We missed two wise men's thoughts on Wagner's Presentation-Marc and Ty-it's my fault...Sorry guys...
I added one of my fav piano piece-Cannon in D to the podcast and adjusted the volume of the music as well as our records.
I can not upload audio file to Blogger, so I made a short video with iMovie. Enjoy~
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thoughts on Dr. Ellen Wagner's Presentation
The open source soft wares and web applications can also trouble us when we benefit from them. They're "free poppy" rather than "free beer". Some soft wares offer 30-day trial and keep on sending commercial emails about the product to you; Even the soft ware is totally free, you're requested to upgrade that and even install 3rd party plug-ins about once a month; To get access to web applications, you're always required to sign-up by filling in a list of personal information, and ohoo, more commercial emails... Therefore, when we are connected with each other like no generation before us are, we are also exposed unprecedentedly to the world.
Friday, February 27, 2009
The World is Opened by Web Technology for Education
I bookmarked the e-book webpage of "The World Is Flat" (Chinese version) and read the preface. I got back to that after I read the synopsis of Dr. Curt's "The World Is Open". I found the latter one not only covers the influential flattener (Dr. Curt prefers to call it "opener") of globalization-technology-that Thomas Friedman didn't talked about in his best-seller, it also discuss that in a more positive manner. It seems that we suddenly realize how globalized we are until some negative influence like financial storm happens. However, we are never tired or scared of new technology emerging to empower connection and education.
I like the way Dr. Curt interpret WE-ALL-LEARN with the ten openers. That's poetic. I also enjoy the new set of triple P's that describe how technology opens the world for education: "Pages of free web content and courses; pipes for accessing and searching such online content and a participatory learning culture that freely shares and collaborates on the information and knowledge found there.
In the introduction part of "The World Is Open", Dr. Curt tell a long digging story to show how blog enable us to be free to choose to be an arm-chaired archeologist, an observer of those who dig in the real-world. It also shows how powerful blog is to connect people of the same interest to communicate despite of the limitation of time and space. Daily life, information and knowledge have never been shared in such a quick manner.
Web lowers the stair of receiving education (both formal and informal ones)-cutting cost, breaking the fences of age and background, etc. Thanks to the Internet, education today is highly open and global.
The web technology intrigues the willingness of sharing and collaborating of educational resources. This notion extends education outside the walled schools onto the virtual worlds where learners meet and interact with instructors and peers, discussing a topic, working together on a project, figuring out a solution, etc.
The Web technology is the modern Magellan who explores and opens the world for us so we don't need to travel over the planet but can "see" it much better than any generation before us.
I like the way Dr. Curt interpret WE-ALL-LEARN with the ten openers. That's poetic. I also enjoy the new set of triple P's that describe how technology opens the world for education: "Pages of free web content and courses; pipes for accessing and searching such online content and a participatory learning culture that freely shares and collaborates on the information and knowledge found there.
In the introduction part of "The World Is Open", Dr. Curt tell a long digging story to show how blog enable us to be free to choose to be an arm-chaired archeologist, an observer of those who dig in the real-world. It also shows how powerful blog is to connect people of the same interest to communicate despite of the limitation of time and space. Daily life, information and knowledge have never been shared in such a quick manner.
Web lowers the stair of receiving education (both formal and informal ones)-cutting cost, breaking the fences of age and background, etc. Thanks to the Internet, education today is highly open and global.
The web technology intrigues the willingness of sharing and collaborating of educational resources. This notion extends education outside the walled schools onto the virtual worlds where learners meet and interact with instructors and peers, discussing a topic, working together on a project, figuring out a solution, etc.
The Web technology is the modern Magellan who explores and opens the world for us so we don't need to travel over the planet but can "see" it much better than any generation before us.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Publish, Not Punish
Last Thursday in class, we discussed about the privacy and openness of blog, SocialText collaborative writing as well as the educational part of Web 2.0 tools like Wiki and Twitter.
I should say that this class changed my conservative idea about blogging. I used to regard it as a grey area where people who are so fond of exposing themselves and those who are overcurious about others' privacy party online... Now I'm enjoying sharing my life, thoughts and emotions with my friends and class peers.
I check my blogs almost everyday and enjoy reading comments on my entries. I also comment on peers' blogs. That's how I resume friendship with old classmates who I haven't got in touch for about 10 years. That's how I got great thoughts and feedback from my class peers. That's how I found collaborative writing fun and cool (Create~Communicate~Collaborate~).
