see. Also, there is a system that people can alert inappropriate videos with comments, so I think it is safe. In addition, it is good for students to be explained by video pictures with voices or sounds, and I think it is easier for students to understand the materials. In addition, during watching the video, students can stop it if they want to do, and this also can help students good understandings.
My Presentation
My Screen Shots presentation URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15950778@N07/sets/72157602749621512/show/
***People do not have to sign up to watch videos***
A. I will introduce a brief summary of how to use Teacher Tube.
a) How to search the videos
b) How to watch the videos
c) Where to know the details of the videos
d) Some different ways to search the videos
B. I want other people to use Teacher Tube.
a) Search a video that they want to watch
b) search videos by channels/groups
C. Conclusion: Lead a critical review of the content and functionality of the application using the SCICU Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
2. What are the affordances (what does the service make possible, what it impedes)?
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
2007年10月24日水曜日
Agre
1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?
The central problem for citizen in democracies is that it is difficult for them to be counted their voice; they feel hard to participate in huge society meaningfully.
2. What skills do citizens need?
The skills that citizens need are "building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguments".
3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?
The term that author use is "issue entrepreneurship", which is central to "the making of public policy" and to "the 'politics'".
4. What steps are the four steps in this process?
The four steps for citizens to associate with issues are to identify the prominence issues, to research and analyze them, to stake out the position in public, and to build social networks with people who are related to issues and ideologically compatible.
p. 212-214
Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.
5. What kind of dimensions that political issues have?
6.What is the ability to support the work of issue entrepreneurs?
The central problem for citizen in democracies is that it is difficult for them to be counted their voice; they feel hard to participate in huge society meaningfully.
2. What skills do citizens need?
The skills that citizens need are "building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguments".
3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?
The term that author use is "issue entrepreneurship", which is central to "the making of public policy" and to "the 'politics'".
4. What steps are the four steps in this process?
The four steps for citizens to associate with issues are to identify the prominence issues, to research and analyze them, to stake out the position in public, and to build social networks with people who are related to issues and ideologically compatible.
p. 212-214
Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.
5. What kind of dimensions that political issues have?
6.What is the ability to support the work of issue entrepreneurs?
2007年10月21日日曜日
Lesson6: blog post - Think, Explain
Think:
What do you currently do when a teacher asks you to collaborate with other students on a project? What do you now if you want to show someone else what you have done? What do you do if you need to work on it at the same time?
First I ask members e-mail, and make contact with them to decide the date. Then we meet together at some place to have meeting to work on the project.
When I want to show my works, I usually send the works to the members by e-mail.
When we want to work at the same time, we usually use MSN messenger.
Do:
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Google Docs & Spreadsheets with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
How to make charts or graphs, how to upload data, and how to invite the members.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It can be used to online discussion. However, it also causes some problems; for example, people upload many documents and information to the site, and finally it becomes difficult to organize.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It allows us to discuss something easily.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Maybe it can be used to discussions. I do not have to make time to meeting, and it will be able to save the time.
What do you currently do when a teacher asks you to collaborate with other students on a project? What do you now if you want to show someone else what you have done? What do you do if you need to work on it at the same time?
First I ask members e-mail, and make contact with them to decide the date. Then we meet together at some place to have meeting to work on the project.
When I want to show my works, I usually send the works to the members by e-mail.
When we want to work at the same time, we usually use MSN messenger.
Do:
Write a post reflecting on Google Docs & Spreadsheets with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
How to make charts or graphs, how to upload data, and how to invite the members.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It can be used to online discussion. However, it also causes some problems; for example, people upload many documents and information to the site, and finally it becomes difficult to organize.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It allows us to discuss something easily.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Maybe it can be used to discussions. I do not have to make time to meeting, and it will be able to save the time.
2007年10月11日木曜日
Summary and Reaction for Kahn & Kellner
Write a brief summary of the main ideas and issues raised in the text.
