planning a Disney Trip. Yes again!!

LAST Roundup Report

In the last week I have read all the DB via email

I have looked at produsage from my classmates and have learned a lot!!

I have picked up a lot of new resources this summer and have truly enjoyed the challenges of blogging.

Wishing Dr. Dennen a good vacation-unwired. (Does the Kindle count?)

Friday August 6, 2010

I have truly enjoyed the adventure and sharing in this class.
I learned a lot, and really did enjoy it.
I am going to try to unplug for a few days after this, hope that all works out.
I have enjoyed reading everyone's stuff and trying new things.

Another Twitter Usage Discussion

Another shared resource from Library 2.0

Monday, August 2nd


http://www.learncentral.org/event/88915


10:45pm PDT (US) / 1:45am EDT (next day) (US) / 5:45pm GMT/UTC (next day) (intl times):
AUSTRALIA SERIES
“Twitter - Share 'n Tell,” with host Anne Mirtschin. “What is twitter? Is it useful for education? How, why? How do you get the best value/outcomes from twitter? Should it be used in the classroom? How are teachers using it in the classroom?

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Prompt Week 6

Reflect on what you have learned in the class and how you will use it professionally as both a lifelong learner and an instructional systems professional (or whatever field you’re in).

I have learned some new Web 2.0 tools. OK a lot of new tools and became reacquainted with some tools I had not really considered very useful to me(wikis in general) and began writing a blog that I curiously enjoyed writing, A lot!!

I will on a personal level reconsider uses of blogs and Facebook. On a professional level I have learned to walk around a tool a few times before passing judgment, case in point , foursquare. When others in the class began imagining other uses, such as field trips and museum applications, I did the smack to the forehead over it! I must remember not to dismiss things so readily.

As a trainer, I can see some of the applications being useful as classroom entities, but can't judge how things will be handled in our field offices in regards to 2.0.

USA Today says we spend a lot of time...

Time spent on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube grows





http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-08-02-networking02_ST_N.htm


According to this, social networking is truly occupying our time, somehow I am not surprised, as I seem to be doing this type of activity a lot. And work, And attend classes.....what did I used to do?

Reported Activities Week 5

Well almost through with this week.
I finished and posted Produsage assignment
I read the DB's and responded to a few, as well as posting an opinion or two.
I was very fortunate and attended the WebEx session some of the class had on Thursday. It was a very positive experience.
Wrote some Blog posts, including this week's response question.
I have been joining wiki pages as requested, and reviewing classmates projects.
Caught a little sunburn and chased sea critters at St. George Island.

Education | ACLUNC dotRights

Found this sporty little piece this morning, hope it is not redundant.
Privacy? Data mining? Facebook?

Education | ACLUNC dotRights

Shoes have blogs too.

So now my shoes have a social network too.See below for description and address. I am amused at how far social networking has come!!


Introducing Vitamin C, a brand new online community of fresh-minded individuals just like you! Vitamin C was created as a place for footwear enthusiasts to meet, mingle and share daily.

This blog is lead by five, amazing, wonderful, utterly fantastic Crocs Ambassadors who are ready to talk about their view on life, adventure, culture, and all that is cool. Comment on their topics or share your own perspective. View fun videos and pics, and post your favorites for everyone to see.

So, get ready to View. Share. Connect. Welcome to Vitamin C.

http://company.crocs.com/blogs/vitaminc/

Week 5 Prompt

How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally?

I do want to give and receive credit where credit is due. I like the concept of produsage very much and am trying to twist part of the concept into my professional life. As I pretty much work in a closed system at work, I have not much fear of people taking my ideas very far. I have had them ‘napped’ before, but I but I still get my paycheck every two weeks and get weekends off so all is copacetic. I think that if I create a tool used in my workplace, for staff to use on work time, my rights are pretty much compromised already. On the flipside, would I borrow someone else’s produsage idea to use? Probably, but I really would give credit and hopefully receive permission before doing so.

On a personal level, I fear produsage may not play a large role at all in my non- working leisure time- do the laundry -walk the dog time. I don’t think authorship, copyright or open access will change that. I took the picture, It is my picture. It is not my park or my tree however.

Something to share!!

Something to share!!
From another group I get invites from, you can tune in to a live event if you choose. on July 27, 2010.

• 10:45pm PDT (US) / 1:45am EDT (next day) (US) / 5:45pm GMT/UTC (next day) (intl times):
  AUSTRALIA SERIES
  “Tech Talk Tuesdays: What do I do with Web 2.0,” with host Anne MirtschinJess McCulloch and guest .
  http://www.learncentral.org/event/86875

• Learn about Jess McCulluch's favourite tools and how she has used them in general for classroom use
  

Jess McCulloch, an early uptaker of and innovator web2.0 tools will talk about and demonstrate her favourite tools, explain how she has used them in general for personal networking and give some ideas for classroom projects.


http://www.learncentral.org/event/86875

Blogging on the go Again

Blogging on the go again did not go so well this time. It published in sections, backwards. Below is the well intended version (where are we going and why are we in a handbasket.....)

