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?
2007年10月28日日曜日
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.
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