PC Maintenance and Security

     I have watched the following three tutorials: Setting up search preferences in Google, Customizing your folder buttons and following a PC maintenance checklist. I have learned a lot from the tutorials.

     One thing that I will definitely share with the others is the safe searching filter in Google. You need to click on “search preference” in Google, and in the “safe search filter”, you can choose “strict filtering” to block all the text and images containing sexual, violent contents. I think this will be every helpful for teachers. When I do in class research with kids, I am always worried if something not appropriate would show up. By applying this filter, this problem will be solved.

     There are two pieces of information that surprised me. First, you can actually customize folder button to help edit or move folders. Second, I was surprised to learn that, no matter how safe your computer is, you will always need to back up in case the hard drive dies. I never thought this would happen, and I will begin to back up important files and pictures now.

Getting Things Done

The “getting things done” process looks easy, but when I did it, it was not as easy as I imagined. I used paper and pencil to write down all the things that only took me like ten minutes. After collect, I went on to process and organize and this was real slow. I have never done things in this way, what I did was to list all the things I need to get done, and then pick the easiest first. Now I need to consider time, energy and priority, I felt very overwhelmed. It took around two hours so that I finally got this done.

I think this process can be helpful if I have a TON of things to do. But in real life, we are not that busy, so this is like using cannon to shot a fly for me. I feel that it is a big waste of time thinking about what to do first and then how much time it takes. I think what I need is just all the things I need to do, and then make a order of action sequence and then go do it.

I do not think that I will use this later. Like I mentioned above, I felt overwhelmed and have wasted a lot of energy just to make category and deciding on which one to do first. For me, what I would do is to write down all I need to do, mark all the things I can do now and then go ahead and do them. Other things, I will mark on when is a good time to start working on, and then do them when it is time.

How Social Networks Fit in my Life

Social networks fit into my professional life in the way that they provides me many ways I can collaborate with my colleagues. Also, I could always get to know about new things happening in the schools by those social networking. As for my personal life, social networking is crucial for me to keep contact with friends and family in China, and also friends in other parts of the US.
I think social networks fit into my colleagues and students life in a similar way as I do. They can keep in touch with colleagues, friends, playmates and so on.

Discussing the differences between traditional web pages and blogs

Keywords: traditional web page, blog, difference

As far as I am concerned, there are two basic differences between traditional web page and blog. First, blog provides more opportunities to collaborate together. It is easy to have ten authors editing one blog and work together in blogs, but not in the traditional web pages. Second, blog provides a safer way to manage the website. It is easier to give permission and deny permission in blog, but traditional web page can only be public for all.