where I am, where I'm going? and Why?

BP6 A Collective Journey With Donna Packard

Check out this blog A Collective Journey With Donna Packard. Donna have a great review from scribblar, a web 2.0 application, is excelent for professors and teachers.

The article is very good not only read it,  you could suggest it  to a friend. Also you can see the comment I posted.

http://donna-packard.blogspot.com/2011/10/bp4-review-of-scribblarcom.html?showComment=1318220164059#c295651722624163241

BP5 media[by]design

I suggest  this blog media[by]design. Kat Thorenson makes an excellent explanation of how to use Wordle, short and precise. This program is excellent, I recommend that after seeing the video of Kat, play around with it. Surely youwill find hundreds of utilities for your benefit. Here is the hyperlink for Kat Blog:

and for Wordle

Also check out my comment on that blog

Bp4 EyePlorer

Today, if you have to seek information on a topic that does not understand, you just google it. Regularly this is the solution. Certainly, you will find an answer and certainly this will be a linear response with some topics not very clear. That is the limitation google.

eyePlorer promises to be the future. It's easy, simple and clean. Eyeplorer represents what will be the semantic web or Web 3.0, considered as the new internet revolution. This visual browser is able to find any information about a specific topic chosen by the user. The results are presented through a graphical interface in the form of a sphere,which is populated with the results from highest to lowest interest. As we move away from the center. It is also capable of differentiating into subtopics that are represented as colors. Green for science and technology, society, yellow, pink for life sciences for species violet, blue for health to work blue, light green for places, red and orange organization for people. When located above results, the program displays a summary of the content.

The advantage is that eyeplorer offer answers, in a nonlinear way. In other words, from a single perspective. By presenting different scenarios, visions, theories, answers while raising various issues and questions of a topic. This allows addressing a subject from different angles. For example or teacher can have different explanations of a topic, creating greater interest in children, to respect differences in each of them (and thus the diversity of thought).the product is still undergoing testing and is limited to search the contents of Wikipedia in English and German. But in reality, it's worth giving it a ojeadita. Perhaps we are adaptingthe technology of the future or simply to entertain with the interface of what promises to besomething much better and at this point, we are unable to guess.

http://nvioto.com/show

PE1 iMovie

I confess, at first thought that imovie  was something like Windows Movie Maker, could not be more wrong.It is an amazing program, with advanced editing capabilities, for a program not so expensive.

BP3_wepapers

One might think that Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia are the only source of pseudo academic knowledge, But Wepaper are doing also a good job. WePapers is a site created and designed for students from around the world to exchange notes school. The site lets you share a lot of documents from different fields of study among its user community. The documents cover various fields of study such as history, physics, psychology, Advertising, Algebra to marketing, philosophy, economics, humanities, etc... With all those categories, the notes are easy to be found. The best thing about the site is that not only limits the publication of articles, essays and reviews. Additionally allows  published reviews, books and other documents to assist the student's academic development. The site offers interesting social features that allow students to meet other profiles on the same network with similar interests.

http://www.wepapers.com/

BP_2 iGoogle PLE

Today was a learning day for me. All start with i-Google. At the time of writing this article, I am enroll on the Full Sail Educational Media Design & Technology (EDMT) postgraduate certificate. last task required us to create our i-Google, prepared using some specific guidelines, and finally select it as our home page. For the task, had to divide the page into three sections. The first section is called home. In this section the main applications allow me to access my facebook and twitter account (which I have just set up) to keep informed and in touch with my contacts. Also I have access to CNN news, the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine. This allows me to keep up on what happens over the world, in the economic sector and the latest on technology. 

The second tab is titled FSO / HR. It uses the "My box link". With this application I have easy access to my most use links. I create two box links section. The fist titled Google/Emails Box of Links, allow me see my emails, the EMDT mentor site and access to mylinda.com (an online training library). The second one is titled Capstone Project: and contains my Action Research. Also use Ted Blog and Ted Video application from the site www.ted.com the ideas worth spreading as they call themselves very well. This site (one of my favorites) keeps abreast of the latest ideas, trends, technology, theories, debates, discussions, etc. .. both academic and business world. Take this opportunity to recommend two of my favorite presentations. The first is the mystery box of by the writer,director and producer J.J. Abrahams. the second is SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE END OF GENDER by media researches Johanna Blakley.

Finally the last tab is titled Resources Tab. Again I use two times My box link application.The first is for  for ETC Resources ant the other for Lynda.com training.i also put an scheduled application  to organize my calendar, the newspaper El Pais of spain (soon I'll be living there), and a dictionary to look up any word quickly that cause me doubt.

I'm fascinated with i-Google. This tool is excellent to help keep abreast of the latest information(any type), organizing tasks and even see how your contacts social are.