Week 6: Evernote

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This is my first time to contact the Evernote, so I took a long time of study and research the software.Evernote is a help users from different scenarios (cell phone, computer, books, library, classrooms, the road, travel, Internet) via text, images, audio, web clips, and other different attachments to collect and record information, and the information in the form of a laptop and bookmark organized index to search software, it is convenient at the time of working and learning need to find the required and it will to be "the second brain". Evernote, record all the valuable information anytime and anywhere, at any time the query, a lifetime will not forget.

Evernote Logo is a sign of an elephant. According to the company's CEO, Mr PhilLibin words: in the United States have a saying, "An elephant never forgets." (An elephant never forget things), according to this story, use the elephant's image as a symbol of memory. The elephant "folding ear" was reminiscent of a document icon or folding pages of a book. In a nutshell, Evernote, is a note tool. Through its handsets, PC software and cloud synchronization service, you can help you to remember everything you want to be remembered, and carry all the information, refer to at any time. It is expand our brain memory capacity and the ability of a useful auxiliary tool.

Its powerful function of PC, which can be easily for a variety of web data editing, add the various document attachments, quickly on the computer organization, sorting, and data access of private words. Through its cloud synchronization services, data on computers, mobile phones can remain consistent, two way transmission. At the same time, the cloud storage to ensure security of the data, not afraid to lose their mobile phone damage cause data loss. You can also use web access and handle all of the data, as long as you can surf the Internet can handle and use notes. Its cloud services function is very powerful, such as text contained in images can also be identified and located.

Evernote  data can be classified according to the notebook, more can be done by tags extremely flexible management. The Powerful label and powerful search function, is an important characteristic of impression of notes. Remember at ordinary times, can remember the matter. You want to find it. Evernote are very flexible and varied data acquisition recording of the note. Besides his own typing on computers and mobile phones outside of the input, editing in the web page is extremely convenient, mobile phones can take photos, recording, painting can remember, you can also use E-mail sends the data to the own Evernote. In PC and mobile phone the various kinds of software, there are a lot of the integration of the plug in can be used.

Here is a little experience in the Evernote to use, welcome to discuss: don't build notebook (Notebooks), but should frequently built Notes and use labels (Tags), record the content should have time to arrange. Evernote represents an area of concern, if a Notebooks with only 1, 2 Notes, so it has the meaning of some large. Notebooks and Tags grouped filing, as far as possible on a regular basis, to remove unused Tags and merge similar Notebooks. Don't force on recording on a mobile device, mobile equipment input speed slower, especially with the text input .On mobile devices draw notes should consider using mind mapping software, then import Evernote. Mobile devices for Evernote role is more reference. Clear his attention to the field, see or think of relevant content after the records in a timely manner. If not clear, can try to remember more, slowly through the Tags and Notebooks on the number of Notes to find their own territory. To retain the relevant documents, links, make the Evernote gathers information environment, Unicom as much as possible in an environment of learning node, rather than the notes in the existence of separate Evernote, the existence of other materials and scattered elsewhere.

Here is 10 Evernote Tips for Dreamforce Success 
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Meihong

Week 5: Twitter and PLN

This week Report & Reflection blog post  we will talk about Twitter and PLN.  As we can known, Twitter is a Social Network, Social Network Service and microblogging Service website, is the world's one of the most visited ten sites on the Internet. It USES wireless network, cable network, communication technology, instant messaging, is the typical application of micro blog. It allows the user to its latest news and ideas in the form of text messages sent to the cell phone and personalized website group, and not just sent to the individual. Twitter is a popular social networking and microblogging service website, allows the user to their latest news and ideas to form of the short message of mobile phone (tweets) release (push), can bind IM instant messaging software. All tweets are limited to 140 characters.

Sue Waters said that "Personal learning network has a distinctly personal characteristics, so it is very individual character. When creating your own PLN, the user must be used to decide what tools, establish connection with someone, how to learn, and when to study, etc. "Personal Learning network (PLN), is the application of all such as blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook,  networking tools created for the purpose of Learning Personal network, use of the Personal network can help us as a molecular study of the global community at the same time, to strengthen the communication with others, to expand our space and time and opportunity to learn and improve our reflection.Establish these contact, get a lot of knowledge, it may make us feel excited, but absorb knowledge and used for life, is the real purpose of establishing personal learning network.

What could Twitter or your PLN contribute to your work in building knowledge?

