Web 2.0 Applications

One of the most helpful that I have available at my fingertips is the John Carroll e-mail.  It provides all students and faculty with an @jcu.edu address which makes it easy to get ahold of teachers and other students in your class.  It saves a lot of time because you don't have to physically walk to the professor's office to ask a question.  It is also beneficial to have e-mail to send teachers and other students your assignments.  Whenever I am working on homework sudden questions pop up.  It's nice to have an easy form of communication such as e-mail to ask these questions and they usually guarantee a fast response.  

As I was looking through the Web 2.0 applications I found one that would also be beneficial to my learning.   It is the Zoho Notebook beta or Ubidesk and are similar to what we know as Blackboard.  With Zoho and Ubidesk you can share many different files with other people in the network.  You can have video, audio, word, internet files that you can post and receive feedback on.  This is nice when you have big papers and projects due to allow other people to view your work before you submit it.  I know that when I am working on a huge paper and keep re-reading it over and over there are little things I miss such as spelling or wording that I miss.  So if you have someone proofread something for you they can usually see the little things better than you can.  With this tool it is also a way for the teacher and the students to communicate on a whole and it is convenient. 

The Linktive application is also another great one to use.  It's a application that lets you compose a bunch of links that you recommend.  This would be a good tool for the professor to have so he/she could compose a list of websites that go along with the class.  It is also a nice way to let the professor display the internet sites he/she does approve of when doing research papers.  I know there are a lot of professors that approve and disapprove of different internet sources.  

I stumbled upon another interesting Web 2.0 application called Slatebox.  It is a way for you to build graphs and charts to get your ideas to show.  I watched a few YouTube videos on how it works and for me to successfully put out good work, I definitely need to see it in front of me.