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.

Embedding

Embedding

Embedding the different types of media were not to terrible. I found it really easy to embed them into my blog. All I had to do was go to the share feature and it had the html code. I don't know if the embedding was simple because all the tools I decided to use. Or if I just got lucky. 

YouTube 

   



Flickr





SoundCloud

What License to Use?

License to Use?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/3947976595/

I chose this picture because I like flowers. I also really like lily pads. So I thought this picture was a perfect fit. I am really wanting spring weather around here, so I guess you could say that it contributed to me finding a picture with flowers. 

My photo is from British East Africa. It was taken by Carl Akeley. It is a close up of lotus flower beds study in 1906. It is free of restrictions because it is so old. 

This picture is free from restrictions because the Flickr Commons stated so. 

I think the restrictions that I would put on it would depend on what I created. I don't know if I would but any restrictions on personal photography unless I was a professional photography. I would definitely want to fully license any educational work that I would create because I would hate for anyone to take my work and change it. Or even fully license it as themselves. 

Wikimedia

Wikimedia

I am still surprised everyday I learn more information about branches of Wikipedia. Today, I am going to review Wikispecies and Wikivoyage. 

Wikispecies:

I chose this project just because it sounded interesting. There is a science teacher at my school that we share a lot of resources with so I figured this could be one of them. Wikispecies is a place to find a directory for all species. Any one is able to edit the information on the Wikispecies site. It is also linked with Encyclopedia of Life Project.

Wikivoyage:

Wikivoyage is the worlds largest free, update, world travel guide. Wikivoyage was actually published this year in January. I picked this topic because I really want to travel. This website allows you to look up any information pertaining to the different places. I was pretty impressed with the Wikivoyage. 

SoundCloud

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a place to upload any type of audio. I created a SoundCloud because I saw other people talking about it and decided to give it a try. It was pretty simple to link the other profiles to this page. I am not familiar with only uploading audio tracks. I am not really into singing or anything along that nature. I can see this being a great tool for a audio recording of a teacher for a lesson, especially in college. Professors could easily record the lectures and post them so the students could refer back to them. 

Link to SoundCloud Profile

Flickr

Flickr

I have never really cared to have a Flickr account. I believe at one time I had a PhotoBucket account, which I believe is very similar to Flickr. I just don't really have time to upload different photos to Flickr. I think its a really cool place to post pictures on, but I wouldn't use it everyday. A flickr account was easy to create. I don't believe I was able to link all my profiles together. If anyone has some suggestions please share!

Here is my Flickr Account. 

Youtube

Youtube

Creating a Youtube account was very simple. I just logged in through google and it set me up an account. It was also really easy to link the different profiles to my youtube account. I have not had any interest before now to create a youtube account. I know that there are plenty of different reasons to create a youtube account. I also think its really cool to see what some people post on youtube. Youtube has a way of trapping you. I feel like you could look up on thing and it continues on from there. Before you know it, you have spent an hour watching different types of videos from youtube. 

Here is my Youtube profile.