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Collaborative Online Applications. Use the best tool for the job. Communication. Instant Messaging (IM) Gtalk (jabber-based) AIM Adobe Connect (formerly Breeze Live) Skype FreeConferenceCall.com Google Calendar. Fast, real time Provides sense of person
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Collaborative Online Applications Use the best tool for the job Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 1
Communication • Instant Messaging (IM) • Gtalk (jabber-based) • AIM • Adobe Connect (formerly Breeze Live) • Skype • FreeConferenceCall.com • Google Calendar Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 2
Fast, real time Provides sense of person Creates sense of accessibility Free of charge Interrupting Time consuming if status messages aren’t employed properly Instant Messaging Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 3
Chat, voice, video Document & desktop sharing Synchronous or asynchronous Sometimes voice echos or delays depending on bandwidth issues Occasional firewall issues Pay-for Adobe Connect Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 4
Free with pay-for add-ons Chat, file transfer, voice, video Land-line compatibility Not all versions are compatible Video support on mac Skype Internet Telephony Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 5
Free and Pay-for tiers Rapid set-up (less than a minute) True conference call Static number for a period of time. No drawbacks. This is a great way to do conference calls. No operator support with free calls FreeConferenceCall.com Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 6
Google Calendar Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 7
Google Calendar • Updates by email, phone texting, directly by calendar • Invite accept, etc. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 8
Com tools: Which for when? • Short questions, sending URLs, testing something (IM, Skype) • Longer questions, several people, need to see the same artifact concurrently (Adobe Connect) • Longer questions, discussion (FreeConferenceCall.com) Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 9
Documents & Spreadsheets • Google docs and spreadsheets • Thinkfree • You can upload and edit MS Word docs and MS Excel spreadsheets with both services • Free of charge • Lots of collaborative sharing Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 10
Google Docs & Spreadsheets File management with tagging Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 11
Google Docs Editor Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 12
Google Spreadsheets Has full support for Excel formulas and built-in help. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 13
ThinkFree File Mgt Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 14
ThinkFree Simple Doc Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 15
ThinkFree File Options • Can open a saved file in simple or power modes. Email links for sharing, publishing, or posting to a blog among other options. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 16
ThinkFree Power Edit Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 17
ThinkFree Spreadsheet Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 18
ThinkFree Presentation Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 19
Research Tools • Del.icio.us: a web bookmark sharing application • Google Notebook. Grab notes from any web page, then have a link as well as a shareable collection. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 20
Del.icio.us Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 21
Del.icio.us Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 22
Google Notebook Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 23
Google Notebook Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 24
Image Sharing • Flickr.com (Purchased by Yahoo!) • Google’s Picasa • Yahoo! Photos Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 25
Flickr.com Ties in with ThinkFree services Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 26
Flickr.com Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 27
Picasa Web Albums Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 28
Yahoo! Photos Yahoo! Purchased Flickr and is launching a major upgrade to Yahoo! Photos soon and one review outlines some of its features. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 29
Google’s Blogger/Blogspot • Journaling on steroids • Public, invite-only, completely private • Tagging allows for easy categorization of posts • Great idea exchange • Automatic RSS feeds • Tagging makes blogs better than wikis in many cases. E.g. UNLGeeks Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 30
Google’s Blogger/Blogspot Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 31
Google’s Blogger/Blogspot Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 32
Google Reader • Subscribes to RSS feeds • What’s coolest: Ability to share and republish snippets. E.g. Sydney’s Public Page (I don’t use this much yet, but see a lot of potential for faculty here. They cruise their news sites and collect snippets that students should read.) Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 33
Google Reader Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 34
Google Reader Good for faculty who would like to share industry/domain news with students. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 35
Google Pages • Super simple page and file management Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 36
Google Pages • Easy page editing Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 37
Video • Easy sharing • Easy viewing, no worries about who’s got what player, etc. • Free Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 38
Google Video Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 39
Google Video Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 40
YouTube Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 41
YouTube Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 42
RememberTheMilk Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 43
Summary • Collaboration, Communication, Sharing • Tagging • Access from any computer on the Internet Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edu sydney_b on skype sydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM 402-472-5204 slide: 44