Taylor Turner 9/2/2013 Assignment 1: Tool Inventory Please fill out the table with at least two different

Web communication and/or Web 2.0 tools that you might use to complete each task. You can use tools described in this unit, or you can suggest ones we have not yet discussed. List your tools in column 2. List reasons that each tool would be useful for the particular task in column 3. Total Inventory 1)Task You have to lead an online presentations on the contents of your history term paper: The final exam for your economics course is coming up, and you need to collect all of your ( and hopefully your classmates) online resources for a study guide.

2) Tools Paradigm

Wiki Bookmarks (folksonomy)

You need to create an interactive tour of berlin as an assignment for your study abroad program .

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3) Reasons Because you have easy access to sharing contents as well as discussing them . Used to brainstorm ideas, collaboratively collect information, and even write essays, term papers, and reports together. help describe the content, but to help you find it latersort of like how a library index works you can create a virtual tour of berlin.

Guided Practice 2 Visit the following blogs: http://www.jarche.com http://www.teachable.org http://www.elearnspace.org Now try to answer these questions for each blog: 1. What is the major purpose of the blog? 2. Who do you think is the intended audience? 3. What is the blogs unique value? 4. Was the blog easy to read? 5. Could you easily find worthwhile information? Jarche blog: Gives a brief synopsis of different things that has caught the bloggers eye and he gives his own opinions on different subjects. I think that his audience is open to anyone. The blog is very easy to read and to understand.

Teachable blog: This blog gives announcements about different things associated with Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) program with the University of Memphis. The blog is difficult to understand because you would to have to know the teacher to understand the information that has been given. The audience is mainly towards students associated with IDT design at the University of Memphis. There is no worthwhile information because it is only geared towards giving students announcements for upcoming events at the school. Elearnspace blog: The major purpose of this blog is to give readers information on new learning, networks, knowledge, technology, and community. The intended audience can be teachers, parents and even students. The blog is easy to read if you understand the information that is being explained. Some asserts are worthwhile and others are kind of boring. It all depends on the reader and how one will perceive the information.