Week 12

Before you know it this is the last blog. I have learned a lot about the digital world, I can contact, and is suitable for my study and personal life. In this class, I learn a lot of hands-on ability, also learn a lot of knowledge, I didn't I know all of these make me constantly learning, so that I bcan let own progress in the study. In the beginning of this course, I don't even know what's digital footprint, because as a international students, I have a lot of places do not understand, but let me learn in the class can't learn at ordinary times, but these can help me later life and learning software. I google my name, I saw my name about my information, anything I do in digital world and I use time to built my digital footprint after this course. Digital footprint is process in digital world.

Digital footprint can map the user protean associated states, marketers can use to identify consumer preferences, interests and needs, to provide relevant content to help customers achieve their requirements. No matter you are the governor, the mayor, the military personnel or consumer, are hard to leave digital footprint, because we are living in E-mail, SMS, blogging and social networking era. From the point of view of consumers, and their behavior left a footprint, the tracks exposed the details around their digital interactive data, including: intervention channels, equipment and operating systems, behavior, location and time.Through social media, we can see hundreds of one million people of ideas, opinions, ideas and feelings. We can see their pictures, video, and reviews, create them to engage in dialogue, can read their blogs and twitter, you can view their navigation map, listen to their repertoire list, see them even in physical space trajectory.

In addition, if these information data processing, also can leave traces, including: population and social characteristics, purchase history, life cycle phase, content preference and licensing. In an email, digital footprint by clicking on the behavior of consumer insight, make the marketing personnel to infer consumer preferences, such as a receipt signed, the registration of a specific promotion, or by browsing to a particular product or service show some interest.For mobile phones, maybe the user is a can be used to compare convenient shopping or buying behavior of the carrier of a particular device. The key question is: each of us a digital footprint. Precisely because of these interactions, marketers can be viewed on its web site, download the application, completed a questionnaire or give up to buy consumer and personal communication.

Week 11:Webcasting tools

For this week's meeting, we must understand the webcasting tools to create a podcast or video. This is my first time to contact in the form of video and audio software, I chose to use SoundCloud, create a podcast to explain my idea is the most important in the digital world every aspect of life and study.

Resourse by:http://www.worshipstream.com/pages/product-tour/webcasting-101/

How do creative tools, such as Muziboo, SoundCloud, RecordMP3, Garageband, Jing, and Screenr contribute to your work in building knowledge?

Webcasting tools  is the important embodiment of network multimedia transmission configuration, is also the important embodiment of online radio and television media development. For traditional radio, Internet radio is its function of supplement, the two are complementary and cooperative relations.

Advantages: The network from a radio program production to transmit digital, networked, realized in the system signal to sounds ratio is high, will not produce sounds in the processing, , which can obtain better sound quality, also can undertake stereo transmission. In the case of network speed allows, can realize multicast. Because of the way audio file is based on the packetIn the network transmission, it is easy to realize multicast, the different packets sent to the different terminals. Sound Cloud is known as the audio share in the Youtube. SoundCloud recording function allows the user to record any sounds, and then put into his players on social networking sites to share with friends, and also supports add images and location information. Application characteristics: support for audio recording. It is also support add images and location information.

How could you add this to your PLE? Will you?

I will not be webcasting tools in PLE, because in the software, I spent a lot of time to study, it is very affect my learning time, I often use my PLE should be, and can help me learn fast. But if as usual resting entertainment software. I think this is a good choice. Because of you will make a interesting video or recording. When I use Voki making, I think Voki text can be converted into language, can record yourself, the text is converted into sound no problem, but can't solve the problem of background music. The dynamic study of audio, it is can help us understand and learn faster.

Voki

This weel the introduction of online
speech animation generation VOKI, that is I first to done it.  Voki is
enter text, or upload audio file, or use the microphone recording directly, and
you can choose any one of your dialogue let virtual spokesperson said. Virtual
human appearance, clothing color, background, players can free collocation and
dubbing and other details. VOKI after completion of registration, login will
open the following page.First of all, we can modify the avatar, select the
picture on the right side of the first row, the first head, the second to
change clothes and hat, the third with glasses.Open a note no point (in the
picture, for example), will appear the interface, attention!Choose green DONE
point after the completion of the lower right corner.The second key said in the
next step. The third line, the first Backgrounds is to modify the image
background, the second Players is to modify the head of the border color.

http://blog.voki.com/2012/07/16/feature-update-exclusive-voki-classroom-characters/

The key to express our voice, is the
second line just mentioned.First call button, can dial the telephone voice
input.The second button is the text input, automatically converted to voice
output (similar to the electronic reading novels, but also a bit better).The
third microphone input. The fourth form of folders, you can upload your
voice in the computer.Focuses on the second text to speech automatically.Point
the second button, the following dialog.You can Type Your Text below directly
enter Text in the dark blue strip, it can also copy and paste Text into the
box.Behind the Accent Language drop-down list, select the language, in the
Voice below choose male or female Voice to speak.

