RJ Qns.

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Current Music: 飛輪海 – Ti Amo.

1) How have you experimented with Facebook, IM (or any new or latest tool/product) Any findings or insight? 2) RJ: A space for you to experiment and explore. Demonstrate.

Yes I had experimented with Facebook, IM since a long time ago. I feel that this is really a good way to have interactions with our friends although we may be miles apart or just beside each other. However, I had always find IM-ing as a source to which I can interact with my friend, or a source where we can only just send our power point slides and all. Thus it had never occurred to me that today's scenario of having to use IM to communicate with my team mates will occur.

 

Frankly speaking, I'm really quite pissed off with the way the lesson has been conducted. Reason being, being me myself, I cannot really focus if it's a complete silence at a place like our classroom. Our class has and always is in high spirits and we were always talking. Although we might be talking nonsense, we still do our work most of the times as we know our priorities.

 

Thus, today, I totally cannot concentrate during the first meeting today as I had never experienced it before. Maybe it's me, maybe it's your teaching method, which I totally couldn't and would not want to adapt to it.

 

Back to my findings on products such as Facebook, IM and Friendster. I feel that these "gadgets" are a good way for people to keep in contact even after a long time. Like for example, regarding those friends who you had not been contacting and feel that it's a lost to not being able to contact them, by dropping a "hi, how're you doing," and such would actually help to strike a conversation. Also, using either Friendster or Facebook, we're also able to find our long lost friends who we had lost contact over the years. Thus, I feel that this is really a great source of making some communication with an old pal or lost friend.

 

A space for me to experiment and explore; For this, I would have to cite examples as it's really too general and not specific. Take swimming for example, despite not being a good swimmer, I went headstrong and joined the lifesaving team. Friends had been telling me the correct techniques and all to swim. I heed them all. However, I would need a space for me to experiment these techniques and the swimming pool would be my space. Thus, I feel in it actually differs with people. Be it we need a space to play basketball, or a space to train our swimming techniques. Experiments are always required to do whatever we need to do to prove our theories.