New Technology: Linkedin.com
Cristina Casey
Linkendin is an online website used for networking.
Affordances:It makes it easy to keep in touch with many different people from different networks.It is free to join.It is a professional site.You can search for job postings, or have it send you a message when there is a job opening or posting.It is the future of networking. Linkedin is much like facebook, however, a grown up facebook. Instead of becoming friends with a person, you have them join your network. You can search for people not only who go to the same school as you, or you know from a class, but you can search for people according what they can offer you.
I would say this network is a great one to be apart of. On a scale from one to five, i would give it a five. There are no silly applications like facebook, so prospective bosses won't look up your profile and judge you when they are thinking of hiring you for their company. It can only help you, in the search for a job and to become a networking node.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
BLS
New Technology: Blackboard
Cristina Casey
Blackboard, or BLS, is an online website that allows universities, schools, and companies to host classes on the internet. This allows for e-learning and e-commerce.
Affordances:it makes online classes assessablehelps to organize regular classesenables the access of regular classes onlineclass is never cancelled due to weatherThe downside of this is that it is exclusive. In order to use blackboard, you must be part of a university that has blackboard. It is not free software, and it is password protected. Therefore, you would not be able to hold an online conference through this software, unless everyone participating was part of the same university or organization.
I would say this software is a great software to have in a University, and on a 5 point scale (5 being the most useful and 1 being the least useful) i would rate it as a 5. The Affordances defiantly outweigh the downfalls. It is a very efficient tool that is used to organize and post assignments and hold classes. Over 2,000 educational institutions in 60 countries already use blackboard, and I can defiantly see why that is.
Cristina Casey
Blackboard, or BLS, is an online website that allows universities, schools, and companies to host classes on the internet. This allows for e-learning and e-commerce.
Affordances:it makes online classes assessablehelps to organize regular classesenables the access of regular classes onlineclass is never cancelled due to weatherThe downside of this is that it is exclusive. In order to use blackboard, you must be part of a university that has blackboard. It is not free software, and it is password protected. Therefore, you would not be able to hold an online conference through this software, unless everyone participating was part of the same university or organization.
I would say this software is a great software to have in a University, and on a 5 point scale (5 being the most useful and 1 being the least useful) i would rate it as a 5. The Affordances defiantly outweigh the downfalls. It is a very efficient tool that is used to organize and post assignments and hold classes. Over 2,000 educational institutions in 60 countries already use blackboard, and I can defiantly see why that is.
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