Pay attention to after a certain
point green DONE.To Share the final step, click the small earth next to Share
Your Voki, the first line is to choose the size, with a digital Copy this
permalink: the links below is just Your video link (you can directly send the
link to each other).The second line, the Send To A Friend.

This is my Viki：

I just made a new Voki. See it here:



Recourse by：

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

Week 10：Slideshows

In week 10, We use a new tool this week, I really love to use this tool. Animoto interface is very simple, after log in can start to make the Slide Show, click on the production of the new video and photo. You can select phone or computer photos will be sorted according to time. Choose good photo then you can choose the style of the video,  click on one of can directly see the preview or you can select all the video you can browse to the use of all available video template. Style from the pure and fresh, art to realistic, basically users want to make most of the theme of the Slide Show can be found in conformity with the choice. After a short period of time after waiting to be able to generate video, you can share to Facebook to other friends to watch. Although the application itself is free, but Animoto offer paid within functions: if there's no relationship within the application to watch video, but want to save video to your phone and computer, and you need to pay. I think this is not very good. For often take pictures by mobile phone users, image classification is indispensable, memories of times as many pictures. they will make a Slide Show, when back to see more movies like flashbacks effect, person is the most important for their friends and family to do a review emotion, through the social platform to share a surprise for them. Animoto such products allow the user to save a lot of trouble and excellent design, simple operation mode allows users to easily make a high quality video, templates, filters. This is really convenient to people.

Image from：https://www.graphite.org/website/animoto

What did you learn/notice in your exploration of slideshow tools? How will these tools be useful in your educational activities?

Using multimedia slideshow tools courseware teaching can effectively stimulate students learning interest. In psychologically, motivation is caused by the psychological needs of people and psychological state, is a person to go to internal causes of action in order to achieve a certain purpose. On one of the students' innovative consciousness and innovative ability training goal is to have curiosity to learn, does not meet the existing knowledge and willingness to take risks to try and have a strong desire for knowledge,  it can actively thinking. By adopting the technology of multimedia slideshow tools, to see, hear, touch, want to wait for a variety of visual teaching, creating a certain life situation, stimulate students' thirst for knowledge and keen interest in learning, encourage students to actively participate in learning. Use of multimedia slideshow tools teaching can not only arouse the students' seeking knowledge desire strong, induce students learning motivation, active thinking, but also can cultivate students' innovation consciousness. Starting from the interest of students, the textbook knowledge into the students life, lets the student positive thinking to the problem and find the answer. When students are in trouble, slideshow tools process, it is a clear to show the students into trouble knowledge, maximize stimulate students' keen interest in learning, improve the learning efficiency.

Image from ：http://thephotographeracademy.com/page/view/animoto.html

Use of slideshow tools  teaching can effectively develop students abstract thinking ability.

Main characteristic is the students thinking, image thinking. Mainly from the specific image thinking step by step to make the transition to give priority to in order to abstract logical thinking. Using slideshow tools for classroom teaching, to the student logical thinking is of great help to form a correct concept of space. Develop a preliminary concept of space, in order to further lay a good foundation of autonomous learning. Practical teaching application, found that students in the class in the exchange of expression to the abstract knowledge understanding ability improve soon, the teaching effect is remarkable. Visible, using the multimedia way of slideshow tools, text, graphics, images, sound, animation, video, illustrated and painting simultaneously, and even virtual reality simulation to create classroom teaching situation, more intuitive to the students' initiative thinking, explore, discover and create perceptual materials, develop the students' field of vision and knowledge be extended, and help to cultivate and develop students' abstract thinking ability.

Animoto

In session 10，the topic is Copyright law, in Animoto below, is talk about as a digital citiznship how to protect copyright law. . "Every person is expected to obey the laws of the community, state and country in which he or she lives. All Americans are expected to respect the rights of others." ( Ben's Guide to U.S Government for Kid). 

