GOOD BYE ....

What you want to learn more of, what you hope never to have to do again?
Last chance to get it all out.
When we started this class I thought I new everything there was to know about web 2.0, but boy was I wrong. I've learned so much through this class about different sites to accomplish different goals and how is it is to use some of these sites.I think after trying all these new sites it has made me want to go out and try out more new sites. I am a very hands on learner so actually participating in the project made it so much more fun to learn about. I plan to use the video and photo manipulation sites in the future because I really enjoy creating stuff. I am also hoping to get better at photo manipulation and getting a better camera and trying to make a side job out of it. One thing I probably wont ever do again is make a podcast I'm not a big fan of hearing myself talk...LOL

AM

COPYRIGHT or WRONG?

I'm still not 100% on this Copyright stuff. Basically to me unless you wrote it, created it, or bought and paid for it you have no rights to anything in this world. Its all comes down to a few people messing it up for everyone else, and the old mighty dollar if someone thinks they can make a quick but off you they will.Dont get me wrong I dont agree with kids remixing as they called it, I think they could reword it so you know they got the sense of whatever it is they are doing, and also created the original creator. Maybe we should better educate or children about these rules and be a bit more specific, they arent going to learn get accused of high jacking someone elses work all the time. We should also teach to our youngsters to think for themselves a bit more. I guess my over all opinion is yes we should have a copyright, but to what degree is it necessary I think it has gone too far.

Generation F

I am an avid Facebooker, it has become increasingly worse since classes started back up, I'm stuck on the computer all day everyday for homework so at the same time I am Facebooking with friends and family. I just recently got the internet on my phone and thats something I didn't want to do in the beginning of the semester and now I have it, because thats where most of my networking, and communication with my boyfriend is done through because he's deployed right now. Most of the people I talk to on a daily basis are at work, and I always nag them about being allowed to be on Facebook while at work.I remember when people used to get in trouble for using it at work and now its just excepted by employers.
Just recently I began to notice that people status's were updated more frequently and about more day to day things, nothing increasingly important. I guess that would come from "Power comes from sharing, not Hoarding" Everyone wants to share and the more they share the more connected they are to others. The other thing that caught my eye was "Contribution counts for more than credentials" this is very true no one cares about who's posting what all they care about is how it may relate to them or someone they know.
I Love the internet and what it does for me, makes life a little easier SOMETIMES,for example communicating with our soldiers,who are 100's of miles from home and need that support. The internet has also become a problem people like myself are becoming way to reliant on it and for simple communication or just simply over using it.

The Longest Trail

I love to shop online, actually as I type right now I am shopping online for Christmas and myself of course ;)My cousin shops off Amazon so much that she gets all these super deals and never has to pay S&H.I used to do Amway Global, for those of you who dont know what it is, its a group of stores like Sears, barns and noble, car parts stores and SO MUCH MORE, anyway the point of this was that my higher up was always saying how by 2013 or something like that, that 80% of people in the US would be shopping online for most of their needs. I'm not sure there math was completely right with the time and percent, I know over the years since then that peoples internet shopping had just got bigger and bigger.You can get great deals, you save on gas, and it can be done from the convenient of your very own home. I think that the internet will continue to get bigger , and so will our shopping from it.

Podcasting

This week we went over podcasts, from how to make one to how to pick one. I never used podcast before in my life and was very interested in finding out my opinion about them was based on the a small fraction of what podcast was. I was excited to know that podcasting included music,articles, movies , TV and more. I don't think I will get much personal use out of it, but there are some cool learning podcasts out there for kids, which would be better than TV because then they can use their imagination.I dont know as if podcast will make it big or last long, but nothing really does anymore there is always bigger and better things to come with more complication, and more convenience or so they say.

Class vlog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3ZOm11k10

testing ...let see if it works

Power Point Presentation

I love making Powerpoints, they make presenting so easy.Hans did a great job of showing what a powerpoint is capable of, not that I was interested really in the statistics of what he was showing. The animation was great and his presentation itself was an attention getter.Powerpoints should only be used for a few quick lines to let the audience know what you will be informing them about, then the presenter does the rest.I have made powerpoints for a few years or more now, but I still dont think mine will be as well put together as Hans.I will admitt I have trouble sometimes with putting too much information on my powerpoint because I have trouble with public speaking and forget everything I want to share as soon as I get up there, that is until I notices they had a little note section on the bottom of the powerpoints so I can write what I want to share without it showing up on the slide itself. I plan to take everything I learn from this week and put it to good use.