Tagging Monday, Oct 1 2007

 A tag is basically a category name, something that you file a myriad of things under. For example, the above picture has Web 2.0 as the main resource for this tag cloud. The more relavant subjects, websites to Web 2.0 are coloured, bolded and they have a bigger font that the others. Convergence, Participation, Remixability, Standarzidation, Design, Economy and Usability are all in orange and bolded so that things like CSS Design and Wikis are the next step down. This allows you to find not only the components of Web 2.0 (or any subject you are searching for) but those that are most relavant to Web 2.0 first so that you know exactly what you are searching for. As well as social networking you can use Del.ici.ous to tag websites to your account so that they are all there,  but again they are all related to one subject. You can also use ZoomCloud to make a tag cloud (the example above) that allows you to see all the components of your search.

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Friday, Sep 28 2007

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Social Bookmarking-Del.ici.ous Friday, Sep 28 2007

Del.ici.ous is an example of a social bookmarking site where you can bookmark not only your own favorite websites but can access others sites as well. The video is, again, a simplified tutorial of social bookmarking; with teachers as an example. If you teach math and need to find suggestions on how to teach math without boring your students to death, del.ici.ous is the perfect site. You can add your favorite, newlyfound websites to your del.ici.ous account and then give other math teachers the ability to access this new information as well.  So you not only get the newest information for your speciality, but you can relay that info onto others.  But del.ici.ous isn’t simply for teachers, business people, or those who actually have a purpose for surfing the web. Del.ici.ous can also be an information hub for celebrity gossips sites, video game enthsiasts, math nerds, and so on and so forth. Social bookmarking allows everyone to simply share the best information through one internet hub.

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Thursday, Sep 27 2007

This is an uncoventinal tutorial of Google Reader.

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RSS Feeds/Feed Readers Thursday, Sep 27 2007

So to be able to access an RSS Feed from any computer as opposed to one computer, you need a feed reader. Ok so first to actually subscribe to a RSS feed you click on the orange button that has two bars and a dot, and then it automatically allows updates to come from each blog, podcast, news you select. Everyday you will get updates from a website, and you can even choose which specifics topic you would like updates from. For example, on my Newsgator site I have The New York Daily News updates, but solely from the Arts/Entertainment section. However for my gossip website I’m Not Obsessed, I have subscribed to the entire site because it has frequent updates everyday. In the current frenzy for being able to have RSS Feeds, multiple sites have sprung up, but the two most notable are Newsgator and Google Reader. Kyra is using Google Reader and I am using Newsgator, and so far there isn’t much of a difference.  However Newsgator does give you a slightly annoying “Starter Pack” that gives you various news reports. The advantage of feed readers as opposed to just saving your favorite blogs, news, podcasts in your Favorites folder, is that these can be accessed anywhere and anytime! All you have to do is remember your passwords and usernames and if your computer crashes you haven’t lost hundreds of hours of net-surfing.

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Syllabus for ITGS Friday, Sep 21 2007

So today we learned about our syllabus for the two year ITGS HL Course, and it’s quite a heavy load! This year we decided to write two of the Papers (of which there are three, and one portfolio for the higher level) so out of the six topics: business and employment, education, health, arts, entertainment and leisure; science and the government, politics and government. The first paper is analyzing the social and ethical issues of IT systems in a social context, it’s structured as four short answer questions, one of which may be data based question. Paper 2 is the same topic as Paper 1 but its structure is 3 questions chosen from four areas of study. Paper 1 is an hour, and Paper 2 is a 2 hour writing period,  Paper 1 counts as 20% and Paper 2 is 35%.

 Next year, we will be working on Paper 3 and the Portfolio. Paper 3 is again the same content, but the questions are based on a case study. The duration of writing is one hour and Paper 3 is 25% of our grade. Our portfolio is three essays, 800-1,000 words; and an extension which is an interview on one of the topics

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ACI-ITGS Wednesday, Sep 19 2007

Hey All-

This is a blog solely for my ITGS course at ACI, the course is Information Technology in a Global Societıes. This blog is like an online journal, so hopefully it will be updated frequently.

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