Sunday, June 14, 2009

Lesson 5 Google Docs

Think

I usually contacted with others by email, and had meetings at somewhere.

Explore

I could not watch the video.

Explain

1. The skills needed to use GDS are almost same as the skills to use Microsoft Office, to make the documents easy to see and understand and make it in accademic forms.

2. GDS is very usefull for simply making essays. GDS is more usefull than Microsoft Office when we work together with other students, because the documents can be shared with others online. However, unfortunately GDS can not be used in offline PCs.

3. GDS can be used to network professionally by posting the documents to e-portfolio and we can share the informations and with other students.

4. I have learned that not only completed documents but also the process of making documents should be onlined and shared with others, and it could be by GDS.



Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Lesson 4: Delicious as a Personal & Social Study Tool

Think
1.
a) About 60%
b) About 90%
c) About 90%

2.
If I remember the name or keywords of the site, I would look for the site with a search engine.

3.
I would copy the web-site address, paste it on a e-mail, and then send it to my friends.

Explore
17.
akikoscicu09
Yuscicu09
c121400s

Do
1.
I did not know almost all about the social bookmarking. Tagging and classifying some bookmarking site and sharing the bookmarks with other users are very new ideas for me.

Explain
1.
The skills to search and collect many usefull sites are needed.

2.
Social bookmarking can be used to introduce some usefull sites to the friends.

3.
If we deal with some project with others, social bookmarking can be usefull to share the online informations and resorces about the project with others.

4.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Lesson 3: Blog as e-Portfolio

Think

We can show others evidence of what we know and what we can do by books, handouts, physical portffolio or files.

Explore

1. E-portfolio is a tool that collects what we know, what we have done, what we can do, and what we are doing online.

2. I may want to add the pictures that I have drawn or I have taken and the essay that I have written to my e-portfolio.

3. First, we can add coments to e-portfolio and we can ask some questions to the writer directly. Second, we can attach the pictures or the movies that are related to the article on the e-portfolio, and these make it easier to get the informations.
However, we can not see a lot of informations at once on the e-portfolio as compared with a traditional resume.

Explain

1. We need to select the contents that are actually needed to add to our e-portfolio, and also need to arrange and classify the contents to make it easy to pick up.

2.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Lesson 1: Introduction to Social Networks

Name: Ryota Kawakami

Think

1. Social Software

I know Youtube and Wikipedia, and also I use them frequently. the social software is the software which enables us to communicate with each other by sharing informations, videos or any other materials. Moreover, social software is social when it works as a communication tool.

2. Social Networks

Networks are some relationships between many people, and if they sharing some informations by using networks, the networks have social function.

Explore

1.
mixi, a social networking service, offers news service, and we can also add comments for each news. Therefore we can get new information and knowledge by using that.

2.
Connection, Network, Visible, Social networking sites.

3.
I didn't know that number of college graduates and English speaking in India and China are so high.Furthermore, it was surprise me the most that more than 230,000 users signed up for Myspace today, and if Myspace were a country, it would be the 8th largest in the world.

Do

I could know that social software and social networks has much more important meaning in today's world than I have thought, and it also can be said that the function of social software and social networks will become more and more large than today in the future

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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