More experiences gathered from using google docs.
I realized that when I looked at revision history, it was very difficult to understand who changed what. Although revision history stated who changed what. To me, it was still difficult compared to PBWorks. I felt the interface was still difficult for me to understand and if someone clicks to restore, the version will go back to the version we choose to restore but the problems are that we want to remain some changes others make.What I am saying is that if we want to delete some changes A makes but we want to remain what B changes, it was difficult to see how I am going to keep the editorA , and the editorc work changes without keeping part of changes B made. It is really hard to control the paper once the big big group edits together. In case we all 5 people edit at the same time, and let's say that our group has captain who has power to override the rest. What I mean is that if I want Ora to be the most powerful editor or chief editor, what am I going to do here? Of course not.
Google Docs treats everyone on an equal basis.
Apart from that, you only need to have gmail in order to use it so it is a waste of time for group participants which do not have individual gmails. They have to go to open a new account. I believe that google doc should support hotmail, yahoo mail,etc but again it is company's strategy.
There is no calendar linked or planned calendar for team collaboration. There should be calendar alert for team collaboration. For instance, if I said " whoever changes my sentences has to alert me", it will be better for me to monitor my words. In case someone changes it, google doc has to alert me that editor A changes my words. You know why. Sometimes some words are very important to someone but someone else.
There should be post-it paper noted that this sentence or this is paragraph we need to focus as our team's first priority. If the member does not act on that priority, the system will alert the second person to do the work instead. Or, there must be a subtask of edit which a person has to do prior to moving into next pages of work.
There is no priority of tasks assigned on edit empowered by googled doc.
When people do not have much time to work together, there should be tracking alert of work by series of due dates. Say paragraph 1 has to be finished by date XXXX and ora is responsible to close with her summary or to check APA style. Paragraph 2 has to be finished by date XXX by another person. Mindmap should be helpful in this to confirm the check of final closing
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Experiences Learned from Google Docs
Google Doc is an online document which you are allowed to use if you have gmail account. Google doc is not only a place where you store your document file but you can use google doc as a collaborative tool to share word document, excel, powerpoint with users who can be public users, or private users. Google Doc is like an online storage which we have space in sever without being charged. You can store word, excel, powerpoint, pdf, etc in google docs. From time to time we can collaborate and help each other edit/revise our papers together at the same time we can store paper after we edit to re-edit together online or even to load our research paper to share with public audience to edit or to view. Although google doc is very useful for us, it has weaknesses as follows:
1) There is no page number on google doc. So, we do not know how many pages we have
2) There is no track change so when you want to edit, you can not see original text next to new phrases/ sentences
3) There are no names assigned who write what.So, it is hard to know who write what sentences. In terms of measuring productivity, we are not sure who contributes the most. There is no tracking of productivity and efficiency.
4) There is no line number so when we chat in chat box, it is hard to communicate which line we are talking about. If there is line number, it will be more helpful when we edit.
5) There should be online face-to-face box similar to skype so that we can do conference call or vdo calling seeing each other face while we are editing.
6) I suggest that we should have mindmap to create collaborative ideas from google docs, and it will be great if we know who generates which idea so that our group or teacher can know who has done what. Easier Grading!
7) There is no project tracking or progress tracking. It will help us function more effectively if there is a tracking of what we have done, so that we can plan more effectively on working on google doc.
8) There is no place to divide tasks and subtasks. It will be great if we can have task lists next to google doc. It will help us focus on the right tasks needed to be accomplished first.
9) There are no files /images or anything to store in file to refer to. In PBworks, we can store files or images to refer to but with google docs we do not have that.
10) It is good that google doc is allowed for public share by giving URL link. It is great because people can release their news by using google doc and posting on facebook fan page instead of puting web link on fan page. Companies save costs on their web cost. Same web link can be generated by publishing google doc.
11) Google doc should be fed into blog or RSS. It will be great if Google doc can do that.
12) There is a lack of web publishing tool for google doc. Word doc can be saved and published as web page. But, google, the most it can do, is to release web link but not whole published web page.
Please read next.
1) There is no page number on google doc. So, we do not know how many pages we have
2) There is no track change so when you want to edit, you can not see original text next to new phrases/ sentences
3) There are no names assigned who write what.So, it is hard to know who write what sentences. In terms of measuring productivity, we are not sure who contributes the most. There is no tracking of productivity and efficiency.
4) There is no line number so when we chat in chat box, it is hard to communicate which line we are talking about. If there is line number, it will be more helpful when we edit.
5) There should be online face-to-face box similar to skype so that we can do conference call or vdo calling seeing each other face while we are editing.
