Communication- Connect the Whole World

Mcburnery, R. (2012). Is social assistance the next frontier of social media

              innovation. Getbusy. Retrieved from http://www.getbusymedia.com/is-social-assistance-the-next-frontier-of-social-media-innovation/

Through the 4-month study of communication in ALES 204, Communication Theory and Practice, I learn a lot about communication such as twitter, facebook, flickr, Wikipedia. They all have great influence to my life and my academic study. Before taking this course, I only use facebook, msn to know more information from my friends, but I do not know those techniques of communication can be used to communicate scientific research. After taking this course, I can effectively use those techniques in my work and study.

All techniques what I know from class have advantages and disadvantages. I have never used Twitter before the course. Twitteris very useful and convenient for briefly communicating information. I can use my cell phone to update the Twitter, read the updated information which I am interested in wherever I am. Twitter can also bring other people to be more connected in one twitter, which means we can @ other people who relate to this twitter, so these people can pay attention to this tweet, and get involved to it. However, there are very limited characters in one twitter, so sometimes I cannot express what I want to say completely in one tweet. For example, in ALES class, the professor asks me tweet about my thought of Audioboo, but I have many thoughts about it, so I only can write several tweets for one ideas.   

Compare to   Clara T.'s Wikipedia blog post. I find that we have very similar thoughts about Wkipedia. Wikipedia is very helpful for me because it contain various information.  Wikipedia is not always accurate, but it can remind people the direction of research because people cannot think up what do they need to research about one topic.  What I learn from class is that I also can get involved to Wikipedia.  She talks about the disadvantage which I do not mention in my Wikipedia blog post is that the coding system of Wikipedia is very complicated. There are many symbols we need to use when we edit stubs. It is hard to use method to edit the words like underline, add links. These methods are easy for reader to the Wikipedia articles, but are hard for editors to use them. Wikipedia should improve the coding system.

ALES course is not only useful for our academic research, but also teach effective techniques relate to work.  Checking email is daily work I have to do. Writing professional email gives me useful suggestion of writing cover letter, so it can avoid non-proper use of words and formats. Interview is the scared part of looking for a job. The class introduce Audioboo to the class, which gives me a good chance to experience a practice interview. All the students uploan the interview to Audioboo, so they can learn more from others, and improve their interviews. However, as Audioboo is public accessible, everyone can uploan their interview, so it is hard to find a good sample of interview. I have to spend a lot of time to listen many interviews, and judge which one is a good sample.  

Compare to other courses, ALES course is very practical in our daily work and study.  Social media build connection among people, and connect the whole world together. Social media will be the mainstream in the future.

I really enjoy reading other student's blog posts, and comment on Clara T , Susan , Vldezl , shan-wilson , anneleedaniel

Science of Chinese Food (free blog post)

Since nutrition becomes more and more important thing that people concern, and Chinese food is the food that I consume daily, so this article is focusing on nutrition of Chinese food. Generally, Chinese people are thinner than western people because they have completely different dietary patterns. Chinese diet is rice-based diet, and meat only occupies small portion of a meal.

Green tea is an essential drink in a meal. Chinese people cannot eat without drinking tea. Green tea is from the leaves which are withered after being picked. This process strongly stops the oxidizing the green tea leave, so reduce producing free radical in the leaves(Chattopadhyay, C., et al, 2012). Green tea contains caffeine, but is much less than coffee. Small amount of caffeine can reduce liver disease and asthma syndrome. (Unachukwa, U. et al,2010) Catechins is another nutrient contained in green tea, which is a kind of antioxidant polyphenols. (Unachukwa, U. et al, 2010) Catechins can stimulate immune system, and lower the rate of heart disease and some kinds of cancer.(Unachukwa, U. et al, 2010)

The health benefits of green tea. (2012). Health Articles. Retrieved from   http://www.lookhealthy.org/the-health-benefits-of-green-tea/

Green tea fat burner. (2006). Ozzibug. Retrieved from
               http://www.ozzibug.net/

Another important food is soybean. Soybeans and its products are relatively cheap in China, and contain abundant high quality protein. Soybean milk is a very common drink in the morning as a substituent of cow milk, and people regard it as poor people’s cow milk.  In cafeterias of some schools and companies, soybean milk is daily provided. Soybean curd is another common soy product on dinner table. Soybean curd is made of soybean milk and coagulant, like calcium sulfate, so soybean curd is high in calcium. Soybean does not contain cholesterol, and it can reduce LDL cholesterol which is “bad cholesterol” (Rohr, U. et al, 2010). Vitamin B1, B2, B6, E, iron, folic acid and dietary fiber are rich in soybeans as a result as reducing some cancers. One special component is isoflavones which can replace estrogen in women’s body to prevent some cancers. It can also increase estrogen activity. (Rohr, U. et al, 2010)

Chinese food is a healthy and delicious cuisine. Everyone may like it. Science of food is an endless topic, Jenna P.   also has other research about food science.

Benefit of soy milk. (2012). Health Pravit Care. Retrieved from
                               http://healthprivatecare.com/benefit-of-soy-milk/

Soybean curd. (2010). Quinn's baking diary. Retrieved from
                        http://bakingquinn.blogspot.ca/2010/05/soybean-curd
                         -wobby-tau-foo-fah.html

Reference:
Chattopadhyay, C., Chakrabarti, N., Chatterjee, M., Chatterjee, S., Bhattacharyay, D.,
        Ghosh, D.(2012). Evaluation of acute anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities
         of green tea decoction on experimental animal models. International Journal of
         Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases, 2(1), 20-25. Retreved from
         Academic Search Complete.

