The document discusses the author's opinions on various emerging technologies. They enjoy using Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, and Twitter for its ease of use and ability to follow TV shows and musicians. The author also likes Flickr for storing and tagging photos, and Google as a search engine. However, the author dislikes YouTube due to annoying video game videos their children watch, finds CourseCasts difficult due to being more visual, and had issues with Sumo Paint and Wordle.

1. Jaime Phelan
OST 284 Emerging Technologies
Final Exam

2. FACEBOO
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I enjoy Facebook, it is how
I keep in touch with my
friends and family. I love
sharing pictures and
stories with everyone. I am
also a big fan of the chat
option. I have been using
it for years now and I feel I
will continue to use it for a
long time to come. As long
as it is free. Because I am
cheap.

3. Blogger – I really enjoyed learning about Blogger, I have
some things I would like to say. Once things slow down in my
world I would like to start blogging, I like that fact that Blogger is
pretty user-friendly and again that it is free. It is almost like
therapy for me.

4. Twitter
I liked the ease of use
with Twitter. Again , it
is user friendly and it
only takes a minute to
update your status.
Plus, I enjoy following
my favorite TV shows
or musicians. I like the
fact I can use it on my
cell phone. Quick and
easy.

5. flickr- I enjoyed opening a flickr account. I like the ease and accessibility
of having my pictures store somewhere other them my computer. I like the fact
that flickr lets you tag pictures. And I enjoyed just browsing through the public
pictures and exploring.

6. GOOGLE
Google has always
been my go to search
engine. I love that
they play around and
change up the logo
every now and then. I
find it locates what I
am searching for
pretty easily. I am
comfortable using
Google as my usual
search engine.

7. WIKIPEDIA- I have used Wikipedia to research certain
subjects with which I am not familiar. There is usually a great deal
of extensive knowledge to be found. But you need to be careful
because anyone can update it and they might not be correct. So
for that reason, I chose it as one of my least favorites.

8. YouTube
I am not a huge fan of
YouTube. Although I like
looking at some of the
tutorials my biggest
problem is my children are
obsessed with watching
videos of other people
playing video games and
making commentary. It is
annoying and ridiculous
but it keeps them busy
while I get other things
done. However because of
those silly videos, this is
one of my least favorite
technologies.

9. Wordle- Although the finished result was kind of cool. I had to
download java and switch from Mozilla to Chrome to support this
program. And you cannot copy and paste or use the back button.
I had to redo this about 4 times. For that reason alone, I do not
like Wordle.

10. CourseCasts
I am
a visual person. I like
to read things to absorb
them. Sometimes just
hearing something will not
make it sink in to my
memory. So listening to
the podcast on CourseCast
was difficult for me. I
would have to listen a few
times before I could write
about whatever they were
saying. So I chose
CourseCasts as another of
my least favorite
technologies.
Huh? What was that?
I guess I have to play it
again.

11. Sumo Paint
I was not thrilled with
Sumo Paint, it was not
horrible but I did not think
it was very user friendly. I
kept having to start over
again and maybe it was
user error. Most likely it
was but I just didn’t love it.
I also didn’t like the fact
that all the good stuff was
an upgrade. It was like a
big tease. Come play with
this free toy but if you
want to do the really cool
designs you have to pay for
it.