This was my house in Milan. I lived on the 7th floor. Living in Italy influenced me deeply. I did not go outside and often drew pictures in my bedroom.
2007年9月25日火曜日
Where I used to live
This was my house in Milan. I lived on the 7th floor. Living in Italy influenced me deeply. I did not go outside and often drew pictures in my bedroom.
Social Computing Key Questions 1:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
First of all, writing skill is needed. Also it is easy to use social software if you can quickly understand how the site is functioned.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
You can easily share informations with many people and can comment each other's pages. However because there are far too many people online, you might worry if it is safe to show all your personal informations.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Using our personal blogs as our resume.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It is important to know what kind of "equipments" are available for you. For example, until I took this sophomore class, I never knew anything about the e-portfolio.
First of all, writing skill is needed. Also it is easy to use social software if you can quickly understand how the site is functioned.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
You can easily share informations with many people and can comment each other's pages. However because there are far too many people online, you might worry if it is safe to show all your personal informations.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Using our personal blogs as our resume.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It is important to know what kind of "equipments" are available for you. For example, until I took this sophomore class, I never knew anything about the e-portfolio.
2007年9月18日火曜日
Barabasi: The First Link
1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
Removing the barriers when converting to Christianity, such as circumcision, and spreading the messages to the large communities were the critical factors to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
It might happen again. I do not have any religious faith so it is difficult to imagine, though spreading of the messages can be done very quickly with the use of internet. Remember how fast YouTube became famous (Alhough YouTube is not religion).
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Our interconnectivity made maps of the Internet, companies, interaction between species in ecosystems, genes, and so on. These maps enabled to uncover many mysterie, and some new possibilities emerged. I would like to see maps of talented people's brains, such as artists and musicians, and see if talent really exists.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The surprise is that although networks are very complex, the structure and evolution of them were simple. Personally, it shocked me a little. It is like the world of nature. They are complicated yet simple as well.
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)?
By nature, most scientific research in the 20th Century gave its focus on components. Researchers thought that they had to know the parts to know the whole. However, because those pieces were linked to something else, it was not very effective.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
The new scientific research in the coming era will focus on networks. Rather than looking at the components, looking at the links give us different perspectives. Perhaps the networks are significant just like relationships between friends and family are very important in our daily life. New perspectives can be risky but it can also give us new discoveries.
Removing the barriers when converting to Christianity, such as circumcision, and spreading the messages to the large communities were the critical factors to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message.
2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
It might happen again. I do not have any religious faith so it is difficult to imagine, though spreading of the messages can be done very quickly with the use of internet. Remember how fast YouTube became famous (Alhough YouTube is not religion).
3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Our interconnectivity made maps of the Internet, companies, interaction between species in ecosystems, genes, and so on. These maps enabled to uncover many mysterie, and some new possibilities emerged. I would like to see maps of talented people's brains, such as artists and musicians, and see if talent really exists.
4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
The surprise is that although networks are very complex, the structure and evolution of them were simple. Personally, it shocked me a little. It is like the world of nature. They are complicated yet simple as well.
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)?
By nature, most scientific research in the 20th Century gave its focus on components. Researchers thought that they had to know the parts to know the whole. However, because those pieces were linked to something else, it was not very effective.
6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
The new scientific research in the coming era will focus on networks. Rather than looking at the components, looking at the links give us different perspectives. Perhaps the networks are significant just like relationships between friends and family are very important in our daily life. New perspectives can be risky but it can also give us new discoveries.
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