You Tube

The YouTube site I'd been to before, so this was a little easier for me. I checked out Alec Baldwin's rant to his daughter, watched a clip from a Jon Stewart show and now I'm listening to Joshua Bell play violin, since I missed him when dressed like a street musician and played at a subway stop several weeks ago.

Web 2.0 Tools

This lesson invited us to explore one Web 2.0 site. I checked out facebook, although because I am not a college student, I couldn't do what I really wanted to do which was to read accounts from some students I know at Va. Tech about the tragedy yeasterday. The value of these new information sharing tools really becomes apparent in a situation like that -- it was incredible to me how fast students could connect with one another online to find out what was happening and who was okay.

Web Based Applications

I am creating a document using a web based application.  Hmmm, is there anyone wtih enough time to look at this and edit it, so we get a feel for why this is useful in the real world?  I can't think of anyone, the staff is pretty busy right now.  So I will fo ahead and save and see if I can get back to it later. 

 

Since I use Apple, I look forward to the day when people use this free software to share ideas, so I am not faced with attachments that are in Word that I can't open.  I wonder if the Web based applications are more vulnerable to viruses than applications sstored on my computer at home.  Logically, it seems like they would be.  Someone evil could pretend to be your boss and sneak in and edit all your work!  Still it would be nice to be able to use an application you don't use very often without paying full price for it.  My husband works for IBM and they are trying to develop Web based software you could use for a fee.

 

 

Wiki Sand Box

I liked reading about favorite books. I got some ideas for my fantasy loving son. The favorite restaurants site was less helpful as most of the suggestions were in other cities. I treid to post my blog under "favorite blogs", but it did not appear, so I'll check again tomorrow.