Linkedin

The Purpose of Linkedin is to manage your business in for information and networking to other people on Linkedin. It is usefulness is in sharing you information with people around the world with having to go to the locations. Not knowing the much about business and seeing that they already have Invitations or a away for sending your information specifically, I cannot think of anything that would help them.

Table of Networking

Table of Networking

	Facebook	Twitch	Twitter
Instant Message	X	X	X
Friends List	X		X
Videos	X	X	X
Followers/Following	X	X	X
Live Streaming		X
News Links	X		X
Image uploading	X		X

For this Table I used thing that come to mind when I use things like Twitter,Facebook, etc. Facebook and Twitter have most of items on table however they do them in different ways. Twitter has more links and uploading to one comment instead of to an accounts. Twitter is more for small sentences and comments but at a fast pace, while Facebook is more for sharing a lot at once. Twitch is completely different, Twitch is for sharing gaming experiences live.

Game|Life Podcast: Evil Within, Smash Bros. Have Killer Sales

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/gamelife-podcast-episode-133/

I am guessing this one does not work it starts by telling you what it is about. The top selling games in October but then it leads to RSS and Itunes to subscribe but they did not work for me. I used Google Chrome and nothing said anything was not compatible. I was excited for this one but it did not work. maybe it will work for someone else give it a try.

Podcast Alley VS Podcast.COM

As someone who does not go to podcast websites very often but know podcast doing this comparison was based mostly on feel. I got all of my reviews podcast off of Podcast Alley due to not liking how Podcast.com looks

So lets start with podcast.com. It looks like a pop-up website you get for websites looking for clicks. nothing on the front page brings you to the podcast on this page it is really weird it just has links to other website for making podcast. there is nothing here.

Podcast Alley looks like a legit website busy but it is busy with the podcast that is has to show you on this website.There is not much to this one but it is better than what it could have been. It works and it is not weird to go to.

The Non-Fiction Writers podcast: Previewing Oklahoma-Texas Tech with Aaron Dickens of RedRaiderSports.com

This one is definitely my favorite (Sarcasm), it starts out with advertisement and then you see what is presumably the podcast. Nope another advertisement it only looks like the podcast and after the advertisements there is a "click here for the actual podcast.

This podcast was about Sooner's and Texas Tech Football. I normally am not fan of just hearing about football I want to see football. This was surprisingly boring I could not finish more than five minutes. They talked about quarterbacks one that was on both teams but may not play, this was AWFUL but try it for yourself if you like podcast and Sooner's Football you may like it.

http://newsok.com/the-non-fiction-writers-podcast-previewing-oklahoma-texas-tech-with-aaron-dickens-of-redraidersports.com/article/5366395

Hilarious parody of Serial podcast turns to phone book for clues

http://www.cnet.com/news/hilarious-parody-of-serial-podcast-turns-to-phone-book-for-clues/

Hello,

This Podcast had reading with it which I liked. The Podcast I assume was the video and the reading was like this a review.

The person doing the podcast I really did not like there style of doing the podcast I assume it is satire. When the video started there was something about doing a murder podcast and from there got really jumbled (Presumably on purpose). It got very annoying very fast to the point where It seems like a completely bad joke  but at the same time I kept listening because is was not terrible. Then it ended and I was left wondering what was the point and how was a lot of this stuff legal if it was not fake.

History of the Presentation - Discussion

this is about "Did you Know" video starting out as a power point presentation, and then going viral after being turn into a video. Also there are a lot of links with reviews on the video. This video has reached at least 20 million people at the time of this discussion, there are no comments on this video unfortunately.

Here are the links that are on this discussion:

• Original blog post (The Fischbowl) (August 2006)
• Is this Staff Development (2¢ Worth) (August 2006)
• Scott McLeod's remix (Dangerously Irrelevant) (January 2007)
• Has it gone viral? (The Fischbowl) (February 2007)
• Over 2 million served (The Fischbowl) (March 2007)
• Did you know - The sequel? (The Fischbowl) (March 2007)
• Did you know - We need your help (Dangerously Irrelevant) (March 2007)
• Did You Know? 2.0 (The Fischbowl) (June 2007)
• Did You Know? 2.0 (Dangerously Irrelevant) (June 2007)
• Did You Know? 2.0 - Additional Quotes and Questions (The Fischbowl) (September 2007)
• The one folks are calling //Did You Know? 3.0// (August 2008)
• Did You Know? 4.0 (The Fischbowl) (September 2009)
• Did You Know? 4.0 (Dangerously Irrelevant) (September 2009)
• Shift Happens v5 (Dangerously Irrelevant) (August 2011)

WEB 2.0 - Discussion

This discussion is about Web 2.0 and has answers to the questions that are here but there are not other comments.

