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.