What are the advantages and limitation of the design cycle as means for making a product/solution? The advantage was that I used Photoshop before. So, it wasn’t very difficult for me. The limitation is for my English, that I cannot express what I want to say easily.
2 What is the impact of new emerging tech and their application? The impact would be that all the people are using technology. The internet, phone, transportation is a part of the tech that the people use.
3. Advantages and disadvantages of blog. Advantages of Blogs
1. Blog sites can be developed with the help of simple procedures.
2. A blog post goes public, in other words, it can be accessed and read by almost everyone who have an access to internet.
3. The usage of blogs are very convenient, hence people tend to use them more frequently.
4. Students tend to improve their writing skills as blog articles should be reasonably good enough and free grammatical mistakes.
5. Students get into the habit of writing, which helps them in all their future endeavors.
6. Blog sites used as online class forums enables students with various personalities to participate in a discussion far more effectively than they can otherwise.
7. Individuals learn to express their opinions and exchange their views on topics of common interest, which not only keeps them updated but also effective contributor’s of new ideas.
8. Individuals get a chance to read other blogs, which indirectly helps them to improve upon their skill of writing.
9. Instructors of online classes get an opportunity to know what students feel about the class and its presentation quality and help to find ways to improve upon drawbacks if any.
10. It is place for students and individuals to share their articles and opinions with people outside their community.
Disadvantages of Blogs
1. It involves a lot of time to update and post an entry on the blog site
2. Regular writing may give rise to slangs and sloppy way of writing spoiling the quality of proper usage of language.
3. One major drawback is that not all information can be shared on blog sites. Hence may not be useful for everyone.
4. The need to have a computer may not be feasible for everyone.
5. Individuals and students may have reluctance is getting used to the technological advancements.
6. Blogging cannot be thrusted upon students who are hardly interested in reading and replying to the post.
7. Blogging on day to day issues is different from writing on the subject. Hence it may not be a practical idea to force them to do it.
8. We were talking individual blogs linked to the groups website, while it is good for students to have their own blog sites, remember not all may be able to participate, unless, all the comments are seen in one common blogging site.
9. There is no confidentiality as it is a public forum.
10. It can no way be related to conversation, as there is always a time gap in the replies received.
11. It is not suited for issues requiring immediate solution.
12. Blogs create a sense of students competing with each just for posting entries. The fear of students getting diverted away from the subject is an issue of concern.
13. The moment students open to the web; it is not just the blogging site that they can have access to. The whole world of information is before them, hence there is every chance that they may get diverted away from the discussion
4. Document your experience of making a product- solution using a design cycle. Well, I do not have many experiences. But one of the most important is that is my first time, that I do a poster with Photoshop and I had a lot of fun
5. Investigate, design, plan, create and evaluate.