Rohr, U, Gocan, A, Bachg, D., Schindler, A.(2010). Cancer protection of soy
         resembles cancer protection during pregnancy. Hormone Molecular Biology
           & Clinical Investigation, 3 (2), 391-409. Retreved from Academic Search
          Complete.

Unachukwu, U., Ahmed, S,  Kavalier, A. Lyles, J, T., Kennelly, E.(2010). White and
        green ea ( camellia sinensis var. sinensis): variation in phenolic, methylx
        anthine, and antioxidant  profiles.Journal of Food Science, 75(6), 541-548.
        Retreved from Academic Search Complete.
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Wikipedia Stub Article

Hot zone (environment). (2012). Wikipedia. Retieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hot_zone_(environment)#types_of_hot_zone

        I have use Wikipedia to research since I was in Grade Four. Wikipedia greatly contribute to my study. However, I have never thought about to be an editor of Wikipedia. The assignment of this week gives me a chance to an editor of Wikipedia. I choose the stub, hot zone (environment), which is a very interesting topic. I expand the biological hot zone and nuclear hot zone, which are predominate issue in recent years. For example, the areas where have swine influenza and the areas where have radioactive chemicals are the places where people concern about the safety. However, there are not many information about any aspects of hot zone, so I specifically choose articles of biological hot zone of swine influenza and nuclear hot zone in Japan.

      Wikipedia gives various kinds of information, which is a very good and convenient source for learning more knowledge if the information is from trustful references. However, in the lecture, it talks about that there are about four errors in one article of Wikipedia, which is very high compare to other encyclopedia, and a lot of information is from non-peer reviewed articles or non-official websites. Some information may be not accurate due to everyone can edit in Wikipedia. Many non-researchers expand information by using commercial websites or magazines.  I am not familiar to this topic, I cannot directly collect data and do the analysis about the hot zone, and I only get the information from secondary source, so I cannot judge the information whether is true or not. However, under this situation, I try as much I can to make a good article of Wikipedia by researching a lot of academic paper from database and researching statistics from official websites, so my article about hot zone has high reliability.

You can get more information about the hot zone (environment) and Realibility of Wikipedia. Lastly, you can fine more wikipedia post from other students' blog post Chronicles of Shan

He, A. (2011). IAEA: three major problems of Japan's Kufushima accident. Internation Business Times. Retrieved from   http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/156197/20110603/iaea-three-major-problems-of-japan-s-fukushima-nuclear-accident.htm

The year's influenza, swine influenza.(2012) HEALTH Retrieved from http://how-to-prevent-flu.com/2012/02/this-years-influenza-virus-the-swine-flu/

External link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_zone_(environment)#Types_of_hot_zones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

Facebook Page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Hs-Page/305626309490070#!/pages/Crystal-Hs-Page/305626309490070?sk=wall
         This is my first Facebook Page. I have never created a Facebook Page before this class. Facebook page is different from my personal Facebook. Facebook page can let more people to know about me, but only my friends can get my personal information and what I have done from personal Facebook. One Facebook Page has only one topic, which anybody who interested in this topic can click LIKE, and get more updated information from the Facebook page. The reason why I create a Facebook page is that I want to get more information about nutrition and health. I also want to know other people's opinion about my research, and I am looking forward about that other people post their research and what they find from other resource. Therefore, the page may contain a lot of information about nutrition and health. All people can learn a lot of nutrition and health knowledge from my page.

       Facebook page is very helpful for my future career.I can post any research which I found to the Facebook page. I will post all the link and information to the page if I find some useful nutrition and health information, so the page seems like an online nutrition and health library. We can regard this Facebook page as conference. Everyone can talk about nutrition and health onto the page. I can post all updated nutrition and health information to the page, and others who are interested in can post as well, so we can share all the information. After I have done a research, I will post the result and link of my report to the page, so everyone can see my result, analyze and discuss. After a few years, there will be thousands of information on the page. To my job, I need do a lot research, so this can be my blueprint of my research analysis.


Here is my best friend's Facebook Page LoVE_SpongeBOB

introduction

        
         I'm Lutong Huang. Every one calls me Crystal. I'm in second year of nutrition and food science majoy. I'm very interested in nutrition because nutrition is close to our life everyday.


          
           Checking Facebook is one thing I must do everyday. I can't live without contacting my friends even one day. I need to know what my friends do, by the way to contact them what are we going to do.  Communication is very important for my field of study because I need to get information about nutrition and food science from other people and tell them what I think. In my current study and future work, I do need to always cooperate with other people to discuss and research, so communication is the only way to share ideas. One most important thing is presentation!! For every research I've done, I have to present to other people.

         Communication is  important. For example, when my partner and I do the research about what nutrient is contained in a tomato. First of all I do need to do the research about tomato. I should research what nutrients are contained in tomato and what do the other research say about the tomato. I can have a lot of way to do the research. I can join the group of nutrition in Facebook, or click in twtter read someone says about the tomatoes. From those, I can get some information from non-reseacher, because sometimes non-researcher may say something helpful, and reflect my research.Then, I need to look for some journals from other profesors or researchers blogs or websites, and read what they research. Before the lab, we should share about what we get the information. Finally, when we work in the lab, we need to communicate about what we found from the experiment. Then, we gather both information and analyze the result. After we done the experiment, we write paper. We should post it on the blogs and share what we found from the experiment, and compare others.


         Here is my best friend's blog!!! Yvonne L.

IT LOOKS DELICOUS!!!

http://germes-online.com/catalog/2/5/141/6714/tomato.html