Week 6: Online Digital Portfolio

Here's where you can view my resume.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhschb5s_1dmr4mpg2

Week 6: Plaxo

So I have been attempting to get on this plaxo website for the past hour and have not gotten anywhere. The internet explorer keeps telling me that the site is unavailable, so I'm going to try again a little bit later.

Week 6: Linkedin

So the following is my address to view my profile on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmfhaggard
Before Scott had even assigned this website, I was already a member. My friend in San Diego is a financial planner and looking into finding a job and she wanted me to be apart of this website. I just joined it for the heck of it and then forgot about it, so once Scott had us sign up for it, I looked more into what this website has to offer. Its a really cool tool and I can foresee using it in the future to help build my profile and resume and network with potential jobs and keep in touch professionally with peers.

Week 5: Online Image Generators

Made with free image tools @ TXT2PIC.com

I played with this on Magazine Generator




This is where I played with FlickrToys.

This project was a lot of fun. I would have to say that the FlickrToys and the Magazine Generator were the easiest to use. I tried to play around with the other two and had a difficult time trying to save my work and put it on this blog so that you could see. I liked the Magazine one so much that I copied the html and posted it on my friends MySpace, since that is a picture of her as well.
I've always used MySpace word generators when I wanted to comment on other people's pages but I now I realize there are many different generators out there where I can express myself and not be limited to only what MySpace provides. I can see that these generators can help in expressing your emotions and can spice up the blogs. I will probably use the FlickrToys in the future. Had fun. The other ones like I said were kind of difficult to play around with because once I was finished I wanted to copy them but they either wanted money or the website wasn't working. Oh well next time.

Week 4: Podcast

The idea of a Podcast seems truly interesting but the directories that the professor provided made it slightly difficult to figure out how to use the Podcast. The very first directory that I went through was easy because you were able to view the cast easily, while the second directory you had to go through a few extra steps just to view the podcast. I was able to add a podcast to my blogline and I decided to add the podcast that discussed the Bay2Breakers that just happened a few weeks ago, my best friend actually ran the Bay2Breakers so it was a very interesting podcast. Right now I own a Zune which is Microsoft's version of an Ipod and I have been able to download some podcast on there. The podcast that I was able to download were KinsPodcast by Jim Ave and instructor at Fresno Pacific University where he was able to give classroom instructions since the class was all on-line.
I could see that Podcasts could be very beneficial in my career because I can keep up to date on new exercise programs or exercise news. I was unable to find much on kinesiology or athletic training but in time I think when Podcasts are even more common there will be more and more things involving these subjects.

Week 4: YouTube

Now that I figured out YouTube, this could be a lot of fun. I was able to post videos of my husband singing "Having A Bad Day" Alvin & The Chipmunk style, and then I went ahead and added some other videos that I took recently. I searched Fresno Pacific University and came up with numerous results, I found two that were particularly interesting. The first was a video on FPU's Aquatics and there were speeches made by many of the athletes as well as Coach Bryan and Coach Peter, the other video I found was one of my track athletes dancing. It was hilarious. But there was a lot of useful things that I found on YouTube as well, I search Athletic Training and things that came up were information about Athletic Training programs at certain schools, examples of rehabilitation techniques, and how to perform certain evaluations. I find that this website will be most beneficially than the previous because more people know about this website.

I chose the video that is placed upon this blog because it is my own personal video. I have taken videos numerous times and have always wanted to share the videos with friends and family and now that i know how to do that, I thought I would like to share this video that I took of my husband. I am a big fan of the new Alvin & The Chipmunk DVD and really enjoy the opening song which is Having a Bad Day, and my husband decided to sing to me, so I thought you guys would get a kick out of it. Enjoy!

Week 4: Technorati

Technorati another site where you can look up peoples blogs, videos, photos, and etc. I like this site because it has everything, it separates things by videos, tags, photos, and blogs. It defiantly makes things easier when searching. I looked up kinesiology and the search engine came up with various things, it was nice to go from the blog section to the video and photo section. I particularly liked the video and photo section because many people posted things that were related to kin either photos of injuries or videos on how to perform a certain rehab technique. It defiantly will help me when I need a better example on how to explain a rehab technique or do a certain test. Sometimes just reading it in a book doesn't help.
Its cool to know that Technorati keeps track of all the blogs out there and is all under one roof, instead of looking up this blog or that blog.