2009年4月22日水曜日

Lesson2: The Browser as Personal Learning Environment(PLE)

Think!

When we are earger to work anywhere and anytime, it is possible to say that there are several method to achieve that. The USB memory card is one of the solutions. With this small and thin tool, we can carry and use any or however much information at anytime. It is also clear that simply we carry the books or tools to work on them to work anywhere and anytime.




Explore!

Firstly, of the features of No.4, I have found very attractive function; All-in-One. This is the side bar on the right side of the screen which displays various tools such as music player, calender, etc.

Nextly, there is another useful usage; Split Browser. with this method, users are able to watch two different window or pages at the same time.



Explain!

I found two very useful add-ons; ResearchWord and Clipmarks. The former one is the tool box to research and understand the word you have chosen. There are many tools in it; Wikipedia, The free dictionary, Google Definition, spellcheck, Google Images, Youtube, Amazon.etc. You can have various approaches to find out the word you want to know. This ResearchWord fulfills almost all saticfaction to study the word. The next useful and some kind of interesting add-ons is the Clipmarks. There are three steps to use this tools; firstly you CLIP the pictures or words or sentences or even the videos that you want to reserve and keep.Nextly, you SAVE that images or words to your own page of "my clipmarks". Then, lastly you can see everything you have clipped so far on your own "my clipmarks" anytime. In addition to this, you can also see everybody's clipmarks on the homepage of clipmarks, it will definitely useful to make your research or studying; just entering the words relationg to your study, you can see various information from everybody's clipmarks.
By using thse useful tools, we can develop our personal learning environment widely from the studying the unknown or ambiguous words to collecting the resources and information of our learning.

2009年4月16日木曜日

Lesson 1: Introduction to Social Network

Think!

1.Social software
Social software is the kind of method which enables us to gain informationwithout lots of tough research or troubles. With only connecting theInternet, we can pick up and find what we are looking for on thescreen.Another words, this social software is the thing of one way, onlyproviding and guiding. From this point of view, whether social softwarecan be really "social" depends on how we use it to our lives efficiently.

2.Social network
Social network is clearly the thing that connect eachperson to the information, some opportunities, and even the best partner.Compared to social software, it offer the place for people to seize the chance of connection.In thepoint of "social", this social network can be much easier to image becausethe influences and power which the "network" gives on the society is sostrong and huge. Society is the cause of networks.Thus, social network canbe thought of must to make the society and social lives of people.

Explore!

After watching the video of social network, I understand that socialnetwork makes the hidden opportunities visible. They can be the chance toget a job, to live a good house, or to find a pretty girl friend. Therange and possibility of the uses of social network cannot be measured.

Do!

Having learned about Social software and Social network a little, thir images and definitions have been established in my mind, though they are still ambiguous. We use Social software and gain huge profit from it to make our lives better and comfortable. On the other hand, we also use Social network as a method to get the opportunities and various profit.They are both very useful invention and at the same time they have developped along with the demands and needs of human. In order to make the most of these, we must be good and wise users knowing the danger and features of them well.

2009年4月15日水曜日