Homework #7

My questions on survey are following:

>1) What kind of study are you interested in ?
>2) Why are you interested in that area ?
>3) Do you think your major will make profit for your career ?
>4) If you can do anything, what you want to do ?
>5) After 50 years, what will you want to be ?


Looking at the result of the survey individually, there is differ in individuals for answering my questions. Collected numbers are 9 in sum total.
The question asked was (1). The five people replyed "Social Science". (The break down is; Social Science-5/ Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science-1/ Humanities, Social Science-1/Humanities-1)
The question asked was (2). The majority of people replyed that "out of sheer love, enjoyness, interesting".
The question asked was (3). There is differ in individuals. (The breakdown is; Yes-4/ No-1/Depends-1/ No idea-1/ Hope-1)
The question asked was (4). To this questoin, there is different from person with according to each person's "real" dream, hope or hobby. (eg sports, travel, archaeologist and violinist etc) Speaking only for myself, I assumed that people will reply to this question in a big dream. In fact, there is not so strong "BIG" dream.
The question asked was (5). To this questoin, each person has different opinion. The majority reply on the question baseding on their answer for (4).


Through this study, I learned how to make suvey and how it is easy to make this process by using google document. For the future, I'd like to develop my study using this tool. (however, often less than what I assumed, I think.)

HomeWork#7
>Finish doing the following steps.
>a) View the data you have collected with your Google Form survey.
>b) Write a blog summarizing what you have learned from this data.

HomeWork #6

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a) Problem of Refugees 1 (video source)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgiAQkTUmZQ
b) One forum
http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/

c)One site with printed information
http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/eng/project/refugee-forum/publications/refugee_sandwich/Introduction.pdf

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Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum
http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/
One type of Refugee Forums

UNHCR JAPAN
http://www.unhcr.or.jp/
Official cite of UNHCR in JAPAN

UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Official cite of UNHCR in Geneva

Above-cited sources are for my ARW essay about refugee.
In this case, race is thought to be limited to the case of it in JAPAN.

*List of HomeWork
3. Use Google search to find and review possible sources
a) find at least one video source
b) find at least one forum
c) find at least one site with printed information
4. Make recommendations of good sites
a) create a new post on your blog
b) create a list of the sites you've found and include the following information:
1) name and web address of the site
2) a short (1 to 2 sentence) description of what kinds of information are there
3) what issues of race the information could be used for as an essay source

Favorite presentations

My favirite presentations are Ryosuke's and Hanae's presentation. There are some reasons for this.One is both impressed me. I knoew Ryosuke like music because he is my sectionmate. However, up to that time, I didn't now what type of music he like, and which group or person he like. So, in this opportunity I'm grad to see his favorite singer and type of music. From this point, I select Ryosuke's. Hanae also shows me her funny sense. Even though in the lecture, she told us her story in presentation is fiction, I enjoyed her presentation story. Next, each presentation takes good picture in an effective manner. From Ryoske's picture, I could see the atomosphere of the scene directly from Ryosuke's picture. From Hanae's picture, I could learn how to use allowed line. For these reasons, I pick up two presentation as my favorite's.

See my presentation !

Please write your comment !






http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfcbzsgn_0c56rqkcs&revision=_latest&start=0&theme=blank&cwj=true

RSS

What is RSS?
RSS is a notification system used to alert subscribers to changes made to their favorite web sites, blogs, music sites, etc. The favorite site must offer this free service in order for people to add it to their lists. It is easy to discern that the site is RSS-enabled because of the orange rectangular button that is labeled with either RSS or XML somewhere on the page.
An RSS feed is a text-based headline with a link, and usually a short summary, that is shot over to you as soon as it leaves your favorite news site's clutches. If you're interested in reading the whole article, just click on the RSS feed link, and you will be directed to the full article, simply and efficiently. Think of a feed as being pulled and delivered to you, as opposed to you reaching out to find it.

