CPL20 Twitter

From the little I know about Twitter I would say it relays instant reaction to happenings and would have a place for coverage of an event happening where other means of communication are impossible. I believe it was used in Iran to show people being abused by government forces. I personally don't have interest in reading about individual reactions to everday activities. It also gives a bird's eye view of the story which is the sender's biased opinion.

CPL 2.0 LibraryThing

I set up an account and tried using some of the features of LibraryThing. I can see myself using this tool for storing the titles of books I read and getting reviews on them. It is quite user friendly also.

CPL 2.0 Google Docs
I tried uploading a file and creating another one and found this tool easy to use. I understand it is not as powerful as the Microsoft products but sure good if you didn't have access to Microsoft products. I am trying to find out if it is compatible with Microsoft products or if it can only be seen as an online document.

CPL 2.0 Flickr & YouTube

I took the tour of Flickr and found it all very interesting in how pictures can be arranged into topics, used for posters, calanders, cards etc. The system seems very user friendly. I had used YouTube before and watched the suggested titles. The bombardment of information today as compared to years gone by is mind boggling.

CPL 2.0 RSS

I set up a bloglines account and added a few favourite feeds. I added a feed with one of the two urls you provided and was successful. I think this is a good product if you need to view certain webpages often and you can now have them all together at your fingertips.

CPL20-Google Universal

I signed up for a g-mail account to do the CPL20 questions and have shown a lot of the other products when I taught Internet Part 2. Today I used Scholar for the first time and really liked it. I had a student looking for a biography on Sharon Pollock and used this source to find information on her. Another tool I find incredible is the full-text for books. I missed my hold on a popular book so will use this to read it instead of putting it on hold again.

CPL 2.0 Facebook

The fact that so many people use facebook shows its appeal to a variety of people. I can see it being a great connector for family members and a way of sharing information etc. I, myself would prefer to email the individual or even use a blog as a way of keeping in touch with family, friends etc.

cpl 2.0 Wikipedia

I viewed a number of different topics but didn't see any spelling errors in the articles I read. I searched an entry about the community I was born in, in Nova Scotia. It had a lot of what seemed like accurate information to me. It stated however, the name came from a Mi'kmaq word with a meaning I wasn't familiar with. I added another possiblility for the translation of the name. Doing this little addition made me feel like I was trespassing into someone's space. I can also see how easy it would be to enter incorrect information and because of this we can't rely on this source as being totally accurate.

cpl 2.0 Delicious

To become really comfortable with any website the key is to spend time getting familiar with it. I always point out the computer tutorials found on delicious when I do computer courses. I have used it to help a customer navigate the 7.0 edition of Microsoft Office he had installed on his laptop. To find the information you need takes time and sometimes when helping a customer, time is a factor. This is when I feel other sources will get you the same information faster. All sources of information are good and it is certainly another important source for detailed information.

Expected Outcomes of 2.0

What I hope to learn from working through 2.0 is to have a good understanding of these technologies and be able to answer customer questions about them. By actually creating accounts for each topic covered, I will be applying the knowledge and it will be more meaningful to me.