Produsage 2

WOW!
I had the most fun and most frustrating experience with this assignment. I've been an apple fan for a while now and decided to use an application that comes with MacBooks. iWeb was really simple to use as far as designing. The templates were easy to customize and adding new pages would automatically hyperlink them to the top of your website. Then I went to publish and it all went to a big fail. I think creating my website on iWeb before really exploring it was a big mistake. Lesson learned! I probably should have stayed with something a little simpler like a blog or maybe a community of practice through a larger domain. Either way I'm pretty certain my link is public now, but I'm $38 in the hole! My bad :/

Reflection Week 5

...and week 5 is gone. I missed my last chance to partake in a live WebEx session :( I’m still working on my Produsage assignment. I don’t know how I missed the extension, but thanks to Alyns post in our DB with his project and his voice thread I quickly found out about the deadline extension :) I was pleasantly surprised to find out that we have until Wednesday to complete out produsage assignment. I need to leave more feedback for my peers projects. I know I will want feedback and I know how important feedback is to learning and understanding tools and exploration. My goal for this last week to leave as much feedback as I can for my peers first and second produsage projects.

Week 5 Prompt

Week 5
How do you judge the value of expertise on the Web? Does it differ from your notion of expertise in face-to-face settings? Why or why not?

I’d like to begin this blog with a quote by Tuffor (2005):
“Once we free ourselves from the mental limits of viewing this technology as a weak sister to face-to- face synchronous education, the potentials to revolutionize education and learning become readily apparent”

Please feel free to share your comments regarding this quote. I think it is a really powerful statement.

This question can be answered in many different ways, but I don’t think one particular answer is correct. An expertise is an expert in a skill or knowledge in a particular field (Dictionary). This vague definition still does nothing for me as far as explaining what an expert is. Does it vary on the eye of the beholder or must an individual be granted an “expert” certificate, or is it depending upon how much you are able to efficiently and accurately perform on the web while incorporating web 2.0 tools? An expert cannot have a single definition, a MD may be an expert in medicine, but not necessarily an expert in  ID, so does this make him a complete expert or just a medical expert and visa verse? 

Google Maps

I use Google Maps all day everyday. I don't even realize I'm using it, but I don't know how I'd get around town without it. Actually, I do know how...I would learn streets and directions, instead of automatically typing in an address to my iphone/google maps. I didn't know you could customize them as proposed here :Google Maps

I need to explore more, but here's a screen cap on how far I got with the maps.

I think I need more practice and direction :)

Say Cheese :)))

I'm getting ready to read up on some more on my second produsage assignment. I've been going through some academic articles, and now I'm turing to a textbook I have to gather more information.

I like pictures, so I like the thread topic in our course Blog. One of my favorite tools is Pinterest (a tool we were suggested this week) although I have been browsing Pinterest for a while, until this class I never actively participated in produsage in Pinterest, but now I have two boards and I received my first repin this week :) For my second produsage assignment I want to create an ongoing community in Pinterest. The board I created is called "nanny dayz" since I'm a full time nanny it is very relevant to my current job, and could be very beneficial to other nannies who look in Pinterest for ideas.

I've been busy researching and drafting our second produsage assignment. I wanted to share some websites that have been very helpful for me:

E-Learning Coach

eLearning Learning

Big Dog & Little Dog

Utah State

Enjoy :)