6) I suggest that we should have mindmap to create collaborative ideas from google docs, and it will be great if we know who generates which idea so that our group or teacher can know who has done what. Easier Grading!
7) There is no project tracking or progress tracking. It will help us function more effectively if there is a tracking of what we have done, so that we can plan more effectively on working on google doc.
8) There is no place to divide tasks and subtasks. It will be great if we can have task lists next to google doc. It will help us focus on the right tasks needed to be accomplished first.
9) There are no files /images or anything to store in file to refer to. In PBworks, we can store files or images to refer to but with google docs we do not have that.
10) It is good that google doc is allowed for public share by giving URL link. It is great because people can release their news by using google doc and posting on facebook fan page instead of puting web link on fan page. Companies save costs on their web cost. Same web link can be generated by publishing google doc.
11) Google doc should be fed into blog or RSS. It will be great if Google doc can do that.
12) There is a lack of web publishing tool for google doc. Word doc can be saved and published as web page. But, google, the most it can do, is to release web link but not whole published web page.
Please read next.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
My ipad learning experience shared on TV channel in Thailand
In the future, the world will use tool like ipad to learn about anything.
In the future, I believe there will be a learning technology which makes our lives easier than ipad and kindle. Maybe something similar to ipad or kindle but you can use it as a phone, conference call, etc.......whenever you want to listen, to eat, to talk, to do anything... the machine will customized to your life style and remember everything you do or your say. It will be more than calendar because it will make you function like robot + human. When you speak to it, it will speak to you. Human might think less than before...in some aspects.
Today is Oct 12,2010. Let's see if my prediction is true.
In the future, I believe there will be a learning technology which makes our lives easier than ipad and kindle. Maybe something similar to ipad or kindle but you can use it as a phone, conference call, etc.......whenever you want to listen, to eat, to talk, to do anything... the machine will customized to your life style and remember everything you do or your say. It will be more than calendar because it will make you function like robot + human. When you speak to it, it will speak to you. Human might think less than before...in some aspects.
Today is Oct 12,2010. Let's see if my prediction is true.
Mozart for e-learning : the future of music e-learning.
Listening to Mozart makes people feel more relaxed and take breath.
Maybe there should be a page to listen. Students can have customized page...for their own music pooling from youtube.
Even for music class, e-learning students can listen to music.
Music E-learnin !
Maybe there should be a page to listen. Students can have customized page...for their own music pooling from youtube.
Even for music class, e-learning students can listen to music.
Music E-learnin !
Monday, October 11, 2010
Benefits of PBWorks
For all versions...
1) Time saving for collaboration
2) Cheap for startups
3) Test bed for new products / brainstorm on new products
4) Paperless tool ( minimize use of paper)
1) Time saving for collaboration
2) Cheap for startups
3) Test bed for new products / brainstorm on new products
4) Paperless tool ( minimize use of paper)
PBWorks version 1.3 ( performance measurement)
In fact, when I look at model like http://www.ideastorm.com/ ( Dell Ideastorm) and
http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/
It is great if PBWorks can incorporate ideas of students/ collaborators and put them on votes in order to create the list of idea executed.
With polldaddy.com or surveymonkey.com, you can generate polls on students' idea or whatever which needs consensus to be reached.
http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/
It is great if PBWorks can incorporate ideas of students/ collaborators and put them on votes in order to create the list of idea executed.
With polldaddy.com or surveymonkey.com, you can generate polls on students' idea or whatever which needs consensus to be reached.
Google Book and PBWorks
I believe that it is good idea to link google book to PBWorks for the purpose of e-learning. Google Book, and Google Translator have to be tied to PBWorks, at the same time library, wiki, dictionary and encyclopedia need to be there.
PBWorks Version 1.2
I would like to refer to " Lessons in learning, e-learning and Training" book written by Roger C. Schank.
On pp 7.0,
" Principle # 1: Just-in-time information delivery makes information useful...Or, dont tell people things that they can not immediately make use of.
What I can see from PBWorks is that we can have JIT information delivery by students' clicking on sending emails with PBWorks. In reality I do not believe that every information people put on PBWorks is all equally important. Therefore, PBWorks does not actually rank importance of document/idea. There should be a feature that important ideas are ranked and email can be set as automatic email alert instead of clicking one by one. It is tiring. PBworks, although prioritize ideas, does not send email based on priority of tasks so to speak. In real world, no one has time to read everything. How can PBWorks solve this problem?
On pp 7.0,
" Principle # 1: Just-in-time information delivery makes information useful...Or, dont tell people things that they can not immediately make use of.
