Closing Remarks at C5
My mom's giving the closing remarks and shes talking about all the C's from the conference and how these C's were accomplished at the conference.
Edited (1/29/06 at 8:23PM): My mom did a really good job at bringing a close to the conference by reviewing everything that happened (and saying it with all starting with C's) and the last 'C' was continuing, as in continuing next year!
Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
C5 next speaker and Language barriers
okay so the next speaker is talking now. there were problems with his computer and the projector but we got that fixed. The speaker is Japanese and it's obvious that he can read the English words on his slides but he can't really go on about something else because he doesn't know how to say it in ENGLISH. doesn't that suck? if i couldnt say what i wanted to say just because i couldnt say it in a language that the people i'm communicating with (continuing on 1/29/06 at 8:32PM) I would get so frustrated.
After the conference, my parents and I discussed some things we thought needed to be fixed with international conferences and people speaking different languages. Conferences should help promote talking to people not from your native country and if that means putting some effort into undersanding what the other person is saying, well then people should try harder! I spoke with another woman at the registration table at the conference and sometimes we had to explain something in a different way because one of us didn't understand something. My friend who lives in Germany and I have to deal with that all the time. Not only is language part of the problem, but also just because our lives are different. But STILL, we are very similar so we can understand lots of the things we want to say to each other.
For my Girl Scout Gold Award documentary (if you don't know what it is, comment in the comment box) I'm trying to show youth that youth all over the world may seem very different but we are very similar. Maybe we can't communicate through language very well but we should be able to relate to each other because of our similarites and admit we do have differences but everyone even in the same country isn't EXACTLY the same, no one is. I think people all over the world need to put in some more effort to find similarities with other people and learn how to communicate through BOTH languages, not just English. Lately, I've been trying to rack my brain for more ideas about how to break barriers between different countries. I think I'll be able to start accomplishing this with my girl scout project! I'll continue this tomorrow, I need to go off and do my digital video class project.
C5: Session 4C: collaborative environments
Session 4C: Collaborative Environments (3)
An Integrated Session and Repository Management Approach for Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems
Steven Xia, David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen
A Buffer Framework for Supporting Responsive Interaction in Information Visualization Interfaces
Tobias Isenberg, Andre Miede, Sheelagh Carpendale
LogCabin: A tool for workshop documentation and visualization
Toshiyuki Takeda
so i'm in the second of these talks. tobias isenberng is talking about the buffer concept. I have to admit that i dont understand THAT much about this paper presentation. however, I think that the more important thing for me is that i'm learning what conferences are like, what is happening now in technology and i can figure out what i can contribute with my knowledge and what place i am in life and what kind of person i am (a student who really enjoys technology and new things). it's not like i have to understand everything going on all the time, no one does, but i think these different experiences that im having are really a key part of my education. i dont just go to school and learn evertyhing from a teacher but i find additional experiences that can contribute to my learning. i think my parents have sort of set that up for me. i've always gone to museums and learned things that way, girl scouts programs like a leadership conference i went to last year and i'm going again this year, and i'm at this conference! i was at the registration table and registering people. i had never really registered THAT many people who i had no idea who they were and for the lots of the Asian names I had no idea how to spell them so I could cross them off the list! But by doing registration I helped out a lot and I actually ended up knowing most of the people in the conference (about 100 people) by name since I had linked their name and their face together. Also, since I was at the registration table and since I had a blue ribbon on my name tag, lots of people asked me questions, some I didn't even know the answer to! So I had to find the right guy to help me find out the answer and then get back to the person who asked the question!
Edited later (1/29/06 8:14PM): I ended up learning so much about how to organize a conference well, listen to different kinds of speakers, take notes during a talk, talk to people a whole lot older than me about what I'm doing and why I'm at the conference and not in school and so many other skills... HA. My mom asked me if I'd like to write a paper with her for next year's C5 Conference (probably in Japan, where I have never been!), I think that would be a great learning experience! To summarize, my education and learning doesn't just at happen at school, I learn from all the experiences I do and I think that is a big part of why at 16 I can stand on my own two feet at a huge community college, talk to adults about myself, as well as other neat things!
