Learning Journal 4

Throughout this unit I learned about different ways people communicate with one another through using the internet. I learned very important ways of communicating to people for business too. LinkedIn is one way of communicating through social media. It recommends people that are in the same field of study and helps you learn and get to know more people in your field of study. Many businesses use many different ways of communicating. Another big way that businesses connect to their employees is through online meetings. Software like Skype or GoToMetting are very commonly used among different businesses. It allows people to almost sit side by side with each other in a virtual conference room. You can use webcams to see each other or just use a microphone to talk. Some software can be costly, while others can be used for free.

Another topic we discussed in Learning Module 4 was something called Document Sharing. Like social media websites like LinkedIn and Facebook, document sharing can be very beneficial in the workplace. Document sharing allows you to edit a document and work on it as much as you would like, but at the same time allow anyone else that is part of the group to edit it. You can have multiple people working on one project at the same time. I feel like this video is an easy way to explain Document Sharing using a web 2.0 technology, Google Docs.

Learning Module 4 Wordle:


Social Media - Websites and applications used for social networking
Microblogging - The posting of very short entries or updates on a blog or social networking site
Document Sharing - Document and file collaboration are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version
Social Networking - The use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users
Web Conference - Refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations