#23: Summarize your thoughts

I enjoyed the journey. I like the fact that it looked at many different elements. I had fun with some of the earlier stuff that you can use to manipulate photos. I had never played around with these websites until completing this course.

#22: ebooks and audio books

I like the Gutenberg website. I like the fact that the books are free and there is no membership fee. This would be an excellent website for an English teacher and students. No more paper copies of books, unless of course the student doesn't have access to an electronic device to read one on. World book fair was good in that it also has audio books.

#21: Podcasts

I typically don't have time to listen to podcasts. If I did, I might listen to something funny like the Adam Carolla show.

#20: Youtube and video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJPzUCs9LQM I chose this video on installing dog doors. I chose it because I wanted to view a quick how to before I cut a hole in my door. Seemed easy enough but it never hurts to view another example. I like the thumbs up/down feature on Youtube. It keeps me from wasting time watching poorly submitted videos.

#19. Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/stealthy007 I just chose five books on the bestseller list. One that I chose was World War Z because I like Zombie movies. I did find some conversations about the book but chose not to look at them because i don't want any spoilers. It brought up a bunch of information about Zombie books though.

#18: Online Productivity Tools

One of my favorite productivity tools is google docs. Jimmy and I used to to work on our inventory. We could both work on the document at the same time and the document updated for both of us in real time.

#16: Wikis

I like the idea of people being able to edit and add information to a document. A lot of times people have valuable information to add. Having students make wikis as part of history research would be a good project.

#15. Copyright, Creative Comons, and What's Coming Down the Road

I liked the copyright comic approach copyright information. A lot of times students need a different approach to copyright infringement. I think that this comic does that. The horizon report is interesting in that it forecasts future use of technology in the classroom. I've seen most of the trends discussed but because of various budget constraints, not all of them are implemented.

#14: Technorati, Tags, SEO

I had more luck using the google blog search. The Technorati search didn't return any results. I managed to find my own blog on the google search. Tagging can be helpful to find information that you might find important.

#13: Delicious

I see how this website could be useful for people who have a common set of interests.

#12: Fun 'n' games

Couldnt play around with Rollyo. I guess they shut the website down.

#6: Poster Maker

Had a blast with poster maker. You can make your own motivational posters.

#9: Topix.net

Topix.net was useful to find all newsfeeds on a topic you are interested in. It's helped me find some interesting websites.

#7: Windows 8 tablets

Viewed my first Windows 8 tablet. I liked the hardware side of it but don't care for Windows 8. It seems that I'm not the only one who feels the same. One thing is for sure, Windows 8 will not make a footprint in the desktop market.

11#: Web 2.0 awards list

Out of the list, I find Dropbox to be very useful. I put it on my phone and all my computers to easily have access to photos and commonly used documents. Google docs has also come in handy when I want to collaborate with others on a document.

#10: Online image generator

Here is a picture I created from Aqauatica. I guess some of these image tools work better than others. It cropped the top of my picture :( The site I used was: http://bighugelabs.com

#8: RSS feeds

RSS feeds are useful way to keep track on information from many of the websites you go to daily.  It centralizes much of the information that you look at.  I use them when reading news stories because they help get you news quickly from a variety of resources.

#5: Flickr

My trip to to see Hagerty testing with picture uploaded on Flickr.  Easy way to upload images to blogs.