Cooliris

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was...Wow. That's expresses my feelings towards this exactly.
Cooliris is something to buff up search engines everywhere. I thought Google was great when they implemented the nearly-unlimited scroll thing on their image-search, but this takes that to a whole new level. This program allows you to search indefinitely on a sort of plane until you get the picture you want. It has a customizable background and works on nearly every famous browser. What's not to like? I'll try this on Firefox later since we can't actually download it in school, but it seems to be an awesome program.
I actually made a Cooliris wall, which you can see at the bottom of this page. This is a set by stuntbear on Flickr, which was actually featured in its own Yahoo! Article. It's called MicroWorld..Enjoy!

Web 2.0 Tools Write-Up

Stock.Xchng

This website is one of many free stock photography sites on the Internet. Using a search function, people can find and use free-stock photos for projects with citations.  Many companies and schools use stock photography sites for projects so they can add photos and make their projects better. Creating an account is optional but useful, because it lets you download photos at different sizes and allows you to post your own photos.

Tutorials

Multiple other resources are available at Stock.XCHNG that other free stock photography sites don't offer. Stock.XCHNG has other resources,such as blogs, tutorials, and other ways to help utilize the photos you find on the site. The site also offers multiple other options that makes it exceptional. You can search random photos by popularity and most commented stock photos for easy access to photos that you know will be good, for example. Stock.XCHNG has a large variety of photos, which come in decent sizes and with decent quality.

However, the site does have its limitations. The best-quality photos are watermarked and must be purchased with the site's "Credits", which may cost between $.24 to $.99 depending on the quantity you buy at once. Also, some of the photos you're looking for may not be on the site, or you may not be able to find it due to the search function going wrong. Stock.XCHNG can be fairly limiting in this aspect- if you are doing a project similar to other people, you may find one of the pictures you used repeated in another person's project. 

As stated before, this website could easily be used in school to find photos to use on a project that will be posted online with citations. Students can also learn how to use the photos with the site's many blogs and tutorials. This helps you develop your skills in programs such as Photoshop, iPhoto, etc. 

Stock.XCHNG

Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. HAAP Media Ltd., 14 Jan.
     2011. Web. 14 Jan. 2011. <http://www.sxc.hu/>.

Today's Post

Okay, I was out last time to go to the summit. So, I can't make any posts about the presentations of other students. :/ And I was hoping to see them, darn.

To sum up what I missed last class and need to know for this class:
Input devices are things that put information into a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.
Output devices are things that display the information, such as a monitor.

So for this illustration...
1) Monitor; Output
2) Keyboard; Input
3) Mouse; Input
4) CD/DVD Drive; Input/Output? If I had to pick, it would be Input, but the actual CDs are input/output.
5) Headphones; Output
6) USB Flash-Drive/ Jump Drive; Input/Output (Stores information that is transferred to a computer)
7) Projector; Output
8) Printer; Output
9) Wireless Internet & Hub; Input & Output
10) ActiVote; Input
11) ActivBoard Pen; Input

*ActivBoard; Output

3DS Max

So I decided to share a part of my animation work here.

Quicktime

Well, I converted my Keynote about Stock.XCHNG into a Quicktime. The video is below. Enjoy!

I won't be here next class; going to a summit!

Rehearsal Presentation

Today, I presented my Keynote project to a friend. On my first presentation, my friend said it was rather dull. Based on his feedback, I've added slide transition and cleaned up my animation a bit to make it more smooth. I've also added another slide or two to add the extra minute I need to fulfill my time requirement. There were no errors in grammar (At least in what I wrote- The blog posts might have some grammar errors.) I've followed all of the feedback given and have nearly perfected this project; on Tuesday, I might present to a few more people to get feedback. I probably have to work on my speech a little more as well.

Survey for Presentation (Ignore unless you've seen it!)