Saturday, November 4, 2006

11-4-2006 Homework

繳交期限 11/11 下午 1:00 整
Submission due 11/11 at 1:00 p.m.

1. (Continued from the last homework) For the comments people left on your homework, give response that you think appropriate. You may want to say thanks to them in the first place.

2. Reading Assignments: (Next presentation)
Read the papers assigned to the following persons.
莊育嘉(Social Serendipity) ,徐欣佑(blog paper by hp), 建年(Wireless privacy), 陳秋慧(Web 2.0)

3 comments:

Yao-Jen Chang said...

Social learning: The intrinsic structure of blogs enables social learning. We have asked students to check into their classmates' blogs to see what other people have written. In the traditional grading, it is the job of the instructor to read students' works; students

Yao-Jen Chang said...

are not empowered to take a look of how the works are done by their classmates. In this sense, blogs have the potentials to upgrade personal learning to social learning.

Yao-Jen Chang said...

In terms of social learning, there is a difference between blogs and discussion forums (namely BBSs). While similar in some aspects, there remain substantial differences in user experiences. According to Peter Duffy and Axel Bruns (2005), discussion forums are predominately shared group spaces in which individual voices get heard but are not afforded specific space of their own. Therefore, discussions belong to different people or subjects are interwoven frequently, making it difficult to focus on subjects of interests or join the discussions. On the contrary, blogs provide a platform for individual expression and also support reader commentary, critique, and inter-linkage as subsequent steps. In other words, blogs foreground the individual, while discussion forums foreground the group. Blogs make more sense especially in cases where there is no strong sense of group belonging or royalty, as in the case we are discussing.