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EXPLORING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS for ACADEMIC APPLICATIONS

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Through the

Introduction

• Emerging technologies: not yet supported

widely

• “Web 2.0”: next generation of interactive tools
• For each, the important questions:

– What’s it good for? – What are academic applications? – Where’s it going?

• Focus on tools for collaboration, interaction

and organization

EXPLORING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS for ACADEMIC APPLICATIONS

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EXPLORING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS for ACADEMIC APPLICATIONS

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Collaboration

• Facilitate working

and sharing variety of files and information with

• thers online
• Google Documents

Document types

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Collaboration: GoogleDocs 2

Create a free account and log in for access to all Google Applications

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Collaboration: GoogleDocs 3

• Revising and communicating with collaborators

Versions Collaborators

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Collaboration: GoogleDocs 4

• Saving to your computer

What do you want to do?

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Collaboration: Wikis

• Flexible, dynamic, easy to edit web pages

Menu of pages

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Collaboration: Wikis 2

• Example of class notes wiki

Customized menu with page for each novel

Menu of videos by subject

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Interaction: YouTube/USTREAM

• View and participate online

University “channels”

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Interaction: YouTube/USTREAM 2

Live or pre- recorded Live chat

EXPLORING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS for ACADEMIC APPLICATIONS

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Interaction: Skype

• Allows voice and video

calls over the internet

• Conference call

capabilities-remote teaching and learning

• It’s free--goodbye long-

distance charges!

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Interaction: the latest?

• Nearly free and completely hands-free!

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Interaction: Blogs

• Easy online publishing of

narrative, commentary

• Reinforce important

information, offer tips and tricks, offer insight about learning levels

Links to topics Description

• f blog

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Organization

• Managing web-based information
• RSS feeds

Feeds by topic and source

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Organization: RSS feeds 2

• Bring information to you from different

web locations (web sites, journals, etc.,)

• rganize into categories
• “Subscribe” for updates
• n events or keep current
• n topics
• Customize

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Organization: Google alerts

• From Google search results, notification
• n latest web published information

about topic, person or organization

What to search and how often to deliver results

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Organization: Zotero

• Build and organize “web bibliographies”

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Organization: Zotero 2