Wikis

Last lesson we made Wikis on wetpaint central. When I first thought of Wiki's i thought them to be unreliable and generally frowned upon as anyone can change the information on them which usually will turn out to be false information. Learning more about Wikis and the website we would be using it changed my opinion of them. Unlike wikipedia, wetpaint central can allow users to create their own discussion groups which can be blocked to the public which allows information not to be changed without permission from the publisher.

When creating the website I found wet paint to be a very dull tool for creation and a hard one to use too. The website itself is not particularly striking either which I found made it harder to use with websites now priding themselves on how they look. Another flaw in the wikis was the absence of a tool to insert links, pictures, videos and other multimedia objects into the threads or comments. And although this was available in the description of the wiki not every discussion could necessarily be shown on that.

Overall I found wet paint central to generally be a poor, hard to use website which needed improving greatly. Although I would use Wikis again on a different website as I felt it was a good tool for discussion and presentation with classmates and alike.

Prezi

After using Prezi in both my A Level studies and the Mobjects presentation last week I have found it to be a pretty useful presentation tool and one I plan to use in my future studies. I like it because it changes the usual boring powerpoint presentation and although there are websites like slide share for powerpoint so presentations are available online Prezi automatically uploads online and therefore is a useful tool to share information with other class mates. 

Mobjects

Today we had to bring in an object that meant something to us. During my summer holidays I went on holiday to Turkey with 27 of my friends.. it was an experience! During my holiday I bought a book, partly because it reminded me of something off tomb raider! This object will always remind me of my summer as it is one of the only things I bought besides alcohol! I have not thought of anything I feel is good enough but I am so desperate to fill it with something memorable!

To document this we used prezi.com, an online presentation tool. I have used this before during my A Level media studies and I really think it is a tool I will use again and again, mainly because it take a boring powerpoint and makes it interesting also being able to embed it and share online is a handy thing to be able to use.