theme writing
topic
the change of interracial marriage trend in America from 1960's to now
Hairspray (Broadway musical, film)
-interracial couple (Penny & Seaweed), racist (Penny's mother, Prudy)
*How was it in real 1960's America?
*How is it in real America now?
*the number of interracial marriage.
*case studies (how people react to the interracial couples?)
2007年12月19日水曜日
2007年11月15日木曜日
S3 review gradefix
Review of Yukie's S3 presentation about Gradefix.
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Input own schedule according to the format.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Gradefix manages user's schedule of study. It will save time for making schedule.
but the schedule, which hadn't made by oneself can be forgot easily.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I am not sure if this tool connect users. Gradefix might be for individual use.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
For students not good at managing time by oneself, this tool is really useful and helpful. Controlling their time is important skill in college life and other ways.
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Input own schedule according to the format.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Gradefix manages user's schedule of study. It will save time for making schedule.
but the schedule, which hadn't made by oneself can be forgot easily.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I am not sure if this tool connect users. Gradefix might be for individual use.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
For students not good at managing time by oneself, this tool is really useful and helpful. Controlling their time is important skill in college life and other ways.
Lesson6 GDS 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?
I usually make an appointment with other students and work together in the same place & time.
I will send e-mail to others when I want to show them something. If it cannot be sent by e-mail, I have to bring it directly to show.
When I have to work on a material with friends at the same time, I may prepare copies for each person. Sharing one material can be troublesome.
Explain:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
We should know how to use spreadsheet tables, and make charts.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Using google docs can save time to have meeting with other collaborators.
It makes sharing information easier.
However, it takes lots of time to create documents for user who is not familiar to this tool.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Students can share documents (including images, graphs) easily without having meeting many times.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Sharing information and getting feedback can be the most important communication when we collaborate with others. This tool helps us to do it smooth.
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?
I usually make an appointment with other students and work together in the same place & time.
I will send e-mail to others when I want to show them something. If it cannot be sent by e-mail, I have to bring it directly to show.
When I have to work on a material with friends at the same time, I may prepare copies for each person. Sharing one material can be troublesome.
Explain:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
We should know how to use spreadsheet tables, and make charts.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Using google docs can save time to have meeting with other collaborators.
It makes sharing information easier.
However, it takes lots of time to create documents for user who is not familiar to this tool.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Students can share documents (including images, graphs) easily without having meeting many times.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Sharing information and getting feedback can be the most important communication when we collaborate with others. This tool helps us to do it smooth.
2007年11月13日火曜日
S3 review Diigo
Diigo (introduced by Rei)
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Creating an account and installing toolbar to browser.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Diigo enables us to annotate and take notes on websites same as paper resources.
Others can access user's list of bookmark.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Users should tell only 1 URL to share all of their bookmarks with friends.
It can avoid mistyping of URL.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
it is usual to annotate important parts of paper source. We can do the same thing
on websites we need. This tool will develop my use of internet sources.
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Creating an account and installing toolbar to browser.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Diigo enables us to annotate and take notes on websites same as paper resources.
Others can access user's list of bookmark.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Users should tell only 1 URL to share all of their bookmarks with friends.
It can avoid mistyping of URL.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
it is usual to annotate important parts of paper source. We can do the same thing
on websites we need. This tool will develop my use of internet sources.
2007年11月6日火曜日
S3 worked whiteboard in class
http://mypage.skrbl.com/saoriscicu07_test.html
This is the log of our work done in my presentation.
please access and see how we can save the pad as a HTML file.
I will not erase what you wrote in class. Also, I will not delete the board itself.
If you want to use it, you can write anything you like.
Thank you for participating to my presentation.
This is the log of our work done in my presentation.
please access and see how we can save the pad as a HTML file.
I will not erase what you wrote in class. Also, I will not delete the board itself.
If you want to use it, you can write anything you like.
Thank you for participating to my presentation.
2007年10月30日火曜日
skrbl S3 presentation
Summery:
skrbl (http://www.skrbl.com/)
online whiteboard (supports typed message & hand-writing)
This is useful to discuss something/brainstorm online.
Guests can edit the whiteboard without registration.
User can make whiteboard, set password to the board, save it as HTML files.
Intro: slide show & explanation (5min)
Body: exercise brainstorming on skrbl
http://www.skrbl.com/saoriscicu07
skrbl (http://www.skrbl.com/)
online whiteboard (supports typed message & hand-writing)
This is useful to discuss something/brainstorm online.
Guests can edit the whiteboard without registration.
User can make whiteboard, set password to the board, save it as HTML files.
Intro: slide show & explanation (5min)
Body: exercise brainstorming on skrbl
http://www.skrbl.com/saoriscicu07
skrbl S3 review
Review of skrbl
skrbl is online whiteboard to share ideas with friends.
