About my ALES 204 class

Today I finished my last class of ales 204. It is not a short time to go through it.I knew many new friends there and I know we have very friendly and warm-heart TAs. It is really interesting and helpful for every student I believe.
In this class, we got much clearly knowledge of some popular social work communication tools such as twitter. It is my first time to use twitter instead of email to talk with teacher. A very different and amazing feeling strike me. I never imagine that we can use something like twitter and facebook for class. After that, I built my first blog during this class. I heard blog many years before while I never did it. And before this class I didn’t know how interesting blog could be.
With this class, I learned how to do review, create CV and expanse Wikipedia. It does helpful for us to be more and more sensitive with the change of our life and development of society.
It is a nice class for people to learn something.
I commented on Cara Miller http://little--black.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-good-things-come-to-end.html?showComment=1323298008376#c5075800568895556613
Shuhuai Li http://shuhuai1015.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-wikipedia-article.html
Kate Carlson   http://1love-k.blogspot.com/2011/11/reflection-time.html?showComment=1323303292538#c4138119820848111499

What do we get from new social techonolgy?

With the development of technology especially of network and computer science, people have more and more accesses to get in touch with other people. We can use network to work at home, study with classmates at anywhere we are and can get everything without going outside. It makes our life much easier than before.

As twitter, a not very fresh to you but definitely new to human beings. It does a lot to make people’s social relationship much different than before. Several decades ago, if we want to ask our friends going out to have a travel, we may mail him or her some weeks ago if he or she lives very far away from us. It was not so easy for us to communicate with others in that period.

The same thing if we want to do twenty years ago , we should make a call which was much convenient for us to communicate with others than before. But most of people didn’t like this way to chat or treat communication as another kind of entertainment. Later we had email , a new kind of access for people to make communication much cheaper , easier and more interesting. But at that time, if we wanted to check email , we still have to find a computer with network access.

But now, with the development of internet , we can have network access anywhere with 3g and wifi. And now we don’t have to carry our laptop anywhere we go because our smart cellphone can do almost everything what computer could do for us.

Twitter makes communication much easier and interesting than before. We can share anything we had seen and twits it sharing the emotion with whom we want to share. With the blog application, we can post any picture we have seen on our blogs anywhere.And in my ales 204 class, instructor could us the blog to tell us what we would do in next class.Also she could share some interesting things with her students on the blogs.It makes relationship between teacher and students much closer.

Our society developing more and more faster than before, people should change their own paces to follow the whole society. The new kind of tech help us handle information faster.