The document discusses Linda Lewallen's opinions on various emerging technologies covered in her final exam for OST 284 Emerging Technologies. She found Facebook, WolframAlpha, Google Docs, and Yelp to be useful for connecting with friends, solving mathematical problems, collaborating on documents, and finding travel information. She was intrigued by the capabilities of future Web 3.0 applications but wary of fully relying on technologies. Linda also expressed confusion with Zoho and disliked blogs, Twitter, and Delicious due to their complexity, public visibility, or integration challenges. Overall, she found the class exposed her to many new technologies and appreciated learning about further options.

1. OST 284 Emerging Technologies
Final Exam
By
Linda Lewallen

2. Facebook
• 1. No hassle, here is where everyone connects.
• 2. You can share information and photos with friends.
• 3. You only have to connect to those friends you want
too.

3. Wolfram|Alpha
• 1. I like that Wolfram|Alpha is helpful in mathematical expressions.
• 2. When I am traveling it will give me different travel times,
whether I am on a plane, train or bus.
• 3. When reading about Wolfram|Alpha, I liked it because many
students struggle with mathematical equations. I saw where this
could be very helpful, not only to a student, but to the teacher.

4. Google Docs
• 1. I like the idea that documents, spreadsheets, and
presentation can be shared.
• 2. The application has a lot of the same features as
Microsoft office, which I am more comfortable using.
• 3. I like knowing all you have to do is to write one letter
and use translate, and it will automatically put it into
another language.

5. Yelp
• 1. I liked the way Yelp allow you to search for restaurants
and hotel.
• 2. Convenient for giving exact distances and even street
addresses.
• 3. Everything I would need to know for traveling is found in
Yelp.

6. Web 3.0 Application
1. I am fascinated with the newness of this application
and all it will do.
2. I like that it will be able to understand key words and
fill in the blanks.
3. I’m lyre of it in someway, I guess because it will reach
beyond computers and cell phones.

7. Least Favorite Technologies
Zoho
1. Zoho was very confusion to me.
2. I had difficult with picture being placed into
document.
3. I don’t know why, but the computer would
freeze up a lot.

8. Blog
• 1. I did not like the blog, because it was to busy.
• 2. To much information had to be added for
others to follow.
• 3. There are easier ways to get the message to
others.

9. Twitter
1. Did not like the idea people all over the world
could see my post.
2. Security not as safe.
3. Facebook was my first choice, but Twitter would
have been, had Facebook been in nonexistence.

10. Delicious
• 1. Delicious was imbedded into the blog and I
don’t know why I did not like it, but I did not.
• 2.
• 3.

11. All Homework
• 1. Lots of information with over 60 technologies, it was
hard to remember the detail about each.
• 2. There are more than two favorites I will use again in the
future.
• 3. I have enjoyed the class so much, it has been an eye
opener as the technology out there.