3 Favorite Websites

Fom a person that uses the internet hourly, three of my favorite websites should be easy to come up with.

1. Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
   I get on Facebook daily, it's a good tool to see what your friends are up to and its nice when you need to contact friends quick.
2. Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/
   Like Facebook, I visit this website most during the day. Since I'm intersted in family history it's easy to guess why I like this website. It's really useful for keeping track of ancestors, also for keeping track of anniversaries and birthdays of living relatives that you might not normally remember. It's an easy website for when you want to dig up dirt on someone.
3. Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com/
   I know, weird. But as a family history history researcher, graves are helpful in determining when a person lived, also their children, parents, siblings, ect. may be buried in the same cemetery so you can find out about their families as well. When someone's grave page doesn't have a picture, people have the option to request one. If they're in the area of West Des Moines I go out and take pictures for people. Others do the same in return.

First post in the world of Blogging

Hello! I'm Alex Koenen, (pronounced Koonen) and I'm starting a blog in a class I'm taking, called Digital Communications Tools, along with other business and computer classes.

Something that interests me is Genealogy (a fancy word for "family history"). I volunteer in downtown Des Moines at the Iowa Genealogical Society helping others with researching their family history. Another thing that I'm interested in is computers, and photography. Along with volunteering downtown, I volunteer at my church as a camera person where we record services to be put up on screens and online for people viewing from home.

When I'm at home and have nothing to do, I spend my time on my laptop playing games, researching my own family history and playing Grand Theft Auto IV on the PS3. A few programs I use frequently on my laptop are Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. I sometimes use an add-on to powerpoint, called TurningPoint, as a study tool for tests or quizzes in school.

What kind of technology do you use at your home? Do you use technology to study for quizzes or tests for school?