My comments on the Seesmic video:

The website main page is too dark and black, it was not inviting, and promoting it with the introducer was not too pleasing to the new comers. Overall it was functional and helpful with all its capabilities.

My comments on the voice thread:

It was very interesting to use and complete the task that was assigned to us. It was very easy to use. Also the reply method was Great idea. I hope that the person that starts the video would be able to see all comments. Similarly for Seesmic it may not be with a small icon but you can reply to the video etc… you can make a phone call and text reply as well.

My comments on the comic strip:

I did not spend too much time on this web site but it is somewhat interesting, I review a bit of what I was able to spend time on. It was somewhat cool. I will spend more time on it, maybe after finals since I could not spend more time on it this week.

As mentioned above, it was an informative class, I learned something new every week; I do not think I will be able to use it all in the near future.  I have had experience with social networking sites in the past with facebook and myspace.  I didn’t realize there were so many out there that are being used. I like to say that I probably hated it half way during the semester but I catch myself bookmarking a lot lately when I never did it before; or “stumble it” some websites since it is in my IExplorer; or I check my facebook applications which I never used before when I used facebook. Many other things keep coming up such as my Daughter Graduation is coming up soon so I put bunch of pictures together and made a video with music for her.

Animoto.com

Answer:

• Animoto :    Animoto.com

http://animoto.com/

http://animoto.com/play/zg7CucNXmNUb6fhJaXeaSQ

 Posted on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727787920

• Toufee

http://www.toufee.com/

http://www.toufee.com/36902/movies/Marriage_DAmour

http://www.toufee.com/36902/movies/Electrical_Engineering

I did 2 one of them is on Engineering.

 Posted also on FaceBook

• Sprout builder

http://sproutbuilder.com/

http://seed.sproutbuilder.com/5wAXutKSBHCTir7W

Posted also on FaceBook

2J  Computer Screen Scraping

Answer:

• Jing My 1^st ScreenCast

This link above does work. the one below i made a very nice picture slides for my personal use and for some reason it is a bad link now.

http://www.jingproject.com/

http://www.screencast.com/t/2ooswoUvL6l

http://www.screencast.com/t/THPJDmjUPr

http://www.screencast.com/t/FRKbPccpqku

• FreeScreen cast

http://freescreencast.com/pages/getstarted

3J  Sign to seismic and add JAlam1001

Answer:

Add jalam1001 on:

            http://www.seesmic.com

Direct to the video:

            http://www.seesmic.com/jalam1001

 Provided a short reply on this video on my “Own experience in using digital video”:

http://seesmic.com/videos/Zd2F1pQqJu

4J

 Answer:

• Sign up for Voicethread http://voicethread.com/
• Create a voicethread of your own. This is a group voicethread so one of you will create the main thread and the group members will comment on that thread. make sure that thread is accessible to all and you add its url in your wordpress blog.
• Also go to this url http://voicethread.com/share/117203/ and make a comment on that voice thread created by me to create a conversation on the use of digital video. You can comment here about your own experience with digital video.

Optimum Configuration
(to play 1080p video with 5.1 surround sound)
Windows XP
Windows Media Player 9 Series
3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
512 MB of RAM
128 MB video card
1920 x 1440 screen resolution
DirectX 9.0
DVD drive
24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card
5.1 surround sound speaker system

I downloaded this and viewed it under 1080p Hi-Definition and this the site where to order the video from:

 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/coralreef.aspx

Also the link to download it, is:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/9/3/a9327df4-aeb5-46de-b438-d0f60da6fb54/Coral_Reef_Adventure_1080.exe

Minimum Configuration
(to play 720p video)
Windows XP
Windows Media Player 9 Series
2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
256 MB of RAM
64 MB video card
DVD drive
1024 x 768 screen resolution
16-bit sound card
Speakers
Internet connection

I downloaded this and viewed it under 720p Hi-Definition and this the site where to order the video from:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/dolphins.aspx

Also the link to download it, is:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/b/92b48c2f-cc5a-4d15-ae40-30ec542db8bb/Dolphins_720.exe

I just do not  beleive that dolphin lived for 50 million years before us. like it is stated in the video.

This link is from mac site.

I downloaded this and viewed it under 720p & 1080p Hi-Definition and this the site where to view online or order the video from:

 http://www.apple.com/trailers/imax/imaxdeepsea3d/hd/

2.

My YouTube Video Can Be found by clicking this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEc3thObJUM

I have created this video using my Panta’s webcam . I used the software that came with the webcam. it saved as .mpg file. i went to YouTube and clicked on upload and it was done; very easily.

3.

This my UStream.tv recorded footage just click on the link below.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/375096

4.

My ID in WizIQ is :

5.

