Check out the photohow I created for my 4/5W blog using Roxio. I will come back in and write about the applications pros and cons shortly.

When I heard the term Web 2.0, I was having a hard time figuring out what it meant for sure. I viewed this video on Becky Anderson’s blog and it sure helped verify it for me
Check it out! Thanks Becky!
I am a huge organizer. I hate clutter! I only buy something if it is a necessity. I am sure that all of our definitions of necessity will differ. There are times when I organize something so well that I tend to hide it from myself. Well when working with social networking on the computer I have a hard time remembering about all of those favourite websites, blogs, wikis, articles, etc that are of interest to me. I have some saved in my favorites, some saved on e-mails, and even some saved in my documents categorized in each subject area. Well it is time to clean out the closet and go on a clutter diet.
I am enrolling in a new clutter diet program called NetVibes. For the month of February I will lose the clutter in my emails, favourites, and in my documents. This clutter will be organized onto my netvibe account.
I will be able to put in my emails, igoogle, facebook, diigo, delicious, and favorite webpages all into one account. This way it will all be together, I will not have to worry about losing all my saved items if my computer crashes and it will save me time trying to locate what I have organized into too many diverse places.
I have started a social networking tab with facebook, twitter, igoogle, the weather and a to-do list (I love this widget. I type in what I need to do and cross it out or delete it when I am done). I have also started an email tab with hotmail and my uregina accounts.
So far I am thinking this is going to be the ticket to a lighter computer
Yodio uses the internet and phone to add your voice to your photos. I was so excited to try this out. You upload your videos and place them on the tracks in order of your preference. Then you register your phone number, whether it is home, cell, etc. Once registered you call the number 1-571-730-5588 to record your audio. Within seconds your audio will show up and you can place it accordly to the picture you would like. This was very simple and caused me no frustrations at all. I liked how it automatically saves the work for you, making it easy to return to your unfinished project. There is nothing worse that doing work and then losing it all. I cannot remember which tool I used last semester but I know it never saved work, you had to complete the job you started or it was lost in cyberspace. The only cons that I could say about this tool is that you cannot carry over the audio to talk through multiple pictures at once. At the end of every audio recording, I found that it allowed to long of a silence break before proceeding to the next picture. I think this might have made my introduction a bit choppy. The only other minor issue was when I watch the video on the large screen, the audio was overlapping with the incorrect photos.
I think that this tool would be great to use in the classroom. Students can use a photo from a project and add in the audio to answer the questions ask by the teacher. One way to assess students learning, understanding or point of view. This would be similar to a voicethread. The difference would be that a voicethread could be used more as a means of communication between the teacher and students.