What I can see from PBWorks is that we can have JIT information delivery by students' clicking on sending emails with PBWorks. In reality I do not believe that every information people put on PBWorks is all equally important. Therefore, PBWorks does not actually rank importance of document/idea. There should be a feature that important ideas are ranked and email can be set as automatic email alert instead of clicking one by one. It is tiring. PBworks, although prioritize ideas, does not send email based on priority of tasks so to speak. In real world, no one has time to read everything. How can PBWorks solve this problem?
PBWorks Version 1.1 ( continued)
If PBWorks is linked to ocw.mit.edu, that will be great.
Looking into MIT Open Courseware, I believe that if we can incorporate courseware into PBWorks, this will love more. Because students can download courseware in PDF file and link it into their ideas. Not only that if PBWorks is linked to online museums or libraries, students can refer to those PDF file, online library, online museums, etc as their references.
If we think of PBWorks as shelter or frame, we can link courseware, library source, museums, apa style writing references, encyclopedia, dictionary, wikipedia, etc....
The more PBWorks is linked, the more students are motivated to learn of course.
In order to create learning environment,
1) there need to be timely feedbacks
2) there need to be sources available
3) there need to be vdo, dictionary, wiki, apa, etc for students.
4) there need to be time schedule together with task assigned
5) there need to be a checker and a marker. Teacher checks on students
What I do not like about PBWorks is boring interface. Sometimes people feel the interface is boring. I believe PBWorks can be created in a more robust way.
Looking into MIT Open Courseware, I believe that if we can incorporate courseware into PBWorks, this will love more. Because students can download courseware in PDF file and link it into their ideas. Not only that if PBWorks is linked to online museums or libraries, students can refer to those PDF file, online library, online museums, etc as their references.
If we think of PBWorks as shelter or frame, we can link courseware, library source, museums, apa style writing references, encyclopedia, dictionary, wikipedia, etc....
The more PBWorks is linked, the more students are motivated to learn of course.
In order to create learning environment,
1) there need to be timely feedbacks
2) there need to be sources available
3) there need to be vdo, dictionary, wiki, apa, etc for students.
4) there need to be time schedule together with task assigned
5) there need to be a checker and a marker. Teacher checks on students
What I do not like about PBWorks is boring interface. Sometimes people feel the interface is boring. I believe PBWorks can be created in a more robust way.
PB Works version 1.0
PBWorks is a very good online social collaboration tool. For instance, we can use PBworks to collaborate on working on different projects. PBWorks fit business, education and personal purpose.
PBWorks is one of social network collaboration tools.
Unlike Blog, PBworks allows more effective collaboration in timely manner. Blog is dead and comments are dead and dry like web board because blog is static whereas PBworks allows more lively information input in the front page. Comparing facebook and twitter to PBWorks, PBworks lacks some aspects of social media integration to fan club or to events arranged. However, PBWorks help people work on collaboration with various tools such as on editing page, PBWorks has tools which you can edit word, link to HTML, link to youtube, create table,etc. Looking into facebook and twitter, yes those social media brainstorms ideas but the fact that they have no extra tools on keeping collaboration and comments, we can not create identity of tasks to do on facebook or twitter. With PBWorks, you can use edit menu to edit papers together, to create topics/sub topics for discussions, etc in organized ways which facebook and twitter can not do. You can not create aligned organized piece of work on facebook. Facing140 letters, twitter can not do much more than posting direct marketing and linking to specific websites or youtube vdo.
For Business side, after downloading business version of PBWorksto use, I realize that there are many benefits of using PBworks.
First is the online real time chat like skype or MSN chat which helps people collaborate better and effectively; the real time chat help me get immediate feedback. If you compare PBWorks to wavenet, Pepperdine Wavenet also has a chat room which is great but I believe it is better if chatroom is built like facebook chat or PBworks chat. With window on right side, chat will work better than wavenet putting chat in the room. But, that’s just my opinion.
Second is the project management dates which allow people/ collaborators to update the due dates of projects and tasks. Although there is not grant chart / bar chart to see due dates. With PBworks business version, you see due dates of each tasks. So, every collaborator knows what tasks are done. Comparing wavenet, wavenet does not have tasks arranged by due dates. So, students can not keep track of their tasks in very detailed forms.
Third is the calendar which we can tie back to outlook and google calendar. With PBWorks business edition, calendar is linked /updated to outlook and google calendars.
As for PBWorks education version, which was the one we used in class. I believe that PBWorks is very effective collaboration tool for students working together on a piece of project. Students can work with teachers and vice versa. Students can work on creating a report by putting images, text file, PPT file, excel file, word file, etc. Not only reports which can be created, some brainstormings on certain topics can be done as a test bed. Basically for brainstorming on idea or for producing reports students can create reports together by putting all files each individual has and link all files to front page. By creating front page and link,it is easier for everyone to read and to comment on each topic without headche.If you go to website, and you see web board, sometimes you are just really tired to see where to comments. With PBworks education version, life is easier once it comes to comment.