I signed up  with seesmic and I searched for you name  and when I clicked on your name it showed on the bottom that I am following you. I search for panta it showed that clicked on my name and became a follower and I am his follower as well these are the naming list on the site following and follower. for you to be on of the following and follower you can see my ID as: lebysassya. sorry I could not find the link.

http://s280.photobucket.com/albums/kk184/lebysassya/

1

Panoramic view: Death Valley:

http://www.panoramas.dk/2008/flash/death-valley-F.html

Panoramic view: the Opera:

http://www.panoramas.dk/2008/flash/oslo-opera-F.html

Lake Ediza:

http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZYSXw64e4kWO3wqSfXhjHbw.html

And Lake Rockpile:

http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZVHFzVq3kaMVau1KsGV9SEQ.html

2.

My SlideShare account is:

http://www.slideshare.net/lebysassya

 This is my PowerPoint on SlideShare:

http://www.slideshare.net/lebysassya/social-bookmarking-363361

3.

METHOD USED FOR SLIDECASTING:

I did not need to store my mp3 files on line after all, originally I did and in the end by mistake I delete them because I reached my quota; but it works wonderfully without them.

I tried the text to speech webpage it worked very good I liked it, but in the end I did not use it since I used articulate.

I went to slide cast file for a long and repetitive visits to complete this task so I had to go to articulate.com as you advised us. Finally, after 20 trials or more ARTICULATE allowed me to upload everything so fast in one shot. When before I had to upload 2 to 3 files at a time and then it crashes.

It was very challenging experience to know when the website is working or it was our mistake.

3a. SLIDECASTING LOCATION:

This is my slidecast using the uploading feature in wordpress: 

http://lebysassya.webs.com/social-bookmarking/player.html

April 14, 2008

Infotechtools class has prepared us to work with many social networking software, word processing software, and photos/videos editing software, and most of all how to handle them. After we learned about the existence of these software and their availabilities for free we were asked to collaborate in a document writing process. We had to use Google Docs and WetPaint Wiki to write about the different types of Social Networking Software (SNS) and word processing software.

Our class was able to attend in a long discussion using Google docs in a collaborative way so we all were able to contribute in the same time. I think it was a very good session in collaboration. Unfortunately I did not check my email till late the following day when I discovered another session late that day. It was hard for me to follow up when I was typing away in one document and the conversation was still going in YUGMA were the meeting took place.

I tried to be on top of things to keep up with what other need to complete their task since this was a group task, therefore I finished most what is needed to complete my group section, and left my comments till 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning while I was still working that night.

Here are the links to the documents listed below:

Social Networking Software Article:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2534214/lebysassya

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=d28krnt_25m9zb6bdt&hl=en

Word Processing Software Article:

http://wordprocessor.wetpaint.com/page/Word+Processor+Comparison+Article

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2537514/Word-Processing-Software-Unit-10-

I have listed most of my search for software that enables audio processing and podcasting websites, video editing, and real-time communication which listed in my blog Unit Learning 8 http://lebysassya.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/learning-unit-08/

also in stumble-upon and del.ici.ous:

http://del.icio.us/lebysassya

These are the Delicious:

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/07/google-spreadsheets-edges-out-google-docs-in-usage/

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp

http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html

http://www.neospeech.com/

http://mashable.com/2008/04/13/mibbit/

http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/04/volckers-speech.html

http://www.spokentext.net/

http://scyuen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/online-converting-tools/

http://lebysassya.stumbleupon.com

These are my Liked Links in Stumble-upon:

This link links directly to my favorite:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/syndicate.php?stumbler=5272055

This one is for my favorite:

http://lebysassya.stumbleupon.com/favorites/

http://lebysassya.stumbleupon.com/favorites/10/

I will try to see if it works after I logout. this was the same reason for the last assignment not enabling you to see it.

http://photography-business-tips.com/2008/01/15/a-photographers-guide-to-image-editing-software/

adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html [adobe.com]
mspaint.com [mspaint.com]
adobe.com/products/fireworks/ [adobe.com]

adobe.com [adobe.com]
labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/free-video-editing-software-for.html [blogspot.com]
blazemp.com [blazemp.com]

http://www.ivisit.com/

http://messenger.yahoo.com/

http://e-messenger.net/

http://www.skype.com/

http://www.koolmoves.com/

http://photography-business-tips.com/2008/01/15/a-photographers-guide-to-image-editing-software/

TASK #1 

The assignment was to use and familiarize ourselves with Google Calendar, MyOffice on FaceBook, ZOHO Porject, and Yugma.

