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 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

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.
skrbl now

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.