In addition, students can edit work together to create any work. The good aspect of PBworks is that everyone who goes to comment/edit whereas Microsoft word is more confusing once it comes to many revised edits by too many people.
In this regard, PBworks is doing better job. But, I would think PBWorks should have track change feature of MS word and time of track change needs to be monitor.
Also, with more complicated edits on big paper, PBworks help students do work more effectively than google doc.Google Doc is for documenting whereas features of PBWorks allow us to do more than Google’s editing and storing files in folders. PBworks help students really work together. Power of learning is enhanced on the fact that they can share ideas, mark ideas and edit ideas.
The fact that there is a front page on PBWorks helps us navigate to the whole work for edit. Unlike microsoft word and google doc,PBWorks has been equipped with navigation system. By clicking at front page, we are navigating into different documents in different folders. That makes students’ life easier.
In addition to basic edit features, Students can build their own person pages with embedded images, youtube video, slideshare, vimeo,etc. Students are encouraged to participate more when they see other students participating. With VDO, images, slideshare, RSS, etc in page edit feature, students can create more useful presentation based on those information/ resources retrieved from other sources.
The fact that PBWorks has e-mail alert to their mail box, students will feel more motivated to learn and to participate. It is hard not to partcipate when you see other students partcipate too. Especially when it comes to footnote at the page document PBWorks help students write report with footnote references.
The dark sides of PBWorks education version are as follows:
1) PBworks does not link to Mindmap. With mindmap embedded, students can create more brainstorming. I believe that by creating mindmap before, a paper or an idea is better constructed than to write whatever in each file.
2) PBworks does not link to MS Project. Maybe if PBworks can be linked to MSProject, it will be great. Just imagine if we see grantt chart with PBworks linkage...Microsoft Project will be more fully effective. Because each task on MS project will show piece of brainstorm ideas ( or scratch paper on how they form idea).
3) PBworks needs to link to google docs. In order to retrieve document from google doc or dropbox, PBworks might be easier to upload or download data. Sometimes when people receive mail of document, they download to google doc. With PBworks' linkage to google doc, students do not need to spend time on attaching or loading files or texts on PBWorks. In other words, students need to store doc once in google doc or dropbox, and PBWorks just retrieve those doc to use. If you can think of how to install facebook application on facebook, PBWorks should be ready platform for any talk with other applications such as google doc, and drop box. Sometimes PBWorks should link with blogs to feed information from blog to use. Just imagine if there are some people who love to write blogs, they are very lazy to write again on PBWorks. It will be great if PBWorks can feed blog as RSS or feed texts in the ways that collaborators see it clearly. Let’s put it this way. Blog should be imported to PBworks workspace.
4) PBworks should link to google calendar, outlook calendar, and apple calendar. Maybe if there is an option to link with calendar, students / collaborators can collaborate more. Most of the time people put their calendar by using those google calendar, outlook, apple, etc. So, it might be great if PBworks can link to those items. To make people coordinate effectively, personal calendars from google calendar, outook, apple, etc should be fed to PBWorks.
5) When we want to edit page, we can not put javascript or any too long complicated HTML script to embed on edit page so with these constraints, PBWorks' usefulness is limited. For instance, when I visited web page like VIMEO, Youtube, etc, I could embed source. But, when I try to embed javascript clock or embed some social media gadgets by embedding those long HTML and Javascript code, it did not let me to. I tried many times to embed code from http://www.docstoc.com/search/fashion-marketing?catfilter=1,
it just did not work. Or even when I want to embed code like google map code, facebook code, etc, it did not work at all.
Fortunately, I could embed youtube code, slideshare.net code, vimeo code, etc.
Please look at this page.
http://elearningpepp.pbworks.com/w/page/Copy-of-Benefits-of-WIKIS
If you see this page, you can see that I embed my photo from flickr.com, it works.
I embed source code from VIMEO and slideshare, they all work out.
So, there are some uncertainties on which codes PBWorks allow us to put there.
If in the future there are more source codes we can put, I am sure we will learn a lot more.
PBWorks is one of social network collaboration tools.
