young drivers

Something interesting I learnd the other day that I like to share with everyone. They offer drivers ed on the computer . They have it set up for french speaking people of this area but so english wont be up for the next 6 months or so. Drivers ED? I can say that... well I know how to drive but I have been quite lazy about getting my permit and licence. Im starting courses this weekend so that I can go about and get the best freedom you will ever know lol. Well as I was talking with the women from young drivers. She was trying to squeez alot of information into me. Apprently they have computer technology in the classes now that will help you become a better driver!. They can do test on you now I guess to help you as a driver and them as teachers. The instructor sounded pretty pleased to be talking about this as well. I find that just great. Using technology to its full advantage. It makes me wonder...do they take into consideration the nerves of the students...does their studies just go out the window...?

My presentation

So far I have been liking everyone presentations. I fear now I feel a little insecure because everyone is doing such a great job. Skype was an interesting topic. My boyfriend use it because he plays this game call World of Warcraft. For all of you out there who dont know this game...lets just say its a big online game. Its use I belive by 7 million people now. It was even paroided by south park last year. So I jumped at the topic. Feeling now like I didnt do it enough justice but what more could I have said about it?. Im now contemplating shutting off my cell phone and if I ever need to get my phone disconnected... I dont have to worry. The online world... it amazes me always. I wonder what is going to come out next that will make our lives easier. Someday if I do start my own business I will always remeber the opition I have of skype. I thought I knew very little about technology when I started our first course then I felt like wow maybe I know a whole lot...lol now it is back to just feeling like I have been hit in the side of the head. But thats the thing...and thats why its ever changing.

can we compete in the world with out technology?

I think we could compete in a world without technology. We did it for thousands of years. I think that we forget that we have lived with out technology and survived. Businesses in rural areas would have a harder time perhaps having a chance with sucess but businesses in general are hard to get off the ground. Lots of people who are rich today from thier business ventures have gone bankrupt just getting their businesses off the ground. I think we have the same odds with technology as without. We would have to rely on word of mouth and be willing to live on the road trying to get our businesses off the ground. We wont be able to relax and have someone view our businesse sites and view our products with the click of a button.

Students writing on the web

I think that its great that wikis can give students the chance to get their work and opioins out there. Having something that is at our finger tips that we can work on with people from all over the world is in a sense mind blowing that we have come that far in technology. For me it seemed that people who were very advanced in technology had the "know how" to do such things. But in fact people of nearly all ages can use this tool.

Wikis

Wiki I believe is a great tool for business. Not only can we use wiki as a tool to get our business ventures out into the world. It just seems like a great tool for people who spend alot of time on the road. They can collborate with other coworkers and not get behind on work. As a business student I will probably not forget this great tool. I forgot about the most famous wiki...wikipedia. I didnt realize that it was a wiki as funny as it sounds. I remeber going on wikipedia and reading a message that said that some of the information may need to be cleaned up. For awahile I didnt realize that you can go in and change what was written on certian information.

blogs...

blogs...
Well I can say that I was really late to the whole blog world. I remeber for years that I would hear about blogs and I thought meh...not for me. Alot of friends would write in blogs and just pour out their souls. I find them great if you love putting all your life out there. Which I have had friends who would do so. I kind of got turned off about them because a few years back a friend of mine had a disagreement with a colleage of hers which turned into a huge situation. He decided to put his feelings on the situation out there on his blogs and then started to leave comments on blogs of her friends. Something that turned into the right to free speech turned into my friend taking the person to court. I feel perhaps we need to realize what we put out on the internet can get so badly construde. Something that may have been a joke can come out sounding more angry because the tone of our voice is lost within the typed words. But as a writer I found out only recently about all these blog based literature cirlces. I felt a bit lost with this movement like it happend underneath my nose. I was use to going to book stores and finding groups of people in some corner disscusing books. What I found funny recently was that now writers write fictional characters in blog forum.
Business wise I think this is great. You can get feed back and give feed back on projects. What worries me is what if coworkers ,such as my friends, decided to start attacking each other on blogs. Is it something that can be used against that person in a work enviroment or is it something that is left at home.

Search tools-finding and evaluating informaton on the Net/Webquest

Hello
I didnt realize I was so behind on my blogs and sadly some of them got lost. well...here goes some of my thoughts.
Search Tools-Finding and evaluating information on the net/web.
When I was younger and we first got a computer I can honestly say I was inclined to believe what was on the internet. I never got why teachers would get up in arms when students used internet sources. I would keep using the things I found on the internet as a decent source of information until I got to university. I was writing a paper and I cant remeber what it was on but it was some sort of time period of a play. I had a lot written down and then I decided I go to the libray and check out if I had everything right. Well I didnt and I felt very silly that I almost sent in a paper with information that was so wrong that I dont even want to say what I had written. It made me realize why teachers in highschool and professors in university tried to express that idea to so many students. Alot didnt realize just how much wrong information is out there. There is so much based on theorys and not on facts. It made me think about the entertainment industry. Actors , singer and directors are alway influenced so heavily by the internet and what people write. Not only is their personal and work life spread all over the internet...so are rumours. There is hardly a that goes by that some actor or singer isnt issuing out statments on some rumour that spread over the internet. If they dont issue a statment the rumour only grows. All these false information can crush them and people will not want anything to do with them because there is to much negitiva stigma attached to them. Just think of that on a business level, not in the entertaiment level, The internet can be such a useful tool but yet it could make or break a business. People can go online and leave comments on products and just the company in general that other people can view. I dont think that we realize the power we weild in our words.