Okay. Start from here, I am going to organize these exciting class notes. 
1. Paul Kim from Stanford (SoE)- mobile learning
Chun-Yi’s Questions after class: how do you perceive these mobile technologies impact on kids’ learning in a long term (especially in a low SES area)? How to sustain the efforts? To what extend do you see the cost of these mobile devices as a barrier to benefit more kids?
2. Hulu -Sharon’s presentation
Hulu seems an interesting video site with high quality videos. They have a chanel on YouTube so they can market their site as well, although they see YouTube as an immature video site. http://www.hulu.com/
3. Dr. Bonk’s YouTube video research
young people create YouTube videos for fun, whereas 25 yrs old and above create YouTube videos to make differences of the world.
Copyright and Remix issues
YouTube takes out videos when anyone complain about violations of copyright. If “remix” will become popular in the future, what would be the copyright issues involved? Does YouTube or other video sites claim they own the uploaded materials? Some open software or websites allow you do download videos from those video sites.
4. Bonk’s presentation on Wiki projects
I like the slide that he lists Tensions in one column and Ideas/Suggestions in the other column. I think we all learn from exploring and experimenting in the initial stage and this is important to establish the knowledge and practical experiences.
About my assessment question in class: See if Johnson & Johnson have insights on assessment of group works on wikis recently or email them to find out. methods of grading?
5. Google Groups and Google Docs – from Bob
Creating pages on Google Groups is similar to editing wiki pages. It is not very helpful because when you have more than one person edit the page, it falls apart. However, Google Docs allows at most 4 people on it and edit it at the same time (wow! How can they do that?)
6. More cool google apps from Jessica
(1) Twine: http://www.twine.com/ Seems an interesting collaborative website. It combines social networks and google ads (looks like it for me). It will automatically suggest extended reading from a list of authors based on articles you read/ posted.
(2) Google Student chanel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/googlestudents Jessica said in the video that instructors and students can use google chat so that they don’t need to go out in a very cold winter. sounds a great idea!
7. Discussions: ( group discussion and 7 words game)
(1) What is an online learning community? what are the features? how can you recognize one?
people, common interests, learning goals, an online space, connections, contributions.. A protoal is different from a community because on a protoal, people consume information passively but on a learning community, people take and give. Sustained commitment. Rovai (2002) sense of community.
Slide I saw on Twine about community of practices (User experience design as communities of practice. Andrew Hinton, 2007. link )- I like his graphic representations
(2) What is a collaborative technology? what would you build and design one?
communication, sychronous or asychronous tools, planning tools – i think this one is important to facilitate collaboration….
My design: Collaboration Phone
Since based on reading #5 this week, email and phone seem the most popular tools no matter how many different new technologies we invent for collaborative learning. The changes happen so slow because there are too many things to learn, too many things to focus. So my idea is to combine the new technology with the old technology, which is also the technology people feel most comfortable.
I want to design a phone with camera, mini projector, and video conferencing software. When people want to collaborate, they can turn on the mini projector and project the screen on the wall, and then make a call to a group of people from your group list in your phone book (just like sending an email to a group of people). It’s easier to collaborate.Video on Mini Projector:
Mike said
Chun-Yi, I found the discussion with Paul Kim to be very interesting as well. It’s amazing how much he has helped underprivileged people of the world to get an education through his mobile learning device. I think this is just one example of how the world really is open (or opening quickly) with regard to educational opportunities.
I like your idea for a cell phone with a video conference projector. What a useful tool that would be. I wonder if the technology is out there now to build such a device; if so, I think you may be onto something!