Monday, February 20, 2017

Aggregating Sites

Aggregating Sites

Week 4 has been an adventure.  We were given the task of creating an aggregating site.  I had the chance to play with two sites, Protopage and Netvibes.  Both sites served the same purpose which was to have multiple news outlets in one interface.  I chose one site over the other because it was more user friendly.  I loved being able to complete some customization with the site. One getting into this site, it was fairly easy to create and use.   In case you are wondering which one I chose.  The winner is?????

PROTOPAGE






Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Adventure Continues YouTube with a little Twitter


    The Adventure Continues....

This week is off to an awesome start.  I am no stranger when it comes to YouTube, I use it for mainly personal reasons.  I dibble and dabble in event planning, so I use it for many DIY projects, but I also use it for music purposes, and some videos when I was still in the classroom to hook my students on certain areas.  My adventure with YouTube has been fun.  Even though I am an avid YouTube user, when using it for this class, I learned a few new tricks.  The task this week was to create playlists.  I have experience with creating playlists for my music, but not much for anything else.  If I come across a video I like, I generally go back to my history to recall videos from the past.  With taking this class, I now have different playlists that include my DIY projects and videos of things that interest me.  I also figured out how to make my lists private where I am the only one who can access it.  My YouTube adventures are so much more organized now because of this assignment.  I was able to find a lot of videos on Youtube that helped me with the many tools that can be used with Twitter.  One is Hootsuite which makes it easy to manage multiple social media accounts in one place.  I am looking forward to the next adventure............................