A digital citizenship is means that the rights and responsibilities are not in "real life", but in the  online digitalworld. Digital rights and responsibilities is free to everyone in a digital world. Digital citizen is including right of privacy and freedom of speech. Protecting the digital environment, is be digital citizens need to abide by and protect the health of digital environment.We should correct use of network resources, and don't forget to put reference materials by other authors andremember to write the reference after your writing .If you forgot that will be easy misunderstanding you plagiarize other people's ideas and resources, whateber, plagiarize is such behavior is illegal, please don't be unconsciously infringe others' intellectual property rights. We use a network of the world's most young people, we should learn how to abide by the laws of the digital world, at the same time we  have responsibility to protect digital world and security.Because this is a digital environment is not a person can maintain, is the need to safeguard with people. People must follow the copyright and responsibility.

https://animoto.com/play/BWFEJVbKlR2HNUQBRZ3J5A

Copyright Images the video from:

Images Retrieved from ：http://bookstore.ccri.edu/store2/SiteText.aspx?id=9862

Images Retrieved from : http://www.cwu.edu/~vogelk/piratecopyright.html

Images Retrieved from ：http://www.existentialennui.com/2012/12/travis-mcgee-in-purple-place-for-dying.html

 Images Retrieved from ：http://www.wetdogphoto.com/Main%20Pages/answers.htm

Images Retrieved from ：http://www.afb.org/blog/afb-blog/all-rights-preserved--how-copyright-law-can-leave-people-who-are-blind-left-out/12

 Images Retrieved from ：http://vocword.com/2012/01/mastering-words-covert-engender-abrasive-plagiarism-and-tangent-plus-5-words/

 Images Retrieved from ：http://www.rightblogtips.com/2013/02/free-plagiarism-checker.html

Images  Retrieved from ：http://www.cameron.k12.wi.us/static/lmc/hs_lmc/hs_lmc_plagiarism.html

Images Retrieved from ：http://amdigitalcitizenship.wikispaces.com/

Images Retrieved from ：http://www.glogster.com/tjnoteboom/digital-rights-and-responsibilities/g-6m1srgf29o46mjod7n5nea0

Animoto is showed about the copyright what we need to do it, and we can also protect the digital system. It is clear to show about the copyright law. Anyway, this is http://www.dailyblogtips.com/copyright-law-12-dos-and-donts/ a really good to show copyright law, it is about Copyright Law: 12 Dos and Don’ts.

Technology Use Scenario #13

Scenario #13

Dr, Brown, principal at Bluebird elementary school, is concerned with safety in his school, both for his staff and for students.  During the summer, Dr. Brown had camera's installed in each of the classrooms.  The video from each of these cameras is viewable on the Internet, so that parents can check on their students' classes during the day.  Some parents are concerned that because these cameras are connected to the Internet, other people could also use them to "spy" on their children.

Response：

The classroom is the place of study, it is belong to the public places as we can known  there is no privacy, Dr. Brown had camera's installed in each of the classrooms., it can play a role constraints. camera's installed, at least, teachers in class will be serious. However, if lets the student in a learning environment with a camera, it feels like being monitored. In fact, I think it is to increase students' learning pressure. When students learning  had a big pressure. I think camera's installed will have to let the students have more pressure, it is feel there is always a pair of eyes staring at you. The classroom there is a installed camera, to monitor what they say, this is a violation of their personal freedom,  it is to their distrust of the school. If a person, who want to learn, with or without camera, they will learn serious, and if a person's heart, who don't want to study and camera's installed doesn't make them have a heart of autonomous learning.  Parents with children and school with students trust is very important, if learning in an environment of distrust,  it will also affect the students' psychological development. It is also possible camera's installed, let hackers also have the opportunity to monitor students. So I think the school in the classroom with camera's installed camera is very unreasonable behavior.

Week 9: VoiceThread and Education

Before I have already discussion about voicethread. Now we will discuss the application of education voicethread. Remote education is provided through a simple add voice comments in his works, voicethread in distance learning and learners' autonomous learning, it as a kind of technology application, let me change and the interaction of the Internet. Used in remote course voicethread, you will collect all kinds of material, it can effectively arouse the enthusiasm of learners and attention. As we can known, Voicethead provides a great convenience, with the same interest learners can use voicethread work together to create learning documents relevant to the subject matter, after creating the learner can use voicethread between each other comments in the form of a variety of comments using a variety of style to promote the communication between learners.

