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How To's and Quick Tips. Michael Wade. Introduction. USB Flash Drives – Overview and Use CD/DVD Creation / Media Types Collaboration Tools and other Quick Tips Q&A / Discussion. Agenda. Introduction, Agenda and Overview (5 mins) USB Drive concepts and exercise (5 mins)
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How To's and Quick Tips Michael Wade
Introduction • USB Flash Drives – Overview and Use • CD/DVD Creation / Media Types • Collaboration Tools and other Quick Tips • Q&A / Discussion
Agenda • Introduction, Agenda and Overview (5 mins) • USB Drive concepts and exercise (5 mins) • CD burning concepts and exercise (5 mins) • Collaboration and Quick Tips (5 mins) • Question & Answer / Discussion (5-10 mins)
Overview • “Killer Apps” that I use every day • Powerful • Easy • Instant Benefit Podcast IM RSS Wiki CDRW Vlogs Naming Blog USB
USB Flash Drives • USB (Universal Serial Bus) • Plug & Play, Power, Performance, Price • Floppy Replacement (512MB = 355 floppies) • Exercise: Copy training materials to USB drive
CD & DVD Burning / Essentials • Difference of disc formats for burning • CD-R (or CDR) – 70min / 650MB Record once • CD-RW (or CDRW) – 70min / 650MB Rewriteable • No single standard for DVD recording • DVD-R – 4.7GB Record once (common) • DVD+R – 4.7GB Record once (rare) • DVD-RW – 4.7GB Rewriteable (common) • DVD+RW – 4.7GB Rewriteable (rare) • Dual Layer Recording – Up to 8.5GB • DVD +/- combo drives (most compatible) • Examples (CDRW/DVD Combo) • Exercise – Burn training materials to CD
Collaboration Tools & Quick Tips • Instant Messaging (IM) • News Feeds (RSS) • Podcasts • Wikis • Blogs / Vlogs • Applications and application convergence
Where to Get More Information • Links: • http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/ (IM / RSS / Podcast) • http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ (Podcast player) • http://www.feedreader.com/ (RSS Reader) • DVD Recordable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_recordable • CD Recordable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordable_CD • USB Flash Drive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Flash_Drive