I feel like I have been so behind the times! As part of this project to just explore some more Web2.0 tools, in the last few weeks I have been using Google Docs and Google Sites for the first time!
I really like/love Google Docs. Here's what I did: I set up a document so that each one of my family members could post what they wanted for christmas. This was perfect because this year we are doing a secret santa exchange, but my sisters were complaining that they couldn't ask for what they wanted. The only way to get someone something they wanted was to discreetly ask them...so, Google Docs was perfect because everyone could just write what they wanted, and update if something was already purchased. Maybe this wasn't completely in the spirit of Christmas or a secret santa, but everyone was thrilled! I set it up around Thanksgiving (sorry, just blogging about it now).
Also, with Google Docs, a group in another class did a powerpoint, but the other members were long distance so I set up a google presentation. What an awesome collaboration tool!! We could all update and add slides needing to email each other slides, or go through extra steps. It was so perfect. Seriously, I can't believe I hadn't tried this before November!
I played with Google Sites a few weeks back and was very impressed. The templates they have to use are awesome, and it's super easy to add good looking content to your website. Google has done an awesome job at making building websites a super easy process (wish we could have done it that way for our Website in 506 :)...) Anyway, Google Sites is definitely going to stay in the back of my head for the future, especially to build a site for a presentation or project for school or something. It looks so professional, I really like it!
From the list on the Learning 2.0 site, I also use Craigslist all the time. This is great, but it has a ton of scam artists so you have to be really careful. I mostly use it to check job listings or apartment listings for some of the people I help get jobs or places to live in the community....
Thats all for now!
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