Thing 13: Reflection

Did this turn out to be what you expected when you started? 
This turned out to be better than what I'd expected it to be. Although I've had prior experience using web 2.0 and online tools. This blog made me revisit some things that I had forgotten about. It is always good to go back and refresh on the tools that are useful.

Were you already familiar with any of these "things"? For example, did you already have a Twitter account? Or were they mostly new?

I already answered part of this in the previous question, however, there were certain things that I hadn't used before. For me the mashup, word cloud and visual thesaurus were completely new tools. I greatly enjoyed using both and  I believe I have new tools that I will be able to incorporate at some point in the future work.

Did your Wordle of your blog give you any insights?

The Wordle of my blog did bring in some words that summoned what my blog was about: "professional, internet, people, creative, hobby" were few that stood out besides the words that we use everyday. Apart of these visual summary of my blog, the wordle didn't provide too much. I guess this is the limitation of this tool, however, it did help me provide a great summary of this blog: For people who are looking for things related to professional and/or personal use of the internet.

Which was your favorite post?

My two favorite posts have been the mashup and the delicious ones. I really enjoyed putting together all the facts about Bob Dylan and the mashup was pretty interesting. For delicious, I had to go out in the web and search for things that I would like to refer back to. In that process I came across some really interesting web pages.

Did you discover anything new that could be helpful in your day-to-day activities?

The best discovery through this blog has been Twitter and Delicious. I think these two will always stick with me and be helpful in my day-to-day activities. I knew about Twitter but had never used it before this blog. Now, am getting used to it and find it useful and fun. I haven't used Delicious as much as I'd like to but am sure when required (when working on a paper, etc), I will not forget about this tool. I was very impressed by both of these web tools.

Did you discover anything new that you think you might use in your Life After Coe?

Like I mentioned about am sure I will use both Twitter and Delicious after graduation too. And in overall, maybe I will continue working in the other blog or I may start a new blog that will either be a professional one or something related to my interests.

How did you feel about "self-discovering" as opposed to having specific due dates created by the professor?

I had mixed feelings, in one side I think this is great in that self-discovering allows for us to be completely involved with the projects. Unlike when there are set deadlines the self-discovery process lets us to get into details, which sometimes is not possible because of the deadline. However, on the other hand, when things are left without set deadlines, we tend to forget about it and unless we have set a personal deadline or formed a habit, it's very easy to trail away from the required word.

Overall, I thought this was a really good project. I rediscovered a lot of new tools and this assignment made me realize that running a daily blog or a blog in general requires commitment and is not as easy as it may seem. However, the best of all is that I will always credit this blog for making me use Twitter and Delicious.