Personal Learning Network on Pinterest

I was occasionally find this site when I was almost finish my final paper.

http://www.pinterest.com/esheninger/personal-learning-networks/

After I explore this site for a little while, I was shocked that PLN could be such fabulous and appealing.  With so many beautiful picture, I am keen to re-awaken interest in the tools people used to create their PLN. 

Such PLN is just like Blogger and different posts have its own cover image. This little innovation could significantly appeal the visitors.  

Web 2.0 Trend

I have read a very good article about the future of the web.
Here is the link, http://webtrends.about.com/od/Social-Media-Evolution/a/The-Future-Of-The-Web.htm

A few terms have really drawn my attention.
First, big data. I have read a named Big Data:A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think,b. After reading this book, I know we are in a world of big data. The big data correlations change what we do in daily life and business are already adapting to the big data. Although, education is different from business and you can hardly explain my psychological activity and learning process. However, by using big data, you could easily do the need analysis, in other words, instructors could easily get the information about what students need and want to learn even without any explanation.

Another term is meaningful web. Imagine in the future, our daily activities are heavily relied on Web 3.0 technologies. Our instructors was highly possible will give each student a tablet and nearly all the learning activities will be completed by using these technologies. I have already seen my classmates's products about using Google Map.

So far, my initial understanding of Big Data and meaningful we could hardly help me collect data and design the instructional design. But I will keep regarding the development of big data in Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 in my life and my study.

How to add twitter feed in your Wikispace

I just find a very easy way to add your twitter feed in your Wikispace when I was dealing with my Performance Support Project.

First, you need create a list which includes all the related following account)
Then, go to the twitter widget setting.

After your create a widget , you need copy the code. 

The next step is opening your Wikispace and edit it by opening widget page. 

Then paste your code into the HTML of your wikispace

Finally, you will get your twitter feed in your wikispace. The whole process will take less than 15 mins. 

The Internet censorship in China

Two years ago, when I was in college, I usually  read the New York Times in the morning. Then one day suddenly I found New York Times was blocked. I decided to use proxy to log in my Facebook to figure out why our government blocked New York Times. 

Some foreign friend and my Chinese friends who studied in America informed me a breaking new. 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/25/business/the-wen-family-empire.html?ref=global

New York Times was not just post a normal family tree. The whole article describe the Wen family empire in detail including each family member's wealth, which was a very sensitive issue in China.  Premier Wen won with a clean image and promise to dealing with corruption, finance and the economy. 

Live coverage on breaking news events has been a routine method in major world media like CNN and BBC, which however is a brand-new thing in China. Moreover, such news were exactly offend China center government's sensibilities.  

The reasons why China blocked social medias like Twitter and Facebook are multifaceted. First, these media always could generate some so-called rumor in China. Second, these social median could spread news in very fast speed which is really difficult for government to censor them.  Third, officially, the Chinese government permit watchdog journalism, known as "supervision by public opinion," but in practice new outlets are wary of offending local party official. 

Here is an example:  

China quake school critic receives one-year sentence-group

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/30/idUSPEK105816

And all the social medias, which are not under control of Chinese government, will never get chance to get approved to enter China market. 

Yahoo Pipes

After I read the requirement for the assignment performance support project, I decide to try to use Yahoo Pipes and create a really awesome RSS feed for my projects, including Blog feed, twitter feed, and Scoop.it feed. Reality is cruel that I spent two days trying to master it and get nothing done. 

Since I watch large numbers of Yahoo Pipes tutorials, I experience the benefits of trying all the possible solutions to create a pipes. The following websites could help you to generate 

This first one is Google Feedburner. http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/myfeeds

What you need to do is just type the URL of the blogs you want to subscribing. 

The other is Twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/

You can easily to feed your blogs to yours Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  

Performance Support Project

My online world history wiki is the auxiliary materials for my online class.
Here is link: http://yionlinehistory.wikispaces.com/home

I planned to use Yahoo Pipes as the core elements of my performance support project. However, it's to difficult to use Yahoo Pipes proficiently. Thus, I decided to use wikispaces because I visit the EME 6414 wikispaces which is really helpful.

The former Assignment--Instructional design was designed for world history and students need to completed several assignments by the end of the course.  This wiki aims to provide necessary learning modality, resource, tools that is accessible and applicable at the moment of need. Students are allowed to visit and edit this wiki during the teaching span. Students could use this wiki as electronic job-aids.

The history class I created

I use Edmodo to design my lesson. 1. Edmodo, the Group Code is mickb3. Here is the link: https://www.edmodo.com/

Introduction: 
Lesson Title: World History Unit 1 (Portugal & Spain) 
Learn learning Objectives: 
This lesson is designed to guild students to learn the rise of 2 countries by acquainting the important historical characters and events, the varied reasons behind the achievement of these countries’ economic boom and military rise and expansion. 
By the end of the Unit 1 (lesson 1), students will be able to
1. Describe the basic reason how Portugal and Spain could become great power between 1400 and 1600. 
2. Introduce several historical characters who played important roles in some historical events. 
3. Create a history learning map and conclusion. (The detail about history learning map requirements are post in the online learning course) 
The introduction of World History online learning course:
Objectives/Description 
This course is designed to guild students to learn the rise of nine countries by acquainting the important historical characters and events, the varied reasons behind the achievement of these countries’ economic boom and military rise and expansion.
By the end of the course, students will be able to 
1. Describe the basic reasons how these countries could become great power at a certain period of time. 
2. Introduce several historical characters who played important roles in some historical events.
3. With the guidance, students were required to form a group to collects a country’s necessary materials of and make presentation to the classes. 
4. Write a paper about the rise of United States by analyzing on several aspects.