HF’s Reflection for Day 3
Today’s format. Small group discussions with peers work. I liked it because you can speak and ask your peers questions and opinions. It is a true exchange.
Class blog. I have been commenting and posting this week. I noticed that people have 0-3 comments on this posts.
Here’s a glimpse of my evening at home.
A. Video Conferencing
1. First, sent warning to family & friend via Facebook. “Working on video conferencing.... Sorry if I call and hang up! I learn from making mistakes.”
2. Read Google’s easy directions: Touch green Hangouts icon, Touch + icon, Touch name, Touch video icon (or touch menu icon near SMS icon to get video icon). Called my younger sister. She didn’t answer but things looked okay on my end. I tried contacting my older sister using this technology without success - no video icon appearing. So I tried my friend Bruce. Again, I warned him on Facebook.
- Hilary French I learned that I have a short list of folks I want to video conference with who have and have activated Google's Hangouts.
- Bruce Skinner Hmm, I never activated hangouts AFAIK. I am on Google Voice though. Maybe that was it.
- Hilary French No worries. The bags under my eyes do not need to be seen this evening.
Eventually, I called my husband and was able to video chat without any difficulty. I learned that I have a short list of folks I want to video conference with who have and have activated Google's Hangouts. I also learned to keep the wifi on so that I don’t use up my data plan. I learned that I need a camera for my home computer. I learned that my mother needs to get a gmail account instead of aol so that we can video conference using the same technology. I learned that I can use my google calendar to easily set up google video conferences (look for the green video camera on the page). Finally, I was reassured by my husband that I did fine with my reunion efforts by utilizing Google Docs ( for reunion expenses and email addresses) while talking on a conference call with my committee members instead of video conferencing.
B. Social Bookmarking
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I downloaded Diigo to my home computer and started making some of my favorite searchable and easily shared with my Table 3 mates. I wish I had used this much earlier. I hope Taylor, Lisa, and Kandace can see that I have sent them invitations. Wish me luck!
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