According to Kahn & Kellner, development of the Internet made “new relations of information and social interaction,” and it has been called “online communities.” They behave as the organs of information and communication by using Internet. At now, some political groups use Internets to share the information, organize the organization, and promote their political activities in global and local levels. Then, the important thing is to consider about the relationships between global and local. In another point, the movement of anti-globalization has been increasing throughout the Internet. However, the movement itself is becoming global because the movement is expanded by the Internet all around the world. In addition, the “terrorist” groups also are increasing throughout the Internet; they use websites to promote their notions. For example, Al Qaeda spread cryptograms for secret messages. Also, the Wi-Fi networks are sometimes hacked; hackers targeted the “free network.” Finally, blogs and wikis became the popular communication tools. Blogs are “the next evolution of a dynamic network,” and wikis are hypertext which can be edited by any people on the Internet.
What is your reaction? Respond to one particular idea that really resonates with you.
Blog can produce the secondary industry, because some Japanese talents gather attention by making interesting blog and sell it as a book. This kind of marketing cannot be exist without the Internet and blogs.
According to Kahn & Kellner, development of the Internet made “new relations of information and social interaction,” and it has been called “online communities.” They behave as the organs of information and communication by using Internet. At now, some political groups use Internets to share the information, organize the organization, and promote their political activities in global and local levels. Then, the important thing is to consider about the relationships between global and local. In another point, the movement of anti-globalization has been increasing throughout the Internet. However, the movement itself is becoming global because the movement is expanded by the Internet all around the world. In addition, the “terrorist” groups also are increasing throughout the Internet; they use websites to promote their notions. For example, Al Qaeda spread cryptograms for secret messages. Also, the Wi-Fi networks are sometimes hacked; hackers targeted the “free network.” Finally, blogs and wikis became the popular communication tools. Blogs are “the next evolution of a dynamic network,” and wikis are hypertext which can be edited by any people on the Internet.
What is your reaction? Respond to one particular idea that really resonates with you.
Blog can produce the secondary industry, because some Japanese talents gather attention by making interesting blog and sell it as a book. This kind of marketing cannot be exist without the Internet and blogs.
2007年10月10日水曜日
Lesson5: blog post - Think, Explore, Explain
Think:
Which sites do you visit regularly? What provisions do you currently make to keep yourself up to date on new content posted to your favourite sites?
I regularly visit Yahoo! Japan, MSN, W3, and other sites of my hobby; sites about musicians and so on.
Now I visit each sites to know the up dated contents posted to my favorite sites.
Explore:
A website that displays a button similar to the ones here on the right has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. Visit a few of the sites that you use fairly regularly (4~5 is fine). Now, can you find an RSS button? You might need to scroll down the page, and you will need to look carefully if it is a 'busy' page. Which of your favourite sites provide an RSS feed? Which ones don't? Can you think why not?
I found the RSS buttons in Yahoo! News, MSN News, and Sony Music Online. However, I cannot find the RSS buttons in W3 and other sites. I think Japanese pages tend not to have the RSS buttons because these are not in common in Japan yet.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To know what the RSS is and to understand how to use them beneficially.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It shows the up-dated information of many sites in one page without visiting each sites.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It can save the time to check out the newses by visiting every single sites, so people can learn easily.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can save the time to check out the news, and also I can find the topics which are interesting to me.
Which sites do you visit regularly? What provisions do you currently make to keep yourself up to date on new content posted to your favourite sites?
I regularly visit Yahoo! Japan, MSN, W3, and other sites of my hobby; sites about musicians and so on.
Now I visit each sites to know the up dated contents posted to my favorite sites.
Explore:
A website that displays a button similar to the ones here on the right has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. Visit a few of the sites that you use fairly regularly (4~5 is fine). Now, can you find an RSS button? You might need to scroll down the page, and you will need to look carefully if it is a 'busy' page. Which of your favourite sites provide an RSS feed? Which ones don't? Can you think why not?
I found the RSS buttons in Yahoo! News, MSN News, and Sony Music Online. However, I cannot find the RSS buttons in W3 and other sites. I think Japanese pages tend not to have the RSS buttons because these are not in common in Japan yet.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To know what the RSS is and to understand how to use them beneficially.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It shows the up-dated information of many sites in one page without visiting each sites.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It can save the time to check out the newses by visiting every single sites, so people can learn easily.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can save the time to check out the news, and also I can find the topics which are interesting to me.
