Blogging My Learning Journey
I had a few difficulties finding the link to the heuristic evaluation site. I couldn’t seem to find it in the PDF file - none of my links would work. I did remember stumbling across it as I looked at some of the past files for the course saved on ZOPE. Thankfully I found the page at -
http://oldwww.acm.org/perlman/question.cgi Read the rest of this entry »
In my quest to discover and learn about Folksonomies, I realised just how involved the topic is. I managed to get my FOAF - Friend of a Friend - file completed and will be interested to see if or how that all works. The concept behind it is great, but in my mind I am still trying to get my head around the idea of trying to connect everyone who uses the world wide web in some way. I found it a little obscure, but perhaps I don’t fully understand it all? Read the rest of this entry »
Well, this subject is all about Social Networking and Online Communities and I think I am actually beginning to catch on. I could say I am hooked. I have used MSN for years, ICQ as well and have found them great for keeping in touch with friends and their families but really not much more.
I have also spent many hours(much to my husband’s dismay!) accessing , chat rooms, mailing lists, emailing etc. as I have followed a passion of mine - genealogy. Strange, though that, previously, I never really saw them as online communities or thought of them in terms of the “learning” they were providing. My list would be a couple of kms long, if I were to write down all the things I have learned from those online communities!!
Even now, I see MSN, in a new light. Read the rest of this entry »
Although I understood the term Taxonomy- the classification or ordering of things, the term Folksonomy was certainly something new to me. Before I started to look for enlightenment on its meaning, I began to link it with other similar words i.e. Folktale, Folklaw or just plain Folk. Of course, they have something to do with people and I presumed that Folksonomy would be similar.
Seeing Taxonomy and Folksonomy so close together in the outlining of this exercise made me think that perhaps Folksonomy had something to do with people working to order information. Read the rest of this entry »
My initial thoughts about Social Networking centred on groups of people meeting together to form links or friendships that have common ideas or interests. Online Communities, immediately brought to mind the online facilities that help people to make links or friendships - the websites that enable Social Networking to occur.
I accessed the following websites, looking for some information to help me define Social Networking and found that my personal ideas of Social Networking were not all that different to what I read.
Directory Submissions.eu
http://directorysubmissions.eu/news/2009/04/22/social-networking-definition/
“Social networking is defined as the bringing individuals together into to specific groups, often like a small community or a neighbourhood.”
Successful and Outstanding Bloggers
http://www.successful-blog.com/1/what-is-social-networking/
“Most literally, social networking would be meeting and making connections and relationships - both business and social - online and offline.”
In order to discover information about online communities I accessed the website http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/communities/ (University of Maryland, USA) and found the following basic definition of an online community -
“…any group of people who communicate with each other via computers.” Read the rest of this entry »
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