S3 post # 3

Susumu's World Mapper

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
It would be helpful if you could quickly understand how to search the maps that you need. There are many ways to find the maps. It would also help if you could easily find the appropriate maps from the result.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
By seeing many maps, you can get quick visions of the world.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Resources of many kind of maps can be used academically like for essays.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?

S3 post #1

Shintaro's mindmeister

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
You need to know the basic rules such as how to make new bubbles and how to connect the bubbles and so on. It is pretty easy to use if you know the basic idea of the spider web.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
I like the fact that there is no limit of the space to write down all the ideas. You can just keep on spreading the ideas.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I think you can use this tool academically. You can easily display your ideas of thoughts.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It is appealing that you can share the spider webs with the other users. You can keep on spreading the ideas using not just your own ideas but the others'.

Yukie's S3 Session

Yukie's S3 Session
Gradefix
http://www.gradefix.com/index.php


Gradefix is a tool to schedule studying time. It calculates how the users should deal with all the homeworks from informations such as the users' studying time in a week and the subjects that they have taken. It saves users' time and enables them to easily check what they have done. Gradefix can remind the users working process by email.

2. My presentation
a) Intro: Teach the Tool (5 mins)
http://picasaweb.google.com/s101232/Gradefix/photo#s5126980586671023570
*Signing up


b)Body
Teach the main feature of the tool

c)Conclusion: SCICU Key Quesitions
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
2. What are the affordances (what does the service make possible, what it impedes)?
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?

Lesson 6 Think and Explain

Think
First we will decide what kind of works each person should do, then we will work on them until the due day. On the due day we will meet up and show what we have done by talking the main points.

Explain
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
It would be helpful if you know how to use programs like Microsoft Word and Excel. Also the understanding of the icons such as cut and paste would save time.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Using Google Docs is like a combination of Microsoft Word and Internet. It allows the users to post something interesting very easily.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
This could be used for a small presentation for business. By using the Spreadsheet, it enables the users to give more visual information to the viewers.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
This tool may save my time, as I used to prefer working on Microsoft Words rather than the blog's posting tools, I used to copy and paste what I had written on Microsoft Word to some other place on the internet often.

Lesson 5, Think and Explain

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 regularly visit e-mail sites like hotmail and yamata. I check each sites one by one and see if there are any new contents being posted. Some sites send emails to remind the users if they have made new posts.

Explain
Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To use the RSS you need to know whether the sites you want to subscribe gives you feed or not. For example if it has the RSS icon then you can just click on it, and it will automatically subscribe the site.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?\
By subscribing the sites, you do not have to visit each of your favourite sites but just logging on to Google Reader will do all the work. It saves time from clicking the sites and checking what is new.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It will be very helpful for the marketing business. The world business moves very very fast so you need to keep up on the new informations.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
By subscribing the favourite sites, it enables to know how the sites are perceived in the internet. For example we can know if the sites are popular by checking the amount of people subscribing the sites.

Readings: Kahn & Kellner, pp. 183-185, pp. 190-198

Over 10 years have passed since the creation of the WWW. The state of the online communities requires constant retheorisation. The authors focus on the reactions of the online communities toward the Bush administration since 9/11. The authors explain the situation of the communties standing against the millitarism, terrorism, and other principles that menace with democracy and social justice.

I have never linked the internet with politics. The possibility of the Internet is immeasurable.