Choosing blogging, Wiking, Twittering, etc. is choosing to publish your life, ideas, pictures and videos... You have the full right to choose what you'd like to share to the world. And the rest of the world have almost the full right to comment on and edit those. As long as you obey the Intellectual Property right and interquette, there's no punishment. That's how Web 2.0 is loved and also criticized, I guess:)
I should say that this class changed my conservative idea about blogging. I used to regard it as a grey area where people who are so fond of exposing themselves and those who are overcurious about others' privacy party online... Now I'm enjoying sharing my life, thoughts and emotions with my friends and class peers.
I check my blogs almost everyday and enjoy reading comments on my entries. I also comment on peers' blogs. That's how I resume friendship with old classmates who I haven't got in touch for about 10 years. That's how I got great thoughts and feedback from my class peers. That's how I found collaborative writing fun and cool (Create~Communicate~Collaborate~).
Choosing blogging, Wiking, Twittering, etc. is choosing to publish your life, ideas, pictures and videos... You have the full right to choose what you'd like to share to the world. And the rest of the world have almost the full right to comment on and edit those. As long as you obey the Intellectual Property right and interquette, there's no punishment. That's how Web 2.0 is loved and also criticized, I guess:)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Emerging Tech in E-Learning
The chapter of reading is really well-organized-I like that! I can pause and pick up reading as I like. The following are some points through the reading I echoed with personal experiences.
1. The key phrase for Web 2.0 is social networking. Connecting with peer students, teachers, ideas, friends, colleagues... Create! Communicate! Collaborate!
2. Educational gaming has facilitated education and will continue that in a long way. Instructors can take full advantage of existing online educational games like the flash games from The Nobel Foundation to make their course more powerful and fun, without having to know how to create those games!
3. New understanding about Extended learning: When I first heard of extended learning, I took it for granted that it refers to education after regular school or after regular life-period of receiving full-day education. After reading this article, I need to redefine "extended learning". Actually, the learning mode I am using now in ITEC is an example of extended learning-using both e-learning (iLearn, HyFlex, et al) and classroom seminar.
4.P2P share files directly between computer and computer without going through a server. That is really cool. This technology enables students to talk synchronously on the same platform about that project.
Anyway, "new technologies will not replace traditional learning but complement it". Web 2.0 also faces challenges both in intangible part (intellectual property rights and digital right management) and tangible part (technology infrastruture).
1. The key phrase for Web 2.0 is social networking. Connecting with peer students, teachers, ideas, friends, colleagues... Create! Communicate! Collaborate!
2. Educational gaming has facilitated education and will continue that in a long way. Instructors can take full advantage of existing online educational games like the flash games from The Nobel Foundation to make their course more powerful and fun, without having to know how to create those games!
3. New understanding about Extended learning: When I first heard of extended learning, I took it for granted that it refers to education after regular school or after regular life-period of receiving full-day education. After reading this article, I need to redefine "extended learning". Actually, the learning mode I am using now in ITEC is an example of extended learning-using both e-learning (iLearn, HyFlex, et al) and classroom seminar.
4.P2P share files directly between computer and computer without going through a server. That is really cool. This technology enables students to talk synchronously on the same platform about that project.
Anyway, "new technologies will not replace traditional learning but complement it". Web 2.0 also faces challenges both in intangible part (intellectual property rights and digital right management) and tangible part (technology infrastruture).
What's new about SocialText? (No Offence)
To be honest, I didn't quite follow Eugene's speech last Thursday. He's a cool and fun speaker. Only I'm still so novice in Web 2.0...
I watched videos of "How to use SocialText Wiki" and also "SocialText in Youtube".
1. I am kind of confused that is SocialText an individual workspace with a self-owned server, or its a sub workshop of Wiki? For me, SocialText has a layout similar to iGoogle and functions as Wiki.
2. The dragging of text and pictures in SocialText is interesting and actually I just tried it out. I only did it before in Mac Word 08.
Anyway, the interface of SocialText is very concise and neat, not that entertaining and fancy like iGoogle and weaving a romantic story in groups is fun, also~
I watched videos of "How to use SocialText Wiki" and also "SocialText in Youtube".
1. I am kind of confused that is SocialText an individual workspace with a self-owned server, or its a sub workshop of Wiki? For me, SocialText has a layout similar to iGoogle and functions as Wiki.
2. The dragging of text and pictures in SocialText is interesting and actually I just tried it out. I only did it before in Mac Word 08.
Anyway, the interface of SocialText is very concise and neat, not that entertaining and fancy like iGoogle and weaving a romantic story in groups is fun, also~
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