Amazingly Cheap
Tech Tricks
For Communications
Jeanne Gleason, EdD, Director/Professor,
Media Production New Mexico State University
Learning Games Lab http://www.mediaproductions.nmsu.edu/
Roger Terry, Director
Comm. Information Tech University of Nebraska – Lincoln
http://cit.unl.edu
Presented at May 2009 CYFAR Conference, Baltimore MD
Multitude of
Web 2.0 Tools
Available to use for almost anything
you can imagine.
Generally, what we like about these on-line tools
is the ability to share information with
predefined groups you create.
Why bother with more Technology?
Efficiency
Demands It.
Our Youth
Expect It.
Yesterday’s
Tools are Too
Slow!
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VITAL SURVIVAL SKILLS
FOR Adults AND YOUTH
collaboration
social networking
asynchronous involvement
problem solving
self-guided exploration
multiple tasking
thinking visually
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Technology Connects Us
Across MANY Boundaries
Communicate on an ‘open’
channel
Listen to audience feedback
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Technology Can Make
Collaboration & Work easier
Finding Information
Finding Partners
Working Together
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Micro-Blogging
Why Twitter?
You Control Who
Sees Your Twitters
Only 140 Characters
Update via cell or
desktop widget
Instant news,
updates, tech
support
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Instant Messages &
Voice over IP
Free Skype-to-Skype
Voice & Text
Easy Conference Calls
Instant File Sharing
Easy Review Old Chats
Low-Cost Calls to
Telephones Worldwide
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FACEbook.com
Quick Discussions
Links to Friends Friends
Many Media Options
Linkedin.com
Really Serious Networking
Linkedin.com
Really Serious Networking
Received Updates
Weekly Updates
Project Management
Basecamp
Shared To-Dos
Milestones
Free for one project
Unlimited users
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Variety of Google Tools
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Google Docs and Spreadsheets allow us to:
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Upload documents
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Share document with others so that editing can
be done as a group.
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A form can also be built much like a survey and
shared with the group. The group responds to
the emailed form and the information is collected
by the owner of the form.
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Variety of Google Tools
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iGoogle.com - gives us the
ability to build a landing or
home page with the tools
and links that we use
frequently. I filled my page
with Spanish translators,
maps, weather, news, and
a calendar. Google
allowed us to do this by
adding gadgets.
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Google maps allow us to get
directions to a location, build
maps and put identifiers at
locations such as where
people in my group live.
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Google images, blogs and
other gadgets were
explored.
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Lots of other cheap or free Web
2.0 Technology tools!
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http://sixrevisions.com/tools/15free-tools-for-web-basedcollaboration/
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http://techmagazine.ws/the-bestcollaboration-tools/
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http://www.kolabora.com/tools.htm
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archi
ves/textflow_gets_online_collabora
tion_tools.php
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http://crazeegeekchick.com/blog/27
-free-must-have-onlinecollaboration-tools/
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http://www.orkut.com/About.aspx
Sign up with Google account.
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http://www.google.com/
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http://www.meebo.com/ IM
aggregator
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Lots of other cheap or free Web
2.0 Technology tools!
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http://wiggio.com/
community
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http://tinyurl.com/6xt2wm Robin
Good site of web2.0 stuff
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http://doodle.com Doodle makes it
easy to find a date and time for a
group event. Doodle is a free
online coordination tool which
requires neither registration nor
software installation
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http://Ning.com Build your own
Web and social network
Online
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http://acrobat.com/ Collaboration
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http://www.zoho.com/ Variety of
collaboration tools
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http://twitter.com/ What are you
doing now?
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Lots of other cheap or free Web
2.0 Technology tools!
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http://www.facebook.com/ Social
network most young people and a
lot of older people are on.
http://www.dimdim.com/ Web
conference for free
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http://www.stixy.com/
Web site you build.
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http://www.slideshare.net/ Share
Powerpoint presentations
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http://www.loosestitch.com/
Outlining done in groups
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http://www.oovoo.com/ phone
conference
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http://www.famundo.com/ Build a
family Web site
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http://www.skype.com/ Phone for
free
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A kind of
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Lots of other cheap or free Web
2.0 Technology tools!
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http://www.cozi.com/ Build a family
Web site
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http://www.writeboard.com
Document editing
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http://delicious.com/ Bookmarking
tool
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http://picasa.com Photo sharing
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http;// youtube.com Video sharing
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There are many many more.
Check out :
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http://flickr.com Photo sharing
http://www.go2web20.net
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