Unlike Blog, PBworks allows more effective collaboration in timely manner. Blog is dead and comments are dead and dry like web board because blog is static whereas PBworks allows more lively information input in the front page. Comparing facebook and twitter to PBWorks, PBworks lacks some aspects of social media integration to fan club or to events arranged. However, PBWorks help people work on collaboration with various tools such as on editing page, PBWorks has tools which you can edit word, link to HTML, link to youtube, create table,etc. Looking into facebook and twitter, yes those social media brainstorms ideas but the fact that they have no extra tools on keeping collaboration and comments, we can not create identity of tasks to do on facebook or twitter. With PBWorks, you can use edit menu to edit papers together, to create topics/sub topics for discussions, etc in organized ways which facebook and twitter can not do. You can not create aligned organized piece of work on facebook. Facing140 letters, twitter can not do much more than posting direct marketing and linking to specific websites or youtube vdo.
For Business side, after downloading business version of PBWorksto use, I realize that there are many benefits of using PBworks.
First is the online real time chat like skype or MSN chat which helps people collaborate better and effectively; the real time chat help me get immediate feedback. If you compare PBWorks to wavenet, Pepperdine Wavenet also has a chat room which is great but I believe it is better if chatroom is built like facebook chat or PBworks chat. With window on right side, chat will work better than wavenet putting chat in the room. But, that’s just my opinion.
Second is the project management dates which allow people/ collaborators to update the due dates of projects and tasks. Although there is not grant chart / bar chart to see due dates. With PBworks business version, you see due dates of each tasks. So, every collaborator knows what tasks are done. Comparing wavenet, wavenet does not have tasks arranged by due dates. So, students can not keep track of their tasks in very detailed forms.
Third is the calendar which we can tie back to outlook and google calendar. With PBWorks business edition, calendar is linked /updated to outlook and google calendars.
As for PBWorks education version, which was the one we used in class. I believe that PBWorks is very effective collaboration tool for students working together on a piece of project. Students can work with teachers and vice versa. Students can work on creating a report by putting images, text file, PPT file, excel file, word file, etc. Not only reports which can be created, some brainstormings on certain topics can be done as a test bed. Basically for brainstorming on idea or for producing reports students can create reports together by putting all files each individual has and link all files to front page. By creating front page and link,it is easier for everyone to read and to comment on each topic without headche.If you go to website, and you see web board, sometimes you are just really tired to see where to comments. With PBworks education version, life is easier once it comes to comment.
In addition, students can edit work together to create any work. The good aspect of PBworks is that everyone who goes to comment/edit whereas Microsoft word is more confusing once it comes to many revised edits by too many people.
In this regard, PBworks is doing better job. But, I would think PBWorks should have track change feature of MS word and time of track change needs to be monitor.
Also, with more complicated edits on big paper, PBworks help students do work more effectively than google doc.Google Doc is for documenting whereas features of PBWorks allow us to do more than Google’s editing and storing files in folders. PBworks help students really work together. Power of learning is enhanced on the fact that they can share ideas, mark ideas and edit ideas.
The fact that there is a front page on PBWorks helps us navigate to the whole work for edit. Unlike microsoft word and google doc,PBWorks has been equipped with navigation system. By clicking at front page, we are navigating into different documents in different folders. That makes students’ life easier.
In addition to basic edit features, Students can build their own person pages with embedded images, youtube video, slideshare, vimeo,etc. Students are encouraged to participate more when they see other students participating. With VDO, images, slideshare, RSS, etc in page edit feature, students can create more useful presentation based on those information/ resources retrieved from other sources.
The fact that PBWorks has e-mail alert to their mail box, students will feel more motivated to learn and to participate. It is hard not to partcipate when you see other students partcipate too. Especially when it comes to footnote at the page document PBWorks help students write report with footnote references.
The dark sides of PBWorks education version are as follows:
1) PBworks does not link to Mindmap. With mindmap embedded, students can create more brainstorming. I believe that by creating mindmap before, a paper or an idea is better constructed than to write whatever in each file.
2) PBworks does not link to MS Project. Maybe if PBworks can be linked to MSProject, it will be great. Just imagine if we see grantt chart with PBworks linkage...Microsoft Project will be more fully effective. Because each task on MS project will show piece of brainstorm ideas ( or scratch paper on how they form idea).
3) PBworks needs to link to google docs. In order to retrieve document from google doc or dropbox, PBworks might be easier to upload or download data. Sometimes when people receive mail of document, they download to google doc. With PBworks' linkage to google doc, students do not need to spend time on attaching or loading files or texts on PBWorks. In other words, students need to store doc once in google doc or dropbox, and PBWorks just retrieve those doc to use. If you can think of how to install facebook application on facebook, PBWorks should be ready platform for any talk with other applications such as google doc, and drop box. Sometimes PBWorks should link with blogs to feed information from blog to use. Just imagine if there are some people who love to write blogs, they are very lazy to write again on PBWorks. It will be great if PBWorks can feed blog as RSS or feed texts in the ways that collaborators see it clearly. Let’s put it this way. Blog should be imported to PBworks workspace.
