Thing #6

For this "thing", I picked the Web 2.0 category of "Events" and picked http://upcoming.yahoo.com.

I picked this website because since I am still new to Clarksville, my fiance and I are always looking for cool things to do in this town. Upcoming.yahoo.com is a pretty handy little website. All you have to do is put in your town and an entire list of events will come up. You can also narrow the events down by only clicking on sub categories such as "family", "comedy", "music", "politics", "social", "sports" etc. There is also a calendar that you can click on to see what events are going on during a certain day. So, say you were going to be in Atlanta on October 16th and were interested in what was going on in Atlanta that day. You can go to this site and pick the date and location to see a listing of events going on in Atlanta when you will be there. Or if you know there is a particular concert in Nashville but not sure when it is, there is a place to type in keywords. So, if I was looking to see when the next Taylor Swift concert in Nashville was going to be, I would just type in "Taylor Swift", change the location to "Nashville", and it takes you to it along with the date, time, and a place to click on to buy tickets. It's all right there. You can also set it to include events nearby.

I think this is really cool and would have liked to have known about this sooner! How convenient! Plus, if you join, (which is free with a yahoo account) you can form your own calendar to hold a list of your events that you are interested in or will be attending. If you are a member you can let the community know you are interested or going to a particular event. Plus, you can see what your friends are going to. Plus being a member means that you can actually add an event. But even if you aren't signed on as a member, you can still find out the important things and find out what is going on where and when.

While the first use of this website that comes to my mind would be entertainment, it can also be used in education because there is an actual "education" category. I clicked on education and had it show me all education related events occurring in or around Clarksville over the next 30 days and events such as financial freedom seminars, lectures, free PSAT practice tests, free college counseling, and more popped up. This could be used in the classroom if I was going to require my students to attend some of these events or if they wanted to attend for extra credit. It is also a way for the student themselves to explore what is out there and what could be beneficial to them. Plus educators can add events such as lectures or seminars.

I will be using this tool a lot in the future from here on out!