Digital Portfolio

Here is the link for my digital portfolio. I plan on leaving it public for the next couple of days before closing it again.

http://sites.google.com/site/skharpfamily/stephanie-harp-2

Flickr

My flickr name is skharp.... add me! Its great! Online photo album what else is needed in the world.

Plaxo And Linked In Experiences

I just finished creating my Plaxo account. It reminded me of when facebook first came out. Super basic, easy to navigate tabs and just a simple networking website. None of my friends appear to be on the site... it doesn't seem like it has picked up on having a huge number of members yet. In time :)

As far as LinkedIn goes I have had an account with virtually nothing in it for a while. I would like to continue to have it that way. There are tooo many people from work on there, and I would like to keep some distance from home and work. I feel like that relationship to being monitored/ accessible all the time needs to be a tad bit distant. That sounds pseudo bad but I need my space when not at work.

Library Thing

Library Thing is very easy to use, however, the design of the site is very basic to me. It looks and feels just like a developer created it and doesn't have much of a warm friendly feeling to the site. I wish you were able to add more than one book at a time after completing a search. However, the searches were quick and easy to use so I can't say it is a huge complaint more of a usability request. It is very nice to be able to tag, and have access to others catalogs with similar tastes. It is especially helpful when looking for a genre of books.

Image Generators

Image Generators were quite fun to play with! I had not ever really taken a look at them before. In fact I probably spent more time than deemed necessary to complete the assignment playing with them. I was disappointed when I was unable to save my lego woman. I even tried to print it so I could create two and paste them on the refrigerator just for kicks and giggles. I posted a couple of the images earlier this morning on the blog. And I will most likely play with them again later this afternoon. The nice things about the image generators are simply the fact that it is similar to some of the features you can do with Abode Indesign without having to paying for it. Generators are great tools to be able to create images for presentations, websites, etc which we all have visit or have to complete on just about a daily basis.

Billboard Fun!

Image One

Podcasts

I just finished up playing on Podcast. I can't say that I have ever been to that particular site before. I was trying to find fitness videos for pregnancy. I'm not sure if I was searching incorrectly or there weren't too many posted or if it was a combination of the two. I did, however, find some videos for after I have the babies... hopefully at least 3 more months, so I added them to my queue. It may be a bit premature but I figured heck why not, its already done:) I did think it was a bit more challenging searching for videos than youtube, myself.

You Tube, How I've Missed You

It was nice to have an assignment on visiting YouTube. While in undergrad I spent numerous days watching YouTube videos rather than completing my homework which I needed to finish. It has been a while since I have had time to leisurely browse videos. Today, I was looking at Fit Pregancy videos, how to put together cribs, and did a general search for funny videos. I looked up these videos because later today, I have to put toget some cribs... and lets just say I hate reading the directions... especially since you can watch it. I also need to work out this afternoon and I don't feel like going to the gym. Not only can YouTube be Resourceful(with any site you have to be careful) but it can be very entertaining.

Below is one of my favorite youtube videos:



I really think it is amazing that you can see lectures, especially so famous ones. The "Last Lecture" is an amazing lecture if you have time to watch it.

Technorati

1. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for "Kinesiology" in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different?
"Kinesiology" search in Technorati yielded different results in Posts, Blogs, Photos, and Videos. Each section had relevance to the subject matter( or the few I quickly browsed) I also noticed that many of the blogs, videos etc mentioned nueroscience in the blogs.

I was surprised to find a blog regarding charging your cell phone while walking. I thought that was pretty interesting. I don't know how I would feel about walking around with a knee brace on to charge my phone, but the idea behind it is really interesting. It reminded me of wearing a heart rate mointer in a way since the one I own requires you to were a little band around your chest. I'm not quite sure how I correlated the two together but I did. :)

Del.icio.us

I think Del.icio.us has the potential to be a great tool if used properly. If using it for work, or teaching I think it is really important to keep your personal sites separate. Also, if you are using it for teaching purposes, getting exam questions or homework problems it might be a bit of challenge since it is a public site. Students as well as other professionals have access to the web, and your created site. A student could easily complete a google search and has the possibility to running in to your potential exam questions.

Del.icio.us is a great research tool. A user has the ability to organize valuable sites for their current research topic, past and feature projects. Also, a user has the ability to search for other users completing similiar research and the ability to review the sites that they find valuable. Del.icio.us has the potential to become a research social networking site.

Right now, I'm currently using Del.icio.us as a bookmarking site. I have started using to organize my daily website visits.