15 April 2010
Decision time: whao-I want to do some much other than what the paramitors of the assignment given us.
My immediate desire is to have a page I can use after the semester ends for my personal promotion of works in progress, autobiography etc. Thau suggessed I stick to the topic to get the web site working and then add my other desires at a later time. I don't have a clue at the moment as the way to do this. Much of my tech experience was forming an international company that dealt with the composting of Hospital, Military basis, Universities and Municipal buildings. So I am thinking because the business originaly created a web site that an interested customer could click into the home page and the click on any information or projects that were works in progress or complete. Other items as shipping, international rules for import export, that would make the propecttive customer comfortable with the product. As to pictures and items, I have many of the adds, projects and technology that was used. Including a kids book on worms published in the Canadian National Library. I have several patents as well on that technology. This may be off the point?
Perhaps this could be my opposition to wanting to learn about the internet at the time, I would just hire people or have my secretary show me something. I fought the new technology in as sense it was over my head, and that it took to much of my time when I could be writing the articles or be in the field.
I would hope that I can turn this web site into something useful at a later time. COMMENTS
15 April 2010
13 April 2010
Associatev Argument
I feel like editing my Technological Literacy Autobiography so that I could eventually turn the web page into a personal space to post my writing, or different events so those I wish to see a quick scan of my assets, and writing peices can do so quickly. That way I do not have to sound like I am bragging, and they can either choose to read different aspects of my life or choose a article I have written.
As the review of a new writing space/tool, I still have to finish that assignment.
As to the research paper, I did not want to post anything for security reasons. So, the choice is the first two.
As the review of a new writing space/tool, I still have to finish that assignment.
As to the research paper, I did not want to post anything for security reasons. So, the choice is the first two.
23 March 2010
Moving to posterous site
From now on, please check my Posterous account for the latest blog entries.
Cnsorship and Access to the WWW
Censorship and Access to the Wide Web World
My present interest is to help educate children in Vietnam and especially in remote villages. The thrust of the help is not so much teaching English, but to help in English pronunciation and communication through the internet. As was cited in a number of chapters of Literate Lives, those without computer access are less likely to be as literate as students with Web access.
Looking for subjects for my research paper I have come up with some possibilities: Is accessibility to the World Wide Web important to literacy in Asian Countries such as Vietnam and China? Is accessibility to the WWW more important than basic educational tools such as books, pencils, and paper? How does accessibility to the WWW affect literacy and politics? And, How is China and Vietnam’s present position of political censorship affect education.
Chapter 10 of Writing Space by Bolter titled ‘Writing Culture’ cites, “The Web becomes for us a metaphor for ways in which we function in our various communities” (203). Bruns, in BLOGGS, WIKIPEDI, SECOND LIFE, and BEYOND, in Chapter 13, Educating Produsers, Produsing Education, Produsage and the Academy speaks of “A casual collapse of established hierarchies and institutions is the typical outcome of a paradigm shift” (344). He is emphasizing the importance of the power of the WWW in our changing relationship with education in our communities the WWW. Without access to the WWW, then those without the access are at a disadvantage of keeping up educationally. He goes on to say that “An explicit embrace of produsage principle by educators is likely to increase the permeability of educational institutions, and teachers and learners will come to work more closely with produser communities in the wider knowledge space beyond academia” (350). Bolter in Chapter 10, speaks of the American culture that encourages the individual over the state community. Because Americans are freer they can associate with whoever they wish and what community they choose. Brun says, The (WWW) network is displacing the hierarchy” (204). He suggests the WWW has become sites for highly mediated versions of community…that allow individuals to talk back and talk to each other” (204).
In regulating or government censorship as China and Vietnam, are presently doing with Google and Facebook, Fred Rheingold in Virtual Community (1944), talks about liberating himself on a political level as well as a personal level. He goes on to state “The technology that makes virtual communities possible to bring enormous leverage to ordinary citizens…and most important political leverage” (pp.4-5). Bruns goes on to say “the Internet and Web as enabling new forms of community or democratic empowerment, there remains the key problem that the technology is not universally available” (205).
Both books emphasized the importance of the WWW in education, and politics.
My present interest is to help educate children in Vietnam and especially in remote villages. The thrust of the help is not so much teaching English, but to help in English pronunciation and communication through the internet. As was cited in a number of chapters of Literate Lives, those without computer access are less likely to be as literate as students with Web access.
