Jeanne Gleason, EdD, DirectorProfessor,

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Amazingly Cheap Tech Tricks For Communications

• Jeanne Gleason, EdD, Director/Professor,
• Media Production New Mexico State University
• Learning Games Lab http//www.mediaproductions.nms
  u.edu/
• Roger Terry, Director
• Comm. Information Tech University of Nebraska
  Lincoln
• http//cit.unl.edu
• Presented at May 2009 CYFAR Conference, Baltimore
  MD

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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.

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Why bother with more Technology?

• Efficiency Demands It.
• Our Youth Expect It.
• Yesterdays 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 UsAcross 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

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Linkedin.com

• Really Serious Networking

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Linkedin.com

• Really Serious Networking

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Received Updates

• Weekly Updates

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Project Management

• Basecamp
• Shared To-Dos
• Milestones
• Free for one project
• Unlimited users

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Variety of Google Tools

• Google Docs and Spreadsheets allow us to
• Upload documents
• Share document with others so that editing can be
  done as a group.
• 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

• 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.

• 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.
• Google images, blogs and other gadgets were
  explored.

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Lots of other cheap or free Web 2.0 Technology
tools!

• http//crazeegeekchick.com/blog/27-free-must-have-
  online-collaboration-tools/
• http//www.orkut.com/About.aspx Sign up with
  Google account.
• http//www.google.com/
• http//www.meebo.com/ IM aggregator

• http//sixrevisions.com/tools/15-free-tools-for-we
  b-based-collaboration/
• http//techmagazine.ws/the-best-collaboration-tool
  s/
• http//www.kolabora.com/tools.htm
• http//www.readwriteweb.com/archives/textflow_gets
  _online_collaboration_tools.php

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Lots of other cheap or free Web 2.0 Technology
tools!

• http//wiggio.com/ Online community
• http//acrobat.com/ Collaboration
• http//www.zoho.com/ Variety of collaboration
  tools
• http//twitter.com/ What are you doing now?

• http//tinyurl.com/6xt2wm Robin Good site of
  web2.0 stuff
• 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
• http//Ning.com Build your own Web and social
  network

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Lots of other cheap or free Web 2.0 Technology
tools!

• http//www.skype.com/ Phone for free
• http//www.dimdim.com/ Web conference for free
• http//www.slideshare.net/ Share Powerpoint
  presentations
• http//www.oovoo.com/ phone conference

• http//www.facebook.com/ Social network most
  young people and a lot of older people are on.
• http//www.stixy.com/ A kind of Web site you
  build.
• http//www.loosestitch.com/ Outlining done in
  groups
• http//www.famundo.com/ Build a family Web site

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Lots of other cheap or free Web 2.0 Technology
tools!

• http//www.cozi.com/ Build a family Web site
• http//www.writeboard.com Document editing
• http//delicious.com/ Bookmarking tool
• http//flickr.com Photo sharing

• http//picasa.com Photo sharing
• http// youtube.com Video sharing
• There are many many more. Check out
• 
  http//www.go2web20.net

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