Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Lion Sleeps Tonight!

YouTube :)

YouTube, I believe, is one of the best and most widely accepted and enjoyed cite in the Web 2.0 world of technology. It encompasses videos from education, to break dancing, instructional, to absurd, funny, influential, creative, encouraging even inspiring. I have to admit, most of my favorites have nothing what-so-ever to do with the educational or instructional categories, not yet anyways. Some of my favorites (and half of California's too I'm sure) include; Charlie the Unicorn, laughing babies, Blood, Charlie bit Me, the Evolution of Dance, Cyril the Magician and Dormitory Boys. It is such a neat and interesting way to connect with someone you do not know in the least, simply by enjoying the same video, or sharing a personal experience with the world simply by posting your own video. I do see YouTube as having great potential and probably success in the realm of education, athletic training, and coaching. You never know what you are going to get when you type a search topic into YouTube. ("Fresno Pacific University" for example :)

Technorati!

WOW! I was not expecting to find this cite so very interesting! By simply typing in "kinesiology" it came up with 3,514 posts, 55 blogs, and approximately 160 photos. Not all of the feeds in each of these areas was strictly pertaining to kinesiology. (one was about Orlando Bloom's biography... don't know how that one got in there) But some of the pictures were amazing! This is a very useful search tool. Whether it be to fulfill this classes assignment, or to access at a later date to find links for specific topics, or pictures for a particular presentation. I see this as a very note worthy technological support cite.