(back to before..)
this guy just asked a question about if the guy speaking could use his prototype for trying to organizing a conference.
okay, the next speaker is starting.
C5 2006: The Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
I'm planning on going to this conference as a student volunteer since my mom is part of the organizing committee. It's in Berkeley this coming Thursday and Friday. If any of you are interested in coming to the conference check out the website: link. It's obviously very related to blogs, Eportfolios, and communicating with each other.
If you have any questions about the conference just type a comment and I can ask my mom for you!
I'm going to post this on the GroupBlog as well.
Yoga Blogs, Help Blogs, so many different blogs!
I get a yoga magazine email subscription and I saw that they have a blog about a yoga conference held in San Francisco. I went to the blog and looked around (link: http://blogs.yogajournal.com/sf06/). I've seen so many different kind of blogs on companies' websites for their help or feedback section, this one on the yoga website, and I bet there are lots of other blogs out there being used by companies, organizations, magazines, everything. It's neat to see the different ways people are using blogs. Also, I really like the way Scott is using the 'Blogalog' idea! I hope that I find and figure out about more ways to use blogs!
Computer History Museum - Social Computing: From Message Boards to Blogs & Beyond
My mom found this event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I can't go since I have French at Foothill at this time, but it's prefectly related to our seminar!! I'll post this on the GroupBlog as well.
Here's the link.
Iraqi Bloggers
I was on the New York Times website (www.nytimes.com) and I saw that 'TimesSelect' (the paying part of NY Times or if you already have a paper subscription) asked five Iraqi bloggers to write about their daily lives in Iraq... here's a little bit more:
"Three of the bloggers live in Baghdad; two live in Mosul. Four are students, one is a doctor - all have been chronicling events in Iraq for six months or longer." from the nytimes.com website
I think this is a very interesting way of using blogs in a different kind of way (not just some 13 year old girl telling the world who she likes on her blog). I hadn't heard about these blogs before today but I'll look at them periodically to see what it's like.
I'm having fun keeping my eye out for articles, books, magazines, and other materials related to blogs and Eportfolios!
My first Bubbleshare Album
Here is my album:
I hope it works! I think this is a really neat program. I always have pictures that I want to show to other people but I can't really write down a whole description and it also seems more personal with me talking. There are so many neat programs that can help with education and personal uses that I've never heard of!
Trying Bubbleshare
I'm trying the program Bubbleshare that Scott talked about on his Eportfolio Blog (link to his post). It looks really neat except it's taking so long to upload just 13 pictures from iPhoto! I'll see how it works and I'll see if I can post my slideshow on my blog.
Looking at Website designs
I've been helping my mom figure out what website design to use for her company and I realized that even though everyone says 'it's what's inside what really counts' most people have a first impression of everything, from people to websites to books, everything. And it's so hard NOT to have a first impression of things. I think the internet is changing first impressions a lot because if you meet someone online and you never meet them face-to-face and never have the chance to create your impression of how they look then maybe you think differently about them than if you had met face-to-face first. Also, with online classes like this one where classmates never meet each other and students may never meet their instructor. It would be a neat experiment if students learned better in a class where they didn't know if the teacher was male, female, married, single, white, black, or anything else. Or if they could guess if a classmate or teacher was male or female.
I was reading this article yesterday in the New York Times about how people in minorities are being forced to choose between blending in with the norm or sticking out and being punished for it. Someone did an experiment with job applications. She turned in two of the same applications to many different companies but with two different names on them. One had a white sounding name and the other had a latino sounding name. The white sounding name got many more call backs than the latino sounding name.
MacWorld Expo/ Apple changing education
***I just want to tell readers that I just spilled out some ideas for this post, later I will edit it and put some more ideas in.***
Yesterday I went on a field trip with my Digital Video Editing class (VART84 at Foothill) to the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. As my first expo I found it really interesting and exciting. But I didn't realize it would be so LOUD, hot, and stuffy! I don't know how any of the speakers and the people in booths could stand being there from 8AM-6PM every day for a week! I wandered around a lot and saw Walter Murch (a famous film editor) speaking about a computer program called FileMaker. I had never heard about FileMaker before so it was interesting hearing about this program (as well as seeing WALTER MURCH speak!!). FileMaker is a tool for keeping track of databases but it can also be used for creative reasons as well. For example, Walter Murch was showing how FileMaker can be used for keeping track of scenes in a movie.
