Online+Communication

For years people have communicated by various means. Back when our country was just starting out, meeting for a church social and listening to the town gossip was the best forms of communication. In today’s world, a great deal of communication is done online. Even online we have a choice in the tools we can use. For example there is instant messaging, social networking, voice over and online conferencing. The links in this module were interesting. I never knew that were so many ways to reach out and touch someone. When I was a teenager, I remember hearing about having a phone system where you could view the person you were talking with. Although it never made it to the general public, that technology has caught up with us thru the internet.

I viewed several websites in this module. Some sites looked very user friendly and others didn't. I checked out dimdim, etherpad, meebo, zoho chat, skype and diigo. I noticed that most of them had links to other posting sites like google, facebook, twitter and yahoo.

My partners on this module were Lester Wilson and LeAnne Christensen. Lester is based in Tulsa and LeAnne is here in Bartlesville. I knew nothing about Lester. But I've known LeAnne for several years. We choose to use Skype. It would have been wonderful for all three of us to connect and talk together. But it wasn’t possible to do a three way visit on Skype. So, LeAnne and Lester talked on Thursday evening and Lester and I talked on Friday evening.

Lester and I had a great visit which lasted an hour and a half. I met Lester’s dog and I introduced Lester to Spot. Spot is my breaded dragon. We exchanged information on our class assignments and the problems we had in completing them. We discovered many things that we have in common. I feel like I made a new friend that I wouldn’t have otherwise.