Saturday, December 12, 2009
FINALLL!!!
Step 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhCY9FF608
Step 2:
Living stories is different than the other sources because it has new ways to interact with news and the quality of reporting. A typical news source starts with the most important piece of news and then goes from there in decreasing order of importance. Living stories unifys coverage with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story so it is easy to find.
Yes, i think this will help reduce bias in the news because the stories the other people find important are no more prominent than those that you find important. If you dont want to read something it isnt prominently thrust upon you by being on the front page, and having a huge, unaviodable picture.
I think that google should allow you to click to follow a certain story then have them send you e mail updates whenever the story changes. Also, i think you should be aloud to customize your page by clicking what type of news stories you would want to be notified about over others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhCY9FF608
Step 2:
Living stories is different than the other sources because it has new ways to interact with news and the quality of reporting. A typical news source starts with the most important piece of news and then goes from there in decreasing order of importance. Living stories unifys coverage with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story so it is easy to find.
Yes, i think this will help reduce bias in the news because the stories the other people find important are no more prominent than those that you find important. If you dont want to read something it isnt prominently thrust upon you by being on the front page, and having a huge, unaviodable picture.
I think that google should allow you to click to follow a certain story then have them send you e mail updates whenever the story changes. Also, i think you should be aloud to customize your page by clicking what type of news stories you would want to be notified about over others.
Monday, November 23, 2009
BLACK FRIDAY
Most of the stores have only in store sales on black friday in the wee hours of the morning. If your going to go to the in store events you will have to wake up really early, stand in long lines, fight other people for the products you want, and possibly not even get what you want. I tend to stay in doors on black friday. I would probably stay home and sleep. I don't want to get up that early no matter how big the sales are wether its online or at the store.
There are a couple websites that i found that list online deals:
http://www.iblackfriday.com/
http://blackfriday.net
http://theblackfriday.com
All of these guys will hook you up with the latest deal news from the Black Friday shopping front with up-to-the minute news on leaked deals, ads, and details to help you plan your shopping strategy. If you don't already have the iPhone app, jump on that too, so you'll have all your bases covered for the big (shopping) day!
Most stores have in store sales but here are a few:
JCpenny
ArtVan
Intel
Walmart has a bunch of black Friday deals :
Adds Online 'Turkey Day' Deals and 'Secret In-Store Specials'
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the first time ever, Wal-Mart is moving the traditional "Black Friday" shopping event up one day early, aiming to catch early-bird shoppers as the turkey hits the table.
Also today, Wal-Mart announces one of its "Secret In-Store Specials," available this Friday -- a KitchenAid Classic Stand Mixer for $139 - and posts on-line its entire "Black Friday" advertising circular, full of great savings on hundreds of items.
The Apple store is also offering:Come back to the Apple Online Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPod, iPhone, and Mac gift ideas — all with free shipping.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Cloud Computing
1.) www.sun.com/solutions/cloudcomputing/index.jsp
This website offers extensive array of products and services and are fostering open communities and partener ecosystems to make a vision a reality.It has developer tools , open APIs, and it has a public compute and storage infostructure service as well. It also has services and support.
2.)http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/cloudcomputing/?ca=agus_aositmbi-20090225&me=psearch&met=google&re=cloud_computing_mkwid_sDAF072409L3086_4510611065_432k3p1502&s_tact=usitk001&cm_mmc=agus_aositmbi-20090225-usitk001-_-k-_-google-_-cloud_computing_mkwid_sDAF072409L3086_4510611065_432k3p1502
IBM has its own cloud computing website. It offers visibility to respond faster and make better decisions, control to manage risk, compliance, and shared costs, and automation to lower costs and share ability.
This website offers extensive array of products and services and are fostering open communities and partener ecosystems to make a vision a reality.It has developer tools , open APIs, and it has a public compute and storage infostructure service as well. It also has services and support.
