We were then asked to create our own google map from our google account. We were to place landmarks on the map for things like places we wish to travel etc. My map (shown below) outlines all the areas I have lived..displaying six location moves in total. By clicking on the snapshot image below, a full size version of my map will display all of the places I have lived, with a little discrption at each marking point. This was the first time I had made a google map, so it was fun to learn.
View Places I have lived in a larger map
The next website was "sketchcast", similar to paint..where you use the drawing tools to sketch an image..but this program records your sketching movements and plays it back in a video format. You can also incorporate voice into the playing movie. Below is my sad attempt at drawing a flower (clearly I am no artist) but I gave it a go nonethless.
From all the various sites posted for this week's task, we had to interact with five of them. The five web site that I chose are outlined below:
This site: http://www.polyvore.com/is an interacitve program where users can view fashions from countless designers. Shoes, bags, pants, dresses, jewlerrey etc. are available in large numbers and varied styles and once the user locates pieces of their choose, they are able to put together an outfit from the different catergory's. This can then be purchased, embeded into a blog and made public for other viewers using the site. I had never heard of this page before, and searching through the large variety of fashion and accessories was good fun! Below is an outfit i selected from the site's range. I published my choices and then embeded into my blog.
The next site http://www.archive.org/index.php is a website which operates as an archiving system (it is not comercial, definings its operation as 'non-profit') which acts as an online library, filing sites or 'cultural arifacts' in a digital manner. The site offers free of charge use for 'reseachers, historians, scholars' and all of society. Therefore this site performs as an online database where users can search for historical information, sources etc. It is great that it is available for free use and consumption, and can be used to locate diverse areas of archived knowledge.
Although it is a known taboo! to never use wikipedia as a source in academic work, it has been used as a link to gather general/background info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites.. This wikipedia info provides an extensive list of different social networking sites that are available on the net. The site advises to 'note the list is not exhaustive, and is limited to some notable, well-known sites'. I found this hard to fathom as when i copy and pasted the table of named sites into a word document, the list extended over more than 8 pages. Clearly I could not paste such a long list into my blog, but the length of it illustrated that if the site had only mentioned the main networking sites and did not cover all that are available online, then the full extent of networks available is a eye opening number! Therefore the use of social networking sites is hihgly popular, with the significant number available proving this.
Following on from wikipedia's list of networking sites,http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/ is a blog post written by Andy Kazeniac this year titled 'Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter Climbs'. The post discuss's the 'social networking giants' i.e facebook and myspace. Kazeniac advises of facebook's 5th birthday and is growing popularity, succeeding it to take the number 1 spot amoung the top 25 networking sites. The sites have been ranked according to the greatest number of monthly visits. Facebook lead, followed by Myspace then twitter. As I'd say most of us are, i'm an avid facebook user..i deleted my myspace account last year, but i can remember when myspace was definitely more popular. Wonder when the tables will turn and facebook will be subordinated to the growing popularity of twitter? Below is the table from this site, outlining the top 25 social networks.
And finally,http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php. is a website which operates as a service for providing information on emergency's and disasters happening around the world. The website provides maps which present different icons, represting different issues across global, local or national locations. For example, the icons may stand for an airplane incident, earthquake, flood, Tsunami, plague, tornado, terror attack, snow avalanche and many more. The service is a great source to find out what is happening in the world and where! (People are able to indentify natural disasters etc. and perhaps becoming preperared in their area or cancel a trip to this location). Below is an example of a map that website displayed.
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