How Do I Read the Feed?
You may have noticed that when you try to click on one of the orange, rectangular buttons, you just get a squirrelly looking page of code. RSS is written in XML (Extensible Markup Language), similar to html. That's all fine and good, but why can't Johnny read the feed? Well, that's because he needs an RSS feed reader to make it work. Some readers automatically take you to the full article, while with others, you must use their application's RSS button. More on that in a minute.
Feed Reader Choices
A feed reader, or aggregator, is an application that runs in the background, always searching for updates, never sleeping. Currently, there are three types of readers - standalone, add-ons and built-in web feed readers.
A standalone reader is just that. It stands alone and processes your feeds for you. It is your news hunter and gatherer. A standalone application, such as FeedDemon, is customizable for your specific needs and hasn't already been polluted with links set up by someone else. You also have the ability to access your feeds while offline. The drawback here, is that it is yet another program that you have to open on your desktop.
Add-on readers, such as Pluck, plug right in and extend the functionality of existing programs, such as Internet Explorer and Outlook. Most add-ons working within Explorer enable you to set up your channels with a headline display area for easier viewing. Programs compatible with Outlook enable you to set up folders within Outlook. To read the full text of an article, click on the headline and Explorer brings it up. The upside, is that most likely, you already have Outlook or Explorer open all the time. The downside, is that if you have many folders in Outlook already or 632 bookmarks in Explorer, it may be a little more difficult to find your feeds fast.
Web-based feed readers are built right into a browser, requiring no special software installation. The Mozilla Firefox browser, for example, automatically enables you to add RSS feeds to your Favorites folder creating "Live Bookmarks". Apple Computer added RSS support in the version of Safari bundled with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Microsoft also has RSS support in the works for IE7 for Windows XP.

Set-Up
Once you get your standalone or add-on reader installed, you're ready to start adding sites/blogs/music updates to your subscription list. Standalone readers, when launched, typically contain a toolbar and two or three window panels. You can organize your RSS feeds in the left panel with folders or categories. The other windows display channel information, title of the feed and the URL to the complete text of the article. You can change channel groups easily by clicking on the drop-down box beneath the menus.
Add-on readers utilize your existing program's capabilities. For example, readers working within Outlook make it easy to organize your feeds with a folder system that is familiar to you.
Many readers, as previously mentioned, already include preloaded channels "for your convenience". Some are good, some are not so good, but you will definitely want to customize yours to suit your needs. Think of it as your own, customized daily newspaper, but without the paper and more often.
Programs, like Pluck, enable you to click on the orange rectangular button directly on the website to which you would like to subscribe. A dialog box should mention that you are about to subscribe. Others, such as Mozilla Firefox, have a small, red RSS on the program's frame itself, such as in the lower right corner. If you get the squirrelly XML code page, try looking around for your program's RSS button. You should get a subscription dialog box here as well. If none of this works for you, give the following a try. Copy the URL from the address bar, go back to your reader and select where you want to put that particular subject (Sports, Music, Anime). Next, select New or New Channel from the File menu. The program's wizard should copy the URL automatically, but if it doesn't, just paste it in there, since you were smart and copied it just in case.
Depending on the type of reader you use (and what type of news hound you happen to be) you can either be automatically alerted each time updates come in from your favorites, or you can wait and simply go to your grand list of updates to review at your leisure.
Why Don't All News Services Offer RSS Feeds?
There are three possible explanations for this. It's either a lack of technological prowess, lack of manpower, or it's because of the almighty advertising revenue. Many sites thrive simply on eyeballs and click-throughs. If you go right to an article via an RSS feed, you'll miss out on all of the eye-catching ads placed above the fold on a homepage that primo advertisers paid good money for. Don't cry for the advertising industry just yet. Leave it to those clever buggers and they'll figure out a way to fill the void. Google, for example, is right on top of it as we speak, testing out a beta version of a conglomeration between Google AdSense and Atom. Told you they were clever.

Comments:
The system of RSS has some beneficial points.
1) it enable people to accept useful information (blog/web) automatically.
2) typical useful system : Technorati: http://www.technorati.jp/
はてなブックマーク: http://b.hatena.ne.jp/
These site has useful for the point to omit useless information and time.
Because these deliver me information which other people choiced.

To sum up, for me PC has 4 functions.
1) As a tool for study.
2) As a tool for organizing knowledge.
3) As a tool for sharing knowledge and information. eg Wiki/Google Documents
4) As a tool for collecting information. eg RSS



Reference: http://e-words.jp/w/RSS.html
http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide/35/how-to-use-rss

9/16 CMc3

I'm Mari Shinohara (Section BM). The type of electronic media I use for communication is
following; email (university, Yahoo, Google), facebook, google group, blog, telephone etc. The electronic media for communication I use often is email. The reason why I use / like is it's easy to communicate with other person. Telephone or chat depend on time or situation. However, email is fine whenever. Additionally. Seeing blog is to chance to know other person. (I don't see whether I like or not.)