Johnny's Web 2.0 Journey

Endless lightning, afternoon raining, crazy AC bill, heat and humid, everything around me reminds me this is the dog days of summer in Florida. Moving around the corner, the final week on the way, and everything looks like mixed up together. I suffer, sweat and exhausted, but I believe I will be the survivor like a hero in the movie. This class gave me a lot of opportunities to play and discover web 2.0 tools and social media features. And also brought a lot of new experiences for me. In the discussion board, we talked a lot of different topics related to the social media and web 2.0. Different perspectives, ideas, and points from classmates were always blown my mind. Through RSS, I was able to track almost every classmates' posts. Everyone has its own style and different point of interest, I can find a lot of fresh views through reading posts. Every week, I can play with different new web 2.0 and social media tools. Some of them are totally new to me. ...

I am an Instructional Designer, and I am also an International learner. I believe these identities allowed me to share my experience here with you about what should be considered in designing for International learners. First of all, we should consider their culture, history, political, and religion background. For example, if we design a course inserted some pattern or symbol which has bad means in some religions. That will hurt the learners. Secondly, we should consider what their learning styles and techniques are? Different country and region's learner have the different mix of learning styles preference. Based on their age, gender, growth environment, educational background and so on. The student has developed a learning mechanism that most suitable for themselves. Some learner prefers to learn combined words and pictures, but some may like voice and animation combination more. We should design for them based on which combination would be most suitable for them ...

Alright, our professor launched a challenge at Twitter - #eme6414 challenge. So, in this challenge, we need to blog about our plan for produsage project, tweet the URL and give each other feedbacks. I accepted this challenge. So, let's get started! So I want to create an informal learning environment and performance support system for my "learner." I would prefer to call them "friend" than "learner." A Chinese proverb said: in the company of three, one always can find a teacher. In my informal learning environment, my friends will be able to learn from each other and teach each other. My idea is to create a local trail running community for my friends on Slack. The purpose of this group is to help local (Tully) trail running lover find a place to share their running experience, improve running skills, find running partner, join trail running contest, and make friends. The anchor platform of my community would be Slack. Residents would be able to ...

I found IFTTT at the week 5 tool resources folder. Instructor suggests us to write a blog to share the experience with IFTTT. So, here is how I feel about IFTTT. IFTTT is a web-based application and also an app can run on ios and Andrew platform that allowed people to create chains of simple conditional statements which called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. IFTTT is an initialism for If This Then That. Before I tried IFTTT, I actually used another similar function app on my iPhone for a long time, which it called "Workflow". So if you enjoy your experience with IFTTT so far. I highly recommend you to play with "Workflow" on your iPhone, because "Workflow" will brings a new experience to you. To be honest, I think I like IFTTT a litter bit more for several reasons. First of all, with IFTTT, I set up my “recipes” to run automat...