2.)http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/cloudcomputing/?ca=agus_aositmbi-20090225&me=psearch&met=google&re=cloud_computing_mkwid_sDAF072409L3086_4510611065_432k3p1502&s_tact=usitk001&cm_mmc=agus_aositmbi-20090225-usitk001-_-k-_-google-_-cloud_computing_mkwid_sDAF072409L3086_4510611065_432k3p1502
IBM has its own cloud computing website. It offers visibility to respond faster and make better decisions, control to manage risk, compliance, and shared costs, and automation to lower costs and share ability.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Social Bookmarking
1. What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a method for internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
2. Who is using social bookmarking services?
Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites
like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social
bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of
del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic
papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting
a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can
participate in social bookmarking.
3. How does it work?
Social Bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing
information and categorizing resources. The creator of a bookmark
assigns tags to each resource, resulting in a user-directed,
“amateur” method of classifying information. Because social
bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and
provide access to that person’s other bookmarked resources,
users can easily make social connections with other individuals
interested in just about any topic. Users can also see how many
people have used a tag and search for all resources that have
been assigned that tag. In this way, the community of users over
time will develop a unique structure of keywords to define resources—
something that has come to be known as a “folksonomy.”
4. Why is it significant?
Activities like social bookmarking give users the opportunity to
express differing perspectives on information and resources
through informal organizational structures. This process allows
like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities
of users that continue to influence the ongoing evolution
of folksonomies and common tags for resources. Using a folksonomy-
based tool for research lets you take advantage of the
insights of other users to find information related to the topic you
are researching, even in areas that aren’t obviously connected to
the primary topic. If you are looking for information about sailing,
for example, you might find that other users saw a connection
between sailing and boat repair, taking you in new, potentially
valuable directions. These kinds of tools also encourage users
to keep coming back because the folksonomy and the collections
of resources are constantly changing. It’s easy to imagine
assigning a value for individual resources, resulting in a ranking
system that functions as a collaborative filter.
5. Where is it going?
The technology behind social bookmarking is not complex,
which means the threshold to participate is low, both for Web
sites offering such services and for users. The ideas that social
bookmarking is built on are working their way into other applications;
the practice of tagging information is being extended to
other types of resources, such as multimedia files and e-mail.
This shift away from formal taxonomies may have important
implications for how user communities are born and how they
function. As the landscape for online resources changes and new
systems of classifying those resources emerge and mature, the
design and function of databases themselves may ultimately be
changed to accommodate new ways of managing information.
6. How can it be used by teachers and students?
Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to
change how we store and find information. It may become less
important to know and remember where information was found
and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework
created by and shared with peers and colleagues. Social
bookmarking simplifies the distribution of reference lists, bibliographies,
papers, and other resources among peers or students.
7. What are the downsides?
By definition, social bookmarking is done by amateurs. There is
no oversight as to how resources are organized and tagged. This
can lead to inconsistent or otherwise poor use of tags. For example,
if a user saves a bookmark for a site with information about
greyhounds but only tags the site with the term “greyhound” and
not also with “dogs” or perhaps “dog racing,” that resource might
never be found by someone looking for information about breeds
of dogs. Because social bookmarking reflects the values of the
community of users, there is a risk of presenting a skewed view
of the value of any particular topic. For example, users might
assign pejorative tags to certain resources. In addition, social
bookmarking means storing data in yet another location that you
have to maintain and update.
8. What are the benefits (compared with traditional bookmarking methods)?
You can access the bookmarked pages from any computer, anywhere at anytime. They are sorted and organized as well. Also, you can benefit from sites other people bookmarked as well as them benefiting from ones that you bookmarked.
9. List 3 popular Social Bookmarking sites that you have explored and tell us which one is your top pick.
1.) Delicious.com- top pick, simple and easy to use
2.)http://www.diigo.com/
3.)http://digg.com/
Social bookmarking is a method for internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
2. Who is using social bookmarking services?
Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites
like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social
bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of
del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic
papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting
a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can
participate in social bookmarking.
