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.