Hillix,+Matthew

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=Hello World:= My name is Matt Hillix and I am currently a 4th year student at [|UC San Diego] majoring in Political Science. I was born in [|El Centro] California and moved to San Diego four years ago. At UCSD I am involved in a number of extracurricular activities on campus including serving as President of the California Rho Chapter of [|Sigma Phi Epsilon]. I also work as a mentor at San Diego High School through UCSD's [|Early Academic Outreach Program] and have done so for the past three years. In my spare time I love to relax and listen to music ( huge Beatles fan), as well as play and watch all types of sports.

Goals for the Class:

 * 1) To gain a better understanding of how technology will impact the future of education.
 * 2) To gain a better understanding of how technology will impact my own education in the next 5 years.
 * 3) To learn how to operate some useful web 2.0 tools that will be beneficial to my everyday life.
 * 4) To grasp the information fully enough that I can share it with others.

Reflections on Shared Writing:
Recently our professor asked us to experiment in a shared writing assignment wherein a group of 4 individuals would alter one document using Google Docs. As a long-time Google user myself I was excited to try a new tool that I hadn't had much experience with. Up to this point I had mainly stuck to Gmail and Google Calendar from Google's assortment of web 2.0 tools, but now I see the beauty behind Google Docs. For a very fair price (free) the consumer gets to enjoy a document/spreadsheet/presentation editor that rivals Microsoft word in its functionality. Where Google Docs really soars though is through its shared writing function where multiple people can edit the same document in real time. I found it both interesting and extremely convenient that all of our changes were saved right away making our project an ever-changing document. What is more is this completely removes the need for emailing updated projects to the other group members along the way, which tidies up my inbox quite nicely. Google Doc's and other shared writing tools such as Etherpad are excellent tools that I will continue to use for group projects as well as making plans for the various student organizations I am involved in.

**Ways to connect with me:**
 * [|Google Profile]
 * [|Facebook Page]

Some RSS feeds I find interesting:
rss url="feed://www.engadget.com/rss.xml" link="true" number="10"

rss url="http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_allpolitics.rss" link="true" number="10"

The Night Skyline of Beautiful San Diego CA. == = Click a link to check out my other pages =
 * Web 2.0 Tools
 * Reflections on online learning
 * Big Shift Paper
 * [|My Delicious Page]
 * [|My Pageflake Page]
 * [|Awesome Highlighter Page]

