For my third emerging technology, I decided to play around with multiple tools available on the internet. It has taken me all semester to master some of these concepts and types of computer projects, but I have not given up yet! I have decided to go all out for this last one! Although I do have a Facebook and that I do know it is an option for an emerging technology, I will not be using the Facebook website for this project. Websites that I chose to use for this project is Survey Monkey, Photo Bucket, and Youtube. Most of these websites should be familiar to students in college but if not, then do not worry! These websites are extremely simple to work with and can boost your creativity in the future!
For the first portion of my third emerging technology, I have decided to have a theme of Spinach Dip. I chose this theme because it is almost summer time and this would be a great treat to have at a party, a gathering, or anywhere in general. Please take the
Spinach Dip Survey by right clicking on the Blue Hyperlink, and click either "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window" so that you do not leave this blog page. The survey was made with the Survey Monkey tool and it was extremely simple to conquer. Once a user name is established, creating the survey is simple. All of the directions, step by step, are available on the website. If you cannot figure out how to create you own, please contact me by email ajbova@umail.iu.edu and I will gladly walk you through step by step until you have completed your masterpiece of a survey.
Once you have completed the Spinach Dip Survey and if you would like to know how to make you own spinach dip, please watch this
How To Speech on Spinach Dip by right clicking on the Blue Hyperlink, and click either "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window" so that you do not leave this blog page. This video was taped in my speech class earlier this semester. It is considered a podcast and is currently displayed on my youtube account. Youtube is a tool where users can post their podcasts, webcasts, or videos so that the general public can view it.
Next, I decided to play around on
Photobucket, a website which allows you to upload your own photos. Once uploaded, you are provided with several tools so that you can play around with your pictures. I have taken three Pictures from my computer, one of
my fraternity brothers, one of my real
brother (in my family) and I at a Colts game, and a picture of my
female French Bulldog Paris. I will not tell you what I did to the pictures but I feel the results are fun to look at. Next, I uploaded a picture from my laptop, which is actually on this same blog page. The picture is located towards the bottom right of the blog page in the light blue box and is entitled Paris. I have taken that picture and played with it on photobucket so that I can show you a before and after shot of the same picture. Please look at the picture below entitles Paris, then once you have done so,
Click Here. This website is a great website for people who love taking pictures or people who love to play around with pictures. I would strongly recommend it.
Just like the recent websites learned in this course, people need to establish a user name prior to using the website. Once a user name is established, users can upload photos from their phone, their computer, or from the world wide web. What is special about this tool is that users can alter their picture to their own preferences. Now there are several tools to use and ways to alter your pictures so take you time and play around on the website. In order to change a picture, users must upload their picture, click edit, then click on Effects, Decorate, Animations, Beautify, Distort, Layers, or Geek to explore the multiple options to change your picture. Options include turning your picture into a blue print, making you picture look like it was drawn in black and white or in color, you can make you picture a negative, or you can make it look like pop art. Once again, this website is very simple to use and follow and I would recommend it to my friends.
Much of the class has operated through a wiki system such as pbwiki. For those who do not know what a wiki is and would like to know what the definition of wiki told from the viewpoint of wikis,
click here. The link takes you to Wikipedia, an online website that is entirely operated on wikis. The page is Wikipedia's definition of Wiki. Wikis are pages that can be not only accessed by anyone, but can be edited and updated by anybody. It is a collaborative group effort that can be compared to writing a paper for a class and having all of you classmates read, edit, and add suggestions to the paper. If I have somehow just confused you on the definition of Wiki, please
Click Here so that you can get the definition from Dictionary.com. We have used a type of wiki in the classroom called
PBwiki, which I am still working on mastering. I am still gaining knowledge on some of the concepts of the PBwiki website but after the summer I should be good to go and should have a further understanding of computer technology.
