Mashups

Wow. I thought the 11 Flickr mashups were hilarious. I agree that most of the stuff is really useless. But some of it was interesting and probably fun if you had a few minutes to spare. Creating mashups without a purpose is really difficult. Unless I have a specific thing that I want to do with an application, it's hard to create a mashup. Very informative week, but not really my fav.

Podcasts

Well I don't know that I was impressed with some of the podcast sites, but I liked the Yahoo search. It was a little simpler and a little bit easier to read what each one was about and gave me a little bit more information. Podcasts are interesting but I haven't ever really had a need for one. (Although I would like to take some ASL through one...) I honestly didn't find one that I thought would be useful. I have liked the ones that we've had for Learning 2.0, but other than that, I'm not too interested.

Discover YouTube

I'm not a big YouTube fan. Yeah, some of the videos are funny/interesting/useful but I really don't surf YouTube. It's neat to be able to post your own stuff and maybe even get a little bit of YouTube fame, but I really don't have a YouTube "fascination". But I did find a pretty funny video. Makes you wonder how many people really need a better education (or need to pay more attention to the things going on around them...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp6_oFSh_ss

Yeah.

I used Google Docs to create this blog entry. I think that this is a really great application! I don't know that I think it's better than Word, but it could be useful for students who don't have a personal computer, who don't like to use the W drive on campus or who don't have their jump drives with them. It's a neat application.

Web-Based Applications 101

I really think that is a great service offered to students!! The availability, simplicity, and cost ($0) makes all of those applications even more useful. I personally think that the zotero.org application is one that would be really useful. Especially for those who are in more research based majors or jobs. The wiki application is nice for group work (like I've said before) and it is good that there is a place where you can get your own.

Get Your Hands Dirty in the Wiki Sandbox!

One thing that I like about the wiki is how easy it is. You don't have to know html or any other computer language to accomplish it. I think that it will explode and become a more popular and widespread application in the very near future.

Like I said in the previous post, I think that the library could offer a group work wiki for students to do group work. Maybe that can be something that is offered through the Studio.

Gettin' Wiki With It!

Okay, I really like this application! I think that it's a great tool for group work! I think that we might offer it (along with a link to that video that explains how to use it) to students from the library home page. They can do group work through it. I know that blackboard offers wikis but professers don't always make them available. It might help our patrons with group work and make things a little more streamlined. Just a suggestion.