The video is good exmaple to show they are communcation is voicethread in study.

Voicethread are very common in education. Some universities and colleges, they encourage students to apply voicethread to language learning, the design of the digital communication and teaching, practice and language skills, for example, to explore the geographic and cultural knowledge, solve mathematical problems at the same time voicethread was also in art appreciation and art history such as distance learning. Our students can feel this is a tool to help us build cooperation consciousness and enhances the teacher and the student participation in the process. Because the teacher use voicethread, simple operation and cooperative editing and comment on teaching, students completed according to the subject matter, group members can publish their views, it can listen to the views of others at the same time to complete the task in communication.

The video is voicethread use in geography.

Information technology education is to cultivate students' consciousness of information technology and information literacy. It is the emphasis on solving practical problems through cooperation, lets the student in the information acquisition, processing, management, the process of expressing and communicating, mastering information technology, information culture, increase awareness of information. At the same time let the students to develop in order to adapt to the information age have good information literacy of digital citizenship. Voicethread improve students digital literacy and enthusiasm for multimedia creation. Voicethread storytelling, video video and we can let the students tell their stories, promote their peers can communicate with each other. Studying can also be shown through the form of a story, the related similar text, images, sound, video material are arranged through the voicethread, through the addition of voice to tell their opinions and learning experience, people are interested in this topic, they can add comments and mutual learning progress, through storytelling make knowledge vivid rise.


Voicethread use that we can't increase our interest in learning, I think this is a very useful software, it can help me to study in personal learning environment.

Voicethread

This is my first time to use Voicethread, I think this is a very interesting software, it took me a long time to learn Voicethread, Now I know more about Voicethread. It is a support images, documents, PPT, video upload then the users can easily add voice comments, observer can through a microphone, camera, typing or use the phone to add their own comments. You can also put the photos to mix together and you can deserve to go up the corresponding audio introduction, tells a story or introduced someone and somewhere. Using Voicethread in education study,  it can improve the communication among learners, I think this is a good way to study.

http://synergiseducation.com/blog/voicethread-interactive-presentations-made-easy/

Voicethread features:
When we use Voicethread, we don't need to download any software and you can audio, images on the Voicthreadwebsite, you can use the voicethread interface is simpleand easy operation. At the same time voicthread created in the document can be safely and stored in the Internet, you can also share with friends in voicthread after you finished dubbing works, even can collaborate on. Voicethread also supports a variety of document types, home video, vacation pictures, PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, click on the "Media Sources" from flickr, Facebook pictures or video, you can also enter the specific site, production need text, images and video. Variety is the biggest characteristic of voicethread comments on the way. Reviewers can by telephone, sound recording, video recording, typing to reply. Leave a comment, they will become a headshot arranged on both sides of the work, you can choose to watch any reviewer comments. Voicethread also has support collaborative editing function, it can be work  the same project, although everyone in different places, but can also be done together. And to support the function of video graffiti and Shared conveniently. Vociethread allows you to work will be added to any website, only need simple copy and paste the code in your website. Then you can share with your friends.

https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/4264778/21791857/33847357

Week 8: Wiki

Wikipedia is wikipedia interaction is a written in different language online encyclopedia, the goal and mission is to provide free for all humanity encyclopedia with their choice of language to write and become,  it is a dynamic, free access and editing the global knowledge body. It is a quite popular in many countries.The characteristics of a WiKi is a collaborative writing system for many people. Compared with the common systems such as blogs, Evernote  and Google Docs.
 

WiKi has the following features:
1. Easy to use: It is quickly create, modify the various pages of the site content. Format is simple, it will  basic content can be completed through text editing way and use a small amount of simple control characters can also strengthen the article display effect.

2. The organization of Wiki: As well as the content of the page, the hypertext interconnected relations can also modify and optimization and system in multiple content repeat page can be gathered in one of the corresponding link structure change.

3. Increasing the Growth: The Wiki page can link target does not yet exist, by click on the link, we can create the page, make the system to grow. Revision history is record the revision of the page, each version of the page can be obtained.

4. Openness：The members of the community to create, modify, or delete pages. The system changes on the surface of the inside pages can be clearly observed by visitors.WiKi community support for collaborative writing, also includes a set of auxiliary support this kind of writing tools.  

