E- Learning

Well this week's class topic was education learning and the social networking tool to go along with this topic was mind meister which is an organizing program. How the tool relates to this topic of E- learning is organization because in the education world if you are not a good person at organizing than you would be failing school. This tool mind Meister will help you keep your thoughts for any subject that you are working on in an organized way so you won't get messed up all the time on the things that you're working on for school or personal life as well.

The function of this tool is to make sure you have things mapped out correctly for things that you're working on for school or a daily planner for personal life things that you are involved in. I know people out there are unorganized and misplace things and not knowing what to do or where to be well this tool will fix that to make sure you get done things correctly and on time. This tool can function as many different organize styles like writing a paper you can organize your thoughts for that paper by creating a web that includes your main point, three sub Main points and finally the conclusion.

What was interesting about the tool mind Meister was there were so many different ways that you can create and organize to put in your daily planner or to work on a paper. But the coolest thing was you can invite people to look at the web that you created on Mind Meister and they can make changes to it. But when you log back in to the site you can see what changes your friend has made and will show up in a different color so you can notice it. It's like a peer edit but its happening online which is pretty cool I think.

There was not a challenging thing with the tool Mind Meister because it was very easy to navigate around the site. The only challenging thing that was tough about the tool is there were not a lot of templates that you can choose from to organize your thoughts and schedule. If you wanted to get the full package you would have to pay some money per month to get the full experience with mind Meister. But with the templates I got to use I thought it was still pretty cool how the site works.

To improve this tool I think what needs to happen is you need to get this program some marketing and advertisement because this is the first time I have ever heard of this tool called mind Meister. There are people out there that suck at writing and can't organize their thoughts very well and this tool will help them get better at organizing their thoughts and becoming a better writer as well. The other thing that helps us tool communicate well is that you connect with Face book which is social networking tools well so that will help the situation a little bit.

My experience with this tool mind Meister was pretty fun. I like how I created my class schedule for this semester and created it into a web. Also I did was create my mom a schedule for what she has to do for having our house have Thanksgiving because once in a while when we have Thanksgiving she forgets something and this organizer which I created for her will help her not have that problem this year at least. I enjoyed navigating around Mind Meister and will be using this tool in the future to help organize things.

online gaming update

After a few weeks of playing the online game dungeon blitz I feel that I am more focused each time I'm playing the game. Each time I'm playing dungeon blitz I have more interaction with the players and  playing the game together. We help conquer the missions to help us get to the next level. As I am moving through the game the levels are getting tougher and the goblins are getting harder to defeat and I seem to be dying more and losing lives and using potions to make me alive again for my character. I have had some random conversations in the chat room of this game and people are asking me what got you into playing this game dungeon blitz and I said it's a college assignment for my class communication and technology. One person response was I never heard of playing an online game for a school assignment is the first time I ever heard of this before. In the coming weeks I will continue to learn more about this game dungeon blitz and also the communication of the game as the levels continue to become difficult as we had towards the finish line and hopefully it will be easy to get there.

Flickr

The topic we talked about in class this week was organizations in the tool that went along with this topic was Flickr. What Flickr is a site that allows people from anywhere to post pictures I certain topic and also allows people to comment on any picture they want to. Well technology has changed the way we can join an organization in Flickr allows you to do that and also they have a bunch of organizations they can join and then you can post pictures that relate to that organization and people can comment on the pictures that relate with the organization that you joined. Organizations have many different levels from top dog, middle-class and lower class well with Flickr I think every organization is just on one level.

The tool Flickr like I restated earlier allows people to post pictures randomly or to an organization that they have join or create your own group to have people join and have allowed people to comment on the pictures that they have uploaded on Flickr. What Flickr allows you to do as well is create a profile on yourself and it allows you to tell people what things that are your favorite or interesting to you. This also shows other people on Flickr that you also may have something’s in common with that other person. So this site is just another way social network with people but in the way of showing pictures of many different things that people like about an organization or a business.

The site Flickr to me was a pretty interesting site because of the different groups that I can join and also some pictures that people put up in the site as well. Even when we did that activity after the organization presentation and put up pictures about a business called big box and then a day later I get comments from other people saying that I heard of this company and this company has a lot of competitors involved. So to me that was pretty cool to hear people voice their opinion on the pictures that I uploaded to Flickr. Also looking at other photos that people have uploaded from the bad hurricane Sandy that devastated the East Coast and to see all the people going to the damage of what's left of their home was eye-opening to me in the pictures that I look at.

The thing that I found the most challenging about Flickr is not a lot of my friends use Flickr as a social networking tool. So it was tough interacting with people on the website. Also some of the groups that I tried joining were kind of weird and not right for me. What also I thought about Flickr is that I think Flickr is just copying YouTube in uploading videos and sharing it with anybody that is on Flickr and think that's wrong in Flickr should with their own way on putting up videos and stuff like that. Until Flickr becomes more popular and get more people to join it will be challenging for people to navigate the site.

The things that Flickr needs to do to make it a better experience is not just allow people to upload photos and comment on them they need to allow people to create status like they do on Face book and also chat with people on Flickr as well. This way you can get more interaction with pictures and chatting with people in uploaded the pictures to make it better communication and also a better experience.

I thought my experience with Flickr went okay. I enjoyed looking at the cool pictures that people posted especially the ones from the East Coast from hurricane Sandy to see how much damage was caused from the storm. I also joined a few groups of things that I could do and follow specially and sports. But I wish I had more friends of mine use Flickr then it would have been a better experience for me to enjoy but I still thought it was a cool website to navigate through.