A summary "comma" to this blog

My Blog: http://en2848pauly.blogspot.com/

Sample post: http://en2848pauly.blogspot.com/2011/01/data-or-information-sorting-or-piling.html

Throughout this semester, the course "Language and Digital Media" gives me a lot of space to think twice about my using habits on Internet, and let me criticize myself about this. Through different blog spots on particular topics, I tried to analyze my digital life in different aspects, looking to the trends in the society.

For the sample post above, it is based on my personal experience on managing different digital DATA and information. It seems a very little topic, but I consider it as a fundamental concept on digital literacy. This topic helps me to have a deep reflection on my management, and clear my mistaken view on using files. The concept of DATA and INFORMATION is important for it will lower the working efficiency if messed up, and we will be exhausted on managing these DATA of building relations.

For this semester, it is good to let me have a motivation to use blogging tool again. Beforehand I had ceased using Facebook Note or Xanga weblog to write one or two words about myself. Thanks for this course, I can use a new angle to show what I have learnt, express my view on a specific topic and try to give a reflection. The most important is, I can interact with other classmates and have a good time discussing the topics.

Getting an academic weblog built can give a platform for people to express their ideas and think twice. Through this blog, I can spend some time to think more about myself, about the society, and about the world. Thank you for all our classmates and our nice professors for giving us a great lecture and a great help.

For this blog, I would like to mark a "comma" to label my learning stage. Yes, it does not come to an end. Maybe some day, I will have more new topics posting on this weblog.


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Digital Media at workplace? Experience in a tutorial school

It is a storyboard locating in a big tutoring education group I am working, let's inspire how it communicates.

A tutorial school has 16 centres and over 150 class assistants. Every assistant has their preferences of serving centres in particular dates, locations and times. Managers collect their schedule every month, and allocate their weekly serving schedules every Thursday.

For the latest events, updated schedules, released guidelines, the managers communicated to the assistants by e-mail. In some days, they may send text messages to mobile phones as a reminder.

It sounds convenient for the communication between the employees and managers. How about inter-communication between employees? On the contrary, the group doesn't encourage much communication through phones or internets. Most of the time, they should stay in their place on duty, or asking for help by face to face and verbal communication. Managers reminds the employees not to use any mechanical products in the classrooms, as a protection of the privacy of the class materials; and told the employees to avoid the students using them in class.

For instance, the managers have somehow classical view on communications. For distant communication like managers and class assistants, they encourage much on digital media; for the employees, they preferred to use face to face communication, and communicate unless problems aroused.