What we did today

Today we had a lot of activities to do. First we were supposed to take other people's surveys. Some of them I couldn't do because you had to sign in and it got messed up, but I did get to do some of them. I also wrote about my web 2.0 tool about blogger and tried out cooliris too. It's a really cool program that I would like to use. I also finished my input and output which was pretty easy.

Input or Output?

1. Computer Screen/ Monitor- Output
2. Keyboard- Input
3. Mouse- Input
4. CD/DVD Drive- Input
5. Headphones- Output
6. USB Flash-drive/ Jump-drive: Input/Output
7. Projector- Output
8. Printer- Output
9. Wireless Internet Hub- Input/Output
10. ActiVote- Input
11. ActivBoard Pen- Input

Cooliris

Cooliris is a really cool way for you to be able to search photos. It's a much more different way of viewing photos, and it's also interactive. I would definitely love to use this on different things. I guess it's a search engine because you can look up photos and view them, and it's much easier and faster. It's definitely flashy, and it's fun to mess around with. It's also really visual too. I definitely would use this as my search engine instead of things like flickr or google images.

Web 2.0 Tool

Blogger
     Blogger is a great way for people to be interactive and a way they can write freely about anything they want. A blog is basically a website where you can have different entries or posts, and you can also create how your blog looks, and all sorts of gadgets on your blog to make it more interesting. Other people can also comment on your blog as well. Users can view other people's blogs on blogger, or they can choose to just blog about different things. You can have several different blog posts and different blogs on one account. It's much easier to manage it all.

     

There are several things that are good about blogger. First of all, you get to choose what to write about. It's also all electronic and easy to use. You can access blogger from your phone too, any sign up for blogger mobile where you can post from you phone. You can also design it however you choose, from the layouts they have, and you can change colors of different items to your personal liking. The best part is that you get to apply all sorts of gadgets! There's a wide variety of gadgets that you can find. It's much easier if you just look them up on google. They have gadgets where you can have social networks connected to your blogger, people can IM on your blog, interactive gadgets, animations, photos, videos, and so much more. You can even make money off of blogger by having advertisements on your blog.  

   Blogger isn't perfect though. Since Blogger is owned by Google, they can basically monitor and control your account. If you have things that they don't like, they have the ability to delete your account. They have complete control of your blog, so there's not much freedom with blogger. It also isn't very safe. You need to be extremely careful about what you post on your blog. Everyone will be able to see it, so if you put really personal information onto your blog, it can be dangerous. Another bad thing is that  there aren't that many designs on the website. There are some that you can choose from, but if you really want unique designs, you'll have to download them yourself.

     Blogger is great for students because instead of having to hand in assignments, you can easily just post them onto your blog. It's definitely more efficient and it's a lot easier as well for both the student and the teacher. Teachers are able to monitor the student's progress and daily work from their different blog posts and plus it saves a lot of paper in the end. Students are actually being interactive as well because they use blogger every day, and instead of wasting time writing they can just type it up easily on the computer. It's so much easier for the teacher too because they have access to all the student's blogs and they are able to comment on their work as well.

Here's a link to Blogger

Citations:

• Blogger: Create Your Free Blog. 1999. Web. 14 Jan. 2011. <http://www.blogger.com/>.
• "WordPress vs Blogger? Pros and Cons – Part Two." Modern Street - A Blog on and about the Web. Modern Street. Web. 19 Jan. 2011. <http://www.modernstreet.com/wordpress/wordpress-vs-blogger-part2/>.

Input and Output Devices/ What we did today

Input- When you have a device with information and you put it into a computer. It puts new information into the computer.
Ex: Camera- it brings pictures(information) into the computer

Output- Something that displays information from the computer.
Ex: Printer- takes information from the computer and displays it onto a sheet of printed paper.

What we also did today was we looked at other keynotes made by people. I actually learned a couple new things and it wasn't really boring either. After, we used cards to do a sort. It was a little challenging but we finished.

Keynote

Today I finally finished my keynote and it turned out really good and I really like it. I did the best I could to try to make it less boring. I actually learned some interesting things that I'm sure people had no idea about. Hopefully it'll make my keynote more entertaining. I also made it a bit shorter, just as long as I talk more instead of reading off the slide, I'll do fine. I'm just kind of nervous because I'm not much of a public speaker, but I feel pretty confident after going over it a couple times. I also already posted my survey on to my blog again.

Survey