TED sixth sense technology

In this site called the Sixth Sense, A woman named Patty Maes deomonstrates over a screen what the capabilites of this new technology can do. I thought the video was facinating. You can take pictures with your hands, dial a telephone number with your hands, touch a book and find out the ratings and cheapest prices and do much more that they didn't have time to demonstrate or tell us about. The fact that it can do all these things is facinating, but in order to do these things you have to wear either tape, nail polish or marker caps of different colors is a little wierd to me. Also, another thing I don't like is that it is creating a lazy society. Instead of researching something, you can just touch it? I think our society is already becoming entitled so to have such easy access I don't believe is as much as a positive thing as the TED believers think it is. But the fact that technology has come this far is incredible and there are some really smart and creative people out there to be able to invent this.

Web Award Winners

The two web award winners that I found to be very interesting for myself were grooveshark and picnik. On grooveshark you are able to choose the songs you want to play and put them in an order that you choose for them to play in. They have all the latest songs and it is so easy to work. The second award winner is picnik. This is a site where you can upload your photos and edit them in very unique ways. You can put frames on the photos, stickers, text and change the colors throughout the photo. Very fun to play around with because I love editing my photos!

Tools of Technology

Technology has played a huge role as a college student. Obviously my laptop has had a huge impact on my use of technology. I use it for typing papers, researching the internet, music, photos, and I also use my webcam quite a bit. I also use my ipod alot which has access to the internet and other tools. I would like to learn more about how to use ipods and other attractive technology uses in my classroom. This would help me with my other classes for integrating technology