Question #1:
WHAT IS A WIKI....? 

this is the first questions and the answers goes into how people put their own spin on facts and this persons opinion on how this should be handled

Question #2:
HOW DOES A WIKI FIT INTO WEB 2.0...?

the answer goes into how wiki are perfect for web 2.0 because of the collaborations

Suggestions for Using the Presentation - Discussion

This Discussion was answering these questions.

• What are your initial reactions to what you saw in the presentation?
• How are these changes manifesting themselves in your personal lives? professional lives?
• What do we think it means to prepare students for the 21st century? What skills do students need to survive and thrive in this new era?
• What implications does this have for our current way of doing things?
• Do we need to change? If so, how?
• How do we get from here to there?
• What challenges must we overcome as we move forward?
• What supports will we need as we move forward?
• What kind of training will we need to move forward?
• What kind of commitments will we need to make (with each other, our students, and our community) to move forward?
• Who's scared? Why?
• What will we do next? What are some concrete actions that we can take in the near future?
• Is it possible for a teacher to be an excellent teacher if he/she does not use technology? [see this key questionfor another way to ask this]

There was not much of answers for this discussion just a few post about different things.

like Childhood nutrition and joining the website.

Flickr Review

              Using Flickr is very easy, but unless you are a huge fan of taking pictures and sharing them or a Photographer it may not be that useful for you. For me Flickr was easy to log into and make an account but there is an option to connect to Yahoo which is nice because in my option Flickr is more of an Add-on then its own thing. Flickr is a website for sharing photos which is fine but that’s kind of all it is.It is really easy to use and it has a pretty smooth design but it is not something for everyone. Adding Tags is also very easy and it is pretty fast you just click add tag and it lets you add a lot without have to click again.All in All it is not a bad website just the opposite I think it is really good but it is good for certain people more than others.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128287886@N02/
If you look at my images the only tag they have in common would be web 2.0 other than all 3 have something different

Delicious  Review

              Delicious.com is a website for saving and sharing bookmarks. It has a very simple look to it and you have to make an account to save and share your bookmarks. There is an option for installing a button for the website. The buttons are for going to the website and also a generate tags button for whatever site your on at the time. The website seems very good for having all of your bookmarks in one place and organized. However you can do something similar with your web browser without making an account for a website. Google Chrome has a bookmark option it may not be as organized as delicious.com but you can organize with folders. I can see this being helpful for coworkers or for students as an easier way to help each other with research but other than that I do not see that much of a reason to use it recreationally. Also that the name goes from Del.icio.us. To Delicious is something they should change. There are many website that make small changes to names to infect people’s computer and that this website name changes when it loads can scare people away.

Advantages - Organized, sharing, easy to use and good for groups.

Disadvantages - unfamiliar website,web browsers already have bookmarks, possible trolls sharing spyware websites, account making.

Review FireFox

It Can import information from the other browsers you use now, Very nice.

The First thing that happened after downloading and opening the first time was something other than me tried to make Firefox my main browser which I did not like.

It did not even ask something loaded and I had to click out of it.

Next there is a blue circle of on one of the tools it has 3 horizontal lines

I keep trying to get rid of it by clicking but it just continues to open options.

I turn off Firefox with the power button in the menu which is weird but not bad seems kind of unnecessary.

Really not happy with Firefox at the moment because now it is asking to set as default browser after stopping it the first time.

But I can stop it from asking when I uncheck the box in the pop-up so that good.

My main test for any browser is how it runs YouTube, It is where I go the most and loading videos is a good test.

I clicked a video and now it wants me to change setting on something it disappeared after like 3 seconds even though the video is fine.