I think both Twitter and PLN are helps me to improve my knowledge, we are living in the networked society, we cannot leave no network, we can learn more knowledge through the network. In fact, in our reading a link on twitter, we will gradually accumulation of knowledge. Web tools created for the purpose of learning personal network, use of the personal network can help us as a molecular study of the global community at the same time, to strengthen the communication with others, to expand our space and time and opportunity to learn and improve our reflection.PLN build is also can expand the scope of our study group, let us can learn to different places on the Internet, the idea of different people. As long as we can communicate through the network knowledge.

How could you add this to your PLE? Will you? What are you learning about becoming a digital citizen or gaining digital literacy?
Fett Gail DE thinks, "personal learning environment is free to collect, publish, web-based tools, usually centered on the Blog, using an RSS reader and simple HTML collection of self-guided learning style."
Personal learning environment provides learners with not only a belongs to own personalized learning space, but also provides a way to connect with other learners, and makes the learners can share exchange together across time and space boundaries, make learning become more open. I will add this in my PLE， research train of thought for the center with real transition to the research train of thought for the center with system. From the research scope to expand, on the one hand, can be integrated with other learning environment study, at present about personal learning environment into the learning management system or the study of network course learning system has just beginning. On the other hand can go deep into the learning level study, and to explore its impact on learners' learning, and reveals the essence of learning and the function, meet the needs of learners and development. We live in a diverse world, need more understanding and learning, in order to better improve our PLE. When we are in the network learning and network knowledge classification yourself, actually we are learning about becoming a digital citizen.

Week 4:Curating the Web

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In week 4 report and reflection, I learn the new content. I've never heard of Diigo and Delicious that I explored the two software, but I prefer to use the Diigo. Diigo's biggest feature is the web page of online marking function, in the words of CNET, " if in the midst of a 3000 - word article, you only need a word, you can know that mark on the website is a how practical things". Diigo is mean Digest of Internet Information or Groups and Other stuff is a powerful resource search and management tools and that is a knowledge sharing platform, you have a web space of their own, you can also collect or often go to the page that yourself like, you can edit the page at the same time, such as highlighting, small comments, and you can add annotations.

http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/diigo
 Diigo mainly includes five major characteristics is: First of all, Diigo offers the best annotation services online. What does this really mean? Diigo makes network books. Web page online marking function, Diigo allows users to comment a paragraph of text, record yourself some of the ideas in a passage, the next time you log in the web, these can be displayed. You can be in any web page to add highlight the focus of the logo and paste anywhere individual ­ comments at the same time, once you to this page to add a comment, then you can save this page permanently, that is to say, you can at any time anywhere in the network computer to see what you do.

Second, diigo has the most powerful tool for web clipping, more important is what you clip can be shared and search. Diigo is not only a good personal bookmarks, and it is a very good network share and search platforms. The web of notation is Shared by default, anyone can find others to sort out good the Internet is readily available information on the website. For example: such as ­ if you recently on the Internet to collect information about hairdressing reducing weight and use of Diigo to web annotation, tidy up all the information of the set after a project, when other users to collect similar topic, all the data can be found in the Diigo that you need not again slowly gathering.

Third, a huge cooperation platform. Highlight and network function can be used to communicate online and sharing. For example, what are you going to do about a research then you can register as a user on the diigo and you will search the material added to the diigo, let the other diigo users can share to the information you collect, you can also share the others on the investigation and study materials. Even ­ you can create a group, a panel discussion topic then invite other scholars or other users to participate in your research. Group set up in the diigo as a think tank,  it will provide help for your study.

Fourth, the specialty search tools and unique content search menu. Like Google's tool library, but to become more professional, you can to the music, maps, reference, local libraries­ for related searches. Diigo including blog search for related content, full-text search, web search, Diigo website, MSN search, and Google search, etc. It can be provided by a simple search tool. Search function is powerful. To full text of the subject, content, keywords, you can also use does not include the search, such as ­ I do not want to include a keyword can also search.

Fifth, Diigo group BBS functions, it team BBS allow users to initiate and participate in the discussion. A group of management Personnel can according to the primary good species to set up the group marks or allow group own marks. Behind a method from the sub ­in giving users more free space. When you joined the others members of the group in which you can see  bookmarks, and so on. of course, you can also build a group, for their own group to add an address in the diigo connection, the classification of their own group, the characteristics of group identity, and you can very easy by mail ­ invite friends to join your group.