Reliability
1. Does this application make it clear who posts the information?
2. Does anyone besides the creator of the site have the power to change the information you can access?
3. How can you tell if this information is correct?
4. Does the information on the website relate to other websites or print resources about the same topic?
5. Is the website up to date?
First, The characteristic of this service is that guests (person who is not signed in to this service) can edit board freely.
So it is difficult to find who have written the information. To make one's whiteboard more reliable, a user should use
password system to shut out unknown guest and tell the password to his/her friends. Second, every guest can edit the board
as well as a user (only the user can erase the written information at once, however). Then, the user should save information
before someone erase it. Publish button can save the contents including hand-written lines as a HTML file. So the
information on the board is changeable but the user can keep a copy of it. Third, skrbl is suitable for group working such as
brainstorming. When someone post wrong information, anyone can correct it. Fourth, since this service does not support
hyper link, users cannot link from skrbl to some related information. This can be a problem of skrbl. Finally, the contents of board is
saved automatically, it should be up to date.
access to www.skrbl.com
skrbl is online whiteboard to share ideas with friends.
Reliability
1. Does this application make it clear who posts the information?
2. Does anyone besides the creator of the site have the power to change the information you can access?
3. How can you tell if this information is correct?
4. Does the information on the website relate to other websites or print resources about the same topic?
5. Is the website up to date?
First, The characteristic of this service is that guests (person who is not signed in to this service) can edit board freely.
So it is difficult to find who have written the information. To make one's whiteboard more reliable, a user should use
password system to shut out unknown guest and tell the password to his/her friends. Second, every guest can edit the board
as well as a user (only the user can erase the written information at once, however). Then, the user should save information
before someone erase it. Publish button can save the contents including hand-written lines as a HTML file. So the
information on the board is changeable but the user can keep a copy of it. Third, skrbl is suitable for group working such as
brainstorming. When someone post wrong information, anyone can correct it. Fourth, since this service does not support
hyper link, users cannot link from skrbl to some related information. This can be a problem of skrbl. Finally, the contents of board is
saved automatically, it should be up to date.
access to www.skrbl.com
2007年10月23日火曜日
S3 how to use this?
I'm now trying to use my S3 tool.
This is the test post to link skrbl.
How do I use it effectively?
This is the test post to link skrbl.
How do I use it effectively?
2007年10月2日火曜日
Lesson4 Think, Explain
I usually use bookmark system on my browser to save favorite websites. In the case I use different computer, I copy the address of the site and email it to myself.
Explain: Delicious
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
making an account, installing add-on, searching pages by tags and user name.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Del.icio.us makes us to share favorite or useful websites with a lot of people.
We can search pages that we need from other users' recommendations.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
User can know the number of people who saves the page. It helps users to know which page is the most useful for their research.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
This tool can be useful for sharing on-line resources with friends.
Explain: Delicious
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
making an account, installing add-on, searching pages by tags and user name.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Del.icio.us makes us to share favorite or useful websites with a lot of people.
We can search pages that we need from other users' recommendations.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
User can know the number of people who saves the page. It helps users to know which page is the most useful for their research.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
This tool can be useful for sharing on-line resources with friends.
2007年9月18日火曜日
Barabasi answers
1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
There are two factors of Paul's success in spreading the Christian message. First, he abolished the high barriers like circumcision to be a Christian. Second, he could use the social network and theorogy efficiently.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
It seems to be impossible to cause that again because there is too much information to spread one into the whole society of today.
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Maps of Internet, companies' connection, interactions between species in ecosystems and genes has been made. I would like to see the map of relationship between countries.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The real suprise described in the text means that diverse maps have a common structure, which is based on simple and far-reaching natural laws.
Since I could not get a clear image of the "blueprint", it is difficult to decide if it is surprising for me.
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)?
In the 20th century, people have noticed that reductionism does not work well to understand the whole things.The problem of associated with such an approach is that it can ignores the importance of interaction between pieces.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
There are two factors of Paul's success in spreading the Christian message. First, he abolished the high barriers like circumcision to be a Christian. Second, he could use the social network and theorogy efficiently.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
It seems to be impossible to cause that again because there is too much information to spread one into the whole society of today.
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Maps of Internet, companies' connection, interactions between species in ecosystems and genes has been made. I would like to see the map of relationship between countries.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The real suprise described in the text means that diverse maps have a common structure, which is based on simple and far-reaching natural laws.
Since I could not get a clear image of the "blueprint", it is difficult to decide if it is surprising for me.
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)?
In the 20th century, people have noticed that reductionism does not work well to understand the whole things.The problem of associated with such an approach is that it can ignores the importance of interaction between pieces.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
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