This week I decided to learn how to use Delicious. As a social bookmark, I think Delicious is cool. The interface is user friendly. I can easily add some sites that I like and import my old bookmark into delicious. It also have some features that help me to organize my bookmark. I think I will use delicious as my bookmark tool.
Right now, I've not found its weaknesses yet. Anyone?
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Week 4 -2. Do you want to make a friendship or to collect friends?
The question above was posted by one of my friends in Facebook. I remember this question again because it has similar notion with what Charlene point out in discussion board.
At the beginning, I only added people that I knew or people who I thought have the similar interest or goals. Later, the friend requests became wider and based on the belief that making a lot of friends is the purpose of social networking, I always confirmed them as friends. It was quite fun to build up friendships with new friends. But the more friends I have, the more difficult I keep in touch with them. I must admit that most of the time I keep in touch with friends who I already know before.
A few friends of mine actually misrecognize me with someone else. My name is a very common name in my country; there are a lot of women whose name are the same with mine. I knew that they misrecognize me when they tagged me on their photos or when we had a chat conversation. I usually removed the tag and informed them that I am not the person. It was funny sometimes but sometimes it also annoying. After that, I become more careful in making a new friend in Facebook.
At the beginning, I only added people that I knew or people who I thought have the similar interest or goals. Later, the friend requests became wider and based on the belief that making a lot of friends is the purpose of social networking, I always confirmed them as friends. It was quite fun to build up friendships with new friends. But the more friends I have, the more difficult I keep in touch with them. I must admit that most of the time I keep in touch with friends who I already know before.
A few friends of mine actually misrecognize me with someone else. My name is a very common name in my country; there are a lot of women whose name are the same with mine. I knew that they misrecognize me when they tagged me on their photos or when we had a chat conversation. I usually removed the tag and informed them that I am not the person. It was funny sometimes but sometimes it also annoying. After that, I become more careful in making a new friend in Facebook.
Week 4 - 1. Expertise
How do I judge the value of expertise on the Web?
- If I don't recognize the author, I will read the author's background information. I often found a short biography of the author that provide the author's educational background and publications. From these types of information, I can value the author's expertise.
- From the content of the articles/information. If the author discuss the content in depth, I can assume that the author know the content very well. It will be more easily to judge if I familiar with the content/information provided by the author.
- From the comments. The comments provided by other readers also help me to judge the value of expertise on the Web.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Week 3 -3. Trying out to write a post from email
| This is my first experience to write a post from my yahoo email. Hope it'll work. Before I learned to write a post from email, I wanted to integrate Facebook and blog using mirror but I failed because an transport error was occurred during the process. It happen maybe because the internet signals was not so good. Right now I in a little village at Kuningan-West Java visiting my parents in law. I am glad that I still receive the signals eventhough sometimes it took a while to open BB, email and other internet application. After exploring some features or application in blog and facebook, I think Web 2.0 tools are great. For example, they can integrate one tool to another that make the user easier to participate. Just like what I do right now, I don't have to open my blog to post my EJ because I can write it from my email account. |
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Week 3-2. Little discussion on Web 2.0
On Friday, after my husband and I went to book store where we saw a lot of book that discuss about Facebook, blogs and some other web 2.0 tools, my husband ask me one question. What was web 2.0 exactly? Although he often use Facebook, blog, and Google doc, however he doesn't know that both of them are web 2.0 tools. I guess many people are like my husband who often use Facebook or blog, but they don't know the term "web 2.0".
My answer to his question was simple, Web 2.0 is the term that is used to describe the second generation of web that enable the users to be more active participant who can edit, add comment, or share information.
We continued our discussion about some application of Web 2.0. Until he said that he wanted his institution to be more paperless, because the cost to buy paper was very high. Then we agree to try blog to develop community of practice. I will set-up the blog for his organization, it is also for my produsage #2.
My answer to his question was simple, Web 2.0 is the term that is used to describe the second generation of web that enable the users to be more active participant who can edit, add comment, or share information.
We continued our discussion about some application of Web 2.0. Until he said that he wanted his institution to be more paperless, because the cost to buy paper was very high. Then we agree to try blog to develop community of practice. I will set-up the blog for his organization, it is also for my produsage #2.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Week 3-1. Wiki or blog?
Both wiki and blog could be used for collaborative work. However, when is the best time to use wiki and blog?
There are some question that I will need to answer when I want to use wiki, blog, or both of them, such as "Do Iwant the users to read only?; read and comment but not edit?; be able to read or edit? or what is the purpose of the task?"
Since blog is more personal, it is best used when I want the learner to share experiences, opinions, or creations that reflect their learning where other learners can only read the posting and make a comment.
Wikis are tools which allow learners to co-construct a web page. Wikis are best used for collaborative tasks where others can edit the text.
Others concern that I need to be address are reliability, confidentiality, and safety.
If management wants to implement these tools, encouraging the employees and the students to participate could be the challenge since some of them maybe don't have the willing to learn new technologies and don't want to change the way they work or learn.
There are some question that I will need to answer when I want to use wiki, blog, or both of them, such as "Do Iwant the users to read only?; read and comment but not edit?; be able to read or edit? or what is the purpose of the task?"
Since blog is more personal, it is best used when I want the learner to share experiences, opinions, or creations that reflect their learning where other learners can only read the posting and make a comment.
Wikis are tools which allow learners to co-construct a web page. Wikis are best used for collaborative tasks where others can edit the text.
Others concern that I need to be address are reliability, confidentiality, and safety.
If management wants to implement these tools, encouraging the employees and the students to participate could be the challenge since some of them maybe don't have the willing to learn new technologies and don't want to change the way they work or learn.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Week 2 - 3. Flickr
Another Web 2.0 tool that I learned this week was Flickr. Even though I knew it for a long time and visited some of the users' accounts but I never created a Flickr account for myself. Because I am not a photographer but I do enjoyed to see the photos posted in Flickr, specially those which taken by professional photographer.
Flickr is classified as online collaboration tools focused on images and visuals. What make it a great Web 2.0 tools is local-photos management software that allow users to post their images and share it with others. Users can annotated images, add comments, and tag the images. That why Flickr can be used in educational setting that is releted with the art works.
Flickr is classified as online collaboration tools focused on images and visuals. What make it a great Web 2.0 tools is local-photos management software that allow users to post their images and share it with others. Users can annotated images, add comments, and tag the images. That why Flickr can be used in educational setting that is releted with the art works.
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