3. How does it work?
Social Bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing
information and categorizing resources. The creator of a bookmark
assigns tags to each resource, resulting in a user-directed,
“amateur” method of classifying information. Because social
bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and
provide access to that person’s other bookmarked resources,
users can easily make social connections with other individuals
interested in just about any topic. Users can also see how many
people have used a tag and search for all resources that have
been assigned that tag. In this way, the community of users over
time will develop a unique structure of keywords to define resources—
something that has come to be known as a “folksonomy.”
4. Why is it significant?
Activities like social bookmarking give users the opportunity to
express differing perspectives on information and resources
through informal organizational structures. This process allows
like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities
of users that continue to influence the ongoing evolution
of folksonomies and common tags for resources. Using a folksonomy-
based tool for research lets you take advantage of the
insights of other users to find information related to the topic you
are researching, even in areas that aren’t obviously connected to
the primary topic. If you are looking for information about sailing,
for example, you might find that other users saw a connection
between sailing and boat repair, taking you in new, potentially
valuable directions. These kinds of tools also encourage users
to keep coming back because the folksonomy and the collections
of resources are constantly changing. It’s easy to imagine
assigning a value for individual resources, resulting in a ranking
system that functions as a collaborative filter.
5. Where is it going?
The technology behind social bookmarking is not complex,
which means the threshold to participate is low, both for Web
sites offering such services and for users. The ideas that social
bookmarking is built on are working their way into other applications;
the practice of tagging information is being extended to
other types of resources, such as multimedia files and e-mail.
This shift away from formal taxonomies may have important
implications for how user communities are born and how they
function. As the landscape for online resources changes and new
systems of classifying those resources emerge and mature, the
design and function of databases themselves may ultimately be
changed to accommodate new ways of managing information.
6. How can it be used by teachers and students?
Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to
change how we store and find information. It may become less
important to know and remember where information was found
and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework
created by and shared with peers and colleagues. Social
bookmarking simplifies the distribution of reference lists, bibliographies,
papers, and other resources among peers or students.
7. What are the downsides?
By definition, social bookmarking is done by amateurs. There is
no oversight as to how resources are organized and tagged. This
can lead to inconsistent or otherwise poor use of tags. For example,
if a user saves a bookmark for a site with information about
greyhounds but only tags the site with the term “greyhound” and
not also with “dogs” or perhaps “dog racing,” that resource might
never be found by someone looking for information about breeds
of dogs. Because social bookmarking reflects the values of the
community of users, there is a risk of presenting a skewed view
of the value of any particular topic. For example, users might
assign pejorative tags to certain resources. In addition, social
bookmarking means storing data in yet another location that you
have to maintain and update.
8. What are the benefits (compared with traditional bookmarking methods)?
You can access the bookmarked pages from any computer, anywhere at anytime. They are sorted and organized as well. Also, you can benefit from sites other people bookmarked as well as them benefiting from ones that you bookmarked.
9. List 3 popular Social Bookmarking sites that you have explored and tell us which one is your top pick.
1.) Delicious.com- top pick, simple and easy to use
2.)http://www.diigo.com/
3.)http://digg.com/
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Screen Cast
My screen cast is turning my hockey powerpoint into a screencast. It will be about 5 minutes long and instead of using arrows and diagrams i will be recording my voice. I will use the Jing software. It still needs to be installed. I do not need a headset as my computer has a microphone. My next step would be to go to Jing.com and install the software on my computer at home. Then i should look over my script and make any revisions i feel necessary considering my audience, time limit, and making it in conversational style. Then i need to practice running through the slides while recording my voice to get the timing down right. Once i have it down, i am ready to record.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Screen Casting
3 Articles on Screencasting:
1.) Screencasting: How to Start, Tools , and Guidelines by Adam Hay
Synopsis: This article tells you why Screen Casting is useful. It says that scree casting can show your ideas and theories rather than just telling them. It also gives you a step by step process in order to make a screen cast. Then, it gives you tips and helpful websites to visit.
Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/
2.) What is Screencasting? by Jon Udell
Synopsis: This article tells us that a screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action. It also tells us that it is not a new idea, it is just new to the public. It gives you genres of screencasts, tools, a how to, and a paragraph about the future of screencasts.
