Friday, 11 April 2014

The Final post

Hi Everyone!

This is the last but not least post, indeed this blog assists me to challenge myself to eradicate the fear from using technology and developing my skills. As a result, I have achieved  my ambitions through my learning goals and even exceeded them. Therefore, I changed my goals during the assignment to navigate in web2.0  to explore more tools that are not used in this blog which could help me in information management.

Using various activities in this blog helped me a lot to improve my skills particularly how I can deal with web technologies because I have explored many different tools through following some given instructions and by searching the internet. For example, I have been able to embed a specific YouTube clip in my post and create a website. All these achievements are considered new goals that I hadn't listed in my learning goals.

Honestly, this improvement in my skills makes a great change in my life because I have become more enthusiastic and confident to explore new aspects of technology, despite some difficulties that I encountered in the first and second weeks when I established this blog in order to discover more tools that I had not heard of before. These tools include RSS, BillionGrave, Flickr, social bookmarking, Endnote, mashup and Amaya and also tools that I hadn't been willing to deal with such as Twitter, Google maps and Google document. Moreover  if you replace flicker  within Instagram it may help students to extend their knowledge to the very newest  programs. Furthermore, these activities are adequate to broaden students horizons at the first stage.


Overall, all these technological skills that I learnt throughout the past six weeks have helped me to raise my level of knowledge to become more professional  in formation management in my future career. Knowing how to use this information is important for any job.

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

My First Website

Hi Everyone!

This week was so exciting and fun because I have succeeded in creating my first website by using Amaya web editor which is considered a new goal that I have achieved that was not listed in my learning goals.

The first step after downloading Amaya editor was to create an index page which includes many links like:
-         First and second HTML pages that was created last week.
-         My blog.
-         Home page 'Maria's Fruit  and Veg'.


Secondly, I created four pages which consisted of  'Home page', 'products', 'news', 'contact us' and linked them together. Additionally, each page has specific information for  example, history of  Maria's family business in home page as well as type of products with expressive pictures and prices on the product page. Moreover, the latest news about products in the news page and some details that help client in terms of  communication are available in 'contact us' page.
Home Page


Our Products

Indeed, creating a website exceeds my goals and it was quick and very easy.

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Mashups-Google News Mashup


Hi Everyone!

'Mashup'  is one of the new concepts that I encountered in web2.0 tools. It seemed a strange word the first time I read it.
After investigation of some examples of 'mashing up' through YouTube, I understand what it means and come across a mashup called Google Maps/Google News mashup. It allows users to do search Google news all over the world around location. After clicking a specific place on the map, you can see a list of news titles about this location, then users need to choose one of these news title to allow users to find YouTube videos about the title.

This tool is considered convenient  for users in terms of ease to use and provides  news instantly.  Indeed, using multimedia location- based news is a novel idea.



NaturalMash Demo - Google Maps/Google News mashup

Google News mashup collects news from various sources. It is amazing to choose news in the location you want, furthermore, users could get You tube videos and tweets related to the news that they find.


In this post I add a YouTube clip about mashup which is considered a new goal that is not listed in my learning goals.

Monday, 7 April 2014

Google Map


Hi everyone!

This week I worked on Google map, I thought  that it would be the biggest challenge for me in my blog. Surprisingly, it was easy and fun. My work began through searching  YouTube which is help me a lot.

I have encountered a little difficulty at first because Google map layer which I logged in was different from that I watched in YouTube  as well as tools. But I was quickly able to create Google map of my trip to Sydney, made marks for three places which I liked it:
-         Darling harbor.
-         Circular quay.
-         Four points by Sheraton  (Hotel).

Moreover, I wrote simple description for each place and added expressive pictures on the map.Furthermore, I added YouTube gadget to share this content with my group. I hope that you benefit from this topic ' Embed your custom Google map in your blog' which helped me a lot. 




I've been able to create Google map that has listed in my learning goals.



                                                                My kids and kids my sister in Sydney City


                                                                                              My son


Sunday, 6 April 2014

HTML


Hi Every one!

This week we did HTML coding through Notepad.  To me, actually this was exhausting because it is time consuming. Typing all these codes I need to concentrate on each letter you will write  which leads to eye strain. As you know if there is anything wrong during our typing HTML code we need to fix it and this is very hard with this type of programming.


Ultimately, after all this effort I can create two pages HTML, save them as .html file and open them by using Google Chrome. At this moment when I see the HTML result I feel happy, also this achievement is considered a new goal that is not listed in my learning goals.

HTML1

                                 
HTML2

                             


This week I had a minor obstacle which is My computer has an Arabic operating system, so I couldn't work on Notepad and I tried to work on the laptop in the class, but it didn't work . Then I tried to find another laptop which also took a lot of time to work and as a result, I lost My time and complete my typing in building 8.