There is also another block asking to allow to run NVIDIA 3D Vision which I have off because I don’t have a 3d TV.

I change the video to HD it still works fine I click full screen and now there’s a pop-up on the video I have setting it place after the first one and it still keeps popping up.

It is not bad but I am so use to google chrome and there are no pop-up after the first time it is still better in my opinion.

The only problem with this is the Pop-up thing is huge compared to google Chromes.

After checking a review on Firefox it says that it is the fastest internet browser a little ahead of Google Chrome which I have not really see but its only faster by .01 seconds so it will not be very visible at the start.

It has a unique feature “sticky notes” to help with research online.

Its security as integrated private browsing, Protects against Virus, Spyware etc

The actual look is also very similar to Google Chrome

Apache OpenOffice

The Install prep looks alright the Unpack instead of Next kind of threw me off.

It loads pretty fast, User Name: and Organizations: thing is pretty normal for things like this.

Another pop-up with typical and Custom…again typical instead of normal is kind of weird.

It is installing now after it just downloaded it could just be wording,No it is installing again.

There was no do you want to run pop-up after install.

Now I have to set up and register not liking this one.

It open to 6 different options text Document, Drawing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Database and Formula it is weird to have All of these in one program but let’s see.

After closing the Text document it goes back to the option page makes things easier than closing everything.

There is also a complicated look properties bar on the side.

Text

Look fine looks like 2010 or a little later word has everything there and has no delay on typing.

Spreadsheet

Sends you to an Excel like spreadsheet just looks older nothing really to say.

Presentation

Instead of just going to a power point still page there is a pop-up that should not be there in my opinion a lot of this is for how the presentation looks which should be after you are in the presentation.

Drawing

I guess it is supposed to be adobe illustrator I tried use the drawing to but it looks terrible in comparison.

And the simple design actually made it harder to understand what was going on.

Database

The right side of the options so far seem very bad. With this one you cannot even get a with database without saving nothing and you cannot even use it without Java runtime environment.

Formula

It is the exact same page as database without the down side.

This is worst one that I have done this should be 3 different software. The first 3 are fine together.

Drawing should be by itself and Database and Formula I don’t even know but with how they look they should be together or just formula. 

AbiWord

I have no idea what this is other than Free Microsoft word so hear it goes.

Other than being really nervous download all these different software, I don’t feel that I need them. I already have Microsoft word and I did not pay too much for it. 

I am downloading Abiword know and I notice it has a very old looking set-up page.

It is installing but after making a few folders it stopped for a few seconds and complete shortly after.

It gives the basic complete and do you want to run the program so I start it up.

I can see why I thought the setup pop-up looked old, Abiword looks ancient compared to the 2013 version of Microsoft word it looks like old Notepad with a few Word tabs.

I try using it a complete new pop-up for Abi shows up after hitting new instead of the old one closing which is good and bad.

It has all the basic functions and you can do most if not everything that you can do in Microsoft

I don’t like it myself but if someone cannot afford Microsoft work I can see why they would go with this one.

Third Post

5 Web 2.0 Tools to use in your classroom

http://youtu.be/l_GjC6BLmJk
I really like this one, it is 5 minutes and it shows 5 Web 2.0 tools but it also show kids at a young age using them and even making blogs. It also shows some of the projects that this person has been using in his classrooms.

Second Post

Are video games art?

This is the title of another blog That I have read by Nicholas Deleon. This blog was written in response to someone named Roger Ebert and his opinion on Video games never being considered art.Nicholas Deleon had a very good response although at times I wondered if he even wanted to write this blog. Giving the Latin definition of Art as just something to do with Arm showed that he did his research but the "Who Cares" feeling that this blog had kind of made me want to not read this
one.

First Blog

"Pizza, Beer, Glory, And The All-Night London Hackathon"

The Above is the title of a short blog that I read by Alex Wilhelm. After reading this blog I had two question and that is what was a "Hackathon" and why was there not more about what they were doing. A Hackathon by definition is when a group of programmers, developers and managers get together to collaborate on software projects.  There did not seem like a need or purpose for this blog other than to say there was pizza, beer, a robot spider and some questions.