Linda+Sok's+Portfolio

** Linda Sok's Portfolio Index ** 
 * Introduction and goals
 * Web 2.0 Personal Plan
 * Final Reflections
 * Big Shift

 

Introduction
= =   Hello, my name is Linda Sok. I am a Fifth Year majoring in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction and minoring in Education Studies. I find this class to be very intriguing. It definitely ties together my two areas of focus.


 Outside of school, I enjoy spending time with my family. I am the only daughter of six kids. I am a first generation college student, the first //__ever__// in my entire family line to attend a four-year university. Now a little bit more about myself. I have been studying traditional Cambodian dancing for over 10 years and hope to some day be able to dance alongside professionals from Cambodia. My hobbies include running student organizations, playing basketball [for recreation not competition], karaoke, traveling, camping, snowboarding, reading in my hammock, and humanitarian work. I am a sucker for boba, romantic movies/novels, and rainy nights. I listen to music on Pandora, Tweet[but not regularly], and learn lots on SmashingMagazine. I work as a Youth Counselor at a nonprofit organization, mentoring high school students and developing various workshops to help them shape and attain their goals.

Below is a Google Picasa slideshow of pictures that reflect some of the things important in my life. Enjoy! <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> media type="custom" key="4525834" align="left" width="96" height="96"

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 32px; text-align: center;">** Goals **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To learn about various online learning tools including their advantages, disadvantages, etc.[[image:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2853562919_3002d26ddc.jpg width="200" height="160" align="right" caption="1"]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To attain skills necessary to implement such tools with my students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To learn about effective collaborative tools through experimenting and collaborating with classmates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To learn, reflect, and gain insight about my mentoring skills with the High Tech High students, and use that to improve for future mentoring

Reflection on Shared Writing <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I personally really like shared writing. However, I like it more so because of the various online collaborative tools that makes shared writing easier than the way it used to be. I recall just a few years back having to write a group paper without such collaborative tools. The way we would normally go about it is divide and conquer. Although it was somewhat effective, it had a flaw. The flaw was that we had to combine all of our work to make the whole piece coherent and that was equally time consuming. We had to double check for any repeating thoughts and make sure that the flow of the paper was consistent throughout. On top of that, the copying and pasting from different documents was difficult as well because it did not allow for all of us to edit it at one time.

I like tools such as Google Docs because it virtually eliminates these problems. I have been using Google Docs for a little over a year and I absolutely am grateful for it. Not only does it allow for me to do all of the above, it also has a lot of nice tools that make it convenient for importing, exporting, and uploading. It's become my virtual "My Documents" folder. I have also effectively used it at work, using it to document all of my work as well as sharing various files with my coworkers and clients. Without it, I foresee many hours of headache regarding sharing files and the such. It is equally convenient in that it is on the list of other easily accessible tools Google has provided. Even so, I'm excited to learn about other types of collaborative tools. Although it is not likely that I will abandon Google Docs, I would not shy away from learning about tools such as EtherPad. Indeed, it has a few interfaces that I find quite nice, such as the "time slider."

My reflections on the shared writing assignment is good. I really like using Etherpad because of its real time changes and ease of use. It does a very good job in showing who has contributed what as well manages the history of a groups' collaborative writing. Although I am a Google Docs fan, I can see how Etherpad can be extremely useful. These features that I mentioned is definitely not as up to par in Google Docs. Hopefully Google Docs can come up with something of this caliber because I like using only tool.



<span style="display: inline; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** View the Following: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 108%;">Linda's Web 2.0 Personal Plan


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-decoration: none;">My PageCast <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">My Delicious


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Awesome Highlighter


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Linda's Final Reflection


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Linda's Big Shift

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 * Photo Credits:**

1. Photo: edenpictures (2008, Sept 13). edenpicture's photostream. Retrieved Nov. 29, 2009, from []2. Printscreen