My reflection on Web 2.0 project @ the End of the Semester
My reflection on Web 2.0
project is that it is one of the most useful projects that provided me with
many benefits. This project helped me to be familiar with Web 2.0 tools and taught
me how to use these tools through trainings that assigned to each of us in this
course. Also, it showed me how I can implement it in my life.
The training project was
a great practice and lesson that would help us in the future or during our
career job. The skills that we implement such as preparing training plan and
specifying the outline, time and resources is vital skills that developed and
reflect my positive performance during my session.
The MIS course is the coolest
course I have learned, because it bright me with usefulness of some tools that
is very important and make our life easier such as Google drive, Delisious.com,
Google Docs and others. Learning these tools was very exciting and offers us
with the opportunity to apply and use tools in my daily routine life. I build
this post to write my reflection on web 2.0 tools ranked from upper most
preferable tool to least favorite one at the end.
Google Sites
Creating website it has been very hard for me and needs log time
to get make one it by using Dream weaver and FrontPage. But when I attend the training
of the Google Site, which was done by my other colleagues in the class, I was
very shocked; therefore, it was a very simple and easy to create a website by
using the Google site tool. I loved creating website by using this tool more
than other softwares that I have experienced in designing a website which I
mention at the beginning.
Google sites
offer me many features and options to edit my pages such as: images, videos,
links, docs and attachments in a very easy way.
The most thing that I love in Google site, that I can save my website which includes off
files and pictures in safe way through online and I can view of update in any
place by sign in by using my Google account and do it in just a click. I have
created a site that includes the steps of applying different things in Google site (Note: Click here to view my Google site.).In the future, I will open my own business so I
will surely will use Google site to for my business to promote my products and
share it with everybody. I also encouraging the current small business people who
to use Google site to create for them a website that include full information
and products of their business.
Blogs
Blogs
Blogs is
one of my preferred tools which permit me to write my daily dairies as share my
posts and experiences with other viewers of my blog.
In blogs, I like to follow others’ blogs and view their new posts which some of them enriched me with nice
information.
In the blogs I didn’t like is that in adding gadget the some of
them is broken and not working so, the blog creators should search from the
internet for cods that allow him to
preview the gadget in HTML gadget.
Gmail
After knowing the Gmail, I use it more than the Hotmail as it has
more features; I used it to label some of my e-mails. Also I created a filter
to my e-mails and I needed to write the tasks I had to do, so I wrote them in
the tasks and it really helped me.
Google Docs
Google Docs allows me as a student to share documents with my
classmates. I can allow them to edit the document or to view
it. Google Docs also helped me a lot in work with my group in
collaborative projects. We saved time and paper revising and correcting
our documents and Power Point presentation together online using this
tool. I found the automatic saving feature a clever idea...
Google Chrome
I have downloaded Google Chrome before the trainer asked us to do so. After
using Google chrome, I found it as an effective solution to my
problem of slow system. Through using Google chrome browser, I realized the high speed of it. As a result, I
make Google chrome my default or main browser instead of the
Internet Explorer and I always use it for research purposes to complete my
projects. Moreover, I like the option called “Chrome Web Store” a lot because
it enables me to add different things to my chrome like Business tools, Games,
Lifestyle, News and weather besides other things.
Google Searching
Google searching really helped me in doing my researches in an
easier way. I did some explicit phrase, searched for a specific file type,
found the definitions and the synonym of some words, calculate some numbers and
finally did a compound research. It really benefited me as I didn’t know about
these things before. I hope that our college provides new students with
training programs on how to use Google searching techniques, so that it
becomes easier for them to work on their projects.
Google Picasa
Google Picasa is great software that enables me to edit my
photos, add text to them and create movies very easily in a short time. I found
it much simpler than using Photoshop The only thing I don’t like
about Google Picasa is that when I edit my photo, the changes are
saved on the original photo, so I lose my original one. That’s why; I copy a
photo before editing it in Google Picasa to
save my original photos. The most thing I like in Google Picasa is creating collages in different ways. I feel
that Google Picasa gathers the features of both Photoshop and
Dreamweaver.
Social Bookmarking (Delicious)
Delicious is a wonderful tool that enables me to manage and organize my
bookmarks with tags and get access to them from any laptop or computer. The
lovely thing about Delicious is that I can share my links with others.
Creating stacks is another great feature provided by social Bookmarking (Delicious). I have created a stack that is related to my industry project
course and share it with my group members. Finally, I can say that Social
Bookmarking (Delicious) is a powerful tool that helps teams to share
useful links and resources online instead of sending them by email.
I don’t like to have an account on social
websites. However, after the trainer showed us the way of using Twitter, I like it a lot and use it in a daily basis to post my tweets
and view others’ tweets. This tool enables me to reach many people
instantly and communicate with them. Additionally, I can use Twitter to do a research about different tweets using the search box. I
will continue using Twitter since I believe that it is a great tool to keep
in touch with others.
Facebook
I believe that Facebook is a wonderful tool that makes it easier for me to communicate
with others. Before the training session, I thought that Facebook is all about posting photos but now I know that I can do more
things with Facebook like creating profiles with photos, connecting
with others through private or public messages besides posting videos and
links. It is a nice tool but I prefer twitter more than Facebook.
Google Reader
When I use Google Reader,
I discovered many benefits of it. It helps me in managing and sharing my feeds
with others. I like the feature provided by Google Reader called "Browse for stuff" which allows me to subscribe
to many things. With Google
Reader, I can subscribe
through specifying a research term. Although Google Reader is a useful tool, I don’t think that I am going
to use it at all.
Google Calendar
I like Google calendar since it enables me to organize my appointments, manage my time
and share my calendars with others. I love the feature provided by this tool
which enables me to create multiple calendars and browse other interesting
calendars such as “Islamic Holidays & Week Numbers”. Moreover, I find
"Tasks feature" offered by Google calendar very beneficial since it enables me to list my tasks that I wish
to complete each day.
Google Earth
I believe that Google Earth is a powerful tool that enables me to fly to
many places around the world in seconds. I like Google Earth a lot since it shows me the location of
different cities and places, the weather and the photos related to these
places. The lovely thing I like is that Google Earth lists
for me different hotels’ names near or in the same place that I typed in the
search box. Since Google Earth provides me with all these information, I will
use it to plan and manage my holidays abroad.
I want thank Mr. Tridib for his great Google
assignment as I got the chance to explore new technology tools, which is easy,
available and free to use over the globe.
