Task 1c: Video on starting out on BAPP

Finally, I've managed to upload my starting out video. It took my long enough, so now I'm just happy it's up on my blog =D!!

Dear Diary, ...

How wrong was I?!?! ....
I was one of the people who thought diaries and journals were for little girls with boy trouble. I could not have been more wrong. Since I've started my own journal for this course I find it so much easier to concentrate on my actions and to questions why I am doing certain things or why I am not. It helps my rethink things and if possible change them for the better =)!
At the moment, I am trying the different ways of keeping a journal and even though I don't like all of them I definitely have some favourites.
Hopefully by the end of next week I'll be ready to Tell you about my journal writing experience in further detail!
Until then,
Good Night everybody,
Paola x

Task 2a: Reflective Practice

I am still having difficulties uploading my video to "Youtube" so I figured, in the meantime, I could just get started on the second part of this module.

Personally speaking, I am not a big fan of keeping a journal and I've never had one in my life so I think I'll have to get used to the idea of writing my thoughts and ideas down in a book. Until know I never felt like there was anything worth putting down on paper so that I could go back read it in the future. Knowing myself, I'll probably struggle at first to put my experiences and thoughts I have throughout this course down on paper (I know we can use any other media but I'm sticking with the classic written diary). 

Furthermore, I'm not sure what exactly I am supposed to write. Of course, I could write about my everyday life which would include working in a gym and teaching in a dance school but I don't think that would help my studies. I guess this gives me enough things to think about and to get me started on my first ever diary!!

Task 1d: post a set of images to Flickr

Here are a couple of my CV photos I posted on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolakolic/sets/72157631798912010/

Task 1b: comment on Reader 1 - Professional Communication Technology

So, here I am again trying to get on with the module 1 tasks. Unfortunately, I was ill the whole past week which put me back quite a bit in my studying plan. But, Web 2.0 technology has definitely helped my through this past week, especially to keep in touch with the world.

Before I read about Professional Communication Technology I didn't know something like web 2.0 existed. Web 2.0 includes networking sites (like Facebook and Twitter), blogs, collaboration sites which are all created to enable the users to share information. Creator and reader can interact and it's an opportunity for the reader to become the creator. Some of the features of a web 2.0 community include:

• 'Network as platform'
• Users of the site own and control their own data
• Users add content to the site -> the more users access the site and add data the better the site becomes
• Interface is user friendly, simple to use and quick to load
• It allows users to interact with each other, make formal and informal connections and share  --> Social Networking

Tim O'Reilly who is often reffered to as the originator of what defines web 2.0 has developed a meme of web 2.0. It looks at what identifies something as web 2.0 and what the conditions are under which communication or interactive processes occur. 

I think it shows very clearly what belongs to the term web 2.0 and on what principles each of the sites is based for instance Wikipedia is solely based on radical trusted while Gmail and Google Maps uses rich user experiences. Furthermore, it lists the core competencies of web 2.0, such as the architectures of participation, remixable data and transformations and harnessing collective intelligence.

Those core competencies represent the outcomes of the wider use of web 2.0 platforms in workspace alongside that of the social space.

Architectures of Participation Web 2.0 as a tool of networking and communication encourages and enables participation. 

I like the idea that participation is the ability of people to interact and it implies an active and passive aspect. To be able to participate you definitely have to have the facilities and instruments to participate, i.e. time money, skills, etc. 

Hamilton mcakes a good point when he notes that and increase in participation can contribute to the successful building of relationships and the democratisation of media. Of course, the more people share there opinion and views the more democratic it gets. Web 2.0 is making participation cheap, easy and quick and therfore accessible to more people.

Ulrich adds that each web 2.0 application has a base set of principles that enable users to participate, be creative and engage with other communities. I completly agree with Ulrichs suggestion that the key aspect of web 2.0 is that it is constantly evolving and that each platform is progressively developed and replaced. In my opinion that is what web 2.0 is, a platform for people to interact and share and, therefore, it has to be in a constant progress and change. 

Remixable data and transformations A key element of web 2.0 is the opportunity to share photos, music, text, ideas and opinions. So, I think Bruns has a got point when he says that each of us is producer and consumer at the same time. We all, f.i. share our ideas and opinions but at the same time we read and deal with other peoples point of view which makes us producer and consumer at the same time. Bruns calls this produsage which is a suitable term beause it combines both words to one which also happens to us when we use web 2.0 aplocations. 

Harnessing collective intelligence I like the idea of Feenberg and Bakardjieva that while using web 2.0 we all come together as equals and act collectively. 

Personally, I think it's important to realise that web 2.0 is crated to bring people all around the globe closer to together and give them the opportuniny the share their thoughts and ideas with everone around the world. It' thanks to sites like Facebook that we can easily stay in touch with people living on the different continent. In my opinion, Facebook is a perfect exmple of a very successful web 2.0 tool. It' s used all around the world, it links people together and is accessible to almost everyone. Networks like that are definitely the future and it will be iteresting to see in what way they will develope. 

Task 1a: rewrite CV

Right, today I've decided to get properly started on my BAPP tasks, so let's get right to it :)!

I've uploaded my blog quite a while ago and I've even written a text version of my CV in the the "About me" section but since then, I've kind of neglected my little blog-baby.

So, today I had a look at a few blogs and it's amazing how everyone treated the task differently.

At first, I just put a very short segment about myself but after reading a couple of the others I felt I hadn't put enough effort in it and started to rewrite the whole thing. Personally, I think that Georgie Bird did a very good job on her segment because it's not too long but still has all the important details in it while still being interesting to read.

I have to say, it definitely helped me reading through other peoples blogs because I have to admitt that, at first, I was completely lost and didn't actually know where to start. For my "About me"- section, I've used my dancers CV because that's basically what I've done up to now and what I'm trained at. I've also tried to put a bit of my personality in it so that potential employers can see who I am as a person.

 

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully, I'll manage to get some more done today!! :)