Blogging In Retrospect

The odd thing about blogging is that composition and reading appears to become most relevant when persons, places or things are spoken of or written in an ideal, new and fresh present-tense. Unlike an old journal, faster and faster technology almost demands a speed-up of blogging information. If no immediate dissemination is made, blogging seams to lose it's active role. However, and in retrospect, the means of expression by which writing works allow for hindsight to catch up with thought processes while multitasking, at times, overwhelming amounts of daily activity data, during the week into mental processes, using technology, allows bloggers to return to events when time may have otherwise not have allotted. Time, chronology, and speed are good things; although, blogs should receive no less interest simply because they are written today fresh off the press or yesteryear.

In fact, most great blogs and the concept of technological psychology involving constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism, and connectivism are just as important in their time as they are historically today. This having been said, let’s reflect on Itec 830 - lesson 3 and Learning in the Digital Age

· Learning is a social process fostering learning

· Moving away from traditional teaching

· Theories and principles go hand in hand with activities and situations

· Acquisition of knowledge, if nothing else, is situated in physical context of technology

Week 4: Itec 830 introduced class to wiki for the purpose portfolio:

• Wetpaint
• PB wiki,
• Wikispace, including other other Wiki tools via Netvibes

Later, I will reinforce this topic by multitasking further, following up with 5 and-on.

Diigo Bookmarking

Diigo, a method for social book-marking allows users to attach sticky notes of highlight parts of a webpage to specific highlights of other parts of a whole page. Diigo provides a social book-marking method, utilizing metadata of any sort in any media to manage, search, and organize bookmarks, or store data for Internet users.

Diigo’s list of organized tags in social book-marking web feeds, allow for subscriber awareness of new bookmarks as they are tagged, shared, and saved by other users. In their book-marking system you may allocate what you remember and/or share publicly, allowing for saved private works, sharing only with specified people or group particular content inside certain networks, or other combinations of private and public domains. The bookmarks are usually categorized, tagged, and in chronological, or in search engine order i.e. Alta Vista, Ask!, or Google.

Diigo’s social book-marking became more popular after having added extra social networking capabilities such as importing and exporting of bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, and commenting and rating these bookmarks.

Let's recap:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=diigo&search_type= Exclusively,

Carlo's Reflecting on itec 830

Dr. Foreman invited guest speaker, Graham Glass, in order to illustrate the intricacies of the psychology of technology i.e. cognitivism, constructivism and behaviorism. The guest and Owner of world wide web domain name http://www.edu20.org, Graham Glass, presented the class with the benefits and theoretical future of his non-profit organization, dedicated to inspire e-learning via academia channels. Mr. Glass demonstrated the importance of consolidating learning needs from a broad scope into a neatly netted website, expediting the efforts of users who may be signing, tediously, into and out of, other websites refreshing into signing up for a single website, in order to engage in one interactive learning community. This enables the global community to share their works on his website. Our class was presented with many behaviorism examples. Although, Mr. Glass emphasized the importance of connectivism. In other words, "The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe." (Siemens 2005). Mr. Glass stated that he is interested in compiling more content to be evaluated by independent users, but is consolidating channels by which to enhance his website. By visiting his website, teaching and learning appears to be success, and growing, for those who may find his organization and website helpful. In his helpfulness, he is faced with the challenges of organizing his ideas with his resources, for which is preparing a well planned venture business proposal.

Learning to Blog

Blogging seems interesting and dare I say fun, but like any new pair of shoes which must fit for user to get comfortable, getting used to blogging is like exercising in said shoes. The more time one exercises in the metaphor i.e. shoes or blog the more they learn what can be done in them (blogs).

After having added content, I must "Add feed," a term, I believe, is used by Netvibe.com to put learning journal blogging into ilearn.