Thursday, September 10, 2009
Topic 2 - Exercise 2.3
My Facebook profile is very basic giving out limited information. I do not have an avatar. The reason I initially joined Facebook was to see what all the fuss was about. Different people from varied areas of my life work colleagues, friends, family and people who I had lost contact with over the years are now “friends” on Facebook. I currently live in a small mining community and a responsibility in my professional position is to be professional at all times. With this and my “audience” in mind I choose to put as little information as possible on my profile.
Topic 2 - Exercise 2.2
Second life
I was very keen to explore second life and eagerly went to the website which I found to be pleasant and somewhat intriguing. I clicked on the join now button and a form came up for me to fill in to join up. This is where the frustration began. I spent an hour filling in and then re-filling my form trying to get access to the site. I was continually told to fix errors and re-submit but I was not clearly informed of what my errors were! After making several hit and miss (all misses I might add) as to what I did wrong I decided to scrap the process and try filling out the form again from scratch…..still no luck. Maybe its my internet connection, maybe it’s me…… I don’t know….all I do know is that this website is very frustrating in terms of logging in. I only hope it is better once your finally in it….as for me I probably will never know.
Topic 2 - Exeercise 1
Virtual Environments and Your Cognition
As I was already a member of Facebook I am familiar with how the social networking site works and willingly joined the online community set up for this course.
I asked many people who were in the group to be my “friend” but only two responded. I believe that has more to do with members being unfamiliar with each other rather than anything personal. We are constantly receiving warnings via email and Facebook itself not to accept requests by certain people to be friends because there are some out there who are predators and/or looking to taking over one’s identity. I think if the participants in this course were more familiar with one and other I would have had more success in adding to my “friends” list.
Social Cognition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cognition is a study of the way individual’s process information, particularly in the encoding, storage , retrieving and applying to social situations.
As I was already a member of Facebook I am familiar with how the social networking site works and willingly joined the online community set up for this course.
I asked many people who were in the group to be my “friend” but only two responded. I believe that has more to do with members being unfamiliar with each other rather than anything personal. We are constantly receiving warnings via email and Facebook itself not to accept requests by certain people to be friends because there are some out there who are predators and/or looking to taking over one’s identity. I think if the participants in this course were more familiar with one and other I would have had more success in adding to my “friends” list.
Social Cognition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cognition is a study of the way individual’s process information, particularly in the encoding, storage , retrieving and applying to social situations.
Visual Cognition
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctymfm/Lecture%20Notes/BA%20Psychology/Visual%20Cognition%202.pdf
the capacity to see objects around us. These capacities involve the manipulation of representations through inference.
Topic 1 - Exercise 3
An Heuristic Experience
As I teach in a Catholic School in Tasmania I thought I would do my evaluation on the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office Website, as this website is widely used by myself and colleagues.
In terms of effectiveness the website rates average in my opinion. All the necessary components are listed and at a click on the link and most of the information is at your fingertips. The thing that let it down is the curriculum component which is critical for myself and my colleagues to be able to find proves to be a little tricky to locate.
As I teach in a Catholic School in Tasmania I thought I would do my evaluation on the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office Website, as this website is widely used by myself and colleagues.
In terms of effectiveness the website rates average in my opinion. All the necessary components are listed and at a click on the link and most of the information is at your fingertips. The thing that let it down is the curriculum component which is critical for myself and my colleagues to be able to find proves to be a little tricky to locate.
Subject: Tasmanian Catholic Education Office: Computer System Usability Questionnaire
Sender: smokie@southcom.com.au
From: smokie@southcom.com.au (CSUQ)
system=Tasmanian Catholic Education Office
date=2009-09-05 22:05:33
comment=
q1=7
q2=7
q3=7
q4=7
q5=7
q6=7
q7=7
q8=7
q9=3
q10=6
q11=4
q12=7
q13=5
q14=6
q15=6
q16=7
q17=6
q18=4
q19=7
negative1=Some of the tags are not specific for example finding the curriculum we use in teaching is not straightforward.
negative2=Online help is not very satisfactory,
positive1=Everything is on the site that is required although some things are not as specific as they could be.
positive2=The interface is pleasant
Sender: smokie@southcom.com.au
From: smokie@southcom.com.au (CSUQ)
system=Tasmanian Catholic Education Office
date=2009-09-05 22:05:33
comment=
q1=7
q2=7
q3=7
q4=7
q5=7
q6=7
q7=7
q8=7
q9=3
q10=6
q11=4
q12=7
q13=5
q14=6
q15=6
q16=7
q17=6
q18=4
q19=7
negative1=Some of the tags are not specific for example finding the curriculum we use in teaching is not straightforward.
negative2=Online help is not very satisfactory,
positive1=Everything is on the site that is required although some things are not as specific as they could be.
positive2=The interface is pleasant
Topic 1 - Exercise 2
Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
Folksonomy is a system for creating and managing tags to annotate and categorise content. Folksonomy may also be referred to as collaborative tagging, social indexing and social tagging. It allows for the user to find their way around the site with ease.
