Johnny's Web 2.0 Journey

In general, MOOC was considered a significant step forward by many active learners because it enables more learners to recognize the outside world and provides learners with an opportunity to explore different subjects.  I think the reform of many teaching methods cannot improve the students' learning effect. For example, MOOCs, for the people who have high learning ability or the active learning ability, it provides more opportunities and choices. But for the learner who lacks learning ability and learning enthusiasm, their ability to tackle transformation is limited, in this kind of change is more be taken by surprise. And it is more different for those people to pay their attention to online material and instruction. A recent edX study on student attention spans, which it pegged at 6.5 minutes. Many students believe “they are the world’s best multi-taskers,” according to Stanford President John L. Hennessy, but “in fact, they aren’t very good at it.” If online education is t...

I wrote my first blog here two days ago about my earliest experience with the blog in China. Like what I mentioned in my first blog, people in our community gradually found our blog, found our posts, set up their blogs, and began to leave comments. My mom and I started to read and reply to these comments. The conversation developed, the relationship developed and even more developed. We did not realize that we became a consumer as well as producer, at that time. "Produsage" was a new word to me; I even cannot find a Chinese translation in the online dictionary. After wiki the word, I realized that "Produsage" is a portmanteau of the words production and usage, coined by Australian media scholar Axel Bruns and popularized in his book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage.  I know "Produsage" looks like simple on the surface, but it offers people the opportunity to be part of the media they consume. But every coin has tw...

I never heard about RSS Reader before taking this class. I know that sounds like I was the one left behind the tech trends. But thanks to the class, I can catch them again. I spent several hours to play with RSS Reader yesterday. So, today, this post is about my first impressions of "Feedreader." Feedreader provides two options at the welcome page for you, one is "Feedreader online," the another is "Feedreader Observe." "Feedreader online" is what people usually use to view RSS subscriptions online. "Feedreader Observe" use to preview any site's RSS feed before subscribing to it and find alternative news sources.  I chose to use "Feedreader online" directly. It's easy to sign in with your Gmail or Facebook account, or you can sign up with your email separately. After signing into the page, even if the designer did not set up a simple user guide, I can easily understand how to use it. A big "Add a ne...

Hi, Welcome to Johnny's "Summer C 2017 Blog." I am so happy that I have a chance to get back to this fantastic social media tool again! Because I remember the last time I use blog was like 12 years ago!!! I want to share a story about blog and me today with you. I can still remember the first blog I created was on the "Sina" website. "Sina blog" is just a collective name which people who they set up their blog on the Sina' blog site. There's no doubt, at that time, "Sina blog" was the most popular blog site in China. But today, along with the rise of the web 2.0 and social media, “Sina blog" and other blog sites has gradually faded from our view. The reason why I created that blog is that my mom was a journalist, she was always on the cutting edge of the social media trend. When blog came into China, my mom thought that would be an excellent opportunity to generate a new mean of communication for her company. My mom told me...