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.