Jakob Nielson has a list of positive attributes associated with his name from “the King of Usabilty” to a “person who knows more about what makes websites work than anyone else on the planet” http://www.useit.com/jakob/
Dr Nielson is the founder of “discount usability engineering” movement providing both inexpensive and rapid improvements of user interfaces which includes the heuristic evaluation. Jakob Nielson is the holder of 79 United States patents that are mainly concerned with making the internet easier to use.
Breadcrumbs have always been a secondary navigation aid. They share this status with site maps. To navigate, site visitors mainly use the primary menus and the search box which are certainly more important for usability.
Folksonomy is a system for creating and managing tags to annotate and categorise content. Folksonomy may also be referred to as collaborative tagging, social indexing and social tagging. It allows for the user to find their way around the site with ease.
Who is Dr Jakob Nielson?
Jakob Nielson has a list of positive attributes associated with his name from “the King of Usabilty” to a “person who knows more about what makes websites work than anyone else on the planet” http://www.useit.com/jakob/
Dr Nielson is the founder of “discount usability engineering” movement providing both inexpensive and rapid improvements of user interfaces which includes the heuristic evaluation. Jakob Nielson is the holder of 79 United States patents that are mainly concerned with making the internet easier to use.
Why usability testing works for small groups? As you add more and more users you learn less and less because you will keep seeing the same things again and again. After the fifth user you are wasting your time by observing the same findings .
Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs uses a single line of text to show a pages location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.
Breadcrumbs uses a single line of text to show a pages location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.
Breadcrumbs have always been a secondary navigation aid. They share this status with site maps. To navigate, site visitors mainly use the primary menus and the search box which are certainly more important for usability.
Topic 1 - Exercise 1
Social Networking: Reference http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/
Social networking is an interaction between a group of people who form part of a community, possibly sharing a common interest or hobby. Online social networking means that members of the community are not restricted by demographics eg. Someone in Australia can be part of an online community with members from Japan and so on.
Social networking sites such as Facebook means that members can join the social network then separate into smaller groups for example friendship groups or groups of people with a common interest.
There are some risks associated with social networking sites as members who share files with other users run the risk of computer threats such as viruses. Social networking sites can also be considered a “playground” for predators.
Online Communities: Reference http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000208.html
Online communities is a group of people who share common interests and interact over the Internet.
To my understanding Social Networking and Online Communities while different there are some similarities. I believe that Social Networking relates more to the interaction of people who form the Online Community. Online Community is the group itself, for example, Facebook is an online community, my “friends” on the site are part of my social networking circle.
Social networking is an interaction between a group of people who form part of a community, possibly sharing a common interest or hobby. Online social networking means that members of the community are not restricted by demographics eg. Someone in Australia can be part of an online community with members from Japan and so on.
Social networking sites such as Facebook means that members can join the social network then separate into smaller groups for example friendship groups or groups of people with a common interest.
There are some risks associated with social networking sites as members who share files with other users run the risk of computer threats such as viruses. Social networking sites can also be considered a “playground” for predators.
Online Communities: Reference http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000208.html
Online communities is a group of people who share common interests and interact over the Internet.
To my understanding Social Networking and Online Communities while different there are some similarities. I believe that Social Networking relates more to the interaction of people who form the Online Community. Online Community is the group itself, for example, Facebook is an online community, my “friends” on the site are part of my social networking circle.
Topic One - Exercise One
Prior to commencement of the unit “Online Communities” I feel that I have reasonable understanding of what it means. I have been part of online communities such as Facebook for a while now and am rather comfortable with using it. I have also been exposed to other forms of online communities such as forums dealing with a range of subjects.
As part of this course, I would like to develop a clearer understanding of how I can use Online Communities in my classroom to enhance learning. I am interested in learning about how to overcome ethical and moral issues such as ensuring my students are not exposed to inappropriate behaviour while participating in an online community activity in my classroom.
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