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Do you need an e-portfolio?What arrangements do you have in place now to be able to show others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?
So far, I had only paper resumes and "mixi" as a tool of arrangement to show my profiles and my opinions. However, through trying to develop my e-portfolio in these days, I found that e-portfolio is convenient in many points than these tools. So now I feel it will be essential for me.
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What main benefits/disadvantages do you see (if you see any) in the design of an e-portfolio compared to a traditional resume?
Using e-portfolio seems to have three convenient points for me compared to resume. First, it enables me to know myself from various aspects in the long process of developing e-portfolio. Second, it can be revised easily, while traditional resumes needs tenseness of nerve not to miswrite. Third, e-portfolio is more creative activity than filling out the resume.
In my opinion, disadvantage is that it is difficult to value the credibility of the information given at e-portfolio.
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Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Information literacy to assess credibility, skill of organizing a lot of information , and skill of comparing various matters are needed.
2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
The software enables us to share information, communicate, and deepen our own views of world, however, it contains the risk of private information being misused or stolen.
3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Huge academic databases can be developed more and more, and users will access just the information what they are looking for.
4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Basic skills to communicate with others, computer literacy, and keeping curiousity alive may promote.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Barabasi: The First Link
Q1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
There seems two factors which made Paul's effort achieved. First, in order to spread Christianity beyond Judaism, he continued evangelizing without demanding circumcision and forcing strict food laws. In addition to that abolishment of high barriers to becoming a Christian, he reached to the biggest communities of his era so that he could reach and convert as many as possible.
Q2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
Though delivering of information around the world could be happen faster than Paul's era, I think there are so many information that we couldn't put importance on each news. So converting could be occurred at various place on the world, but not in big fever.
Q3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Map of the Internet, companies connected by trade or ownership, interaction between species in ecosystems, and genes in cell have been made. I would like to see mapped how connect the academic relationships between proffessors in Tokyo regardless which university they belong now.
Q4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed?
Personally, does this surprise you?
'Real surprise' is that highly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the construction and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us. And I was surprised by that.
Q5. How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th Century? What is the problem associated with such an approach (p.6-7)?
The author difines the way of research as reductionism. However, since nature is more complexed than scientists expect, this approach can not reach understanding the universe as a whole.
Q6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
He predicts that the research by scientific community will be focused on social networks responding to the future domination of our life by the Internet.
And I agree his opinion due to my own experiences of changing life style caused by the Internet.
There seems two factors which made Paul's effort achieved. First, in order to spread Christianity beyond Judaism, he continued evangelizing without demanding circumcision and forcing strict food laws. In addition to that abolishment of high barriers to becoming a Christian, he reached to the biggest communities of his era so that he could reach and convert as many as possible.
Q2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
Though delivering of information around the world could be happen faster than Paul's era, I think there are so many information that we couldn't put importance on each news. So converting could be occurred at various place on the world, but not in big fever.
Q3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Map of the Internet, companies connected by trade or ownership, interaction between species in ecosystems, and genes in cell have been made. I would like to see mapped how connect the academic relationships between proffessors in Tokyo regardless which university they belong now.
Q4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed?
Personally, does this surprise you?
'Real surprise' is that highly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the construction and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us. And I was surprised by that.
Q5. How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th Century? What is the problem associated with such an approach (p.6-7)?
The author difines the way of research as reductionism. However, since nature is more complexed than scientists expect, this approach can not reach understanding the universe as a whole.
Q6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
He predicts that the research by scientific community will be focused on social networks responding to the future domination of our life by the Internet.
And I agree his opinion due to my own experiences of changing life style caused by the Internet.
Friday, September 14, 2007
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