ALES 204 reflection blog

Communication Technology

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Most of the time, I have communication with others in person and on the telephone. Sometimes I use email. Four months ago, I was not particularly interested in experimenting with communication technology. But after taking “ALES 204”, my thinking started to change.In a class I took called “ALES 204”, we were equipped with the knowledge of utilizing social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogger, for useful purposes! I created a Business “Facebook” page as an online professional profile; “Twitter” to follow news updates, knowledge updates in the nutrition and food science field and in other career fields; “Blogger” to read about the life and work experiences of different individuals; “LinkedIn” to connect with professionals and publicly posting “Flickr” images on my own websites without violating Copyright Law!


Social media is not the only thing we experimented on. We experimented with “Prezi”: a computer technology way of presentation. I learned many skills for interviewing. During the ALES 204 lab, I had a chance to take part in an interview, and I partnered up with Chen Shen. As we were conducting the interview, we discussed ways to improve the way we spoke and the interview's content. I agree Chen's reflection post, he said ALES 204 lets "us share the knowledge which we can use it to improve our communication abilities immediately". That is true, after that interview practice, I felt my interview skill improved.  If you want to know more about Chen, here's his blog: http://cshen3.blogspot.com/.


There was one more interesting topic that we discussed on: “Augmented Reality” Do you know what that is? If you don’t you can go to the ALES 204 blog and search for the blog post named “Futurecasting” and check out the Slideshare presentation. I assure you, it is neat. 
Here's a youtube video on futurecasting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6c1STmvNJc. In real life, you can see the England points of interest. On the phone, you see much more...


I’m glad I took ALES 204. 


Here is my comment for Naomi (http://naomiporciuncula.blogspot.com/2011/11/when-composing-e-mail-think-of-it-as-if.html?showComment=1323317357588#c7119520112273538378)


My comment for Chen Shen (http://cshen3.blogspot.com/2011/10/poster-presentation-in-my-biol-course.html?showComment=1323317984199#c7196709195276420702)


My comment for Kelley Reynolds (http://kelleyreynolds.blogspot.com/2011/11/coffee-production-in-haiti-wikipedia.html?showComment=1323317708921#c8643546634903174405)


My comment for Angela Komarnicki (http://akomarnicki.blogspot.com/2011/10/getting-involved-volunteering.html?showComment=1323318609777#c9049420886976471802)


My comment for Madeleine Bosnyak (http://madeleine-bosnyak.blogspot.com/2011/10/lab-poster-four-degree-future.html?showComment=1323319111908#c8325935722842168084)