Google Calendar: Google Calendar is used to setup for coordination and collaboration for meeting, project, or any need for follow-up; similarly Microsoft Outlook. Since we have an account with Google mail or Gmail from our previous “learning units” it facilitated for us the use of their calendar, called Google Calendar. This type of calendar has collaboration for public or certain group/people we choose to have access to all functions of our calendar events. Also I was able to import my group events to my so we can synchronize and plan ahead for what we have if there is a time constraint. I think that this program would be useful among work project or large families. The best feature that I like is that you can merge calendars with any other user. Thus, you could see when each other is busy or has plans. Using this calendar was very easy and user friendly. I probably would use this calendar in the near future.

http://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=en&tab=wc&gsessionid=ve0XmjSVGNm5s90EHSKdQg#

MyOffice by FaceBook :

MyOffice enabled me to create a project and share with my group. We are all contributing in this project. We can collaborate, add and change the project process and any important event pertaining to the project. It has less capabilities then ZOHO project. This was interesting and pretty good.

This was interesting and pretty good. I didn’t like the layout of the program. This also allows your group to collaborate and use it for different fields such as with friends or co-workers on a single project. It has very neat features that are very helpful for task handling.

ZOHO project:

This program has wider capabilities in handling projects and what pertain to them, from collaboration to milestone handling. It is very helpful to get information of every task we did in our group project. This program seems to be more convenient and more user friendly for a team working on a single (or multiple) projects over the internet. This program has a lot of features.

YUGMA:  This is really a very great program, and its capabilities are yet to be discovered. I signed up with the free trail about 2 weeks ago and I was allowed a 14 days and it is about to expire; I believe it will turn automatically to the free account. I can share and collaborate virtually with my class instantaneously. I was happy to see and share the others desktops remotely. It seems similar to net meeting with much better communication capabilities and collaborations, form chatting recording the session and replaying it as well. Hopefully in the near future I can collaborate with my team or coworkers at work and over the internet many task and responsibilities…

TASK #2

I saw one colleague mentioning Phixr, http://www.phixr.com/ also I did find it in my research for Learning unit # 8. I tried it, it is a bit different than other program I used in the past; to find all the operational keys to enhance a picture or to create one. I was able to complete some modification on the picture I had on my desktop. I think I am used to use the non- web-based software.

My Logo:

http://lebysassya.webs.com/test/testt.html

My Adjusted Image:

My Adjusted Image

Here are my Flickr and Picasa photo albums.

Flickr: Photo Album Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25370671@N03/sets/72157604398857382/

Picasa: Picasa album Set: http://picasaweb.google.com/lebysassya/unitlearning9/

This is the original picture before modifying it by Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lebysassya/UNITLEARNING9/photo#5185908924052109250

http://picasaweb.google.com/lebysassya/UNITLEARNING9/photo#5185908906872240002

This is the original picture after modifying it by Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lebysassya/UNITLEARNING9/photo#5189252504741345634

http://picasaweb.google.com/lebysassya/UNITLEARNING9/photo#5189511542808902114

Comparison of Collaboration Tools (Unit of Learning 8)

From this exercise, I would prefer to use Zoho Writer for any type of collaboration activities. Our document was uploaded and published, I believe it was not for read and write, and therefore I made another document and invited everyone in our group as collaborators, once the group got comfortable with the software, the document was re-published. You cannot open document and another collaborator in the same time. Having said that, I still choose Zoho Writer, it was the superior collaboration tool going forward.

Social Networking Site Comparisons-My individual (Learning of Unit 8)

So many sites, software and program are available over the internet to use for keeping in touch or instant messaging. Sites such as Facebook, Ning, LinkedIn, Pownce, & FriendFeed compete with each other to gain popularity among the human population with all languages capabilities for their social networking.I have used several sites for my personal use; and for InfoTechTools, I‘ve learned to join Ning, LinkedIn, Pownce, & FriendFeed. I am growing to like these sites more and more every time I get to using them in depth.

Facebook

It is my favorite since I can get in touch with all my friend family anywhere. I was and am able to check my friends and relative activities online. I learned to add widgets and join various groups on this site; I have a lot of “add on”; I did subscribe to RSS feeds, blog roll, I can upload videos, pictures, presentations, PDF files. This is the most socially accepted communication sites I did not have any problem finding my friends, classmates, family members.

Ning 

 It is more for teaching/learning discussion group like our class. I cannot foresee this site to be used for social networking comparing with Facebook. I was able to add blogs, videos, widgets, pictures, discussion groups but you must be part of a group as InfoTechTools. LinkedIn

It is a very nice search site for everything you are looking for; and that how you Digg it. I was able to find so many option for my search for the digital imagery software, it made a bit difficult with all the listing to choose from.

Pownce

It is a nice site similar to Digg; it is a bit difficult to get used to; it was loaded with the options of checking other social networking profiles on other sites keeping the option of leaving messages private or public. It can easier if one can get directly to his/her other social network sites from Pownce without having to log-on and off.

