Exercise 18

You tube is just straight out entertainment and fun. I am a fan of Johnny Depp so I have searched and seen several videos of him on You Tube. There were more than 8 pages to choose from so I am going to try to place one inside here using copy and paste. Well here goes ....

Exercise 17

Well I had fun with this after I went to the Web 2.0 Awards nominees and I selected the category Food an interest that is near and dear to my heart not to mention my stomarch.

From that list I choose the site iFoods.tv to explore.

http://ifoods.tv/web/about-us.jsp



The site has a blog where I discovered a recent craze in America is Pizza vending machines! What next? I am going to follow this blog for a week or two just for fun.



There was also a Recipe Podcast: Potatoes with chili, garlic and spinach which I watched and may even have a go at cooking sometime. Great cooking tutorials available which may mean the demise of cook books.



So iFoods is a way of interacting with other food lovers worldwide. It is possible to upload your own recipe videos, develop your profile and prove your culinary genius to everyone or you have the option of learning from the professionally produced video cooking tutorials.

Web-based tool

Exercise 16

Web-based word processing tool

 

I can see that this web-based word processing tool does have major benefits as they eliminate the need to worry about different software versions or file types as you email documents or move from PC to PC.  I have found though that it does take a lot longer to load than just going to Microsoft Office Word that is installed on my computer.

 

It is quite functional though and allows the addition of images but again this took quite a long time to upload.  I have attached a photo I took out of the window of my work area.  Note all the reflections of the lights and can anyone spot the fans reflection.!!!! Another of many grey days this year.

 

Exercise 15

I have a very quick play with Rollyo and successfully created an account, then I created a search role selecting for my topic travel in Oregon, USA because my daughter has recently moved there to study. The link to my search role is http://rollyo.com/editroll.html?sid=456860.

Personally at this stage I can not really see an advantage to take the time to set up these because I continue to find interesting and useful websites so would be cautious about limiting my options to a specific group of websites.

However as with all the exercises in this Web 2.0 program it is always useful to know what is available.

Exercise 14

Well I was impressed with Library thing and didn't find it too much of a challenge to decide on 5 books to add. I liked the idea of being able to keep a list of books I have read but don't think that I will be back dating it. Wouldn't have any time to keep reading!!!

Here is the link to my Library thing catalogue

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Goldie1.

I can see how this could be considered the world's largest book club, and it is great to be able to access reviews.

Exercise 13

I decided to try adding a photo I recently took of The Tor at Waiake and using 'The Generator Blog' selected the Flying Flag to add my image to.

By agreeing to add my image to as an example I was able to download immediately without the water mark that advertised the site.

This was not as difficult as I thought it might be!

Learning 2.0 Sandbox wiki

I successfully added my blog to this NSL Learning Wetpaint wiki. Then I managed to explore and play with wikis for exercise 12 and finally tackled the challenged of taking my own photos on the digital camera and uploading it to my favourite holiday spot
http://nsllearning.wetpaint.com/page/Favourite+holiday+spot.
As I am still in catch up mode I haven't added anything else to the wiki, although I did check out favourite books.