S3 Summary

S3 Tool: Scrapblog
URL: http://www.scrapblog.com/

What is Scrapblog?
It is a tool which can share one’s photo and video online by showing in a slide show. Scrapblog is very easy to use because most of the operation can be done by drag-and-drop and click. Everyone can make their scrapblog beautifully and creatively. You can create as many as you want and there won’t be any cost for it. Moreover, you can join communities which are the same theme and give some comments to each other. In other words, it can become your own online album.


Write a one paragraph review of the application
Scrapblog has a tutorial at the first page how to make their pages so that every one can learn it by themselves. This tool is also not much hard to understand how to use it so people can use it easly by trying it a few times. But this tool can not be so safe to people because there are no confinement to upload picture and video so maybe there would be a dangeress of seeing some undesirable pages.

Presentation URL
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/yunascicu07/ScraptBlog


OutLine
A) Introduction: (5 min)

• Summary
• Showing examples

B) Body: Teach the Tool (15 min)

• How to make an account
• How to create
• How it is shown

http://www.scrapblog.com/myscrapblog/myscrapblog.aspx

C) Conclusion: Small group discussion (5 min)

Scrapblog

Lesson6: Task

Think

What do you currently do when a teacher asks you to collaborate with other students on a project?
First, I will exchange e-mail address and make some schedule and due.
What do you now if you want to show someone else what you have done?
Google Docs might be a good way to show it and also there is a way to attach the file to an e-mail if it is not a big capacity.
What do you do if you need to work on it at the same time?
Meet together are if it is just a talk, I use a online chat. Besides, if I invite other member to the Google Docs other can also edit it so it is a useful way to work together.

Explain
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
This software's main skill is how to make the charts and graphs. It is similar to Microsoft Excel.
We can also upload it to other place and also invite some other people to view it.

2. What are the affordances(what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
It can show the works to other people and have some comments from them.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
It can make a big community in the network and share the work online so people can make a project by the network.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
It will make the work like group presentation easily because we can show works and have some discussions by online.

Readings: Agre

1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?

The problem for citizen in democracies such as United States is how to get on with other many societies effectively.

2. What skills do citizens need?

Citizens need a skills of building social capital and get on with the common production and circulation of political arguments.

3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?

To make the public policy's issue entrepreneurship is "politcs" of nearly every organizational field, from industries to research fields, from officialdom to artistic circles, from professions to social movements.

4. What steps are the four steps in this process?
First, certify issues that are coming to prominence. Second, researching and analyzing them. Third, make them clear in public positions. Fourth, building social networks of other citizens who have associated themselves with related issues.

p. 212-214
Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section. Lead a class discussion next session.

Readings: Kahn & Kellner

A number of online communities have attempted to develop alternative organs of information and communication, using the Internet and emergent technologies to produce new instruments and modes of democracy. Many emergent online communities today are not as the same way that the former communities have established. By using easy tools, Blogs and Wikipedia for example, people are able to express their knowledge and comments to the world. In addition, people can be able to respond to those and it will gradually make a community online. It is moving toward reaffirming and reconfiguring what participatory and democratic global citizenship will look like in our emergent global and local future. This would open radical possibilities for an extensive opinion, new ways of virtual and actual political communities and novel forms of direct political action so that in the future, those interested in the politics and culture should be clear on the important role of the alternative public spheres and intervene accordingly.


I agree to this opinion. I think that some of the blogs or HP in the Internet became a big community and it is giving an impact to the real society.

Lesson4: Think

How do you currently save and store favourite webpages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them? (SCICU e-Portfolio)
I use Bookmarks and save the URL to it and if I want to use it at other place, I send the URL to my e-mail. If I just want for some sentence, I just copy it and paste it to the txt file and also write the URL on it.