2007年11月13日火曜日

S3 session Review

#1
Mind Meister
It is very useful when students want to consider what or how write the essay.
they can move brainstorming to gathering information smoothly using this tool because it is both using on PC. On paper, my brainstorming paper tend to be messy but this tool solve such a problem.

#2
Gradefix
It is very helpful. Students can manage their schedule tightly using this tool. Students can add classes or inputting due date or test date and this tool is very flexible and easy to use. Reminding system is also reliable and helpful. I am interested in this tool and I will use it.

#3
World Mapper
We can use this tool this tool without any install or difficult steps. This map is so impressive and make people understand visually. All data looks relatively new so students can use it for presentation.

2007年11月6日火曜日

Agre Homework

1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?
The way of participating meaningfully in the huge society.

2. What skills do citizens need?
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?
To make realize people understand the issue is related to them.

4. What steps are the four steps in this process?
Identifying issues that are coming to prominence, researching and analyzing them,
staking out public positions on them, building social networks of other citizens.

p. 212-214
Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section.
If actually all political things are constructed in the same process, why the problem people cannot participating them occur?

How to make into practice to access to the skills? What should we do first?

2007年10月28日日曜日

Hiroko's S3 Seccion

Hiroko's S3 sessioction of "furl" Introduction



1. Review of "furl"

Targeted Learning
1. It help students especially when they write the essay. They can re-find articles quickly which they found before.
2. This software categorize automatically and students can send some information by e-mail.
3.Yes. Students can get a lot of information and manage it by using furl.
4. Furl can be used for not only academic but also for pleasure at the same time bu categorizing.

Summary
The more you use the web, the more difficulties might be happen.
Furl is a web site, which help the user's to manage much personal information.
The main features of furl are saving, searching, discovery, sharing, privacy, syndication, interoperability,tools, and ease of use.
Furl is similar to Delicious which we use in this class.
The use do not have to install or buy something but using firefox is convenient to start furl.
More detail information about furl;

http://www.furl.net/about.jsp
http://www.furl.net/furlFeaturesFaq.jsp


2. Presentation


Outline


a) Introduction:Teach "furl" with Using Slide-show (5min)
* Link to Screencast-o-Matic

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/ci6U3Emz


b) Body: Teach "furl" with Live Lecture (15min)


http://www.furl.net/

c) Conclusion: Answering SCICU Key Question (5min)


1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Reading explanation of the software and download it.

2. What are the affordances (what does the service make possible, what it impedes)?
Firefox is most convenient for this tool. You do not have to install this software. You can use this tool just downloading.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
This system is very useful for management your information. In addition, you can protect privacy.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
This system helps you to search and manage your information even though which has great number.

2007年10月26日金曜日

Lesson6


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?
(SCICU e-Portfolio)
I try to keep in touch with group members by e-mail. When I want to show something to them, I will ask them to get together or mail them to members. But when it comes to work on it at the same time, think we should gather to somewhere.


1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?

We should collect information and e-mail address. to make a chart, we should time data as we do in excel.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It makes understandable chart easily and quickly and can share it with other student.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?

We can get feedback from other student and also we can see other student's task. It is helpful and useful.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I learned how to survey something and make chart of them. this skill may be most useful I have learned before.







2007年10月23日火曜日

Lesson5 Think Explore, Explain

Think
1. 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? (SCICU e-Portfolio)
I visit typing game site and Google map sometimes. Typing game site is free and we can record our score if we get high score. Google map is incredibly exciting that is why I visit these sites.

Explore
1. 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?
(SCICU e-Portfolio)

All 5 sites I visited can not provide feed so I will try soon if I found new sites. I wonder why not.

Explain
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions.
(SCICU e-Portfolio)


Social Computing Key Questions:


1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
copy and paste to find favorite sites and make them RSS.


2. What are the affordances
(what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
We can see latest news or information quickly and share them in the blog.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
the Technology connect users with some sites without typing long complex URL address.


4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
The fact that not only visiting sites quickly, but also share them is make people understand how they think, why, or people can show the supporting idea of their thought.

2007年10月16日火曜日

Barabasi 183-185 190-198

Summary

More people use the online communities, more considerations in required in the society. Using online communities, people can collect great amount of information widely using all over the world. On the other hand, online communities could cause negative effects for face-to face communication which people used to do. Because internet can be used by anyone anywhere anytime without any limits, it has great power and efficient. Depend on people's way of using, this huge potential could be used both positively and negatively in individual small level to socialized large level.

Reaction

We have to protect the right for expression in our lives so people should not control whatever they express. However, internet has huge information we can do anything without reveal who I am. In my opinion, the most serious problem is that information or expression exist without responsibility in internet so it could be unreliable and dangerous.