Make a simple Web-based Conference Room with Web 2.0

By Chaz Maloney

FREEWARE

A good question…

Is it possible to “mash up” a bunch of freebie Web 2.0 tools onto a single web page to create a virtual conference room?

at least i think so

The answer…

YES!

How I built a Conference Room ‘Mash-up’… the roughly six steps:

1. First I had to decide what are the most important tools for the conference room?

2. Go out and find the tools. There is a free embeddable tool for just about everything.

3. Get a copy of the free tool and collect the html and javascript snippets required to embed the tool.

4. Build a single web page container for the snippets.5. Put the web page on a host.6. Invite several people to the web page for a test

run.

What are the most important web2.0 tools to include?

I selected four for my first attempt (you might look for different tools):

Slide presenter tool Voice over IP tool Chat tool File download

Finding the tools…

Slide presenter tool = slideshare.netVoice over IP tool = yackpack.comChat tool = meebo.comFile download = for now, just a

hyperlink to a file on my website

Harvesting embeddable html and javascript snippets

Build a web page…

Use your favorite wysiwyg editor to create a table with an appropriately sized cell for each tool.

Go to code reveal and paste in the tool embedding snippets for each tool.

Save the page Load the page to a web server!

Now, invite a few people to see your nifty and sleek conference room.

Join me in my fancy online conference room: http://www.radford.edu/ccosmato/room/

Was that fun? Want to tell me about your own crazy Instructional Technology projects?ccosmato@radford.edu

Haters: don’t bother “griefing” me if you don’t like the project, it was just for fun! -Cheers!