Overall Learning

Creating a blog has been extremely advantageous. It allows me to reiterate what I learn about each week. I think this is very important for me in order to store information in my long term memory. It was a enjoyable idea to write about each activity in an informal manner such as a blog.

Prior to creating my account on blogger  I did not think that I would like writing a blog each week however I found it was the most enjoyable task in social media to write about everything I had learnt and share  photos. I was including people in my learning experience.

I learnt about screencasting, prezis, mitt app inventors, flickr, diigo, youtube, bookmarking, crowdsourcing, mash ups and pinterest.

I am certainly going to make use out of social media applications such as flickr and pinterest.I will be using Diigo for bookmarking for college sources. My favourite e lab was making the magic 8 ball, it was such a new experience for me to learn about coding and I got the hang of it quickly.

Our app is progressing nicely. We had to speak about the idea for our app in front of the lecture in week 9. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with my group so far.

Individual reflection:
We each contributed equally to the app. Our idea was aimed at people and students on a budget who wanted to be active. Everyone in the group felt it was an issue that we wanted to do activities outdoors however we never had people to do them with us. Our app allows people with the same interests to meet up and do activities in public parks. The idea for our app was brilliant, I feel students would get the most use out of the app. Our groups method of communication was on whatsapp and facebook. We found the wikis to hard to discuss things on. Our app is a success because we all pooled are resources and skills together effectively in order to get the finished product that we aimed for.

Week 8

This weeks lecture he has to watch a talk ted about the impact on privacy as a result of social media. We had previously learnt in lectures about the issues of privacy and social media, it was enjoyable to add to my knowledge on this topic from the talk

I had to make a flickr account. I uploaded photos from my desktop. I added tags and description to the photos so I could distinguish the photos apart from one another. I change the privacy setting  to public as I feel flickr is like  instagram therefore I feel the point is for people to look at your photos. I also created an ablum. I intended on using flickr to store all my photos because  my memory on my computer is full so I need a new place to store my photos

Here is the link to my flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131044932@N02/

Week 4

In week 4 we had to do tutorial at home. I learnt how to use Diggo and Pinterest.

I already had a pinterest account therefore I did not need to set up a new one. I first heard about pinterest when I was in my final year in secondary school. My friends would use it for searching for ideas for projects. However, I do not avail of it's services often.

We had to download the pinterest button onto our browser, then create a board and add a pins of our hobbies. We had one specified image that we had pin which was a photo of Fungie the dolphin. In the tutorial we were showed how to like and re pin photos.

Pinterest is a very valuable service, I like to visualise my future and make vision boards therefore this website will be very useful in order to do so

I learnt that Diigo is a free social bookmarking service. It is an online tool for collecting and organising  web documents. We had to download the diigo button onto our browser. We had to bookmark a website and read the article which was about the negatives to mash-ups. I also explored other features of diigo such as the highlighter, taking notes, screenshots, searching, collaborating and using, bibliography and sharing.

Diigo will be very useful for college especially for the subjects which I am majoring in -sociology and Information and social computing. There is a lot of researching and reading involved with the coursework for  these subjects. My old system of storing information for involved linking the webpage of a particular reading or article on to a Microsoft word document. I now can simply click the diigo browser button in order to store my articles and readings.