circaVie

Yuko's S3 session

1. Review of tool
circaVie
" circaVie, or "times of your life," is a place to celebrate your life in an exciting new way ... chronologically through an interactive timeline. Tell your life story or the story of your latest road trip, a day to remember, or a trip around the world. Any time, any picture, any video - mark it here and share it everywhere. Tell us what you think!"

This is an date sharing software.
People can make their own timeline with impressive photos and images which is on web. These days many people have their own digital camera. But where is gone the pictures which they took? I think most of it become stock of their computer and its decrease comptuter's memory so I find the good way to make the most of those pictures. circaVie can be the good record of our life. It can record our life chronologically. We can make our chronology with our memorial pictures and share each other.

2.My Presentation

a. Introduction summary teach the tool (5mins) link to circaVie http://www.flickr.com/photos/16876301@N05/show/

b. Body teach the tool

c. Conclusion Small Group Discussion

Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Knowledge of how to save and browse pictures in computers. circaVie is very easy to use.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
People can make the most of their photos and memories, also share and enjoy to see it.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
circaVie connect to Google Reader so if people set it to Google Reader people can know the newest date any time.
In an academic place, if people keep taking pictures of one particular spot (ex. rain forest in amazon), that record will help us to know the changes of the environment. circaVie might help us especially environmental field.


4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It will be my hobby. I like to taking pictures. I can share my favorite picture with complete stranger all over the world.

circaVie

My Presentation

1.circaVie

2. http://www.circavie.com/
People have to make an account.

3.circaVie is a data sharing tool. People can make their own life chronology with using pictures and videos. This tool will be records of your trip and celebration with our pictures. Many people have digital camera but most people don't use the pictures which they took. This tool make the most of those pictures. Also people can add social big events like Olympics not only their private events.

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?

I always manage time to meet all of with groupmates. This is very difficult for ICU students because they are often so busy. When we meet, we print out what we done or we have meeting in ILC room and do the work together But this is not efficient. So I really wanted to find good way to do groupwork.


Explain
Write a post reflecting on Google Docs & Spreadsheets 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?
Basic computer skill and knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Surely we can have meetings without see each other, because we can use online communication tools like messenger. However this is an ineffective way, it needs many time. For example if a person send some files to others, all other people have to download the file individually. It is waste of time. Google Doc will solve this problem.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Google Doc connect to Google Reader. So we can check renewal date at a sight.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It will save our time. We can have meetings more easily and frequently without meeting face to face.

Lesson5

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?
I usually visit MSN, Google, Yahoo,W3, and my favorite blog. I have no special provisions so I check these sites at times.


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?



Explain
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions.

Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
The skills which I learned; adding homepage tab.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It save my time. Until now, I checked my favorite sites occasionally, but usually I found that there is no change what I saw last time. This was waste of time.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It allows us to see web pages' renewal in one pages.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can save my time so I will use my time more effectively than before.

Lesson3

Think
What arrangements do you have to make now to be able to work on whatever you want to wherever you are?
E-mail to myself or using USB memory.


Explain
Write a post reflecting on Firefox (especially the add-on you have learned to use) with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Basic computer skills. Reading skill.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
I can use computer in my favorite environment.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It is shown on the web-pages.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can move to the site to the other site more effectively than before.

Lesson4

Think
How do you currently save and store favourite webpages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them?

I use bookmarks on browser. Now I use USB memory, it makes me to carry.

Lesson4 Think Explore, Explain

Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Basic computer's skill which I learned this class; editing pages etc.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Delicious allow us to share our bookmarks and favorite web pages.

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

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I can bring and share my information with my friends.

Lesson 2: Blog as e-Portfolio

Think
Do you need an e-portfolio? Please watch this presentation. (This presentation describes use of a wiki, while you will use a blog for your e-portfolio)
If I have an e-portfolio, it is very convenient for me. I often forget to do something ,to bring something. So it will help me a lot.


What arrangements do you have in place now to be able to show others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?
I have no arrangements now, and I did not have any thoughts of sharing my idea.

Explore
What main benefits/disadvantages do you see (if you see any) in the design of an e-portfolio compared to a traditional resume?
Benefits many
Disadvantage If we cannot use PC unexpectedly, we cannot use e-portfolio.

Barabasi

Barabasi: The Sixth Link pp. 25-35
Due Tuesday 10/2

1. What is the principle of six degrees of separation? What number of social links does any one person need to be connected to global society? p. 30
We people are separated by six people in this world. So if we trail six people, we can meet completely strangers like a gondolier in Venice. Only six people.

2. How is the fabric of society today different from pre-internet society? p. 31
The fabric of modern society is kept by URLs.

3. How many more links separate any pair of web pages compared to people in society? What can explain the difference? p. 34
Web pages have thirteen more links than people's one.

4. So far, what ranges of separation have network scientists discovered in different kinds of networks? p. 34
Our society which is consisted of 6 billion nodes has a separation of 6. The Web which is consisted of about billion nodes has a separation of 19. The Internet which has a separation of 10.

5. What does research suggest about the fundamentals of networks? p.34-35It suggest that logarithm is the base of network. But I could not understand the idea of logarithm.

6. What is your estimate of your personal number of connections to society? What connections are your strongest?
I think relative network is strongest. Family.

Lesson1

1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
It was his idea of using social network which can propagate effectively.


2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
I think the answer is yes.


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 companies, ecosystem interactions, genes and so on.
I want to see the map of international marriages.

4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
Simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution if all the complex networks that surround us.


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)?
He said reductionism is the nature of most scientific research.
Pople meet with the hard wall of complexity. Because the components which constitute this world is linked to everything.


6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
I have no idea.