Looking for subjects for my research paper I have come up with some possibilities: Is accessibility to the World Wide Web important to literacy in Asian Countries such as Vietnam and China? Is accessibility to the WWW more important than basic educational tools such as books, pencils, and paper? How does accessibility to the WWW affect literacy and politics? And, How is China and Vietnam’s present position of political censorship affect education.
Chapter 10 of Writing Space by Bolter titled ‘Writing Culture’ cites, “The Web becomes for us a metaphor for ways in which we function in our various communities” (203). Bruns, in BLOGGS, WIKIPEDI, SECOND LIFE, and BEYOND, in Chapter 13, Educating Produsers, Produsing Education, Produsage and the Academy speaks of “A casual collapse of established hierarchies and institutions is the typical outcome of a paradigm shift” (344). He is emphasizing the importance of the power of the WWW in our changing relationship with education in our communities the WWW. Without access to the WWW, then those without the access are at a disadvantage of keeping up educationally. He goes on to say that “An explicit embrace of produsage principle by educators is likely to increase the permeability of educational institutions, and teachers and learners will come to work more closely with produser communities in the wider knowledge space beyond academia” (350). Bolter in Chapter 10, speaks of the American culture that encourages the individual over the state community. Because Americans are freer they can associate with whoever they wish and what community they choose. Brun says, The (WWW) network is displacing the hierarchy” (204). He suggests the WWW has become sites for highly mediated versions of community…that allow individuals to talk back and talk to each other” (204).
In regulating or government censorship as China and Vietnam, are presently doing with Google and Facebook, Fred Rheingold in Virtual Community (1944), talks about liberating himself on a political level as well as a personal level. He goes on to state “The technology that makes virtual communities possible to bring enormous leverage to ordinary citizens…and most important political leverage” (pp.4-5). Bruns goes on to say “the Internet and Web as enabling new forms of community or democratic empowerment, there remains the key problem that the technology is not universally available” (205).
Both books emphasized the importance of the WWW in education, and politics.
04 March 2010
ly found out by pigheadedness how to post all by myself...Duh02 March 2010
Posterous-Flickr-Twitter
Posterous-Flickr-Twitter
Writing: Blog entry - define your technology as an electronic writing space and/or tool and give it’s history (can be in as many entries as you see fit – make some rhetorical choices).
I find it fascinating that there are so many outlets for different interests of exposing or working with one’s interests in the arts-literature. Other than the three I have mentioned, I have signed up for four others as well to see how they all interact with my life.
My assignment was made easy by Thao our teaching assistant; she has been my savior throughout this digital learning curve. She recommended Posterous. The text book definition of Posterous which is a simple micro blogging platform started in May, 2009 funded by Y Combinator. It boasts integrated and automatic posting to other ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous.
The definition and history of Posterous indicates through its claims, that its the most innovative blogging platform available today. Evidently, Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. Email at post@posterous.com which replies instantly to your posterous blog. Using email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous has designed a blogging platform where the entire focus is on email. Evidently you can jump over to your drafts folder to start or continue a post.
Attachments-When you attach files to an email post, posterous acts intelligently. Photos are resized and become slideshows, videos are flash encoded (!) and embedded, mp3s are added to a flash player and links are parsed. (i.e. youtube links are replaced with an embedded player)
FLICKR
Flickr is another tool/space that I have not been familiar with. This past weekend I signed up and paid my US $ 24.95 for one year as well a gift certificate to my friend in Vietnam. It seems to be a program I can use. I probably have 10,000 accumulated photos plus, from family and travels. Recently, my obsession with Vietnam, has added another several thousand. I need to organize them if I am ever to use them. Flickr seems like a good space to begin?
Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004.
Axel Bruns, in BLOGS, WIKIPEDIA, SECOND LIFE, and BEYOND, points out in number of interesting facts and ideas associated with Flickr.
Flicker is the home to an increasingly active range of communities engaging in produsage proper, and indeed showcases through its tools and services especial the communal and collaborative aspects of produsage. Flickr provides a range of means for setting up groups and communities of users, and collecting images on the site into photographic ‘pools’; this has given rise in the first place to groups which collect and comment on photos defined by certain common characteristics (ranging from specific subject matter to geographic commonalities shared by photos or photographers, as well as to particular photographic and other techniques employed in create the works).
Flickr-in concert with now standard image editing tools and software-also provides a space for communities engaged in the active co-creation of content, however: groups such as aptly named ‘remix’ community on Flickr, for example engage in the mutual reediting and remixing of one another’s content as contributed by members of the group…it is evident that Flickr is in reality a ‘Space’ for sharing any form of still image, not only of conventional photography (234-235).
