Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bio

I have been attending Gaston College for the last two years. I am planning to graduate in May 2009 with a 2 year degree in Medical Office Administration. I recently finished a co-op at Gaston Urological.

After working at Stabilus for 11 years, I was laid off due to alot of our jobs being sent to their Mexico plant. I was a final assembly lead for the majority of those 11 years. I was fortunate to be able to attend school to help me begin a new career.

I live in Gastonia with my husband, Ed, and our two dogs, a yorkie named Hailey and an Akita named Keiko. We have two grown children, Jennifer and Daniel, and three granddaughters named, Michaela, Bayli, and Rayvn.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking software is the premier product for large-vocabulary continuous recognition of natural speech. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you can create documents quickly and easily with your voice, without being slowed by typing on your keyboard.

You can dictate, rather than type, into any program that accepts text. Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognizes natural and continuous speech and converts it to text on the screen.

This software can be very beneficial for someone who is not an efficient typist. It would also be great for people who have to type documents. I have recently heard commercials on my favorite radio station advertising Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

PhotoStory and YouTube

Microsoft® Photo Story 3 for Windows® helps you create exciting video stories from your pictures that you can share with family and friends. For example, you could create a video story that features narrated photographs from a family vacation or a video story that includes pictures and sounds of your new baby.

In a few simple steps, you can import and edit your pictures, add titles, record narration, add background music, and save your story using the optimal quality settings (profile) for the way your story will be played.

YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.

This is a great way to share narrated pictures and videos with friends and family. Its alot easier than trying to download a large file over and over again. I would have loved to have software like this when my chilren were babies.

PhotoStory movie posted on YouTube

SurveyMonkey

Intelligent survey software for primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Find out what everyone is talking about... SurveyMonkey is flexible and scalable enough to meet the needs of a wide range of people: whether you're managing HR for a multi-national organization, or you're simply trying to gather feedback for your blog.

I wish I'd have known about SurveyMonkey during my English 114 class! I had a very hard time trying to format a survey. With SurveryMonkey its easy to create a survey.

Animoto

Animoto is a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects. Using their patent-pending Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor & director, the resulting video has the emotional impact of a movie trailer and the visual energy of a music video.Animoto will analyze your images, feel your music and then customize your video! No two videos are ever the same.

I think this is one of my favorite web applications. The instructions are simple and easy to understand. One of the most unique things about Animoto is you can use the same pictures and get a different effect every time.

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