School versus the Internet

The environment between school and Internet is so big different in circumstance. In 90' peirod, we could say teachers are human beings, but in 21st centry, we could not even say due to that teachers could be COMPUTER SCREENS. That we can say the Internet is big different in audience-centered design. For instance, like this course, we need to log on Internet to learn knowledge by ourselves, not from teachers in class. However, when topics come to verbal/visual/aual learning environments, they are pretty the same because through Internet, we still need to get touched with verbal/visual/aural learning environments. Only the methods are different ways.

The ways in successful Internet learning depend on various situation. First of all, the website must contain abundant informative knowledge to grab. Like learning calculus, in traditional ways, teachers teach on the board with chalk; in Internet, most of time we learn from ourselves by lots of materials with power point, word, or other kinds of softwares. So the more materials it got, the more successful it has.

The question to answer which lesson has yet to learn from the Internet's success. Well, I don't know how to answer that. The thing is the Internet's success might be different to school's success. Teachers and professors are still the most important people in teaching field, the best efficiency by learning from them. Can they be substituted? The answer will be No right now. But next centry, it is hard to say though.

As we can see, the Internet is a tool, we use to tool to get the knowledge we want. Have u noticed that audience of learners can not learn by physical works, such as learn how to play pools for example. If we take course to learn how to play pools, teachers will teach us; conversely, in the Internet, we only can learn by video with explanation, no one will teach you physically, and you have to learn by your own. And that is the one the Internet has not been able to duplicate.

Analysis of three corporate blogs

Nokia Evolution

http://blogs.s60.com/ shows much about introducing how s60 works in several ways in multimedia.
Most audiences must be interested in latest functional outputs.
s60 blog is not only talking about introducing what s60 software is and what is for, but also taking us to the survey of how to enjoy the new area with this software application.

S60 blog has multiple links to various sites to grab what you need in information, including vedio, or audio files. It also provides guests to comment on the topic which he is interested or against to it. If I am really interested in a topic, then I would like to take times to explore for every detail I want. The average time for entry to me seems to be uncertain.

The utilization of visual design elements in S60 blog has not been found. It's a blog about people who are fancy with Nokia products and how they like to learn more about application for S60. So it contains much more pictures with the charts that give fans information. And also, I am a honest fan who own Nokia cell phone since I was 19 years old. This blog has been added to my favorite and I would like to check once in a while.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Generally, everyone who has touched internet knows "Google". It's the most popular search engine of the world. Not to mention how successful Google it is. Most people would like to know related news to google that may take a glance at this blog. Google blog doesn't have spectacular images put on inside but much more about the permalinks and other languages blog of the other countries.

Google is a globle company that stresses on customer service and feedback. We all know that make profit is the primary goal to a company, but google seems to address on customer service to satisfied them, and I think it is another goal of Google. Otherwise, google blog provides vedio post to reponse the questions which people asked for. Like the link to "Laura Chen answers your referrals questions". This is a very convincible reponse to people who have get used to face to face talk. And I also find that google provides google vedio blog which gives us more entertainment and some vedio is about the soldiers' personal presentation to their family to let them know they are ok in the service in military, and you also can upload the vedio which you want to share with people. All you need to to click on a botton then upload. However, google blog doesn't have comment reply to it. It is kind of different. The entries are average 3 paragraphs short, not too much.

Google blog is more text on that, but more hyperlinks to other resources to grab other information.It has timestamps to indicate history posting, and of course it is google; so it has search engine to search the related topic you want.

The image to me helps me to know google blog much better about their contents of multimmedia, how they utilize and how they share and how they link. It's a good blog anyway.

Apple world

http://theappleblog.com

Simple, clear, informative are the views of mine to this blog. Apple has become the latest, fashionable, cool stuff in music, multimedia field. Inside this blog, most information is about applications to latest sofeware, and discussed about coming up technologies. I guess majority of people would surfe this blog are definitely assuming themselves "COOL". As we can see, iPhone is becoming a crazy discussion toward the world, from Asia to the United States. We can comment on every idea we want on this blog.

Upon the blog, the entries are most 3-4 paragraphs short, but informative. Because when I see the stuff, software. I even don't know it is already in the market. (have to catch the flow^^) This blog provides the monthly TAB newsletter, and get the latest on Apple news, rumors, and more. It is a easy way to get information through e-mail. Because every day you have to log on the internet to check what you have in e-mails. Actually, it doesn't have much links on that. All much is about the reply comments.

What is the overall corporate image that is presented to YOU through this blog ? Like I mentioned, simply, clear, informative is the goal to me to imitate to apple blog.

Mission Statement

To learn how to make better or perfect blog from this course.
To do better for communication in visual design.
More is about how to make myself become a comprehensive blogger.