FriendFeed

It is a site that facilitate for it user to ties all their social networking and with the ability to see what and who is in their network is doing on different network. The ability to see a window for everything you post all in one place, without having to log into multiple sites each day. They still need to log to their network for any changes needed.I prefer Facebook as my networking/communicating site. This site is very much used among most people who access the internet, including my circle of friends and family. I will choose Ning for my group work since it has greater discussion & collaboration tools. I also like FriendFeed for quick access of my internet activities.

Web Pages

Here is my FreeWebs page

http://lebysassya.webs.com

Here is my Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727787920

Here is my professional page on Google

http://lebysassya.googlepages.com/home 

 Here is my Info Tech Tools Group #1 page

 http://sites.google.com/a/student.ysu.edu/engr6923s08g4/Home   

Web Documents

Our individual and group {as collaborators} links to a document for InfoTechTools (Group #4) built and published as part of Unit of Learning 6, 7 & 8. All my comparisons are mentioned above.

Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on ZOHO website

http://www.zohowriter.com/Home.do?shrDocId=Editors

Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on WIKI website

http://engr6923s08g4.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on Google Document

http://lebysassya.googlepages.com/home.  

lebysassya said, Continuing part 6

1. March 28, 2008 at 11:52 am

http://developer.gimp.org/
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), widely regarded as the leading free software raster image editing program, is scheduled for October of 2005. The 2.4 release does include a number of new features and enhancements to existing features.

1. http://www.getpaint.net/
   - Free Microsoft Picture It
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   Photo Paint Offers Don’t pay more than you need to
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   - Paints
   Find out which Paints are best with our unbiased reviews.
   http://www.ConsumerReports.org
   - (free download):
   Paint.NET v3.22: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#Download1.6 MB, English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish
   Released on January 12th, 2008
   -
   Paint.NET v3.30 Beta 2: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#Download1.6 MB, English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish
   Released on March 13th, 2008The web applications I fond we many they range from simple editing to near Photoshop qualities. The best by far are Photoshop or Gimp. Those are five online photo editors that I found which they have some functionality, that I would use and they free:
   • Fauxto: http://www.splashup.com/

   Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
   • Picnik: http://www.picnik.com/

   Photo editing made fun. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
   It’s fast, easy, and fun. Picnik is the perfect solution for editing your photos without ever leaving Facebook. Crop, rotate, resize. Fix colors, exposure, and red-eye.
   • Picture2Life: http://www.picture2life.com/Tour/

   Picture2Life is a powerful, but simple and easy-to-use online image editor which also allows you to create collages and animated gif’s (or animations). It works great with your pictures that you already have online.
   • Pixenate: http://pixenate.com/

   Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses. I would to work more with one until I get very familiar with it. It seems very easy and interesting. Pixenate is online photo editing software that you can use stand-alone or integrate into an existing photo-sharing or photo-printing website. If you provide a photo-based web service, Pixenate can significantly enhance the ’stickiness’ of your website by offering an easy-to-use integrated photo editor that doesn’t require your users to download and install additional software.
   • Snipshot: http://www.snipshot.com

   Similarly to Pixenate, Snipshot lets you start working on a picture right away by clicking on the browse button and calling up an image from your PC. Alternatively, you can enter a URL of a picture and edit that or just start playing with the sample image displayed on the service’s landing page. Also like Pixenate, Snipshot offers a bookmarklet for you to pick pictures off whatever site you’re visiting, and it goes one better by offering a Firefox extension for right-clicking pictures on web pages for editing.

   I went to these websites to understand, a little bit more, about these free online programs; and whenever I found a good statement I attached it with the link to all of them. I tried them briefly but they all worked in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, I would like to advise the use of Photoshop Adobe’s I have read some article about Photoshop online editing could for free. I can only guess how much would be if you have to purchase the actual program to get you online for editing.

   It was a bit difficult to DIGG them or Stumble Upon them; so I did it manually.

softwares that can be used in audio processing and podcasting web sites.

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.podbean.com/

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/audio-processing.html

http://www.goldwave.com/

software for video/animation

http://www.toonboom.com/products/

http://www.aniboom.com/Animachines/

http://www.shuttlespace.com/

http://software.filefactory.com/Categories/Windows/Animation.html

software for interactivity and for real time communication

http://www.wiredred.com/epop_downloads.html

http://www.download.com/2001-2001_4-0.html?tag=navtab

www.skype.com

http://get.live.com/messenger

Here is what I created using Inkspace. Also you can access My SVG File by clicking on this link below:

http://lebysassya.webs.com/test/testt.html

Logo Website: http://apps.facebook.com/freedrive/file/274740

&                    http://apps.facebook.com/freedrive/file/274741

http://lebysassya.webs.com/MyLogo/