I have finished my paper. I enjoyed writing it, hope it reflects the attitude I would like. I was ruminating today about the on demand world of Web 2.0 today, as children log onto Sesame Street and join clubs online such as Club Penguin. These are very young children, ages two and five respectively, who truly are being raised 2.0 and beyond anything I can predict will happen in their world, digitally.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

This week went by really fast. I have done some work on the discussion boards and have given some commentary to a few classmates’ blogs as well.

I worked on my community paper and have almost got that project completed. This summer class has flown by! I really want to attend the synchronous meeting and am looking forward to working through the process.

es blogs as well.
I worked on my community paper and have almost got that project completed. This summer class has flown by! I really want to attend the

synchronous meeting and am looking forward to working through the process.

Blogging on the go again

This week went by really fast. I have done some work on the discussion boards and have given some commentary to a few classmat

OOH I have grades!!!

Sorry but I am really old school about certain things and graded feedback is one of them!!
So far I have loved the freedom offered in this class, and the opportunities to explore.
I like reading other peoples ideas and thoughts from both blogs and DB's ( I subscribe to the DB's, so it's a billion gazillion emails, so what. I have folders to plunk them in when I am through perusing them.

I reaquaimted myself with an old friend and resource, Steve, found at http://tagger.steve.museum/ that taught me what tagging was. I also considered why I tag my vacation photos, thanks to a DB discussion question.

I have accounts at Flickr, Picassa, Photobucket and YouTube. I have used my quota and then some at several sites, and now post of my photos on Facebook, as it is pretty limitless so far. The purpose of the photos are to share with family and friends, and they share with me. Much faster than the family photo album.

So there is a lot of Web 2.0 in almost everyone's life and almost everyone uses some sort of digital media in their life. How to expand on these tools and introduce them further as educational resources is my goal for right now.

Expertise

How I value expertise on the Web has probably changed over the years as much as the Web and dial up connections have. I used to be in awe of people who were proficient ,and then proficiency became more of the norm. I still value expertise, but I see more of the creator value than the value of a proficient user.

Using the Web has become so much less anxiety ridden than it was in the starting period. While I do not remember exactly my first time on the Internet I remember the first time I had it in my home, and how astonishing it was. Now it is an utility like water or electricity we take for granted.

I do value the folks that create and write code and programs, although I don't quite speak the same language. I do know that they are constantly creating and the available content reflects the prowess of their creativity and knowledge.

I had not thought of their being a difference in the value of expertise in a face to face setting in comparison to the Web, but I can see how the Internet has affected what I perceive to be valuable, in that twenty years ago distance education was in the mail and face to face was the only way to go with any higher education degree, and now my degrees from FSU do not differentiate between online learning and face to face classroom experience.

I would have to think that the value of the expertise would have to depend on the skillset being judged. I would rather be diagnosed medically in a face to face situation or try on shoes in person, but other areas of my life I value the online life.

Week Three Vacation and all

This week I completed the following Items:

1. I completed assigned readings.
2. Posted four blog entries (one from the phone as discussed in my last DB post).
3. I read some of my classmates' blogs and some of the class blog, and posted a few comments.
4. I read all of the DB entries thanks to my I phone.
5. I posted four responses on the DB.
6. Read some blogs on Web 2.0., hoping to gain technique from people's blogs I admire their style and entrepreneurship.http://courtneyvickersphoto.blogspot.com/ and http://www.agirlnamedtimi.com/ One of these does travel and antique stuff and the other is a children's photographer.
7. I did some research on online communities for the observations paper. Began lurking/participating in these communities.
8. And I am once again home on flatland!!

Posting down a mountain!!!

I am in North Carolina this weekend, trying to stay caught up on everything via my iPhone. I hope finish responding to DB discussions at the hotel. Have not truly been disconnected from all things Web 2.0, just distanced and distracted

Week Three Response

Week 3

What uses might a collaborative wiki or blog have in your chosen (current or desired) work environment? How would they support learning and/or performance? What would be the design and implementation challenges if management tried to do this? What would be the design and implementation challenges of a user-initiated effort?

In my work environment I could see several different uses for a wiki or even a blog. The first use I could envision would be a question and answer board that employees could post to and receive responses fairly quickly that could be seen effectively by lots of employees at the same time. The responses would not have to be the domain of a single SME, but could be communally policed(?)by several SME's that are located in different parts of the region(From Pensacola, Fl to Monticello, Fl).

This would support learning by sharing the same answers with staff instead of answering each question individually, and possibly having different answers disseminated for the same question. This would also reinforce their knowledge of their jobs, policies and procedures.

The second one could be aimed at new employees who go through training and would allow them to remain connected to each other as they are disbursed to service sites. This would allow them a sense of community that they developed in the classroom, a safety net or security blanket approach that will reinforce what they have learned both in the classroom and on the job.

The challenges of applying this at my workplace are the effective closed intranet that we use and gaining permission to use space on the intranet to do so. Outside usage of the internet is restricted to breaks/lunch times, and staff may not wish to use break time to work on the job blogging or wiki posts. So administrative issues and infrastructure policies may collide in this effort.

