Google Desktop as learning platform
Google 桌面是一个学习平台Our public Unworkshops on the convergence of learning and web 2.0 are morphing into more self-sustaining Uncommunities. I’m in the process of creating job aids to help participants get up to speed. Today I was adding Google Docs & Spreadsheets to our menu when it occurred to me to look at the growing “Google Desktop” of applications. With a single sign-on, I can go to:
因为学习与web2.0的交融，我们公开的非学习场所，变得更加自给、非团体化。我在创建工作的过程中帮助参与者提高速度。今天我将 Google 文件 增加到我的常用软件里，我认为它应该是 Google桌面 应用程序的发展。通过一次注册，我可以使用：
Not a bad collection of freebies. You don’t have to be a blogger to create pages on the web: Here’s the output of Google Page Creator. I tagged it in Delicious so it doesn’t get lost.
是一组不错的免费软件。你不必非要是一个博客才能在网络中创建网页：这儿是一个 Google Page Creator 制作的网页。我在美味书签中收录它，这样就不会弄丢了。
Personally, I use Google’s calendar, docs, gmail, groups, notebook, photo software, reader, and talk. It’s cool that these all reside on the web so that I can reach them from anywhere. (I foresee a future something like William Gibson’s vision in Neuromancer: I jack into Cyberspace with a deck and that becomes my reality.)
就个人而言，我使用 Google 的日历、文件、邮箱、讨论组、记事本、相片软件、阅读器和聊天工具。最爽的是他们都存在于网络中，这样我就在任何地方都能使用他们。（我觉得未来有些像威廉·吉布森在《神经浪游者》中描写的：我在虚拟空间中化身成为一副牌中的大王，而它则成为真实的我。）
Magazine reporters complain that Google apps lack the features of their Microsoft counterparts. Generally, I find this a good thing. Better lightweight than so laden with features you get lost in them. And of course Google apps are free. But what really makes them an advance in learning technology is that they are collaborative. Several people I work with can consult my calendar, and I, their’s. I’m writing several documents collaboratively. I’ve set up group blogs. Google reader gives me a way to set up whatever RSS feeds interest me at the moment. Cool, eh?
杂志记者抱怨Google软件缺少微软对应软件的功能。一般来说，我觉得这是一件好事。轻量级应用程序比拥有大量令你迷失其中的功能的应用程序要好。同时也因为Google应用程序是免费的。但真正令他们在学习技术上进步的是他们合作。和我一起工作的几个人可以查阅我的日程安排，我也能看他们的。我和他们共同编写好几个文档。我建立了小组日志。Google阅读器可以让我在随时收录任何令我感兴趣的订阅源。很酷，嗯？
All in all, a rather striking platform for self-service learners. How much do you think you’d have to pay Accenture to set something like this up for you?
总而言之，这是一个自助学习者的相当引人注目的平台。您觉得埃森哲为你建造了这些东西你该付给他多少呢？
Tony Karrer praises Google Desktop Search, not even on the list because it resides on your hard drive instead of their servers. Desktop Search indexes everything on your hard drive. This lets you recall documents, emails, whatever, whenever you need them. Good-bye email folders. No more document folders to assign things to. On average, Desktop Search saves me 30 minutes a day. That’s three hours a week — almost a month of work time saved in the course of a year. And the work I’m getting rid of is secretarial, hardly my highest value-add.
托尼·卡勒赞扬的Google桌面搜索，没在上面的列表中是因为它存在于你的硬盘中而非他们的服务器上。桌面搜索索引你硬盘中的一切资料。这能让你找到文件、电子邮件而不管你什么时候需要他们。再见了，电子邮件专用文件夹。不再需要把文件存放到指定的文件夹中。平均而言，桌面搜索每天为我节省三十分钟。也就是每周三个小时——在一年里几乎就节省了一个月的工作时间。我摆脱的都是文秘性质的、几乎不能增加价值的工作。
One final point about learning with Google. Google owns Blogger. Blogger is a drop-dead simple way to set up a free blog. It’s on the Google Desktop.
关于利用Google进行学习的最后一点。Google有它自己的日志系统。如果要建立自己的免费日志，Blogger是一个极其简单的途径。它也是Google桌面的一部分。
I’ve been helping people get up to speed with informal learning in general, and web 2.0 support in specific. Friends I’ve discussed this with agree that if you want to get your head around web-based learning, you simply must write a blog. When I say “write,” I mean at least 20 entries. You can’t appreciate what this is without doing it yourself.
我帮助人们在非正式学习中普遍提高速度，以及很明确的Web2.0支持。同我讨论这个的朋友都同意如果你想让大脑适应基于网络的学习，你最好要写日志。当我说“写”，我的意思是至少20篇文章。你不做的话你不会明白这是什么意思的。
Posted by Jay Cross on Monday, February 19th, 2007, at 4:43 pm, and filed under general.
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