Presentation Software - Group

AssignmentLRC 320

Group 6 Members:Brandon BoyleOsvaldo MaciasKwang Joon AnDaniel Boice

E-Books

Book published in electronic form

Can be read by using a computer and/or an e-book reader

http://www.ebooks.com/

Cost-effective

Lighter than textbooks

Interactivehttp://www.fe.hku.hk/literacy/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=4http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/01132012/ebooks-and-school-librariesen.wiktionary.org/wiki/e-bookhttp://www.successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm

• YouTube was founded in 2005 and it allows people to watch and share videos.

• http://www.youtube.com/

• Using YouTube in school is very inexpensive. Most schools already have internet either way.

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/policy/YouTube-The-Next-Major-Teaching-Tool-.html

Google+ Hangouts

Google+ created “Hangouts” which allows people all over the world see each other face to face using the internet.

This is a free application that enables students to work together on projects or homework assignments without actually being next to each other. http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Web-Site Literacies

Teachers now post most information online Ex: D2L, Professor Web Site Students must know how to obtain this information Must know how to access and download information

off their required websites

http://www.d2l.arizona.edu

Search-Engine Literacies

Search Engines give ability to broaden research beyond nearest library

Can access scholarly articles at click of button JSTOR, EBSCO-Host, World Cat

http://www.worldcat.orghttp://www.jstor.org

Instant Messaging

Commercialized by AOL in May 1997, it became a very successful form of real time peer to peer communication.

Can be accessed by http://www.aim.com/

Many other companies have adopted this instant online form of text communication: Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, Google

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/e-mail-messaging/instant-messaging1.htm

Blogs

Web logs that are updated regularly by an author.

Blogs are used for many things: diaries, news outlets, promotions, etc.

There are many blogging sites out there today the top 5 are found here http://lifehacker.com/5568092/five-best-blogging-platforms

Microblogging, which is popular today, is derived from blogs.

Well known sites such as Twitter are large scale microblogging platforms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloghttp://www.theeconomist.comhttp://lifehacker.com/5568092/five-best-blogging-platforms