4) PBworks should link to google calendar, outlook calendar, and apple calendar. Maybe if there is an option to link with calendar, students / collaborators can collaborate more. Most of the time people put their calendar by using those google calendar, outlook, apple, etc. So, it might be great if PBworks can link to those items. To make people coordinate effectively, personal calendars from google calendar, outook, apple, etc should be fed to PBWorks.
5) When we want to edit page, we can not put javascript or any too long complicated HTML script to embed on edit page so with these constraints, PBWorks' usefulness is limited. For instance, when I visited web page like VIMEO, Youtube, etc, I could embed source. But, when I try to embed javascript clock or embed some social media gadgets by embedding those long HTML and Javascript code, it did not let me to. I tried many times to embed code from http://www.docstoc.com/search/fashion-marketing?catfilter=1,
it just did not work. Or even when I want to embed code like google map code, facebook code, etc, it did not work at all.
Fortunately, I could embed youtube code, slideshare.net code, vimeo code, etc.
Please look at this page.
http://elearningpepp.pbworks.com/w/page/Copy-of-Benefits-of-WIKIS
If you see this page, you can see that I embed my photo from flickr.com, it works.
I embed source code from VIMEO and slideshare, they all work out.
So, there are some uncertainties on which codes PBWorks allow us to put there.
If in the future there are more source codes we can put, I am sure we will learn a lot more.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Sharing Wikipedia Paper by Using Scribd
I would like to share my paper on Wikipedia by using Scribd embedded code on Blog.
The power of Blog is enlarged by using scribd. By using Scribd.com, I can show the long paper or essay in the readable report format.
Is Wikipedia a Blessing or a Curse
The power of Blog is enlarged by using scribd. By using Scribd.com, I can show the long paper or essay in the readable report format.
Is Wikipedia a Blessing or a Curse
Experiences Learned from Wikipedia
In reality, I used Wikipedia as a way to search more about information rather than posting information.
In the eyes of users, I believe that Wikipedia has given me a lot of useful information.
However, with too much information, often I do not know what to read given the time constraints.
If you only have a few minutes to look for information and to read about information, you can not really find which information is relevant to what you are looking for. For instance, when I type the word " e-learning", there is a long listing of information. Quite honestly, sometimes I only need to read 10 sentences. It might be better or more effective if Wikipedia proposes short form and long form.
Long form might be useful for research whereas short form can be used as quick pocket book reference.
Once I compared information on Thai Wikipedia and English Wikipedia, I found out discrepancy of information on year information. Often Thai version provides much shorter form. I believe that
it will be great idea if Wikipedia finds ways to motivate people to submit more information especially in the non-English version of Wikipedia.
I often ask myself why I do not like to update Wikipedia. The answer is that I am very scared to input the wrong data and would not be able to do undo it.Even though some people say that Wikipedia's tools are easy to use. Often I find that it is difficult to me to find Wikipedia manual on how to use/edit messages on Wikipedia. If Wikipedia makes manuals easy to read, I am positive that people will go there more to share their information.
Overall, the information on Wiki is great. Given some errors occur from time to time, Wiki is still a viable source of information.
For the education purpose of e-learning, I have included this video on how to use Wikipedia for everyone.
And, for those interested in useful information about Wikipedia, please see this powerpoint.
In the eyes of users, I believe that Wikipedia has given me a lot of useful information.
However, with too much information, often I do not know what to read given the time constraints.
If you only have a few minutes to look for information and to read about information, you can not really find which information is relevant to what you are looking for. For instance, when I type the word " e-learning", there is a long listing of information. Quite honestly, sometimes I only need to read 10 sentences. It might be better or more effective if Wikipedia proposes short form and long form.
Long form might be useful for research whereas short form can be used as quick pocket book reference.
Once I compared information on Thai Wikipedia and English Wikipedia, I found out discrepancy of information on year information. Often Thai version provides much shorter form. I believe that
it will be great idea if Wikipedia finds ways to motivate people to submit more information especially in the non-English version of Wikipedia.
I often ask myself why I do not like to update Wikipedia. The answer is that I am very scared to input the wrong data and would not be able to do undo it.Even though some people say that Wikipedia's tools are easy to use. Often I find that it is difficult to me to find Wikipedia manual on how to use/edit messages on Wikipedia. If Wikipedia makes manuals easy to read, I am positive that people will go there more to share their information.
Overall, the information on Wiki is great. Given some errors occur from time to time, Wiki is still a viable source of information.
For the education purpose of e-learning, I have included this video on how to use Wikipedia for everyone.
And, for those interested in useful information about Wikipedia, please see this powerpoint.