Produsage: highlights that within the communities which engage in the collaborative creation and extension of information and knowledge the role of ‘consumer’ and even that of ‘end user’ have long disappeared, and the distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance. I many of he spaces we encounter here, users are always already necessarily also produces of the shared knowledge base, regardless of whether they are aware of this role-they have become a new, hybrid, produser (2).
TWITTER-
I signed up for this several days ago. From the explanations of its function, it appears to be a tool, in the sense that it is an information access system. Twitter’s sight states: Twitter’s system attracts millions of users globally as it gives users the chance to get real time information about anything that might be occurring in the world in a simple way. With an increasing velocity of tweets, it has become an escalating challenge to find data from this real-time information archive, made even more difficult by the limitations of the company’s default search engine, which only displays information in the last week to two weeks.
Searchtastic is a system that has the capability to search for historical tweets and provide users with an improved search functionality that happens to be better than the one displayed by twitter itself by default. The site was designed in a simple way and users can search for the most relevant tweets and tweeters in a totally uncomplicated way. Like other Twitter search sites, Searchtastic lets you search Tweets for a particular keyword or hashtag. It provides instant access to the most followed users on the Top 100 page. What makes the search engine interesting is the ability to pull up Tweets from weeks or months ago, which Twitter’s own search engine doesn’t allow you to do. Searchtastic is currently in beta. The company behind this application is open to your feedback as well as any media or business development inquiries – if you have any thoughts.
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.[3][4] All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as "SMS of the Internet."[5] The use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter. What we have to do is deliver to people the best and freshest most relevant information possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world.
—Evan Williams [6]
Writing: Blog entry - define your technology as an electronic writing space and/or tool and give it’s history (can be in as many entries as you see fit – make some rhetorical choices).
I find it fascinating that there are so many outlets for different interests of exposing or working with one’s interests in the arts-literature. Other than the three I have mentioned, I have signed up for four others as well to see how they all interact with my life.
My assignment was made easy by Thao our teaching assistant; she has been my savior throughout this digital learning curve. She recommended Posterous. The text book definition of Posterous which is a simple micro blogging platform started in May, 2009 funded by Y Combinator. It boasts integrated and automatic posting to other ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous.
The definition and history of Posterous indicates through its claims, that its the most innovative blogging platform available today. Evidently, Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. Email at post@posterous.com which replies instantly to your posterous blog. Using email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous has designed a blogging platform where the entire focus is on email. Evidently you can jump over to your drafts folder to start or continue a post.
Attachments-When you attach files to an email post, posterous acts intelligently. Photos are resized and become slideshows, videos are flash encoded (!) and embedded, mp3s are added to a flash player and links are parsed. (i.e. youtube links are replaced with an embedded player)
FLICKR
Flickr is another tool/space that I have not been familiar with. This past weekend I signed up and paid my US $ 24.95 for one year as well a gift certificate to my friend in Vietnam. It seems to be a program I can use. I probably have 10,000 accumulated photos plus, from family and travels. Recently, my obsession with Vietnam, has added another several thousand. I need to organize them if I am ever to use them. Flickr seems like a good space to begin?
Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004.
Axel Bruns, in BLOGS, WIKIPEDIA, SECOND LIFE, and BEYOND, points out in number of interesting facts and ideas associated with Flickr.
Flicker is the home to an increasingly active range of communities engaging in produsage proper, and indeed showcases through its tools and services especial the communal and collaborative aspects of produsage. Flickr provides a range of means for setting up groups and communities of users, and collecting images on the site into photographic ‘pools’; this has given rise in the first place to groups which collect and comment on photos defined by certain common characteristics (ranging from specific subject matter to geographic commonalities shared by photos or photographers, as well as to particular photographic and other techniques employed in create the works).
Flickr-in concert with now standard image editing tools and software-also provides a space for communities engaged in the active co-creation of content, however: groups such as aptly named ‘remix’ community on Flickr, for example engage in the mutual reediting and remixing of one another’s content as contributed by members of the group…it is evident that Flickr is in reality a ‘Space’ for sharing any form of still image, not only of conventional photography (234-235).
Produsage: highlights that within the communities which engage in the collaborative creation and extension of information and knowledge the role of ‘consumer’ and even that of ‘end user’ have long disappeared, and the distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance. I many of he spaces we encounter here, users are always already necessarily also produces of the shared knowledge base, regardless of whether they are aware of this role-they have become a new, hybrid, produser (2).
