Web 2.0 Presentation (tagxedo)

In our Web 2.0 Presentation project, I learned a lot about how a computer and a person could interact. The website that Yeri and I were assigned was Tagxedo, which definitely proved that. We got to see how a person tells a computer to do something, to which it responds to. For example, we created art with words on Tagxedo by telling the computer to do certain things (such as choosing an orientation or color theme). Watching the other presentations and learning about the other websites, I also learned that some websites can interact more, and some interact less. For example, Jing and Voicethread allowed us to make presentations that included our voices, and we could draw on them, which would be more than what we could do on Tagxedo. However, I think that all our assigned websites were effective in interacting with people in the way that we can do more than just getting information. I think the most important thing I learned in this project is that the computer doesn't do things on it's own, and it certainly cannot read our minds. We (the users) are giving the computers instructions constantly, and the computer interacts with us in this way now., whether we realize it or not. The computer  no longer only serves to retrieve information; it now allows us to go back and forth between the user and it.