WishTrip

WishTrip

Every other year, I travel to Indiana for Thanksgiving to visit with my family. One thing that my husband and I love to do is to go hiking. I have created a map of the different State Parks along the way from North Carolina to Indiana. I have not visited any of these state parks, so this is a wish trip that I would love to take. Hopefully one day I'll be able too. Since I did this on google maps, most of the places I selected had pictures already with them. Therefore, I was not able to add my own pictures to the places. 

View Trip back home in a larger map

GeoTagging

GeoTagging

I haven't/don't use flickr that often. So this was obviously my first time using the geotagging feature. I think that the geotagging feature is really cool. It would be great if I have traveled in numerous places around the world, just to see where all I have been based on pictures. I am definitely planning to travel more often and it would be great to put picture up from everywhere. 

Here is a picture that I put up on Flickr. It was taken at Crowders Mountain.

Here is a link to my Flickr map

I was not sure what the EXIF data was, so I decided to look it up. It took me to a website called www.exifdata.com. This website allowed you to upload a picture or a url to a picture and it told you a lot of information about the picture. Below is a screen shot of the information for a picture I uploaded. From what I read, some images could have the GPS coordinates on there, but the ones that I looked at did not.

Next is a video about PhotoSynth. First off, I love TED Talks videos. I recently had my students do a project on a video. The video's on TED Talks are very informational. I found this video very interesting. I thought it was really cool that they can compile a lot of pictures from around the world into one picture. It takes your pictures being all over the web to a whole new level. I also found it really cool that it even showed from what angle the pictures were taken from. I am definitely going to look more into it.

Projects

Projects

So far, the projects are coming along. I am a little confused on the different types of projects that we have to complete. For my individual project, I am going to help my husband promote his side business. He does different paintings, airbrushing, and drawing. He is studying to be Graphic Designer. I believe I may be involved in two group projects. I am not really for sure. I am working on doing a Evolution of Dance group project. I am going to record the dances that I signed up for. I am also participating in the Ice Cream group project. I just created a twitter page for it and I have shared the facebook page to try to get my friends to contribute. I am also participating in the promoting of New Media and Global Education Program. I have created a youtube page for testimonies on the New Media and Global Education Program.  I am not sure when all of the assignments are due but I am working this week to get them done. 

Resume Promo Blurb

Resume Promo Blurb

I have been working in Web tools area for almost 10 years now. Any questions you may have about any type of Web 2.0 tool or even any technological tool, I am sure that I can be of assistance. I have been through numerous amounts of trainings and now lead Professional Development seminars with other colleagues on the use of Web 2.0 tools. 

Objectives

My Objectives

Old Objectives:

• To become more familiar with Web 2.0 tools
• Be introduced to different types of social media
• Learning different tools to be able to use them in my classroom.
• Get used to blogging and be able to be creative with it. 

New Objectives:

• To become more familiar with Web 2.0 tools
• Be introduced to different types of social media
• Learning different tools to be able to use them in my classroom.
• Get used to blogging and be able to be creative with it. 
• To become more active in social media
• To become more open to the different parts of social media. 

My objectives haven't really changed so far. I believe that there are many Web 2.0 tools to be learning each and everyday. There are just so many out there, that I don't believe anyone will know every single Web 2.0 tool out there. I know majority of social media. Mostly the main ones (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on). One that I was introduced to this semester was Second Life. I have not gotten to spend much time on Second Life to still be familiar with it. Hopefully I will be able to gain more knowledge about it very soon. I would like to become more active in all the different types of social media. I have been learning tools all through my graduate classes to incorporate into my students classroom. Blogs have been the biggest impact in my classroom. I have incorporated the use blogs in students projects. By doing this, I have been able to become more used to using blogs myself. All in all, I believe I am reaching towards achieving my goals, but I don't think all of them are set to be reached this semester. 

Tie the Worlds Together

Meeting Someone

In order to complete this assignment, I did it through facebook. I decided to look for people through Western Carolina University's facebook of people who were Resident Assistants. I was a RA while I was in college. I decided that it would be a good connection to have. I find someone named Leah who happened to be an RA this year from the building I was in last year. I begin to message her and just talked about being an RA. Next we decided to meet up. We both like doing things for other people so we decided that we would help out at Habitat for Humanity. We met up at the house we were doing improvements too. After the day of volunteering was over, we decided to go grab a bite to eat. I believe that we both had a great time and will remain friends.