3rd EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY

For my third and final emerging technology, I chose to use the program Gliffy. I had never heard of this website before and decided to see what it was all about. It's a program that allows you to make flowcharts- and allows you to do it easily. I decided to use this program to create a training/cheat sheet for some of my new employees at work. It lays out the receiving process in simple terms and the flowchart puts it into a step by step process. Gliffy was a great find!! Since we are constantly hiring new people, I think that this is going to be great to use!

Gliffy Public Diagram - emergent technologies

Gliffy Public Diagram - emergent technologies

2nd EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY

For my second project in emerging technologies, I chose to use the program PhotoShow. It was extremely user friendly and convenient as well. It allows you to pull photos from pretty much anywhere you can think of. I have a new laptop and haven't taken the time to transfer any of my photos on to it, but it didn't matter since one of the options PhotoShow gives you it to upload from your Facebook albums. Kind of like how Blogger walked you through to set up your page, PhotoShow had about 8 different tabs that you followed along with to get your slideshow up and running. You could add music, captions, frames, and even stickers if you wanted to. This program is great if you need it all kind of laid out for you. The only thing that I didn't like was that if you wanted more options with the design, you had to buy a membership.

^RSS FEEDS^

So usually I stare at the computer for a good ten minutes when I start a new assignment for this class, but with this one it all just kind of made sense. (Finally!) I first wanted to put the gadget on my blog so that it was all right here, but I couldn't get it to work quite right, so I decided to open a google account. So I went to open the account to find that I already had one. Easy as that. I decided to subscribe to a website that gave me updates about new cell phones, computer software, video games, etc. and to a website that is geared to help elementary teachers in the classroom by providing project ideas, games, lesson planning tips, and pretty much everything else you can think of. The other three of my choice were one from ENews (gotta know the gossip), updates from The Red Hot Chili Peppers (my fav), and from Women's Health magazine. 15 min or so after setting up the feed I went back to check and was surprised to see that there was already a change in some of the information. I am extremely glad we got to do this because I think by far this is something that I will continue to use. Very helpful!!

My Delicious URL

http://delicious.com/mdharp408

I was very intimidated by this assignment...I will probably say that with all assignments that deal with computers. However, the hardest part of the assignment was trying to figure out what to do it on. I recently bought a new laptop and used the built in webcam and software that it came with to do my recording. It wasn't that hard at all. I played around with it a little and figured out how to add the snowing effect.

This past Friday, my boyfriend had double hernia surgery so I have been staying with him and helping him out- cooking, cleaning, taking care of his dogs, etc. The only time I have left the apartment was to get a refill on one of his perscriptions yesterday, so can we say CABIN FEVER!!! You can tell from my powerpoint that I live for anything beach, so this snow is breaking me down. I could not think of anything to do for this vodcast, so I thought in honor of all of this glorious snow, I would recite a short poem by one of my all time favorites, Shel Silverstein called Snowball. Starring along side me is Douglas' Boston Terrier, Maggie (she was very interested as to why I was talking to the computer). So even if the poem isn't that deep in meaning, Maggie's pretty adorable to look at=) Hope this makes you snow haters smile!

Oahu, Hawaii

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INTRODUCTiON

My name is Molly and I am 23 years old. I am the middle child of 5 children (1 older brother and sister and 2 younger sisters), but do no suffer from 'middle-child syndrome' =)...my family is my life. Game night, movie night, and family dinners is where I can truly be myself. My large immediate family also includes 3 nephews who consume a lot of my time and have taught me a lot about Batman and Ben 10. Along with spending time with my family, I love being around my closest friends and being with my boyfriend.



I am a returning student to IUPUI after a 2 1/2 year break. I was pursuing a career in retail management and was volunteering as a cheerleading coach for my youngest sister's squad when I discovered my love for working with kids. I will never forget the first day that one of my girls thanked me for helping them and that they loved cheering because of me. It was an amazing feeling. Since then I knew that I wanted to go back to school for elementary education.

I would not consider myself computer savy at all. With the exception of school and Facebook (of course), I make it a point to stay away! I was intimidated by this assignment and thought this blog was going to be very challenging, but found it to be far from that. The only thing that was hard for me was getting it to look the way I wanted it to. My advice is to pick something-font, colors, designs, etc.- and then change it a few times to see what all you can do. If you like to detail, it will be fun for you!