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#1 Post by dimmzy » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:42 pm

Hi, everybody!

In a couple of weeks, I am teaching a Continuing Ed course on "Surfing the Net for Fun and Profit!" I am wondering if you folks have any favorites I should look into ...

I have all the usual for profit (eBay, amazon, craigslist)

For fun (the BORED!, plus some travel sites, contest sites)

For social networking (facebook, myspace, youtube)

and I just wondered if you had any good ones that I should check out. The class will probably be composed of internet beginners/intermediate uses and considering my school district population, a lot of young retirees.

Thanks in advance! I will be happy to share credit--and show how you can ask a question on a message board and get answers! :D
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#2 Post by Where's Beast? » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:43 pm

dimmzy wrote:Hi, everybody!

In a couple of weeks, I am teaching a Continuing Ed course on "Surfing the Net for Fun and Profit!" I am wondering if you folks have any favorites I should look into ...

I have all the usual for profit (eBay, amazon, craigslist)

For fun (the BORED!, plus some travel sites, contest sites)

For social networking (facebook, myspace, youtube)

and I just wondered if you had any good ones that I should check out. The class will probably be composed of internet beginners/intermediate uses and considering my school district population, a lot of young retirees.

Thanks in advance! I will be happy to share credit--and show how you can ask a question on a message board and get answers! :D
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#3 Post by minimetoo26 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:44 pm

That depends on how tolerant they are of...colorful? salty? language.

I love Television Without Pity, but it's also Television Without Auto-Censorship.
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#4 Post by dimmzy » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:45 pm

Thanks! I've heard about that one, but had forgotten it.

I think there's a similar one for books too ...

I'll be printing out a list, so that's perfect.
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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:54 pm

Photobucket or flickr for sharing photos.

And there's this site I heard of called Google... :wink:
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#6 Post by lilyvonschtupp26 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:54 pm

check out Voicethread. I think it's going to be the next big thing.
browse through the gallery as well as the explanation of what a Voice Thread is. . .

I'm building one now for school. I'll post when it's finished so you can comment.
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#7 Post by WheresFanny » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:07 pm

dimmzy wrote:Hi, everybody!

In a couple of weeks, I am teaching a Continuing Ed course on "Surfing the Net for Fun and Profit!" I am wondering if you folks have any favorites I should look into ...

I have all the usual for profit (eBay, amazon, craigslist)

For fun (the BORED!, plus some travel sites, contest sites)

For social networking (facebook, myspace, youtube)

and I just wondered if you had any good ones that I should check out. The class will probably be composed of internet beginners/intermediate uses and considering my school district population, a lot of young retirees.

Thanks in advance! I will be happy to share credit--and show how you can ask a question on a message board and get answers! :D
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#8 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:08 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:Photobucket or flickr for sharing photos.

And there's this site I heard of called Google... :wink:
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:14 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Photobucket or flickr for sharing photos.

And there's this site I heard of called Google... :wink:
What happened to Bad Astronomy?
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#10 Post by tlynn78 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:40 pm

I like The Superficial. Another one rated somewhat R, but funny anyway.


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#11 Post by ToLiveIsToFly » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:02 pm

http://www.consumerist.com is a great site for, well, being a consumerist.
http://www.presurfer.com generally has a bunch of interesting links
http://www.straightdope.com is pretty great
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#12 Post by silvercamaro » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:12 pm

If your students are relatively new to the internet, then make double-certain that they know about snopes.com.

For mug shots of the best and brightest (and drunkest and stupidest), thesmokinggun.com is fabu.
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#13 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:15 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Photobucket or flickr for sharing photos.

And there's this site I heard of called Google... :wink:
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#14 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:16 pm

[quote]For mug shots of the best and brightest (and drunkest and stupidest), thesmokinggun.com is fabu.[quote]


Or as I call it, the family album.
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#15 Post by dimmzy » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:25 pm

Thanks again! I LOVE thesmokinggun and snopes!

Another friend recommended stumbleupon ...

I'm also big on www.contestgirl.com (for entering online contests).

My nephews also told me about hulu.com (for legally viewing TV shows)

I'll have to post my completed list somewhere ...
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#16 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:30 pm

dimmzy wrote: My nephews also told me about hulu.com (for legally viewing TV shows)
Yep, that's a good site!

All of us could volunteer a long list of our favorite sites, but it's really a question that would have to be addressed to each of your students: What are their general interests? What, specifically, are they interested in doing on the web?

For every item they could list, we could come up with some customized answers.
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#17 Post by Thousandaire » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:37 pm

I think it's funny that the Hells Angels have a website: http://www.hells-angels.com/
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#18 Post by BackInTex » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:47 pm

http://www.snopes.com is a must

http://www.weather.com
http://www.drudgereport.com
www.imdb.com

local traffic site such as
http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/
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#19 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:52 pm

Don't forget squirrelsgonewild.com
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#20 Post by kayrharris » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:54 pm

tlynn78 wrote:I like The Superficial. Another one rated somewhat R, but funny anyway.


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#21 Post by tlynn78 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:02 pm

The Superficial is the bomb! One of my guilty pleasures

He is so, so, very bad.

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#22 Post by Bob Juch » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:26 pm

http://groxx.com Weird news.
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