Thursday, October 8, 2009

The only thing I know, Is that I don't know anything( Socrates)

What a wide space Internet is.
A wide space that we explore a little bit more almost everyday.
This exploration is possible thanks to many tools. We can create, read, see, have access to web contents thanks to this tools.
You don't have to be a total geek to understand MSN or Facebook. But even with almost ten years of internet connection, I still have internet issues, and things that I don't know about.

I'm gonna have to admitt publically my ignorance. Harsh times to come :

  • I don't understand ANYTHING to html
When I write "anything" I mean "ANYTHING". And even when I try I don't. And this is pretty frustrating. For instance, for this blog, I wish I could change my common template or be able to code these little online streaming music players like jiwa's or deezer's. But I simply can't.

Because everytime I try I have to cope with an html code that I have to insert on the code of my pages and it doen't work. It seems quite simple, it is explained on many web pages by nice, toughtful geeks who are willing to share their knowledge on the world wide web, ligthening the fact that html is not a code : it's just a language that everyone is capable to learn, like english or french.

You just have to copy and paste a line of the code, a series of letters and signs written in a particular order... and ta-dam it appears on your screen !

Except that it never does this . The only new thing I can see is a error message. But someday I will suceed. Someday I will because I know how important it is if I want to improve my blog. I'm also very aware that the whole communication sector, professionally speaking, is now completely linked to e-communications, and I wanna accomplished myself in my work, i'll have to know how to handle one of Internet's most basic and useful tool.

  • The RSS Agregator
I'm very fond of it. As an average geek, I must admitt that I enjoy these little babes. But I really can't fix them in my own blog. I don't know where to place the logo, I don't think that people could actually enjoy an RSS agregator in my blog in particular...


And I don't really understand the RSS agregator pages, the links are a little overwhelming, there are so many options, so many clickables links in a netvibes page for instance that I can't find anywhere to click except on these big images shown by the page.
There are so many informations at the same time that I can't find one that interests me enough.
Consequently, as a user, my knowledge of the RSS agregator is terribly superficial.

But I know that a RSS is great way for an internaut like me, also jumping for one interesting page to another, that I have to acquire some discipline in order to learn more, to grab the better directly from the pages I'm the most intersted in, and to be more efficient in my researches on my favourite webistes.

  • e-learning :
What "the things I don't know" are pointing at, is that Internet can be the greatest place to learn. It has the bst professors, the best library, the biggest bank of audio, video or text documents ever. And there are many teachers totally devoted to teach you how to use html or be a pro of the RSS agregator.
Thanks to the french CNED, you can even prepare France big exams from your home, reading the courses and doing the homework from your computer and send it by mail to your professor.
Or, like we are doing in celsa, have along-distance relationship that works, using webcam and msn to directly communicate with your teacher,and unsing a blog paltform to do your homework.
Internet has enver-ebding possibilities, the fact that its contents are mostly free, and acessible from any place and the world makes it almost universal. And universal is a virtue we seek for when it comes to education.

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