IT@WYYF

Memory of Friendship

2008-05-29T08:08:00.000-07:00

Sharing of the reading club of Winnie's school

2008-05-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

Group member 3: Tam Wing Yin's Working School

2008-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

檢視較大的地圖

Our Podcast - share with our friends

2008-05-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

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Group member 2: Yau Shui Fan's Home

2008-05-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

檢視較大的地圖

Group member 1: Yu Ying Kam's Home

2008-05-24T01:49:00.000-07:00

檢視較大的地圖

Updated Mindmap

2008-05-24T01:09:00.000-07:00

Reflection of 24.05.2008

2008-05-24T00:28:00.000-07:00

In this lesson, we have learnt from new information technology tools, likes "Really Simple Syndication feed" (RSS feed), Podcasting, Mashup...

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed"[3] or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.

A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated.

A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.
Reference link: http://www.weatherbonk.com/

We can add our podcast by three simple method. One is by phone. we can set our phone and PIN then call 1-888-65-GCAST (888-654-2278). international option If outside USA: +1-305-437-8719. One is from our computer. We can upload new audio files. One is from emerging artists. we can find pod-safe music at GarageBand and click "Add to playlist" for each song we like.

We have signin an account from GCast to try the applications. The following is the hyperlink of our Podcast: http://www.gcast.com/u/IT_WYYF/main

Our doc on Zoho Writer

2008-05-19T06:23:00.000-07:00

http://writer.zoho.com/public/winnietam/Welcome

Review of WEB 2.0 site

2008-05-19T06:18:00.003-07:00

Review of WEB 2.0 site

http://www.facebook.com/

What is facebook?

Facebook users can choose to join one or more networks, organized by city, workplace, school, and region. These networks help users connect with members of the same network. Users can also connect with friends, giving them access to their friends' profiles.

The website is free to users, but generates revenue from advertising. Users create profiles that often contain photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, and join groups of friends.The viewing of detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network or confirmed friends.

The features of Facebook

The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. Some of the features of Facebook are listed below:

Main features	Functions
Wall	A space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see.
Pokes	It allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other.
Photos	Users can upload albums and photos
Status	It allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.
Marketplaces	It allowing users to post free classified ads.
Video	letting users share homemade videos with one another.

The interface of Facebook

Tips of using Facebook

To stay safe when using the site, the Facebook safety page gives these tips:

• Never share your password with anyone.

• Adjust your settings to match your level of comfort.

• Be cautious about posting and sharing personal information.

• Report users and content that violate the Terms of Use at privacy@facebook.com.

• Block and report anyone that sends you unwanted or inappropriate communications.

Review of WEB 2.0 site

2008-05-19T06:18:00.001-07:00

Review of WEB 2.0 site

http://www.facebook.com/

What is facebook?

The features of Facebook

The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. Some of the features of Facebook are listed below:

Main features	Functions
Wall	A space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see.
Pokes	It allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other.
Photos	Users can upload albums and photos
Status	It allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.
Marketplaces	It allowing users to post free classified ads.
Video	letting users share homemade videos with one another.

The interface of Facebook

Tips of using Facebook

To stay safe when using the site, the Facebook safety page gives these tips:

• Never share your password with anyone.

• Adjust your settings to match your level of comfort.

• Be cautious about posting and sharing personal information.

• Report users and content that violate the Terms of Use at privacy@facebook.com.

• Block and report anyone that sends you unwanted or inappropriate communications.

19 May 2008

2008-05-19T06:06:00.000-07:00

my del.icio.us tags

2008-05-19T05:56:00.000-07:00

The video about social networking

2008-05-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

Our mindmap

2008-05-10T01:55:00.000-07:00

The reflection of the 3rd lesson

2008-05-10T01:23:00.000-07:00

Social bookmarking

We already use Bookmarks or Favorites in our personal browsers to save Web sites that we use frequently in class or at home. But, what if you've saved a site on our home computers and want to find that Web site while we're at school? The typical bookmark/favorite system doesn't work for these scenarios. Social bookmarking can help us in this case. That technique uses a Web-based service instead of your browser to save and organize bookmarks. Instead of individually saving the site in a variety of folders, you just type a few keywords called tags, and your sites are organized automatically with sites saved by other users, using those same keywords. For users, social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. For us, we can share our bookmark sites to our students and colleagues easily even we are not using our personal computers.

my del.icio.us tags

2008-05-10T00:28:00.000-07:00

Our del.icio.us

2008-05-09T23:41:00.000-07:00

To use del.icio.us, we need to install two buttons into our browser.

There are two important buttons which are “Your Favorites” and “Tag This Page”.

For “Your Favorites” , we can just click this button to get to our saved pages, which are always available at: http://del.icio.us/winniekit

For “Tag This Page”, as we browse the web and find a page we want to save, click this button. We can add a description, notes, and tags to the page before saving it.

And we can save a page directly from the right-click menu.

The reflection of the 2nd lesson

2008-05-07T07:10:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, blog is very common. Writing blog is just as a habit for people. Many of them like to write their dairies in their blogs. There are a lot of advantages of using blog. As blog is a web-based publication, which can contain texts, media and links, the blog owners can publish what they like easily without any special technical skills. In this lesson, we learn more about blog for education.
With the above advantages of blog, we do believe blog is favorable for teaching and learning. For example, students can publish their reflection after lessons in the blogs. They can also use blog as a discussion platform for doing group projects. On the other hands, teachers can know the students what they learn with their reflection and also they can be the consultants of their group projects after reading their messages leaving in the discussion platform.
To be the updated teachers, I think we should start to use blog as a teaching tool now!

Introduction

2008-05-07T05:06:00.000-07:00

Beijing 2008 Olympic "We are ready" MV fom YouTube

2008-04-27T08:50:00.000-07:00

Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover

2008-04-26T00:59:00.001-07:00

Our introduction

2008-04-25T23:26:00.000-07:00

Our first reflection on Web 2.0

2008-04-19T00:40:00.000-07:00

Definition

Accoring to Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/), Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Our experience in using Web 2.0 tools

Nowadays, Web2.0 is very popular. Web 2.0 sites often feature a rich, user-friendly interface. It allows users to do more than just retrieve information. The users can use Web 2.0 sites as the sharing platforms, which can encourage communication between each other.

Web 2.0 tools that we have used:

The tools above have different function.

Wiki: The simplest online database. It allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.

YouTube: Users can upload the videos and view the video there.

Facebook: It's platform for users to share, play games and communicate.

Flickr: Users can creat album to share photos with others there.