2007年10月2日火曜日
Lesson4: blog post - Think, Explore, Explain
Think:
How do you currently save and store favourite webpages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them?
At now I use browser bookmarks to save and store favorite webpages. I think it is very useful if I can access them whenever and wherever I want.
Explore:
What other ways can you think of to publicise your Delicious username so that others might access what you know? What are benefits can you identify in participating in an open knowledge network such as Delicious?
The ways that I can publicise my Delicious username is to show it on mixi page, to tell other people orally, or to send e-mail about my username.
The benefits of participating in an open knowledge network is that I can know what others are interested in, and share the information about it. In the same way I can tell other people what I am interested in, and ask them opinions about it.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Delicious with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To download a tool and set up it.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Social Bookmark enable us to share personal bookmarking. Therefore, people in one group can share the information.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
To share important and interesting information, then people can discuss it.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
After knowing this, I became able to carry my bookmarks with me, and to use them wherever and whenever I want. Also, I became able to organize my bookmarks easily.
How do you currently save and store favourite webpages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them?
At now I use browser bookmarks to save and store favorite webpages. I think it is very useful if I can access them whenever and wherever I want.
Explore:
What other ways can you think of to publicise your Delicious username so that others might access what you know? What are benefits can you identify in participating in an open knowledge network such as Delicious?
The ways that I can publicise my Delicious username is to show it on mixi page, to tell other people orally, or to send e-mail about my username.
The benefits of participating in an open knowledge network is that I can know what others are interested in, and share the information about it. In the same way I can tell other people what I am interested in, and ask them opinions about it.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Delicious with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To download a tool and set up it.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Social Bookmark enable us to share personal bookmarking. Therefore, people in one group can share the information.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
To share important and interesting information, then people can discuss it.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
After knowing this, I became able to carry my bookmarks with me, and to use them wherever and whenever I want. Also, I became able to organize my bookmarks easily.
2007年9月29日土曜日
Barabasi - The Third Link
1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30
The principle of six degrees of separation is that two people in anywhere in the world are linked by only six social links. It means that a parson is connected to any other person mediating about five people.
2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31
The fabric of society today is different from pre-internet society because the collection of individual documents are linked in a huge web network. People have became able to access to other people's document easily and quickly with the internet.
3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34
Any pair of web pages is "nineteen degrees of separation" and people's one is "six degrees of separation," so web pages' link has thirteen more links than people's one.
The biggest difference between web's society and people's society is that to find every links on the network is easier in the web's society than people's society because to find every links between one person and the others is almost impossible.
4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34
The network scientists discovered that every networks which were examined display separation between two and fourteen. For example, "species in food webs appear to be on average two links away from each other; molecules in the cell are separated on average by three chemical reactions; scientists in different fields of science are separated by four to six coauthorship links; and the neurons in the brain of the C. elegans worm are separated by fourteen synapses." Therefore, the web's nineteen degrees of separation is the largest record.
5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35
The logarithm can make the huge network to the small world. (I am not good at math so I could not understand why logarithm can do such a thing.)
6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?
I cannot believe that I am connected to every person in the world mediating 5 or 6 people.
I have no idea about my strongest connections.
The principle of six degrees of separation is that two people in anywhere in the world are linked by only six social links. It means that a parson is connected to any other person mediating about five people.
2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31
The fabric of society today is different from pre-internet society because the collection of individual documents are linked in a huge web network. People have became able to access to other people's document easily and quickly with the internet.
3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34
Any pair of web pages is "nineteen degrees of separation" and people's one is "six degrees of separation," so web pages' link has thirteen more links than people's one.
The biggest difference between web's society and people's society is that to find every links on the network is easier in the web's society than people's society because to find every links between one person and the others is almost impossible.
