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|The Future of Learning with Internet
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Learning has been a continuous process from long time ago. In the past, we followed sages to learn things from them. Later we learnt from books. The invention of the books and printing make sharing knowledge much more easier. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, we can learn new things at anywhere in anytime.
We are flush of new information and knowledge every day because of the web 2.0. When Internet was introduced, there is little information because only web designer make websites and share information. After the web 2.0 revolution began, every one suddenly becomes writer. Every one builds a blog and starting sharing their thoughts. A new tutorial or new methodology spreads quickly around the world because of the social networks. Moreover, the mobile technology makes reading and browsing Internet on the street possible. The whole big Internet is not only around us every day, it is around us every second now.
Wikipedia has already become a big knowledge source for students to grab academic information quickly. The contribution to many other wiki systems also encourages people to keep writing and sharing the knowledge. The writing and reading process is quite similar to the demand and supply relation. But now the trend seems to make everyone act both as demand and supply in the learning process.
It is about one month to 2010 now. Mobile learning and eBook are two of the focus in education. Some teachers is already asking students to write down their learning process and thoughts using blog and submit back as a homework. Some students will go out for a field trip and share their findings between students who may be discovering different things in the park.
With the latest technology of the paper-like eBook and augmented reality, several new methodology of learning may be able to applied and make the learning better.
May be in the future we will be reading an e-book on the train and at the same time reading the comments on the paragraphs in the margin area and discussing the book content with others.
May be years later when students go to a field trip, they have a thin eBook with them and was asking to take photos of different plant. Then the eBook will list all useful information of that kind of plant, just like you are collecting it as specimen.
The mobile technology is becoming more mature and I think there will be a lot of mobile learning or situated learning solutions come out in the next years.
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Blogazine Style
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Last week I read the post “The Death Of The Blog Post” from Smashing Magazine.
It shows several creative blogs that jump out the style boundary of normal blog. Each post from those blogs present an unique style as if you were reading a high quality magazine online.
After the inspiration from these creative blogs, I decided to do an experiment on this personal blog and see if I can make it becomes a blogazine style blog. I am going to change the styles a lot these days so some styles may become wired before it looks good. I will also try to re-style my old posts later when I get time.
If you want to know more about the blogazine style, read the great post from Smashing Magazine.
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What if there is a place to centralize all tutorials from web?
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
As a web designer, I read through different design blogs, such as Tuts+, Web Designer Wall, Smashing Magazine every day to get updated news on what others are doing in the world. These blogs often provide high quality design resources, tutorials and freebies.
It is a little bit time consuming for bookmarking different high quality blog posts everyday. And a bigger issue is that my bookmark list has grown into a big list. Too big for me to find my bookmarks with specific topic. For example, I bookmark collections of inspiring designs, great tutorials, freelance tips and articles related to efficiency. Sometimes when I want to reference a tutorial, say photoshop tutorial, it is hard for me to have a quick way to get all the photoshop tutorials bookmarks in a visual way. All I can get is a list of text titles. I want a tool that I can have all related bookmark visually appear in front of me when I click ‘photoshop’ or ‘inspiring’ tag.
I am going to make a web tool to manage all my collections in a better way. This tool will keep updating everyday and I will put new fresh great blog posts into this coming tool, a web design resources archives.
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I start blogging
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
It has been several years that I think about blogging and gave up the ideas. The reason that I’ve given up blogging is that I think writing an article daily or weekly is a waste of time. In the past, I’d rather use the time doing some development or experiment. Now it is time to change. Recently, I found that it is hard to tell others what I did even I have been working as a web designer and game developer for years. It is hard to tell my clients the story behind my products. It is hard to teach others how I implement my stuffs. It is hard to tell others the result of my experiment on game or web design.
In order to improve the expression of my thought, I decided to start blogging. This site will be my starting point and I will keep posting my personal thoughts, fun ideas or even some round up that is worth bookmark for me, and for you may be.
Anyway, I start blogging today.
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