LibraryThing: What to Read?

LibraryThing is a website designed to catalog your favorite books and find people with common reading interests. LibraryThing allows you to write reviews, rate, and have conversations about a specific book. It also allows you to find similar books to those that you have selected as your favorite. I don't believe this is a site that I will use regularly, however, I believe it is an interesting concept and could be useful for certain people. http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=twright&shelf=list

Flickr Toys: Cool Images

I chose to use flickr toys for the online image generator assignment. I found that they had a lot of really neat things you could do with your photos. I chose to take a picture of myself and turn it into a jigsaw image. Sites like flickr toys gives you an opportunity to get creative with your photos. I'm not exactly sure how I can use it with my students, but either way it is a lot of fun to tinker with your photos.

http://bighugelabs.com/photos/692a3d969b68016a11c5b9c2bb5af040/jigsaw4891637

Podcast: Accessible Information

The podcast I chose to use was found at podcast.com. The podcast is about weight training. I chose this subject because I used to enjoy working out, but have been burned out and am looking for tips to get me back in the gym. Podcast.com was relatively easy to use, but I still prefer to use itunes. Itunes just seems easier. The podcast I subscribed to for bloglines seems pretty interesting and could lead to me getting off the couch.

Youtube: Video On Demand

Youtube is one website that I am pretty familiar with. Youtube is a site that allows people to watch videos on demand. Youtube can be used for entertainment or educational purposes. To use youtube you just go to the website, type a subject or 'tag' into the search box, and see what videos pop-up. Next, you scroll through the videos until you find one that interests you. The video I have chose to share on this blog is about how to use a site called visible body. Visible body is a website where students, teacher, and medical professionals can explore human anatomy for studying or quick reminders. I believe the tutorial would have been very useful during my undergraduate work, and still could be valuable for my graduate studies and when I am teaching. I hope this post can be valuable for other people in the kinesiology field.

Technoarti: A Simple Way to Information

Technoarti is a website where you can easily find blogs, videos, and photos about information you are interested in. In my experiences with technoarti it is very user friendly. Technoarti is not cluttered with buttons and information that can be distractions. It allows you to search for specific items. So, if I am looking for photos related to basketball I will click the photo tab, type basketball in the seach box, and watch as the results come in. I can also search tags for the subject I am looking for. Technoarti allows the user to save blogs, videos, or photos they find interesting by click on a heart next to the title. This will make those blogs easily available once you sign in to your technoarti account. I believe this is another web site where you can really decrease the amount of time you are looking for sites and increase your productivity while you are behind your computer screen.

Del.icio.us: Sounds Good

After exploring the del.icio.us web site and watching a few tutorials, I believe delicious is a great way for teachers, coaches, and students to find websites that can help them with everyday tasks. Delicious is a website where you can bookmark your favorite sites. Bookmarking on a website rather than your personal computer is valuable because you will be able to access the list from any computer. Tagging them is helpful in organizing which sites you are looking to visit and minimizes the amount of time it takes to find helpful sites. The coolest thing about delicious is that you can access other teachers, coaches, or students' bookmarked sites. This can be very helpful and time friendly. For example, instead of searching through hundreds or thousands of sites you can google, you can simply pull up a colleagues delicious, see which sites they have found helpful, and go from there. This process is much quicker and could eliminate pulling up a bunch of sites that are inaccurate.

Web 2.0: Available In All Forms

As I began to check out seomoz.org for interesting sites related to web 2.0, I realized just how many different areas web 2.0 sites cover. This was what was most shocking to me. Prior to my recent assignments in one of my classes I didn't even know what web 2.0 meant. Then I figured it was designated to social networking and blogging sites, and now after visiting seomoz.org I see just how many different sites are web 2.0. I wouldn't have thought that gaming sites and social news sites would both use a web 2.0 format, the more I learn about web 2.0 the more I find it intriguing and useful in all types of aspects of my life. These sites are neat because they're constantly sharing information with one another and allow vital information to be heard or seen quicker.
The site I found interesting that I had not heard of before was last.fm. Last.fm is a site similar to pandora where you type in someone you want to hear and they give you different music to listen to. The difference is that you get to listen to the actual artist you originally select right away, and then they give you the option to listen to other artist with similar styles.