4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34
The network scientists discovered that every networks which were examined display separation between two and fourteen. For example, "species in food webs appear to be on average two links away from each other; molecules in the cell are separated on average by three chemical reactions; scientists in different fields of science are separated by four to six coauthorship links; and the neurons in the brain of the C. elegans worm are separated by fourteen synapses." Therefore, the web's nineteen degrees of separation is the largest record.
5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35
The logarithm can make the huge network to the small world. (I am not good at math so I could not understand why logarithm can do such a thing.)
6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?
I cannot believe that I am connected to every person in the world mediating 5 or 6 people.
I have no idea about my strongest connections.
2007年9月28日金曜日
Lesson3: blog post - Think, Explore, Explain
Think:
What arrangements do you have to make now to be able to work on whatever you want to wherever you are?
The Web Browser in the USB drive. It can be able us to work easy for essays or anything else on the computer.
Explore:
View a couple of these screenshot tours 1 2 3 4 showing how different users have developed a personal work environment in Firefox (FF). Most users have provided details on what extensions or tweaks they've made to develop their browser as a personal work environment. Take notes on some of the features that look interesting.
In the screenshot tour 1, I thought Pasha's "All-in-One Sidebar" seems useful because it shows the sites which I access frequently.
In the tour 2, I found that Adam's "Menu editor" seems good because I can organize the various sites easily.
In the tour 3, I felt Thomas' one is cool.
In the tour 4, I thought Wade's "Split Browser" is very convenience because I can do two or more things at the same time.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Firefox (especially the add-on you have learned to use) with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To install the social software to the USB drive.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can organize their internet life easily, and they can carry out to anywhere they want. However, it cannot be used without computer, so depending this technology deeply is danger.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
People can search sites with their organized own Firefox.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can search on the internet more easily.
What arrangements do you have to make now to be able to work on whatever you want to wherever you are?
The Web Browser in the USB drive. It can be able us to work easy for essays or anything else on the computer.
Explore:
View a couple of these screenshot tours 1 2 3 4 showing how different users have developed a personal work environment in Firefox (FF). Most users have provided details on what extensions or tweaks they've made to develop their browser as a personal work environment. Take notes on some of the features that look interesting.
In the screenshot tour 1, I thought Pasha's "All-in-One Sidebar" seems useful because it shows the sites which I access frequently.
In the tour 2, I found that Adam's "Menu editor" seems good because I can organize the various sites easily.
In the tour 3, I felt Thomas' one is cool.
In the tour 4, I thought Wade's "Split Browser" is very convenience because I can do two or more things at the same time.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Firefox (especially the add-on you have learned to use) with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To install the social software to the USB drive.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can organize their internet life easily, and they can carry out to anywhere they want. However, it cannot be used without computer, so depending this technology deeply is danger.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
People can search sites with their organized own Firefox.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can search on the internet more easily.
2007年9月25日火曜日
Lesson2: blog post - Think, Explore, Explain
Think:
What arrangements do you have in place now to be able to show others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?
I think the blog is a good way to show what I know and what I can do. Also SNS site like mixi can show them.
Explore:
What main benefits/disadvantages do you see (if you see any) in the design of an e-portfolio compared to a traditional resume?
Benefits: It is easy to edit and carry out if people use an e-portfolio.
Disadvantages: People cannot see their e-portfolio without computer.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on your blog as an e-Portfolio with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
People need the skill to use a computer. (I'm not sure about this question)
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
What the software makes possible is that people can make contact with other people. However, it is difficult to save people's personal data.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
The network can be used to research on the internet.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
To use Databases, to search official sites, etc...
What arrangements do you have in place now to be able to show others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?
I think the blog is a good way to show what I know and what I can do. Also SNS site like mixi can show them.
Explore:
What main benefits/disadvantages do you see (if you see any) in the design of an e-portfolio compared to a traditional resume?
Benefits: It is easy to edit and carry out if people use an e-portfolio.
Disadvantages: People cannot see their e-portfolio without computer.
