These days it seems like once or twice a week I receive a request for me to become someone's "friend" and join a social network. I really do not see how this is advantageous to me. What do you all think about this proliferation?

We are using a wiki to share projects and information among the participants in the Google Earth course at TEC.

Peter

I have been playing around with Picasa because it interfaces well with Google Earth. Also there are a lot of photos from my last China tour posted there by Jeanne Griffin.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSEndOfTrip?authkey=gbjEsRnKvbs

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSGettingReadyForTheOlympics?authkey=4sqC-2L-BwY

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/TheGreatWallOfJeanne?authkey=CvFdv9A0K18

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSMenciusVillage?authkey=IAQnEkGSLE4

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSDandelionUpdated?authkey=P0JnVQhT4VU

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSTaishanQufu?authkey=3vJ1Oupghi0

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunlit.photo/JeanneSShanghai?authkey=-YAQ0NsRl0w

Google Earth

Besides learning about Web 2.0 with Maggie and Jennifer, I am also going to be taking a four week seminar at TEC with Daniel Fernandez-Davila on Google Earth. I am excited about starting that class and hope to create something for use at our tour orientation. Some of our friends like Randy Hoover are also in the class. The text for the classes is Google Earth for Dummies.

Hi!

Well better late than never. These weeks are getting really busy so I am glad we all have a long weekend to catch up and recover. Having this opportunity to learn about Web 2.0 is great as it will make me more connected to society and better able to think creatively about how to improve our work. TTFN