Monday, 8 February 2010

The Social Web: Wikis, RSS, Blogs, Flickr, and MORE!

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Timeglider

Use Timeglider to

www.timeglider.com
  • create a timeline of pics and text
  • manage a project

Acrobat.com

Use Acrobat.com for

  • Online Office Applications
  • Online File Storage (2gb minimum)
  • Create PDF files from documents
  • Web Conference - literally no learning curve
  • Share files with others - users can have editing rights or read-only rights

Wiki

Use a wiki to effectively be an interactive Web Page where you may issue editing writes to all or selected members.

You can make the wiki public or private.

Sample at

http://www.carnegiewiki.wikispaces.com

Wikis can be used to
  • be used by groups for collaborative work
  • collect information from users
  • be constantly updated wherever there is web access

Blogging

Use Blogger.com to create a blog

Sample at
http://carnegiedigitalproject.blogspot.com

This can be a
  • Portfolio Blog
  • Reflective Blog
  • Notes you have taken in all your lectures/classes
  • Details of a study you have made of a subject eg town you are studying in

Blogs can contain
  • Text
  • Pictures - also linked to Photobucket or Flickr
  • Graphics embedded or on Photobucket or Flickr
  • Video - Youtube or Vimeo
  • Presentations - Slideshare or Acrobat or Google Docs
  • Timelines eg Timeglider
  • Animations - can also be stored on YouTube or Vimeo
  • Wordl for collection of text tags
  • Games - Blidgets, Widgetbox
  • Maps - Google or map-generator.com