2nd Post: Whoohoo!

This week in Computer Programming we learned about Web 2.0 tools. This list stretched from bubble.us to Quick Forget, and it was a fairly entertaining activity. We got into teams of three, and we researched Mapwing, glogster, and wikispaces. I had to research the latter, which proved to be somewhat interesting. Initially, I had known wikispaces to be another website like wikipedia where you can create web pages about various subjects. I was somewhat right and also somewhat wrong. Wikispaces was more personal and could limit those who could access it. Apparently teachers get a free premium account, but everyone can get a free basic account which should suit most people. It was ironic that to learn about Wikispaces, I had to read about its wikipedia page first. In some areas, it resembled a blog because all I was doing was making "posts" in the form of web pages. Even the function to add widgets seemed similar to Blogger. Wikispaces aside, I had actually heard cool websites which I should try out over the weekend. One website in particular caught my attention, stumbler. I never knew that you could just click on a button and then you are on your way to doing something exciting. Another good thing is that it has filters to prevent any undesirable results. All in all, it was a fun activity. That's it for today, see you later.