Online collaboration

Hey adventurers! On Friday during class we participated in forth-putting ideas as to what certain online collaboration tools were. We discussed what netiquette is. Good netiquette involves respecting others' privacy and not doing anything online that will annoy or frustrate other people. Three areas where good netiquette is highly stressed are e-mail, online chat, and newsgroups. For example, people that spam other users with unwanted e-mails or flood them with messages have very bad netiquette. We worked on global collaboration as a whole here's a clip to demonstrate global collaboration! (bottom left) Next we focused on cultural differences and time zones. Comment if you have to places in the world with different time zones whether they be big or small. I believe that cultural differences are very important to some people. Different cultures have different opinions and differences but I believe everyone should accept differences. Do you guys understand time zones? I do a little bit but its a hard concept to wrap your mind around! When doing this online collaboration task we need to deal with any problems faced in a mature manner whether it be by asking a teacher, having a group vote or putting forward a leader we must work as a team. Can't wait to continue my Ancient China Adventure!!

This is a timezone map stating the different time zones around the world.

Green Initiatives Meeting

Just recently we have had a meeting with the creator of http://greeninitiatives.cn/. His name was Nitin and we had a discussion on how his organisation ran, why he started it and what the purpose or end goal was of the organisation. Some of the questions asked included; How can we in Australia help the environmental crisis in china and other countries? Others included; What is the main goal and where do you see yourself and business in 2-5 to even 10 years time? Nitin responses to these questions were very detailed and he provided us with lots of good information that educated us in different ways. I feel that the interaction with Nitin was very successful. Personally I learnt a lot from the meeting and feel that it was very useful for my understanding on the modern China and the influence of Ancient China. I thought that the questions and answers said were both very educational and well spoken. I can't wait to progress further into this Ancient China Adventure!!