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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

http://www.google.com/talk/

http://www.aim.com/index.adp

http://www.adobe.com/products/connect/

http://www.skype.com/

http://freeconferencecall.com/

http://freeconferencecall.com/

http://calendar.google.com/



Instant Messaging

• Fast, real time• Provides sense of

person• Creates sense of

accessibility • Free of charge

• Interrupting• Time consuming if

status messages aren’t employed properly



Adobe Connect

• Chat, voice, video• Document &

desktop sharing• Synchronous or

asynchronous

• Sometimes voice echos or delays depending on bandwidth issues

• Occasional firewall issues

• Pay-for



Skype Internet Telephony

• Free with pay-for add-ons

• Chat, file transfer, voice, video

• Land-line compatibility

• Not all versions are compatible

• Video support on mac



FreeConferenceCall.com

• 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



Google Calendar



Google Calendar

•Updates by email, phone texting, directly by calendar

•Invite accept, etc.



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)



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

http://docs.google.com/


http://thinkfree.com/


http://thinkfree.com/



Google Docs & Spreadsheets

File management with tagging



Google Docs Editor



Google Spreadsheets

Has full support for Excel formulas and built-in help.



ThinkFree File Mgt



ThinkFree Simple Doc



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.



ThinkFree Power Edit



ThinkFree Spreadsheet



ThinkFree Presentation



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.

http://Del.icio.us/

http://Del.icio.us/

http://Del.icio.us/



Del.icio.us



Del.icio.us



Google Notebook



Google Notebook



Image Sharing

• Flickr.com (Purchased by Yahoo!)

• Google’s Picasa

• Yahoo! Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/



Flickr.com

Ties in with ThinkFree services



Flickr.com



Picasa Web Albums



Yahoo! Photos

Yahoo! Purchased Flickr and is launching a major upgrade to Yahoo! Photos soon and one review outlines some of its features.

http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6084601.html



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

http://unlgeeks.blogspot.com/

http://www.blogger.com/




http://www.blogger.com/






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.)

http://reader.google.com/

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/07191201954576676255




Google Reader




Google Reader

Good for faculty who would like to share industry/domain news with students.


http://www.google.com/reader/shared/07191201954576676255



Google Pages

• Super simple page and file management

http://pages.google.com/



Google Pages

• Easy page editing

http://pages.google.com/



Video

• Easy sharing

• Easy viewing, no worries about who’s got what player, etc.

• Free



Google Video

http://video.google.com/



Google Video



YouTube



YouTube



RememberTheMilk



Summary

• Collaboration, Communication, Sharing

• Tagging

• Access from any computer on the Internet