Animoto

My Animoto is about our trips to the 1000 Islands to visit my Mom, The child is my granddaughter. This was really fun. I have some ideas to use it in my web page.

Learning Module 5 - What I learned

This Learning Module was very fun. I learned how to use a few web2.0 websites. I liked Kizoa, it was really easy to use, but you really can't do a lot of extra stuff with it. It was very basic. I, being a graphic designer, am used to being able to do whatever I like with my pictures and making a really cool, not so jerky slideshow. I guess I am pretty particular with my projects. I liked doing the Voki too. It was fun picking out all the details of it. I wish there were more to choose from. I really learned alot about p2p and the illegal uploading of music. I knew it was a problem in this country, but I didn't realize how much of a problem it is all over the world. I think that it has really become an addiction. Kids especially just can't seem to quit doing it, even though they know that it is illegal, and could have real consequences to it, like a huge fine, and being kicked out of school. Some new terms I learned were: 1. Folksonomy - practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. The good thing about this is that you can use your own tags - use your own language. 2. Mashup - A web application hybrid that combines data from multiple sources. There are two types: A) Presentation-centric - Widgets, Gadgets, Embedding, Etc. and B) Data-centric - News Feeds (RSS, Atom), stock tickers, maps and forms. 3. Vodcasting - a video podcast. It is a podcast in a compressed movie format. It will often contain a combination of animated sequences, moving images and sount. 4. Podcasting - an audio recording (like a mini radio show). It can be very short, or 30 minutes long. It is an MP3 file that anyone can download.

WL12 My Voki

I found Kizoa easy to use. I am not happy with the way the transitions stop before the slid changes though. I couldn't figure out how to stop this from happening. This is the first time I have used anything like this site. It was fun, and I probably will use it again.

Trip To Florida - free slideshow maker with music

WOW! This has been one great Learning Module. I have learned a lot! I never thought I would ever get into Twitter, Now I check it everyday. I really like it. I am following a lot of companies, Magazines, blogs, etc.  in the Graphic Designer field. It is great.

We did a glog which is a graphic blog. We had to choose a web 2.0 that we wanted to learn about and do a glog on it. That was very fun, but I was frustrated when I couldn't move the type around to fit better in the shapes I chose. Working on designing ads for so many years, I am used to doing what ever I wanted with the text. I did my glog on Twitter. I find it fascinating that Twitter has that backchannel that can be used in education. During a lecture in a large lecture hall, the teacher can have a hashtag for the students to tweet messages that can be read in real time. If the student is shy, and has a question, it can be answered without even raising your hand.

I learned that Wikis are not just Wikipedia. On Wikia.com you can create your own wiki page on anything you want.

The video in cyberlesson 6 taught me a lot. I wanted to embed it here, but couldn't figure out how.

I learned more about drop box from Ryan Kneeppel's glog. Very interesting. It might have been handy where I used to work. Ad reps always gave us jump drives or emails with photos and graphics for their ads, If we had a drop box account we might have been able to find them more efficiently.

I had never heard of Yugma before I saw Alex's glog. It sounds very useful for the business world today.

New Terminology:

glog - A blog poster made with video, pictures, etc.
backchannel - online conversation about a topic or speaker. It can be used in conferences, lectures, etc. You can use Twitter for this.
microblogging - A combination of blogging and texting. It can only have 140 characters or less. Follow conversations, network with people in your profession, share information.
folksonomy - a combination of the words folk and taxonomy. Social bookmarking and websites like Twitter and Facebook are examples. It is when users tag, share and comment on information.

I have included some pictures of a few of the glogs I learned from