20. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.

I could not resist adding YouTube.  I discovered this site about 3 years ago, and have been a fan ever since.  There are mainly two types of video material, personal video made by the public, and professional material such as music videos, TV and movie clips, which sometimes infringes on copyright.  A great use of YouTube, that I personally enjoy, is clips from past news reports.  This can give you a first hand account of historical events.

Obama Wins the Presidency! 2008

18. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

I have heard of openoffice.org which is a FREE downloadable software which is like a "generic" Microsoft Office.  Luckily, I have a version of Office on my computer, I certainly would talk advantage of this.

Another service that is really usable is Zoho.com which is an online interface that lets you also create Office like documents.  This is especially a great tool, because you can use any computer with internet access to bring up your documents and work on them, even collaborate.

I am still trying to use "post to blog," but my attempts so far have failed.

13. Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)

This was my first visit to http://www.delicious.com/

At first I was a bit confused on what the site was trying to do.  When you go to their homepage, you are shown a list of webpages that other's have bookmarked.  You can check by most recent or most popular.  It seems similar to me as Twitter, but with bookmarks.  You can see what is trending online.  When you add your own bookmarks, the site claims they will organize themselves, and you can bring them up on any computer connected to the web.

7. Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.

In our class tools there is a video explaining augmented reality, which was my introduction to the subject.

With most new cell phones, a camera is included.  Imagine pointing your phone at city block, and pops up superimposed over the image, information; what are the stores, hotels, bars, entertainment, restaurants, reviews, ratings.

In the future, will we wear sunglass that are capable of recognizing people, and giving you information on them, as you scope the landscape.  What are the ethics?  What would a capitalistic society use this for?