Thing 5

1. Which social journal did you choose? Why?

Twitter, its more established and widely used, plurk is to small and young of a startup.

2. What is unique about the online journaling experience?

The amount of useless information that is shared. In real journalism everything seems to be at least somewhat interesting to some people. there is a lot of useless information out there!

3. Can you see this having some application to school work or professional development?

Yup I already have learned about finding jobs on twitter and have read many articles on the topic.

4. What are some ways that these tools could be used for evil, instead of good?

evil people writing pointless things. Or identity theft or pretending to be someone else

Thing 4

1. Now that you have a profile on Facebook or MySpace, how will you share information about yourself to meet other students at Ai and start to build your network?

I will join college groups, and also add friends that I meet here so that we can stay in touch

2. Keeping in mind that employers use social networks as a recruiting tool, how will you use Facebook or MySpace to promote yourself to potential employers?

Keep my site clean and make sure to untag myself from pictures that may be offensive.

3. How will you use Facebook or MySpace to build your professional network?

I will keep in touch with students after they graduate and get jobs. This will allow me to be able to hit them up if I ever need help with anything in the professional world.

4. What interests and personal details will you share with your circle?

Only basic information about myself. the basic job application stuff.

5. How is professional networking different from social networking?

You have to be very business like in everything you do. you should respond quickly to messages and you should make sure your profile is clean and neat. You also should keep you language clean.

Things 3

1. What about My Ai Campus.com seems interesting or useful to you?

I really like the ability to access everything for college at one site

2. Why is this such a great resource for students here at Ai?

I think knowing where to go for answers is crucial.

3. What specific resources do you find useful or helpful?

Grade Checking and Registration are the two that I use frequently they are a big help

4. Did you have any problems accessing your student portal account or other services in this Thing? If you say "no" you're either a liar or you did something wrong. Do it again!

Not this time around. I have had trouble with my email before but everything is good right now.

Thing 2

I have used google reader for a long time and have always been very happy with it. My 2 favorite features are the ability to star things and come back and read them later. The other is that you can set it to not show you articles you have read. It gives you a sense of accomplishment when you have finished glancing over 200 articles and nothing is bold and telling you to read it. I also have it synced to my android phone so that I can view all of my articles and read them. Then it syncs back to my google reader account that I viewed them and marks them off. Perfect!