The Wiki system belongs to a kind of human knowledge network system, we can on the basis of Web browsing on the Wiki text, create, change, and the price of this to create, change, and release is far smaller than HTML text. At the same time the Wiki system also supports the community oriented collaborative writing, provides the necessary help for collaborative writing. Finally, a Wiki nature constitute a community of writers, and the Wiki system provides a simple communication tool to the community. Wiki has the advantages of easy to use and open, so the Wiki system can help us in a community to share knowledge in a particular field. Because the autonomy of the Wiki, can increase, and the characteristics of the observed, the Wiki itself has also become a network research object. The study of Wiki may be able to make people more in depth understanding of network. In addition because WiKi is a group collaboration platform, so it has the characteristics of equality, sharing.

 Although wikipedia can bring convenient to us looking for resources, but in my academic is convenient, I will not use a Wiki for resources, this is because the Wiki is anyone can change the editor, it is not as powerful resources to support me in the use of resources to support my academic views. So when I meet don't know when I can go to a Wiki to understand, but I will not use the resources to support to my academic. I learned in this class in contrast the software, Blog is a kind of usually by individual management, not regular new articles posted. Blog articles according to post time, usually from new to old arrangement in reverse order way. Many blogs focus on a particular subject to provide comments or news, the others being more personal diary. A typical blog combines text, images, and other blog or website links, and other related to the theme of the media. Can make interactive readers to leave comments, is one of the important elements of many blogs. Most of the blog content is given priority to with the text, there are still some blogs focus on art, photography, video, music, podcasts, etc. Various topics. A blog is a part of social media networks.

I believe it is valuable to wiki and blog software, they all have their own different characteristics and advantages, I can't just use a specific tool, because every software can help to me. It is worth mentioning, I also like to use Google docs and Evernote, because these in my life and personal learning can help me a lot.

In this week's session, the digital rights and responsibilities required to be a digital citizen. Here is a diagram of some of the rights & responsibilities:

 https://bubbl.us/?h=2500a6/4ac3a4/24MY9G1ZEIa7g&r=724724469

 Digital Rights and Responsibilities are the "privileges and freedom extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them" (Ribble & Bailey, 2007).

Week 7: Google Docs

Google document includes online documents, spreadsheets，Drawing and presentations. Users can easily perform all the basic operations, including the preparation of project list. It is completely free. Google docs is an incredibly valuable tool. Google docs is based on the network of word processing and spreadsheet program, can improve the working efficiency. With this program, you can put the documents on the Internet. In this way, the rest of your team could real time online to edit and update of the document, according to each of the different response to continuously update the same document. Multiple users can change file online at the same time, and can see other members in real time for editing. Revision of the system will automatically save every time for you, so you can see who made what changes, when can return to any point in time before the old version.

Google docs can be easily from Google import and export. To Google Docs from stored in your computer on the front page of an existing file start operation, just upload the document and from the place where the last time you stop to continue. To use a document or offline will be distributed as an attachment, only in the most suitable for your format on your own computer to save a copy of Google documents. Whether you are uploading or downloading files, all of the format will be maintained.Google Docs offers share options, including invited friends send friends in the attached file directly in the mail to the connection. Shared file in connection as long as the users can share files to achieve this link, send Email and attach file and send information to other collaborators, directly to the documents published in public network quality.

In my opinion, Google's online documentation is very good. I usually write a blog with Google docs in the online documentation, very convenient.1. The revised version. Writing articles, notes more time again and again, a draft was the last but a moment then Google Docs of this feature is especially precious. Looked on the Internet, a lot of people think this function is not necessary, but for me, this is one of the most important advantage.2. The classification no necessary. Many years ago, I was a record card to note, it is the most headache is classified. Now take notes on Google Docs, even without classification, eventually anyway how can search out what you want.3. Documents do not need to carry. After a Google Docs, I found myself using the frequency of the USB declined dramatically.4. You can collaboratively. MS Office also want to do everything you can to provide synergy function, but after all, in this area as Google Docs and convenient. A lot of time, need a few people together to maintain a perfect document, Google Docs is too convenient.5. Sharing is very convenient. you just need to a Google account you can start to do your work.

This is my first time to use Google Docs make a team work in online courses  to complete a PPT, I think Google Docs brings our team a good editor, and we don't need to we make an appointment to discuss face to face, so actually it is save a lot of time. As long as I have time, I can edit our PPT, that is also let me know, no matter you are in which parts of the world, you only need to  network, people can complete an online task together in online.
 This video is how to Share Google Docs with Google Group.