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.

1 件のコメント:

  1. Akiko, thank you THINK and EXPLORE answer the questions directly. In EXPLAIN, you mention Clipmarks and clearly explain how to use it and its possible affordances. Great find! I can also recommend Scrapbook, which is similar and a favorite of mine. In EXPLAIN, there are four questions, so please clearly number the parts of your answer. For grading purposes this helps you a lot, because I can easily identify the answers that the questions call for. I think one or two questions have not been really CLEARLY addressed. You could of course challenge me on that though. Grade: B-

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