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'.