TWITTER-
I signed up for this several days ago. From the explanations of its function, it appears to be a tool, in the sense that it is an information access system. Twitter’s sight states: Twitter’s system attracts millions of users globally as it gives users the chance to get real time information about anything that might be occurring in the world in a simple way. With an increasing velocity of tweets, it has become an escalating challenge to find data from this real-time information archive, made even more difficult by the limitations of the company’s default search engine, which only displays information in the last week to two weeks.
Searchtastic is a system that has the capability to search for historical tweets and provide users with an improved search functionality that happens to be better than the one displayed by twitter itself by default. The site was designed in a simple way and users can search for the most relevant tweets and tweeters in a totally uncomplicated way. Like other Twitter search sites, Searchtastic lets you search Tweets for a particular keyword or hashtag. It provides instant access to the most followed users on the Top 100 page. What makes the search engine interesting is the ability to pull up Tweets from weeks or months ago, which Twitter’s own search engine doesn’t allow you to do. Searchtastic is currently in beta. The company behind this application is open to your feedback as well as any media or business development inquiries – if you have any thoughts.
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.[3][4] All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as "SMS of the Internet."[5] The use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter. What we have to do is deliver to people the best and freshest most relevant information possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world.
—Evan Williams [6]
23 February 2010
2#Blog assignment -23Feb10
23 Feb 2010
Blog #2
hampighead
Well Mr. update pighead can’t figure out how to post his second blog-Duhhhhhhhhhh! I suppose this is one of the many reasons I do not post onto blogs.
I have enough problems keeping up with homework, reading and replying. With relatives and friends who have time on their hands to blog write me anyway they can, takes up time. This may sound selfish, but I have absolutely no time. I have a 94 year old mother whom I take care of from 5 PM until 8AM. By the time I feed her, talk to her, wash the dishes, most of the evening is shot. I then get up at 2 AM every morning, get up check my mother, help her with her duties, feed my dog, read a few min until 0430 when I talk to my fiancé in Vietnam. It is 7:30 PM in the evening there. We need to have some time together so there is usually a half hour there. So not it is 0500 AM my time. There is email traffic many important. I am also starting a non profit Corp for teaching children in remote villages in Vietnam , as well as keeping up with my Vietnamese partner in Saigon in the Travel business. We jointly have a US
Now homework? I have four full time reading and writing classes including this one. For four years I have been trying to take some creative writing classes and this the 5th year, I have finally lucked into two. One is with a world famous travel writer who is here for only this semester. He has graced me with the time to read what I write. That is an opportunity of a life time, and it also means I have to cram every available second on “FREE TIME” writing for his remarks. As anyone knows writing anything for publication takes a lot of time consuming rewrites.
At the moment before I dive into the round of blogging, before answering the required 12 items to read for home work on blogging, the only good purpose for me in the world of blogging at the present is to keep a journal. I don’t know how this works, but I am interested in that. When I am in the field I take as many notes as possible and then when I hit the hotel, I spend a lot of time transcribing notes onto the laptop or a larger hand writing journal. Since I do not know that much about the blogging journal at the moment, I can’t remark on the pros or cons.
Pedagogue-TEACHER, SCHOOLMASTER; especially : a dull, formal, or pedantic teacher.
This term is used throughout the 12 teacher’s blogs. I didn’t look it up initially maybe I should have and the description might fit a number of them.
On the Subject of Blogs, by Laura C. Berry, in her first paragraph she uses the word ‘pedagogical’ when she mentions “for personal and pedagogical reasons.” Perhaps not the best word in turning me on to blogging “dull, formal?” But she turns out to be anything but. She snitches on the “English department knowing pretty much everything about everybody else, or believes they do.” She levels the playing field for privacy. Again she makes sense when she says that her “professional book (academic, scholarly), and the (theoretically) private conditions…must all come into my writing and teaching. No truer statement could be mouthed by an academic.
Most spout off their political views whether you want to hear them or not with out giving anyone else the privilege to counter their biased opinion which has no place in the classroom unless it is a political science class, yet they are very tight lipped about their home or private life.
She goes on to say “acknowledgments the necessary of intermingling of the two would change both how we write and how we teach writing and literature in significant ways.” I totally agree. She further points out that in bringing personal into the classroom she “is accountable for what I do.” Makes sense to me. She continues with, being real to my students is a way of cutting through their cynicism.”
This sounds good and I like her opinion, but I believe as some other teachers admit, they are not comfortable laying themselves on the line and having to defend themselves as well as home work assignments. This blogging, telling, sharing may take a tough skin for some teacher. The students are required to do this regardless of whether they have thick skin or not, but in most cases the teacher is the only participant in their private opinions. One teacher says it allows the shy people who have a hard time speaking in class to be able to write their voice. This is fine as long as they are willing to share their voice with initially strangers.
