The gadgets you can add to your igoogle homepage are cool, useful and numerous.
You can add quick links to your flickr and youtube account and see your contents.
YOur RSS feeds, Google Docs, Blogs can all been seen in the one place, which makes igoogle sorta like your desktop on a pc, but one that can travel with you .
I also like the option where you can add games.
the downside with this , is the fact you are the only ones who can see the homepage and you cannot broadcast it to others unless you email them a link to it and invite them to view.
If the library canfind a way to add gadgets to its library pagethat everyone can view it would be good and useful.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Topic 12 Tagging
Tagging on delicious is like adding a website to your favourite lists in internet explorer or bookmarks on firefox.
The only difference is, which is a good one if you are using different computers the tagging can follow you.
You can open your delicious website and see all your favourite websites ready for you to use.
An example in its use:
iThis is great for presentations when you maybe using someon else' computer and instead of typing websites you can just click the links from delicious.
The only difference is, which is a good one if you are using different computers the tagging can follow you.
You can open your delicious website and see all your favourite websites ready for you to use.
An example in its use:
iThis is great for presentations when you maybe using someon else' computer and instead of typing websites you can just click the links from delicious.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Topic 10 & 11 Flickr
You can just about find any topic imaginable on flickr to browse
- which can be good and bad!
I like the option of making photo's public or private.
The bad part was trying to upload a picture to my blog
through flickr's blogging tools, didn't seem to want to work for me.
I ended up copying the picture and inserting it below :)
- which can be good and bad!
I like the option of making photo's public or private.
The bad part was trying to upload a picture to my blog
through flickr's blogging tools, didn't seem to want to work for me.
I ended up copying the picture and inserting it below :)
Taken while on my trip to melbourne to watch the mighty
West Coast Eagles play Melbourne at the MCG and lose :(
i will post a link to flickr with some more once i set flickr up !!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Topic 8 & 9 Wikis
Wikis what can I say, these were fun, It was cool to be able to edit or add stuff to a website in real time and not having to know any html stuff.
The problem with wikis is that other people can delete your stuff or change it, but with some of the tools you can get your stuff back.
The LEARN sandbox was fun adding to a list already created by others , also inserting pictures and colouring of the text I found was quite easy.
The problem with wikis is that other people can delete your stuff or change it, but with some of the tools you can get your stuff back.
The LEARN sandbox was fun adding to a list already created by others , also inserting pictures and colouring of the text I found was quite easy.
Topic 6 & 7 See and Share and Movi
I've haven't had a great luck with both see & share and movi, the programs have crashed it each time during a session, once that problem is out of the way they can be a very useful tool.
see & share allows you to see other peoples desktop in live time, mark and draw on the screen, and have a chat with your fellow meeting buddies.
movi - is sharing your voice and webcam - sorta like a video conference from your desk , which is great if you have a short amount of time instead of the full video conference.
you can also do a one on one which saves you from booking a big room with just one person in it.
Hopefully the next time I use them I won't have any of the technical details and will learn more about them each time I use them.
see & share allows you to see other peoples desktop in live time, mark and draw on the screen, and have a chat with your fellow meeting buddies.
movi - is sharing your voice and webcam - sorta like a video conference from your desk , which is great if you have a short amount of time instead of the full video conference.
you can also do a one on one which saves you from booking a big room with just one person in it.
Hopefully the next time I use them I won't have any of the technical details and will learn more about them each time I use them.
Topic 4 & 5 RSS feeds
Been a while between posts , but hoping to catch up soon!
RSS feeds are interesting, they have there good points and bad points.
The good - RSS feeds are useful in keeping track of favourite websites when you need to and are using different computers and your favourite website lists can't follow you.
The bad - RSS feeds are sometime not available on all websites and trying to create an RSS feed doesn't always come out the way the way you want it too.
RSS feeds are interesting, they have there good points and bad points.
The good - RSS feeds are useful in keeping track of favourite websites when you need to and are using different computers and your favourite website lists can't follow you.
The bad - RSS feeds are sometime not available on all websites and trying to create an RSS feed doesn't always come out the way the way you want it too.
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