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!!