1. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 1 Collaborative Online Applications Use the best tool for the job

2. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 2 Communication Instant Messaging (IM) –Gtalk (jabber-based)Gtalk –AIMAIM Adobe Connect (formerly Breeze Live)Adobe Connect Skype FreeConferenceCall.com Google CalendarCalendar

3. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 3 Instant Messaging Fast, real time Provides sense of person Creates sense of accessibility Free of charge Interrupting Time consuming if status messages aren’t employed properly

4. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 4 Adobe Connect Chat, voice, video Document & desktop sharing Synchronous or asynchronous Sometimes voice echos or delays depending on bandwidth issues Occasional firewall issues Pay-for

5. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 5 Skype Skype Internet Telephony Free with pay-for add-ons Chat, file transfer, voice, video Land-line compatibility Not all versions are compatible Video support on mac

6. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 6 FreeConferenceCallFreeConferenceCall.com Free and Pay-for tiers Rapid set-up (less than a minute) True conference call Static number for a period of time. No drawbacks. This is a great way to do conference calls. No operator support with free calls

7. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 7 Google Calendar

8. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 8 Google Calendar Updates by email, phone texting, directly by calendar Invite accept, etc.

9. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 9 Com tools: Which for when? Short questions, sending URLs, testing something (IM, Skype) Longer questions, several people, need to see the same artifact concurrently (Adobe Connect) Longer questions, discussion (FreeConferenceCall.com)

10. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 10 Documents & Spreadsheets Google docs and spreadsheetsGoogle docs Thinkfree You can upload and edit MS Word docs and MS Excel spreadsheets with both services Free of charge Lots of collaborative sharing

11. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 11 Google Docs & Spreadsheets File management with tagging

12. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 12 Google Docs Editor

13. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 13 Google Spreadsheets Has full support for Excel formulas and built-in help.

14. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 14 ThinkFree File Mgt

15. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 15 ThinkFree Simple Doc

16. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 16 ThinkFree File Options Can open a saved file in simple or power modes. Email links for sharing, publishing, or posting to a blog among other options.

17. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 17 ThinkFree Power Edit

18. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 18 ThinkFree Spreadsheet

19. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 19 ThinkFree Presentation

20. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 20 Research Tools Del.icio.us: a web bookmark sharing applicationDel.icio.us Google Notebook. Grab notes from any web page, then have a link as well as a shareable collection.

21. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 21 Del.icio.us

22. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 22 Del.icio.us

23. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 23 Google Notebook

24. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 24 Google Notebook

25. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 25 Image Sharing Flickr.com (Purchased by Yahoo!)Flickr.com Google’s PicasaPicasa Yahoo! Photos

26. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 26 Flickr.com Ties in with ThinkFree services

27. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 27 Flickr.com

28. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 28 Picasa Web Albums

29. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 29 Yahoo! Photos Yahoo! Purchased Flickr and is launching a major upgrade to Yahoo! Photos soon and one review outlines some of its features.review

30. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 30 Google’s Blogger/Blogspot Journaling on steroids Public, invite-only, completely private Tagging allows for easy categorization of posts Great idea exchange Automatic RSS feeds Tagging makes blogs better than wikis in many cases. E.g. UNLGeeksUNLGeeks

31. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 31 Google’s Blogger/BlogspotBlogger/Blogspot

32. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 32 Google’s Blogger/Blogspot

33. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 33 Google ReaderReader Subscribes to RSS feeds What’s coolest: Ability to share and republish snippets. E.g. Sydney’s Public Page (I don’t use this much yet, but see a lot of potential for faculty here. They cruise their news sites and collect snippets that students should read.)Sydney’s Public Page

34. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 34 Google ReaderReader

35. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 35 Google ReaderReader Good for faculty who would like to share industry/domain news with students.

36. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 36 Google PagesPages Super simple page and file management

37. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 37 Google PagesPages Easy page editing

38. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 38 Video Easy sharing Easy viewing, no worries about who’s got what player, etc. Free

39. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 39 Google VideoVideo

40. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 40 Google VideoVideo

41. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 41 YouTube

42. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 42 YouTube

43. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 43 RememberTheMilk

44. Questions? Contact Sydney Brown. sbrown3@unl.edusydney_b on skypesydney.e.brown on GTalk S8r0wni3 on AIM402-472-5204slide: 44 Summary Collaboration, Communication, Sharing Tagging Access from any computer on the Internet