-- Answers to Class Activity One
Definition:
A Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing
relationships established between members of a social network.
Application:
A Social Computation Cloud
A Social Storage Cloud
A Social Collaborative Cloud
A Social Cloud for Public Science
An Enterprise Social Cloud
-- Answers to Class Activity Two
Exactly the same as that of Activity One
Exactly the same as that of Activity One
-- What was the epistemic aims in (1) Class Activity One (individual work) and (2) Class Activity Two (group work)?
-- Is there any differences in terms of individual and group epistemic cognition, how?
I thint the epistemic aims in Activity One is to come up with an idea of a problem. It about a improvement from "not know" to "know" or "not solved" to "solved", even from "there not be" to "there be". Also, it's all about completing something with one's own work. There is no others' idea, and no others' guide, either. While Activity Two is to come up with an idea from a group of ideas. Here, others' idea can certainly be a kind of help, or guide, also, can be a kind of interupt (when you find others holding a different idea from yours).
-- How did you approach to the problem individually and in group, respectively? Is there any differences in the processes involved?
As Activity One is something about individual work, I did it all by myself, with my own idea. And when doing it in group, since all of us had already held a certain idea, so the process changed a lot. We took a glance at all our answers, found the most held idea, and then discussed it first. Group discussion can be an opportunity to find different idea, even we had the same answer to the questions in this activity, we can also get new idea of how such answer came about.
There is a little pity that all of us held a common idea in group work, so I haven't experienced the process of ideas being changed by others. But in the project of this course we can experience more group work. I'm looking forward it ~~~
Hi, I just finished my blog 3 and found that you are one of the bloggers who did a quite clear description about our case study process. Good job!
回复删除I also feel that the questions in our case study are too straightforward to make a differentiation among different guys in a group. And I think a controversial topic may trigger a deeper understanding of difference between individual cognition and collaborative cognition.
Thank you for your comments. And now I find more about the group work so I'm not pity for not coming up with different ideas before group communication any more ~ Just as you said in your blog 3, everyone has different experience and group communication helps us to share not only a certain answer, but also the experience of solving a problem ~ Do you still agree with me now ? ~~~ Waiting for your reply ~~~
删除Yes, I agree with you on the idea of information gained from group work. It is said that 'no one is an island'. Communication and collaboration are everywhere and the experience and knowledge are collected and formed from daily activities even casual recreational events~
删除Yes. I agree that our group put too much effort on the reading material to discuss the topic, and as a result, we don't have any disagreement...
回复删除yes~but the discussion itself still brought new information for us, not only limited to the answers to the questions. and my first experience of using the Google doc when doing the group work was also a good experience to me.
删除Aha~ It's really an interesting tool. Although I used it a lot before, I never tried online editing with group members. Google really created many useful tools, and more will be provided I believe.
删除Haha I think the point of forming a group should be "to solve complicated tasks that is impossible for one person alone to solve" instead of the kind of activities in the class. =( The answer to that question was a bit too obvious and I felt like an idiot when going through similar answers again and again. The different approaches and ways of thinking are the only factors I found worth noticing... yuck
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