Software Application

Well, an application I have used and become more familiar with over the past semester and a half is Microsoft Office Suite. For the last 10-15 years, while continuing my knowledge of the turfgrass industry through conferences and seminars, I always wondered how intense the Power Point presentations were to put together. After having to put a few together and just getting the hang of the program, it is a rather simple process, thanks to Microsoft. In fact, those presentations actually seem boring now. I graduated from high school in 1989 and at that time schools were hardly even using computers. Computer software applications have certainly made some of the education processes easier, yet it also can be said that some of students uniqueness came from using different software to create their own unique presentations.

While working in our groups, it became evident that Moodle, Blackboard and D2L essentially offer some of the same types of applications. My experience at SCSU lets me give my opinion on the D2L system. Upon returning to higher education, after about a 15 year abscence, I was slightly overwhelmed with how advances in tech had changed the educational system. It took a while to get familiar with D2L, but it seemed fairly user friendly. Now, just after a semester, navagiation throughout site and communication flow between student and facilitator has become second hand and I pose this question? HOW DID WE DO IT WITHOUT AN APPLICATION LIKE D2L?

ZOHO and GOOGLEDOC Applications

I am really suprised that these applications are available for everybody to use at no cost. They both provide most of the same features as a Microsoft product. I found myself partial to the GOOGLEDOCS application, I already am using the GOOGLE calender for collarboration with my family. It is so nice that we can all edit dates and events on the calender without even having to communicate them. One of the best features of these applications is their ability to let numerous people work on a document without having to send the document back and forth through an e-mail, mail, fax or other, they can edit it on their own time and everybody else can see those changes in real time. I believe that GOOGLEDOC's feature surrounding this concept works better than ZOHO because in ZOHO you have to be invited in order to edit documents. I am sure that Microsoft Office has some programs and features that out perform these two applications, but I am sold that ZOHO and GOOLEDOC would work just fine for most of the people who use a word processing or spreadsheet program.

The RSS feed would be a great way to keep up-to-date with local and national news stories. I am going to teach in the field of biology and an RSS feed on my site that would reveal all the new and upcoming news events or discoveries within that field. This would be a great way to come up with new things to discuss in the classroom.

Wondering where the Thing 3 is located. I checked the website and could not find where all 23 Things were listed.

I think it would be pretty unique to display the schools name with the Spell with Flickr and use the Clockr as a possible screen saver on all computers.

Flickr in the classroom

I think it would be neat to photo different activities going on in the classroom and Flickr would be able to help me post to class blog so parents/family members/friends could see.

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Good Morning Caroline and Vivian, my little angels. Flickr was fairly easily to use and I probably will upload more photos.

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.