Dynamics Of Wikipedia
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Wikipedia in the Eyes of Beholders
I found the VDO of Wikipedia. It is great to see how people in different fields use Wikipedia to respond to their needs. This VDO helps me in writing formal essay on Wikipedia.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Advantages and Disadvantages of Blog
I believe that there are lots of benefits of using Blog.
First is the ease of use. Blog is very easy to use and importantly it is free of charge. If anyone wants to post blog to tell stories about their personal interest, they can do that easily. Whether it is in the classroom or at work, blog can be used in several ways, namely, educating, entertaining, and communicating.
Second is the aspect of opinion sharing. People are allowed to comment on blog which makes e-learning become more powerful.
Third is the linkage of blog to other social tools, such as youtube, facebook, twitter, msn messenger, and photo album make blog a powerful medium of communication on certain knowledge once it links with other social tools, such as my blogs I created before coming to Pepperdine University.
http://mitocwclubthailand.blogspot.com/
http://thaikindle.blogspot.com/
Some companies use blog as a marketing strategy. For example, Marriott uses blog as a marketing tool.
http://www.blogs.marriott.com/
Whether it is for commercial or education purpose, blog is very useful.
Even for a small business which does not have money to pay for web hosting, blog can be used as a website to communicate to audience.
However, in reality blog is not as complicated as website. Website can be used more once you have lot of data to put on website. Blog does not have some limitations on link with some computer languages.
In order to create multimedia on blog with lot of information linked with database, blog can not be used.
Looking at other perspectives, blog can consist of junk information because it is free.
If it is free, one person can have so many blogs to write about anything, whether the information is right or wrong. One time I saw in my country that a citizen wrote information on politics on blog and release it by using email. I saw that blog in the email. Blog condemned Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinnawat.
I believe that we all do not know if that blog contains real information, facts or wrong data.
Many people believed that blog and forwarded mail on that blog. I saw so many comments on that blog.
The power of viral marketing using blog and email is so powerful that blog can be dangerous tool, especially when it is free.
With blog sitting there in the world of Internet, junk blog can pile up every day.
Can we imagine what will happen when the world is full of information in blog?
In summary, blog can be a powerful e-learning tool for class and for corporations at the same time blog can be social marketing tool to manipulate information in the case when Internet marketers use blog to put a lot of information to create links so that google can rank page as priority.
First is the ease of use. Blog is very easy to use and importantly it is free of charge. If anyone wants to post blog to tell stories about their personal interest, they can do that easily. Whether it is in the classroom or at work, blog can be used in several ways, namely, educating, entertaining, and communicating.
Second is the aspect of opinion sharing. People are allowed to comment on blog which makes e-learning become more powerful.
Third is the linkage of blog to other social tools, such as youtube, facebook, twitter, msn messenger, and photo album make blog a powerful medium of communication on certain knowledge once it links with other social tools, such as my blogs I created before coming to Pepperdine University.
http://mitocwclubthailand.blogspot.com/
http://thaikindle.blogspot.com/
Some companies use blog as a marketing strategy. For example, Marriott uses blog as a marketing tool.
http://www.blogs.marriott.com/
Whether it is for commercial or education purpose, blog is very useful.
Even for a small business which does not have money to pay for web hosting, blog can be used as a website to communicate to audience.
However, in reality blog is not as complicated as website. Website can be used more once you have lot of data to put on website. Blog does not have some limitations on link with some computer languages.
In order to create multimedia on blog with lot of information linked with database, blog can not be used.
Looking at other perspectives, blog can consist of junk information because it is free.
If it is free, one person can have so many blogs to write about anything, whether the information is right or wrong. One time I saw in my country that a citizen wrote information on politics on blog and release it by using email. I saw that blog in the email. Blog condemned Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinnawat.
I believe that we all do not know if that blog contains real information, facts or wrong data.
Many people believed that blog and forwarded mail on that blog. I saw so many comments on that blog.
The power of viral marketing using blog and email is so powerful that blog can be dangerous tool, especially when it is free.
With blog sitting there in the world of Internet, junk blog can pile up every day.
Can we imagine what will happen when the world is full of information in blog?
In summary, blog can be a powerful e-learning tool for class and for corporations at the same time blog can be social marketing tool to manipulate information in the case when Internet marketers use blog to put a lot of information to create links so that google can rank page as priority.
