When I thought of the Internet, the first thing that came to mind was email, facebook, and browsing through sites that I thought were interesting. My daily or somewhat daily routine of visiting the web was checking my email, my facebook account, whatever messages I had through the schools website, and occasionally visiting sport pages or checking up on the weather. Well now its totally different. All of these still exist, but are more towards the end of my agenda.
I did not know that there were websites specifically for compacting all the websites you visit or that you have made into one page. Now that I have an eportfolio, I can put all the websites I belong to or that I have background information on all in once space so it is more accessible.
Also, I like the idea of having a netvibes page. It is similar to a eportfolio, but it has more than just information of yourself on there and it is a website for only you to see. I can put everything from facebook to my classmates blogs to the whether all on one website.
These websites are easy to work with, and I was never aware that these types of sites existed. Whenever I got online, I would always open up a new tab and have a dozen of tabs up at the top and loose my spot on where everything is. Now that I have specific webpages to go to where everything is in one spot, it makes it a lot easier to find things.
Now that I have learned how to use all these different pages, I will not only use them in this class, but use them for my own use and hopefully in a classroom in the future.
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I feel the same way! I never knew that there was a website to consolidate all of my internet priorities onto one page. It keeps me organized and actually more up to date with everything. I am kind of lazy when it comes to checking 5 different websites, but this way it makes it easier.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you! I love it how a trip to one website can save you the hassle of going to a number of others. Like Tami said it does help me stay more organized and up to date on everything!
ReplyDeleteI am a hundred tab person myself aswell. It just seems crazy now knowing of these sites which make manageing our "online selves" so easy to go in and open a new tab for every email account just to see if maybe there is a new email, then looking at facebook, myspace, school sites hopeing for new information and now to have all of that in once quick glance is so much more time efficient. Also, having everything in one place helps remove the possibility of overlooking something very important.
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