MindMeister

What do you have to do?
3. Write Targeted Learning
Mindmeister helps students do brainstorming when student prepare future quizzes or tests.
Moreover, Mindmeister offers saving the amount of paper and sharpness which textbook can't give.
Furthermore, Mindmeister help students come up with a lot of ideas when students learn more about the topic.
Mindmeister apply to the mind of share ideas which we are learning.

Summarise
1. MindMeister
2. http://www.mindmeister.com/ (You need to create an account to use Mindmeister)
3. MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on "paper" at the same time.

4. When two or more users open the same mind map at the same time, you are in brainstorming mode. Every change you make - be it adding new ideas, deleting bad old ones, or rearranging them within the branches - will be replicated instantly to your fellow editors' screens via the MindMeister server. Through colour-coded effects they will see what you did and vice versa, no reload necessary. And, if you need to talk to them directly, just click on their name in the footer and start a Skype conference call.

link: How to use Mindmeister
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/ci6urgm3

My Lesson 6 blog post - Think, Explain.

Think
I currently meet other members actually when a teacher asks you to collaborate with other students on a project. I now send e-mail with attached file which means date when I want to show someone else what you have done. I use e-mail or telephone when I need to work on it at the same time.

Explain
1. The main skill may be cooperation.
2. Google Docs & Spreadsheets saves our times.
3. The technology will make it possible to share information beyond physical difficulties.
4. The learned skills and understandings of mind of sharing may promote my development as an effective learner in the digital age.

My Answers to the questions about Agre, p. 201, pp. 211-214

1. The central problem for citizens in democracies is how to participate meaningfully in a society of hundreds of million.

2. The skills citizens need is building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political argument.

3. The author use issue entrepreneurship to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue.

4. First step is identifying issues that are coming to prominence. Second step is researching and analyzing them. Third step is staking out public positions on them. Fourth step is building social networks of other citizens who have associated themselves with related issues, especially those whose positions are ideogically compatible.

Two of my own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section.
1,How can we specifically claim to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in our own lives?
2, I could not come up with second question.

My answer to the question "Think, Explore, and Explain" of Lesson 5

Think
I regularly visit google to serach various imformation and keep myself up to know what happens in Japan and World.

Explore
The websites which I often visit almost provide an RSS feed. However, the website which seems to be a little old did not provide an RSS feed. That reason which Ithink is that old website cannot adapt to the system of RSS feed.

Explain
1. The skill is to take useful website and leave unuseful website.
2. The system of RSS feed allows us not to websites frequently.
3. The system of RSS feed gives us more ease.
4. The abbility of taking useful website and leaving unuseful website may promote my development as an effective learner in the digital age.

A brief summary and my reaction to Kahn & Kellner

Summary

Authors indicate 3 points.
Firstly, many emergent online communities today are moving toward reaffirming and reconfiguring what participatory and democratic global citizenship will look like in our emergent global/local future, even as more reactionary and hegemonic political forces attempt to do same.　People will accordingly focus on how online communities use information and communication technology to promote democracy and social justice on local and global scales.
Secondly, while emergent mobile technology provides yet another impetus toward experimental identity construction and identity politics, such networking also links diverse communities, providing the basis for a radically democratic politics of alliance and solidarity to overcome the limitations of postmodern identity politics.
Finally, Online activist subcultures have materialized in the last few years alone as a vital oppositional space of politics and culture in which a wide diversity of individual and online communities have used emergent technologies to help produce new social relations and forms of democratic political possibility. Many of these subcultures and different alternative voices and practices will appear as we navigate the increasingly complex present toward the ever receding future.

Reaction

I think politics will change by the developing of IT. I receive that authors has optimistic perspective that the developing of IT will makes politics be more democratic.

My answer to the questions "Barabasi, Third Link"

1. The principle of six degrees of separation is the indication that human can communicate each other with only six links. The number of social links which any one person need to be connected to global society is two.

2. The difference between fabric of society today and pre-internet society is whether human can move with the click of mouse from one page to another and whether human can surf, locate、and string together information.

3. Being compared to people in society, any pair of web page separate to only nineteen degrees. The difference between web page and people in society is whether any document can be on average only nineteen clicks away from any other.

4. Network scientists have discovered the range between two and fourteen separation in different kinds of networks.

5. Research suggests that the problem about the fundamentals of networks can be easily turned into a mathematical formula that predicts the separation in random network as a function of the number of nodes.

6. My estimate of my personal number of connections to society cannot be written exactly. However, It can be written that My strongest connections are family, temple, and various friends.

My answer to the question "Think, Explore, and Explain" of Lesson4

Think
Before I encountered Firefox, I had saved and stored favorite web-page on browser.
However, to make to be able to access favorite web-page whenever and wherever I need it, I can newly save and store it on USB drive which possesses Firefox Portable now.

Explore
I do not know other ways which I publicise my Delicious username so that others might access what I know. The one benefit I identify in participating in an open knowledge network is availability of sharing various imformation among a lot of people.

Explain
1. One of the main skills needed to use social software is the spirit of altruism.
2. The software may have the neagtive possibility which means that the software will impedes the voluntary of serching various imformation.
3. The technology will make it possible for us to refer to extended information.
4. The learned skills and understandings which may promote my development as an effective learner in the digital age is extended curiousity.