Online videos require equipment such as web cameras and recording. I use my computer while in my underwear, so I don't always want a camera recording me. Online videos can be very bad for privacy if someone is videotaping me without me noticing the photographer. How do you guard your privacy? There are surveillance cameras in most cities and most rooms. We are one nation under surveillance. How do I keep any of that surveillance from appearing on YouTube for the world to see?
The good thing about videos is their instructional value. You can hear it while reading what in on the cameras. A good instructional video will be remembered. It is also good for the distribution of instruction, since people who don't have money can watch the videos. I used videos to look up old songs I have not heard in years, such as "The Mary Ellen Carter." I look for polka music and found Loituma's song performed live, "Ieva's Polka." I listened to Enya and the visual aids made the songs better.
I will want to be recorded when I am instructing and want my visual aids to be viewed again and again, without me shouting "I JUST TOLD YOU THAT" to people who can;t stand spending three hours listening to someone talking or reading a long boring technical manual. Rote memorization is obsolete thanks to online hosted videos.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Photo Sharing
I used the photo I have of myself. I have it on my blog. The photo was taken on a cell phone camera and I had trouble trying to get it to fill up the space for uploading photos, but it is good for showing what I look like. Photo and image sharing allows visual aids to be communicated from a distance. Visual aids are a good memory tool, graphic tool, and good for showing what I look like from a distance. If I get a digital camera, I will make more photos of myself to post online. I will regularly update my profile with better photos of myself.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Web office tools
Is this the future of all software products? I am referring to Google Docs and Zoho, which I learned about in Week 5 of the MLA CE course I am taking. I think it is the future depending on demand. The value of web office software is that it allows people to consolidate a lot of office functions including document publishing, making presentations, saving spreadsheets, using planners, and sharing files with a local community.
Is it the future of software? That depends on how comfortable people are using them. People will use what they are familiar with to make presentations and documents, but to share them, I think this is the future because of the value in finding every function in one place. I think some functions will be used constantly. I think some software applications will have a dimishig marginal return. People will have a ton of unused features on software applications like Google Docs and Zoho. They will find a feature they like and milk it depending on their needs. There is always a risk of having feature creep.
Is it the future of software? That depends on how comfortable people are using them. People will use what they are familiar with to make presentations and documents, but to share them, I think this is the future because of the value in finding every function in one place. I think some functions will be used constantly. I think some software applications will have a dimishig marginal return. People will have a ton of unused features on software applications like Google Docs and Zoho. They will find a feature they like and milk it depending on their needs. There is always a risk of having feature creep.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a tool for managing large numbers of social communities and large volumes of profiles and monitoring your favorite social sites. People need to use a ton of websites to do effective research, keep track of large volumes of updates, and maintain a good presence on the internet.
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