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Ten Web 2.0 Annotated Applications:

Timerime.com The Time Line application that I struggled with.

Wordle: It looks like fun for grade school kids, but it should be fun for college aged kids who want to use this function as a quick and dirty graphic design device for covers of reports, or even for a logo for their business!

Glogster: It might be cheating for an instructor at a design school to encourage students to use this thing as a design tool instead of the hard-core Illustrator or InDesign, but for some quick and dirty projects this is the cat’s meow!

Google docs: Although I don’t have a high opinion of them from what I’ve experienced in this class, (their Word and PowerPoint substitutes) then there is no excuse for students to not be able to do these basic operations of word processing and presentation presenting, with the caveat being they must have access to the ‘Net, but if you have a computer that kind of implies that you can cruise the Web.

YouTube: Obvious, but at one time this was blocked by Harrington’s IT guru, as it ate up to much bandwidth. But us teachers persevered, and they put in a big new pipe, as some Interior Design teachers needed it to show videos of different buildings and spaces.

LinkedIn: I still do not know what to make of it myself, but the requests to Link up are snowballing every week first from colleagues, then alumni, and now current students. Maybe it will pay off with an invite to some wild parties!

Ning.com: I had joined the holography ning group about a year ago, and was not so surprised to see the NLUTIE version in this class. There was a thread on the holography one which I guess was supposed to be used by a certain class for feedback and critique, but the teacher never really followed up on it. So it does have possibilities, but it takes some knacks to get it to work right.

Animoto: Maybe if I were a junior high math teacher again I could see using it, but I am a little more grown up now.

Flickr: For a Digital Photography Department student this is a must to know about, as looking at the competition and getting your images out there is a must! It’s almost like having your own web site for free; however, it’s editing functions leave much to be desired, as it won’t let you rearrange the order of images easily!

Adobe.com They do have tutorials for their products on-line, so this may or may not be exactly a Web 2.0 app since it is not so interactive, kind of one-way, but who else is behind the scenes and powering up all these sites?