I have only recently been reminded again how hard it is for a writer to reveal some private actions, words, descriptions, personal beliefs and then be knocked silly by remarks on the work. This takes tough skin to make a come back. But again it all depends on how much of your guts you spill. Do you say too much, not enough, to crude, to self absorbing, etc?
Berry, mentions that blogs have a certain freedom in that there is room for graphics and photo’s, which could be mentally challenging for the viewer as well as the blogger. Another good point is that blogs, in form and in content, act out the vexed nature of subjectivity as poststructuralist readers, (I have to look up what a poststructuralist is?) A very good point is the difference from the “largely imagined world of people vs. our imagined selves.” She goes on to say “above all by making the very idea of a private self a publicly constructed, and playfully imagined, virtual object of desire.” I applaud her statements and agree wholeheartedly. But I think that she is of the rare breed when she can say, and I am sure her colleagues must have read this blog, “I often wonder why these English-professor types, who in most other settings would utterly reject the idea of a sacrosanct subjectivity, were describing the horror they would feel if anyone they knew gained access to their personal thoughts and feelings.” The very way she writes about her English Department and her colleagues indicates that she is certainly a strong opinionated teacher with a thick skin. Many as she points out don’t have that, and for that very reason, those teachers would have a problem with blogging in their classroom. She ends with she would rather revel in my incoherence and play with and as myself in the blogosphere.
For the first in the series it was a good opening for me. I agreed what she said, and it has opened my eyes somewhat.
I Don’t Really Want to Go into Personal Things in this Blog by Carlton Clark . He says that compostition teachers should be writers… But what kind of writing counts.” Good question?
The point of Blogging lab work is for my student is to write.” Exactly right!!
And he admits that the reason “I got into teaching because I loved learning.” Good reason.
Trying it on for Size by Nels P. Highberg
Two things: I recognize that I need to think about what I reveal and what I withhold…I teach them in class is what I do in real life.
The Bane of the Presidents Existence by Dennis G. Jerz
“recovering from what was very nearly a ‘spit-take’ ?? I have not idea what he means.
He notes a case of Bernice Blogs Her Hair – He mentions tht Bernice is the small Midwestern town of Eau Claire
That was interesting, I don’t think I have seen Eau Claire and any writings, I lived on a farm a few miles from there in Wisconsin 6 months.
I blog Therefore I Am by Angelina Karpovich
She said that she enjoys the opportunities of having the journal as a creative space…In this environment, identity is not so much revealed as reconstructed. These are items I would certainly be interested in.
Aboard the Ideological Hot Air Balloon by Nicole Converse Livengood-
Is this her real name? Livengood?
She spoke of yet another “latest techno-pedagogy bandwagon.” She was hesitant to try blogging in the classroom, “there was no way I was going to buy into the myth that bluffing encouraged students to write, broke down classroom barriers, an d enhanced critical-thinking and peer-group relationships. She goes on to say that she found it invaluable nonetheless. The recaps and previews helped me stay on track and develop lesson plans, but more important, recording my thoughts helped me to fine-tune my perspectives on teaching and pedagogy.” She goes on to say in defense of blogging “I find my student’s desire for “focus” especially intriguing.” She ends with the positive statement, “It is necessary that students make writing, and a writing space, their own.
Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale by Eric Mason
As a blogger, you might also represent positions you otherwise avoid. By selectively creating links to other sites and into thier blogs, you become a gatekeeper and a gatherer of cultural capital (bloggers suffering simultaneously form the hunger for the new and the urge to gather cultural capital into their links section have become hunter-gatherers). Perhaps you will link to all the right people…
Having a BALL with Blog-Assisted Language Learning by Jason ward
This was particularly interesting to me because Jason is an overseas instructor. He says, Web logs provide a genuine audience, are authentically communicative, and offer uncharted creative potential…The Web log was the perfect antidote for my students’ apathy toward writing…he encouraged them to write about things they felt strongly about…Grammar and spelling mistakes were tolerated until the end of the semester when students printed out their final blog and the comments they had posted on other blogs to submit in a portfolio for assessment.”
I thought thoughts were well worth my observation. Since I have not blogged I really cannot comment of the worth. I will in the future log my experienced opinion when that time comes.
18 February 2010
1# Post
OK this is my first attempt at blogging. It is a pure test on my unability to use new technology. I use the Name pighead to verify that statement. I am doing this for a class at San Jose State University.
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