Tweet Stuff

Yes I signed up for Twitter in 2007. The last post I made at that time was "following all the stuff i joined the last time I had two minutes"October 7, 2007.

To be fair I have a delightful friend who Tweets regarding her Holistic Living for Seniors endeavors. I decided to give Twitter another chance to capture my heart and now have started following Clay Shirky and Dr. Dennen, so maybe I will remember to Tweet or check tweets etc.

I always felt like no one needed to know what I was doing, and celebrity Tweets do not interest me much. It seemed like one more thing I had to navigate in, and to learn the rules to use in any fashion.

I do confess liking this article though, recommended by Mr. Shirky:

How-to: Effectively manage your Facebook privacy settings with three simple lists

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/how-to-effectively-manage-your-facebook-privacy-settings-with-l/

Oh and just for fun I hooked up with Bill Gates's Twitter following. Might as well live large. Tweets forever!!

Week 2 Round Up Report

My participation during Week 2:

I pondered the Web 2.0 universe.

I re upped my membership in Twitter and then remembered why I didn't use it much before.

I joined Nutshell Mail and Voice-thread,http://voicethread.com/share/409/,

found on my classmates' blogs. Thanks. I will probably end my relationship with Nutshell, and play with Voicethread some more.

I volunteered to attend a synchronous meeting/conference using DimDim from Wade's Blog. I have used Adobe Presenter, Elluminate and Blackboard in the past.

I joined a Disney Vacation Discussion Board/blog site for our upcoming Web 2.0 Community Observations assignment. I already have an official Disney group hooked to my Facebook account. Maybe I should have gone with some educational choices but I am a Florida resident after all.

Made a few responses to classmates blogs.

Posted four DB entries concerning the hive, produsage and free riders.

Topic of Produsage for Week 2

Topic of Produsage for Week 2

I have to say I am already somewhat of a produser on the job, as I index a lot of the training topics for ready retrieval by staff who may need them. I also produce some of the trainings and go find them when folks request a topic for training. The document I use is a published excel document that resembles both a referatory and an index of public assistance topics that is sorted by date, topic, url and key word or tags. I also have fellow trainers that contribute items to the index and of course fellow employees who have a need to know.

Week 2 It's Monday

And as a state employee I do not have to go to the office today.
Celebratory thoughts inserted here.
I have to work up to something important to say, just trying to be comfortable in continuing with the habit of writing in a blog. I do know that blogs exist for many different reasons (political, educational, business related etc) and that keeping a record of class activities will be useful.( I hope)
Today I have read some DB posts from last night, reviewed the new topics and commented lightly on a classmate's blog entry.

Doodle Blog

Doodle Blog A meet up calendar application, another tool to manage our lives.

http://www.doodle.com/about/calendarIntegrationOverview.html

eureka!! I can edit!!

I am triumphant and have conquered the editing question. I have learned how to look at my dashboard and see updates to the blogs of my classmates. Life is good!

Ending the Week

1. I have enjoyed reading Shirky and the articles for week 1.
2. I have started to understand how to change my blog's look and texture.
3. I have tied it to my texting function on my iPhone, and have yet how to figure out how to edit my typos out of the posts once published.
4. Of course I have had to resist the urge to post photos all over the place.
5. I have enjoyed the conversations regarding the definition, meaning and future of Web 2.0 on the DB.
6. Looking forward to the upcoming weeks, better go check the syllabus again.

IPhone urges

I now have an unstoppable urge to post to my blog via my iPhone.I do confess that in the past I would post to Blackboard using the online albeit tiny function of my internet connection. Maybe having a SMS connection w/blog may be even more convenient.

This is an IPhone test

Groups do matter

Being affiliated with social networking is a necessity in a lot of professions that are seeking to suceed in the current knowledge driven environment.

Week 1

My response to the week 1 prompt is that I have had some experience with Web 2.0 technology, I created a now dead blog for another class as well as have a second life avatar and used to have an account at second life that began in yet another class(for a different program area). I have a multi page IGoogle area, with gadgets and news links that I peruse and use.

I do consider myself a participant in Web 2.0 realm, but not a creator or producer of new technology, but at least an active participant. I know that participation is an ongoing process of learning and using technologies as they appear is sometimes daunting as they come and go with alarming frequency.

In Ch. 1 of Shirky's book, the reference to Digg struck me as particularly relevant in that the appearance of the article regarding the cell phone (Sidekick) and publicizing of the related story emphasized how many people had access to the story and how the story mushroomed into several movements that involved a moral outrage larger than a lost cellphone.

From this class I hope to develop some new skills in regard to the technologies involved in Web 2.0 participation and also a larger appreciation for the collective power of Web 2.0

I am so excited. I have followers. Well they kind of have to follow me, it's an assignment after all, But still kind of fun.

In the beginning of Blog

Just beginning a blog is adventurous. The last blog I attempted died of malnutrition.