Web 2.0 Final Project-Web 2.0 Effects

Sound Cloud

Sound Cloud is what MySpace use to be for independent musicians. I just created an account and started my site exploration.  The interface is great and very user friendly.  The Welcome tutorial emphasizes that this is not your Nana's FTP site and more importantly there is no file and cloud size limit.  It is graphically exquisite and appears to be very easy to use.  In addition, it does link up with other social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and eBlogger.  


I am in the process for generating some random tracks for uploading.  I will keep you abreast of my experience with this.  In the meanwhile enjoy the track below.

Cloud Surfing (Album Version)

Chapter 4 - Communicating Online

GoAnimate.com: Online+Communications by vlayag


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The World Wide Web ushered in a number of online tools that allowed users to communicate, collaborate, and share information in a number of ways.   There is email, instant messaging, chats, wikis, blogs, and a variety of social and special interest network sites.  Chapter four explores and explains these tools and how they are used by the online community.  The most popular of all the online tools used today is email.  Every business and person that I know today, including my 90 year old mother-in-law, uses email as a way to communicate.  This form of communication appears to be replacing sending correspondence using snail mail or the phone. 

The biggest take away for me was in the email section of the chapter where the differences between email protocols were discussed.  I first subscribed to email in the mid-nineties through my ISP. It did not matter that it used POP mail servers since our family only had the one computer in the house and one email account. But this began to change as we approached the 2000s.  DSL finally arrived in our area and the Web became more than just a dalliance.  It was now a tool that we all used for research, banking, shopping, and more importantly communication.  We purchased a second computer for the house and along with it my husband and I created our own YahooMail accounts which used HTTP servers. This protocol allowed us to get our mail on any computer that had Internet access.   

Today, email is the most preferred way to communicate with my colleagues and other associates at my job in the local school district.  This also includes our constituents, the students’ parents.  Currently, the only correspondence that we send to parents via email is the weather and emergency related school closings. However, we are in the process of generating parent portals that would facilitate online communication between the district and parents.  Similar to online banking, we would use email as a way to notify parents of important information that would appear in a secure Web-based parent portal of our SMS (student management system). It appears that parents are looking forward to this and are anxious of its eventual implementation.