Link:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/11/16/what-is-screencasting.html
3.) 7 Things you should know about Screencasting
Synopsis: This article tells you what screencasting is, how it works, and also states both the positvies and negatives of using this method. It also states why it is significant.
Link: educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7012.pdf
Websites to help you Screen Cast:
http://www.techsmith.com/screencast.asp?gclid=CIu2k4K_9pwCFQTyDAodLkdjbw
http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/
1.) Screencasting: How to Start, Tools , and Guidelines by Adam Hay
Synopsis: This article tells you why Screen Casting is useful. It says that scree casting can show your ideas and theories rather than just telling them. It also gives you a step by step process in order to make a screen cast. Then, it gives you tips and helpful websites to visit.
Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/
2.) What is Screencasting? by Jon Udell
Synopsis: This article tells us that a screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action. It also tells us that it is not a new idea, it is just new to the public. It gives you genres of screencasts, tools, a how to, and a paragraph about the future of screencasts.
Link:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/11/16/what-is-screencasting.html
3.) 7 Things you should know about Screencasting
Synopsis: This article tells you what screencasting is, how it works, and also states both the positvies and negatives of using this method. It also states why it is significant.
Link: educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7012.pdf
Websites to help you Screen Cast:
http://www.techsmith.com/screencast.asp?gclid=CIu2k4K_9pwCFQTyDAodLkdjbw
http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Alternatives to Office
Alternatives to Microsoft Office:
1) Corel WordPerfect Office X4
It has PDF, HTML, and XML publishing, includes redaction and password-protection, and supports 60 file formats. It also has a full suite of productivity software to make your workflow easier. It is compatible with documents saved in office format. It does all the same things as Office but is up to 600 dollars cheaper.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1207676528492?trkid=56796366#tabview=tab0
2.) StarOffice 8
This program provides basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. User reviews say that StarOffice is much easier to use the office and has more accessible features. It has powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities as well as the extras i previously mentioned. It is also 600 dollars cheaper.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp
3.) OpenOffice 2
This is Sun's free version of StarOffice. It is the leading open-source office software suite for word precessing, spreadsheets, presentations and more. It comes in alot of different languages and is compatible with any normal computer. It can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It is completely free!
http://www.openoffice.org/
4.) iWork '08
This is Mac's alternative to Office. It is only $79, which is significantly less than office which runs anywhere from $149- $679. It has all the same features and also is compatible with documents saved in Office form. However, it is only for Mac users.
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
5.)IBM Lotus Symphony
It won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. It is Free. It is compatible with Windows and Linux. It supports the file formats of:Microsoft DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs. It has all the same features as Office.There is web-based peer support; built-in help still being created.
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=FE560647E043518E862574A40074E72E&category=press
1) Corel WordPerfect Office X4
It has PDF, HTML, and XML publishing, includes redaction and password-protection, and supports 60 file formats. It also has a full suite of productivity software to make your workflow easier. It is compatible with documents saved in office format. It does all the same things as Office but is up to 600 dollars cheaper.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1207676528492?trkid=56796366#tabview=tab0
2.) StarOffice 8
This program provides basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. User reviews say that StarOffice is much easier to use the office and has more accessible features. It has powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities as well as the extras i previously mentioned. It is also 600 dollars cheaper.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp
3.) OpenOffice 2
This is Sun's free version of StarOffice. It is the leading open-source office software suite for word precessing, spreadsheets, presentations and more. It comes in alot of different languages and is compatible with any normal computer. It can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It is completely free!
http://www.openoffice.org/
4.) iWork '08
This is Mac's alternative to Office. It is only $79, which is significantly less than office which runs anywhere from $149- $679. It has all the same features and also is compatible with documents saved in Office form. However, it is only for Mac users.
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
5.)IBM Lotus Symphony
It won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. It is Free. It is compatible with Windows and Linux. It supports the file formats of:Microsoft DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs. It has all the same features as Office.There is web-based peer support; built-in help still being created.
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=FE560647E043518E862574A40074E72E&category=press
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