Technology is important because it helps people do things faster and easier. It allows people to learn things faster, to communicate in an instant, to travel the world within days, to cut down construction of things in half (or more,) etc. Over the last five years technology has taken off. The items coming out are bigger, better, and faster than those of previous years, and they have greater uses. During the next five years I think that technology will become even more advanced, and we will be able to do more with it.
I use the internet for school work. When I get stuck on a problem that I do not know or need to find information that's the first places that I go. I also use calculators for my math and a translator for my Spanish. Personally, I use my phone, laptop, TV, and iPod on a daily basis. Sometimes when I'm doing work around the house I listen to my doc or the radio.
The only tools that I think I will ever use from Online B in the future would be digital storytelling, excel, screen-casting, and iGoogle. iGoogle is probably the most practical for lifelong learning because it has everything right at your finger tips. I will never use a blog, wiki, career exploration, or digital portfolio ever again. I didn't see the point in most of those and they aren't an interest of mine. My favorite thing to create was probably the digital stories because they were the most fun and didn't seem like work. My least favorite would probably have to be the wikis or the blog because they were annoying and I didn't see the point in them.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Screencast Comparison
I like both screencasts the same because they were both almost exactly the same. Screencast-o-matic is more known to people so it gets used more. The second one that I used took me awhile to find but it worked just as good as screencast-o-matic, looked almost exactly the same.
Screencast
A screencast is a tool used to record the window of a computer so that people can see how to do things and get explanations while doing it. I liked creating one because it was kind of cool but I didn't like it because it was also annoying. If I didn't know how to do something then it would be very helpful. It is only helpful to the people who need to know how to do something and who have looked it up for that purpose.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Google Docs vs. Windows Live
I like using both Google Docs and Windows Live. They both work very well and have great advantages. However, they both have their downsides. I like Google Docs because everything is organized, and the way that is set-up makes it very easy to use; the documents also automatically save themselves so you don't have too. The down side is that the set up of the actual documents themselves is kind of a turn off. You can only see part of the document at a time. What I liked about Windows Live was that you could see the whole document screen and it was also very easy to use. The only thing that I didn't like was that the set-up of the website was different from what I'm used to, and it's not on a site that I use everyday and would remember to look at.
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