I got a free trial of FileMaker so I'm going to try it out. I'm excited because it looks like it could be a good tool for me since I'm working on a documentary for my Girl Scout Gold Award project. I'm still in the production (filming mainly) stages but when I get to post-production (editing) FileMaker could come in handy.
As I was walking around MacWorld I kept my eye out for booths about blogs or Eportfolios. I didn't look EVERYWHERE in the expo but the places I did go I couldn't find anything directly related to blogs and Eportfolios. But what I did realize is how much this big companies (I'm thinking of Apple right now) are affecting education. There are now podcasts, ipods, itunes, and so many other tools that could be helping students learn but at the same time could be distracting students!
Check out Apple's education website: http://www.apple.com/education/
I'm looking at the "Podcasts in Education" website right now (http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/). I think podcasts are a really great idea, but my question is: Why didn't another company (like Sony or Microsoft) come up with this idea before?? I guess that question came from my PC person inside of me... I guess I'm a PC AND Mac person since I have an iBook because Final Cut Pro and mainly all good digital video editing software is only on macs (because Apple owns Final Cut Pro) but I've grown up using PCs and my family is a PC family and my dad works at Sony.
The Podcasts in Education webpage starts with --
"Would you like to listen to lectures or lessons on demand? Podcasts can deliver educational content for listening or viewing on your computer and iPod, freeing learning from constraints of the physical classroom."
But then maybe students will start skipping class and then as they're driving to Tahoe or some other place they can be listening to their professor lecture on their iPod Nanos! I've actually downloaded a French podcast that looks good (I'm in French 2 at Foothill) but that's about it.
Changes to My Blog
As you can see in the left column, I've put up links that I find interesting. As I find more blogs, Eportfolios, and other links related to the Honors Seminar I'll post them up there.
Also, if I talk about a website in one of my blog posts then I'll add it to one of my link lists in the left column.
Honors Seminar Syllabus
I decided to post Scott's suggestions for being able to remember what we need to do in the seminar:
-->Possible suggestion--download and print out your very own paper copy of the Syllabus from the top of this Assignments Blog. Meanwhile here's a brief review of the basics:
1. One weekly post responding to the discussion topic specifically listed on this ASSIGNMENTS blog. 10 points each. (Week 1's topic was "Introduce Yourself")
2. One weekly posting to your own blog (open topic). 10 points each.
3. A Bi-Weekly "research project" -- (research project #1, by necessity, was to start building your own blog). 40 points each.
4. A final ePortfolio Project (in place of a traditional final exam): 600 points possible. Don't panic: no one should expect to know all the "answers" to the final exam already here in Week 1!
5. Extra credit for posting/commenting on GroupBlog. 10 points each. Please do!
[UPDATE 1/12/06 12:58PM: I just wanted to post Scott's suggestions on my blog so I would have a quick way to look up the main basics I need to remember to do in the seminar.]
Updating My Blog
Sorry about my blog, I hope it's easier to read now. I know how annoying it is when I can't read websites because of the fonts, colors, or sizes so I'll try and make mine easy to read.
Figuring out Html!
As you can see I've been changing my blog a bit. It's so fun to mess around with what my blog looks like! But I probably should start my Precalc homework considering that is a part of my education as well!
Comparing Blog Websites [first post!]
Obviously, this is my first post on my new blog. I have MANY and I really do mean many different blogs. I have numerous ones on xanga, blogger, and I tried the one that comes with my myspace profile. I'm also trying a 30-day free trial on typepad as well as uniblog (I think that's what it's called). I decided to try lots of different blogs just to see what's out there and how to make the blog I actually use something that I really like.
I've seen that on typepad you can post any books you're reading, CDs you're listening to, or links you've found. Something similar to that is also on myspace. I haven't really had the need to tell my friends what music I'm listening to but I think it could be useful if I wanted to tell my classmates or Scott in my Honors seminar about a book or a link that I've found about Eportfolios.
I'll keep updating on differences between the different blog websites. Seems like all of them have some really good qualities and then something that they don't have.