Lesson From Wikipedia
Based on my late research, Wikipedia is online encyclopedia which every reader can search to find terms in the Internet for free.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest quality to every single person on the planet in his or her own language." Wikipedia exists to bring knowledge to everyone who seeks it. "
Referring to Wikipedia,
As the world is now changing, people google everything they want to know. The more we search information on Wikipedia, the higher chance that Wikipedia will be shown in google search engine ranking. When massive number of people search certain keywords, they will find a lot of information on Wikipedia which can be right or wrong. In addition, people refer to Wikipedia as a source. The dangerous part is that people refer to the untrustworthy source as a source. Therefore, mistakes/errors will NOT be corrected if no one finds it.Garbage in will finally be garbage out. As students and teachers do not cross check or validate information on Wikipedia, they can end up telling others wrong information. The others will keep telling the same wrong information to others.
Especially now there are social networks, such as facebook and twitter. The wrong information has become powerfully socialized. I will discuss more about Wikipedia in my official research paper.
Although I write the negative aspect of Wiki because it is related to my class research paper, I strongly believe that having Wikipedia is better than nothing. The way to benefit from it is to use coupled with other source of information. Like anything else in the world, Wikipedia offers benefit and disbenefit.
My last comments would be:
" Don't we think having Wikipedia is better than nothing?" Just because some media condemns it, that does not mean it is bad. Nothing is perfect. Wikipedia is a form of social media which can be right and wrong.
Media is influenced as well as social media, and Wikipedia is one of the social media because underlying principle is based on information from different sources.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest quality to every single person on the planet in his or her own language." Wikipedia exists to bring knowledge to everyone who seeks it. "
Referring to Wikipedia,
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- " By law the contributions are still owned by people who donated them. These people are not bound by the license and can use their property in the way they like. However media with multiple authors require permission from every contributor to use them differently from the terms of the Wikipedia license"
As the world is now changing, people google everything they want to know. The more we search information on Wikipedia, the higher chance that Wikipedia will be shown in google search engine ranking. When massive number of people search certain keywords, they will find a lot of information on Wikipedia which can be right or wrong. In addition, people refer to Wikipedia as a source. The dangerous part is that people refer to the untrustworthy source as a source. Therefore, mistakes/errors will NOT be corrected if no one finds it.Garbage in will finally be garbage out. As students and teachers do not cross check or validate information on Wikipedia, they can end up telling others wrong information. The others will keep telling the same wrong information to others.
Especially now there are social networks, such as facebook and twitter. The wrong information has become powerfully socialized. I will discuss more about Wikipedia in my official research paper.
Although I write the negative aspect of Wiki because it is related to my class research paper, I strongly believe that having Wikipedia is better than nothing. The way to benefit from it is to use coupled with other source of information. Like anything else in the world, Wikipedia offers benefit and disbenefit.
My last comments would be:
" Don't we think having Wikipedia is better than nothing?" Just because some media condemns it, that does not mean it is bad. Nothing is perfect. Wikipedia is a form of social media which can be right and wrong.
Media is influenced as well as social media, and Wikipedia is one of the social media because underlying principle is based on information from different sources.
Second Lesson Learn : E-learning with Google Docs
We have learned in class that Google Doc is a very powerful e-learning tool.
After exploring more in my free time, I have found that we can learn to use google doc in many other ways.
One way is to use google doc with skype. We can combine the two tools together and use it effectively. We can share google doc and chat with classmates on skype to edit our paper
Second way is to use google doc with facebook fan page. You can cut and paste link of google doc and edit with fan club members on facebook.
Third way is to use google doc with twitter. You can paste google doc link on your twitter, and tweet google link in 140 letters to your followers. Using google doc with twitter is a way to send a long message to your followers.
I have found that there are some useful websites on using Skype with Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5HxF8TVfg8&feature=related
Besides using Google Docs with Skype, I found two more useful youtube videos on using and sharing Google Doc and using slideshare.net which I like to share with my classmates
Using and Sharing Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2EVCgUCPfI&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzcrQ4xUR0&feature=channel
Using Slideshare.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ShKOeMKb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1zLdY-ZOc
After exploring more in my free time, I have found that we can learn to use google doc in many other ways.
One way is to use google doc with skype. We can combine the two tools together and use it effectively. We can share google doc and chat with classmates on skype to edit our paper
Second way is to use google doc with facebook fan page. You can cut and paste link of google doc and edit with fan club members on facebook.
Third way is to use google doc with twitter. You can paste google doc link on your twitter, and tweet google link in 140 letters to your followers. Using google doc with twitter is a way to send a long message to your followers.
I have found that there are some useful websites on using Skype with Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5HxF8TVfg8&feature=related
Besides using Google Docs with Skype, I found two more useful youtube videos on using and sharing Google Doc and using slideshare.net which I like to share with my classmates
Using and Sharing Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2EVCgUCPfI&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzcrQ4xUR0&feature=channel
Using Slideshare.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ShKOeMKb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1zLdY-ZOc
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