Activity 10: YouTube

This week you will be examining the video sharing tool, YouTube. This assignment (the last assignment) is due Tuesday, November 24.

• Read the Wikipedia entry on YouTube.
• Read "7 Things You Should Know About YouTube.”
• Read “College Students Love Their Video.”
• Explore YouTube and find a video that you think is fun or entertaining. Follow the directions here to place the YouTube video in your blog.

Post in your blog:

1. Label this post Activity 10: YouTube
2. Have you ever posted a video to YouTube? What about Facebook?
3. Did the statistics in the “College Students Love Their Video” article surprise you or seem accurate? Why?
4. Why did you choose the video you put in your blog?
5. Where else do you search for video?
6. What makes YouTube a Web 2.0 application?

Activity 9: Online Collaboration Tools

This week we’re exploring Online Collaboration Tools like Google Docs and Zoho. This assignment is due on Tuesday, November 17.

• View the video “Google Docs in Plain English” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA)
• Take the Google Docs tour (http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html)
• Read the Web page, “Google Docs for Students” (http://www.google.com/google-d-s/college/#utm_campaign=docsb2s&utm_source=en-na-us-studentblog-docsb2s&utm_medium=blog)
• Read some of the posts on the Google Docs blog (http://googledocs.blogspot.com/)
• Read the Wikipedia entry on Google Docs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs)
• Try Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/?pli=1#)

Post in your blog:

1. Label this post Activity 9: Online Collaboration Tools
2. What is one main advantage of using an online collaboration tool such as Google Docs?
3. If you've used Google Docs or a similar tool before, for what purpose did you use it and what did you like about it?
4. How do you think you could use these tools for projects (for school, work, or fun)?

Activity 8: Podcasting

This week we’re exploring Podcasting. This assignment is due on Tuesday, November 10.

• View the video “Podcasting in Plain English” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c).
  
• Read “What Everyone Ought to Know about Podcasting” (http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/05/26/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-podcasting-part-i/).
  
• Read Bennington, Adam. 2007. Stick it in your ear: Keeping current with podcasts. Online (May/June): 30-33 (http://libproxy.stcloudstate.edu/login?URL=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24981995&site=ehost-live).
  
• Go to KVSC.org podcast page for Henry Oertelt, Holocaust survivor (http://kvsc.org/podcast_list.php?id=5). Listen to the introduction and part one. Using the Bennington article as a guide, evaluate the podcast.

Post in your blog:

1. Label this post Activity 8: Podcasting.
2. Share your evaluation of the Oertelt podcast.
3. Are any of your professors at SCSU using podcasting for their lectures? If not, is it something you’d like professors to do? Why or why not?