Podcast & RSS Reflections

This week was very interesting. Researching Digital Natives and learning about RSS feeds seemed a bit overwhelming to me at times. But I finally pulled it all together...I think.

Many companies use RSS to promote their organizations and many different causes. Here is an example of how a popular Newspaper uses Real Simple Syndication... http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html

Podbean.com proved to be very useful in completing my podcast. It was surprising easy to upload my podcast..I hope I did it correctly.

So this week was very busy for me to say the least.

Digital Native vs. Digital Immigrants

http://gingers.podbean.com/

Blogging Reflections

I enjoyed creating this blog. I dabbled in it a little before. I enjoyed seeing others blogs and look forward to following them. I know that I have only scratched the surface of blogging and I look forward to using it often and learning about all it has to offer.

It's All About the Wikis

In the article, No Rest for the Wiki, Rachel King discusses the world of corporate wikis.  Many successful companies have collaborated with wiki to engage their team member while also reaching out to the most important part of their company, the customer.  According to Andrew McAfee, a Harvard Business School professor, "If you did a comprehensive survey of Fortune 1,000 companies, you would probably find some sort of wiki in all of them."  Although may employees are not happy when they are edited by colleagues the popularity of the wiki overrides that. Intelepidia, created by and Intel engineer, has 5,000 pages of content and 13.5 million views. 

While many employees are reluctant to accept wikis, they are a very proven tool in aiding with decision making. For instance, investment-advisory firm, Manning & Napier uses wikis that quickly alert employees to a trend affecting the fortunes of many hospitals. This helps shape the companies vital investment decisions. 

The world of wiki will continue to grow,change, and connect people globally.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070312_740461.htm

I'd like you to meet Jaleigh

Hi! The Daily Jaleigh will attempt to keep you up-to-date on the latest in classroom technology and Web 2.0 applications. I will also be using this as my weekly journal for BITE 5389.
Jaleigh is my seven year old daughter who knows almost as much about technology as I do.  I will share many of her homework assignments here and share the technology that she is being introduced to in her second grade classroom. Her first impression of the word "BLOG" was...."Mama that sounds scary". That is a very common reaction in children, and many adult learners as well. I agree that technology can be very scary, and intimidating if you've never used it. I am brand new to blogging, by the end of this semester I'm sure I won't be as intimidated as I am right now. I am also a die hard DUKE fan!! So as college basketball season approaches I will be blogging about those DEVILS!! Welcome to my world.

Some of my favorites website:

http://www.epicurious.com/

http://www.goduke.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://www.vh1.com/

https://www.facebook.com/

Viddler on the Roof

This week I used viddler for the first time to create a video introduction for BITE 5389.  It was quite simple and the site http://www.viddler.com/ is very user friendly.  I enjoyed meeting my classmates in this virtual enviroment.  Right now the only Web 2.0 application that I use, like most of the world, on a daily basis is Facebook.  I am very excited about this class because I will be forced out of my Web 2.0 comfort zone and forced to try new things. I hope to learn new applications that I can apply on my job and introduce to my students.