Explain:
Write a post reflecting on your blog as an e-Portfolio with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
People need the skill to use a computer. (I'm not sure about this question)
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
What the software makes possible is that people can make contact with other people. However, it is difficult to save people's personal data.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
The network can be used to research on the internet.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
To use Databases, to search official sites, etc...
2007年9月18日火曜日
Lesson1: Barabasi - The First Link
1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
Firstly, Paul abolished circumcision and the strict food laws. In addition, he exploded the message using the social network; he walked about 10,000 miles in 12 years, spread the Christian message to the biggest communities which had many people. He used the social network effectively, and that is one of the critical factors to Paul's success.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
I think it could happen again, but the way to the success is different from what Paul did because at now people can use another kind of social network; people can make conversations without being face to face. Also I think the chance of the success like Paul did is very low because at present, people have lots of information and they can choose what they believe after judging the information.
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Firstly, maps of the internet have been made, and they have told the people about the internet's vulnerability to hackers. Secondly, maps of the companies which show the links of trade or ownership have been made, and they have made people to be able to trace the trail of power and money in Silicon Valley. Thirdly, maps which shoes the interactions between species on ecosystems have been made, and they have told people about the humanity's destructive impact on the environment. In addition, the maps of genes working together in a cell have provided insights have been made, and it have shown people how cancer works.
I want to see the map which tells how the languages of the world are connected with each other.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The 'real surprise' is that these maps have the similar or the same blueprint though the maps are very different from each other. Actually, this structure and evolution of the complex networks are governed by the natural laws.
Personally, I was surprised because I did not know that the basics of those maps are the same even though their categories are completely different from each other.
5. How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th Century? What is the problem associated with such an approach (p.6-7)?
The author defines the nature of most scientific research in the 20th century as Reductionism. The notion of Reductionism is that people have to divide the nature to its constituents to understand the whole; people can never understand the whole without considering the constituents.
However, the problem of this approach is that people became not able to put the constituents back together to understand the whole of nature. It was very complex because nature consists of the all-encompassing laws of self- organization.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
Barabasi predict that the networks will dominate the new century, and he claims that everything in the world are linked together and to understand the networks which link everything is most important. I think that to investigate the details and to understand the networks are both important, and to see the networks after investigating the details seems good idea.
Firstly, Paul abolished circumcision and the strict food laws. In addition, he exploded the message using the social network; he walked about 10,000 miles in 12 years, spread the Christian message to the biggest communities which had many people. He used the social network effectively, and that is one of the critical factors to Paul's success.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
I think it could happen again, but the way to the success is different from what Paul did because at now people can use another kind of social network; people can make conversations without being face to face. Also I think the chance of the success like Paul did is very low because at present, people have lots of information and they can choose what they believe after judging the information.
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Firstly, maps of the internet have been made, and they have told the people about the internet's vulnerability to hackers. Secondly, maps of the companies which show the links of trade or ownership have been made, and they have made people to be able to trace the trail of power and money in Silicon Valley. Thirdly, maps which shoes the interactions between species on ecosystems have been made, and they have told people about the humanity's destructive impact on the environment. In addition, the maps of genes working together in a cell have provided insights have been made, and it have shown people how cancer works.
I want to see the map which tells how the languages of the world are connected with each other.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The 'real surprise' is that these maps have the similar or the same blueprint though the maps are very different from each other. Actually, this structure and evolution of the complex networks are governed by the natural laws.
Personally, I was surprised because I did not know that the basics of those maps are the same even though their categories are completely different from each other.
5. How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th Century? What is the problem associated with such an approach (p.6-7)?
The author defines the nature of most scientific research in the 20th century as Reductionism. The notion of Reductionism is that people have to divide the nature to its constituents to understand the whole; people can never understand the whole without considering the constituents.
However, the problem of this approach is that people became not able to put the constituents back together to understand the whole of nature. It was very complex because nature consists of the all-encompassing laws of self- organization.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
Barabasi predict that the networks will dominate the new century, and he claims that everything in the world are linked together and to understand the networks which link everything is most important. I think that to investigate the details and to understand the networks are both important, and to see the networks after investigating the details seems good idea.
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