Experiencing Technology for a week

It was really exciting and evocative to learn web 2.0 last week. I discover various new webs that could be useful for me in my Academic life. Blog posting, library database and Refworks are really useful in researching and social networking. I enjoyed online photo sharing and editing through Flickr and Picknik. These webs were not familiar to me so I found this class really fruitful and informative. Privacy is the big issue in web technology that the web developers are always concerned with. I also learned about the privacy settings in different webs such as face book, Twitter, blogger and various bookmarking webs. Lots of people are unaware about the social networking and social resume. This class was really meaningful not only for me but also for my friend who is graduating next semester. I share him the potential of social resume and the visual CV in achieving the jobs in the present situation of economic downturn. I found my professor really insightful so the class is not boring and full of excitements to learn the new technology. As the class size was really small it was truly interactive and productive in the manner of learning new things. Setting my own blog account was really useful for me in publishing my experiences and the new ideas that I learn from the new researches carry out by the physics and Astronomy department. Getting used with Refwork was productive for me to locate my articles and citation as well as creating the bibliography. Though I have some ideas in organizing citation works but from last week I am following the same techniques that I learned in the class. Using the delicious account was also interesting that I do not have to remember all the websites and I could manage through my delicious account.
This is the first intersession class that I am taking and I used to think four hours classes are boring and sleepy but my assumptions were contradicted as I found the class exciting. I always prefer interactive classes rather than the classes having long lectures and tons of assignments. By setting up the different web accounts such as blogger, delicious, twitter, flickr I am looking forward to learn web designing for the next week, which is one of my interest.