Web 2.0 Chapter 13

My apologies for this I realized I had put my post in draft instead of posting it.  It had been a long week.

The chapter for this week was very interesting I found.  I am very familiar with many of the technologies discussed.  Skype for instance I am familiar with and have enjoyed when I get the chance to use it.  I had a cousin who went to Spain last semester and that was the only way I had to communicate with her.   Unfortunately, in that case the time difference more than technology made it difficult to take advantage of that opportunity.  However, I do know that her mother really appreciated the opportunity of communicating with her this easily as she had never been this far from home before and the two are close.  I am thankful that the opportunity was available to her that would not have been even a few years ago.

I did not enjoy looking at Second Life.  While the concept is sound and intriguing in practice I found it to be cumbersome and confusing.  I had trouble moving around and performing basic tasks.  Now, I admit I am not perhaps as technologically savy as I perhaps ought to be, but I'm not exactly a slouch either.  So far as the digital divide is concerned, I am somewhere in the middle.  I know a lot, but I also have a lot to learn.  This is even more the case with the Web 2.0 technology.  So much new technology or updates to current technology has come out that it at times is difficult for me to keep up.  I feel like a blank page lost and when I find that picture I will be adding it or something like it.

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I found a picture of an airplane on wikipedia's page about airplanes.  One can travel and learn at the same time, especially  now with the seeming ease of the Internet.  I was trying to capture the concept for distance learning.  I added this picture after the original post, but I hope everyone likes it anyway.

Week 9

This week we looked at Skype and other Web 2.0 projects.  It was the start of other projects as well.  This week was a challenge.  It was easier in some ways than others.  There was a lot of terminology to remember and the truth is I'll be taking the quiz after I work on this blog and my responses to the discussion board.  I apologize to everyone for such a late response.  The week got away from me.  I like skype.  I enjoyed using it.  It's difficult sometimes to stay connected with people.  The Internet makes the process easier, but who knows what to disclose and what not to.file://localhost/Users/davidferrell/Documents/Susie/School/General/Computer%20Classes/101/Word/Horse%20and%20Rider.jpg Ok I just tried to paste a horse and rider picture that's used for CINS 101, but this galloping western seems appropriate as the semester gallops to completion.  I'll have to play with the graphics a bit, but the picture will come.

Good luck to all for the rest of the semester.

Delightful Delicious

Not really, but I liked the alliteration.  The truth is, while I can see value in a site like this I so seldom use bookmarks that for me as a user this site was less helpful than it perhaps could have been.  For those who have a lot of bookmarks this site would be invaluable.  I feel like a broken record repeating that so much.  I did not find what bookmarking  I did to be useful.  Personally, I will not be using the site or something like it.  Professionally, if a library I worked for utilized a site like this I would use it.  It could be a good way to reference.  I am happy to reevaluate my stance, as I am not sure  I gave this as a fair a shot as I perhaps ought to have done.  I did enjoy reading the various articles I found on the sites that I monitored, but for me I wished there was a better way.  Quite probably I did not search in as effectivge manner as I probably should have.  As a resource, this site could be invaluable, but it also seems like maintaining one's page (whether personal or for a library would require a lot of work).  Perhaps, this isn't the intent and most likely I am missing the mark.  If this is the case please enlighten me.  I don't mean to sound pessimistic.  I admit confusion and that's probably part of the problem.  Any ideas?  Okay, maybe I should have brought this up a long time ago, but better late than never.  Seriously though, for those who use bookmarks I think this site would be useful.    It just demonstrates how vast the Internet is and how different people's search techniques are.  There are sites for different people and it is all right for some to like one site and others to like a different one.

I'm copying and pasting my profile picture for this post because it seems appropriate.  Hopefully everyone will be able to see  it.








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Web 2.0

This week I feel like I've been playing catch up.  A lot of that has to do with not feeling well last week and midterms in my other classes.  Hectic, doesn't begin to cover it (expected though it was).  All possible of course, but it does make for a stressful week.  The Web 2.0 material was fairly familiar to me since I've used most of it before.  I've used Skype and Twitter sporadically and have been on and off Facebook since I joined.  One thing I have noticed with all of these different programs is that it is very easy to get sucked into it and not get what or as much as you would like done.  So far as libraries are concerned it is important for them to have some type of presence on Web 2.0 sites and the Internet in general.  This is especially true as people who have lived all their lives with this tool age and are born.  They will expect information at a faster rate than people of previous generations (even sometimes those born in the 80's or just before).  I finished the sklls test and I think I misunderstood it last week or was thinking of a different test.  The questions were interesting and it demonstrates the absolute necessity of being specific when searching the Internet.

I'll be using Facebook and Twitter for my two projects.  I'll message the class again if needed about my account as I know one class member had difficulties.  I am on Facebook fairly frequently and am intrigued by Twitter, though I admit that I use it very infrequently.

I admit to not being impressed with delicious.  Now, I may have come in with a bias that stunted the entire process.  The sites I chose do not appear to have had many updates.  I depended on delicious to show me the updates.  I'm not sure if I didn't look at the right places on the site or if they just didn't post very much.

Right now, I feel blank and am sorely tempted not to leave a picture because of that, but that isn't practical.  Here's an attempt at a picture (assuming that it works) 




Here's what information I know about this picture and I admit it isn't much.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=web+2.0+pictures&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 I don't know an author and that would be very helpful.