Week Fifteen: Wikis

I created an account so that I could create and edit a wiki. For this activity, I edited a page on the "Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki." I like the idea of wikis for creating a webpage that can be done collaboratively. I do think wikis can be a bit dangerous since anyone can post anything to a wiki. People need to understand that and use them correctly and not as a factual database.

Week Fourteen: Library Thing, etc.

For this week's activity I joined shelfari. I had never heard of shelfari and I'm not a huge reader so I was a bit skeptical about how or if I would use this site. As it turns out the virtual book shelf it kind of useful. I can group together all the books I have read, or want to read so they are in one convenient place. You can also read and write reviews about books which could help me decide what book to read. I can also see what books people with similar interests are reading. I don't know that this will give me any additional time to read, but it might help me be more strategic about what I decide to read.

Week Thirteen: Slide Sharing

Student Leaders

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Week Twelve: Screencasting

I decided to use screencast-o-matic for this activity. I made a screencast of myself making a smiley face in paint (http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cXlIFtvpw).

I also decide to download Jing! and I am going to use that for my final project.

Week Eleven: Break

Take a break - I am particularly good at this particular activity! :-)

Week Ten: Viedo on the Web

Who doesn't love dancing monkeys?!?!?

Week Nine: Instant Messaging

For this activity I went with Google TALK. It was very quick and easy to use, plus it's free, which is always a plus! If you want to invite someone all you have to do is know their email address and you click invite, then type in their email address. If you have a gmail account it will also give you access to you contacts list so you don't have to remember them or type them in. I decided to look into the difference between the regular Google TALK and the Labs Edition for the purpose of this assignment since I was already using Google TALK on a regular basis. The Labs Edition had way more features that I like, for example you could do a conference chat and they had cute little emoticons that you could add. Unfortunately, it was never up and running very consistantly. I even tried emailing google about it, but I have not heard back from them yet. Ultimately I decided to stick it out witht the regular Google TALK and just IM one person at a time.