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Blogs and Feeds and the Government, Oh My!

Blogs and Feeds and the Government, Oh My!. Jodi Carlson Heather Tompkins Amy West September 28, 2006. E-mail Internet Instant Messaging (IM) Blogs Photo-sharing sites. RSS Feeds/Readers Social Bookmarking Wikis Browser Extensions Online Software Podcasting.

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Blogs and Feeds and the Government, Oh My!

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  1. Blogs and Feeds and the Government, Oh My! Jodi Carlson Heather Tompkins Amy West September 28, 2006

  2. E-mail Internet Instant Messaging (IM) Blogs Photo-sharing sites RSS Feeds/Readers Social Bookmarking Wikis Browser Extensions Online Software Podcasting Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.--Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

  3. Outline for this afternoon • Broad categories of uses • Professional Development • Collaboration • Curricular Applications • Tips for Finding and Evaluating • Tools we Love • Discussion

  4. Keeping Current Professional Development

  5. Sharing Expertise Professional Development

  6. Collaboration • Preparation for this panel done via Yahoo! conference chat.

  7. Collaboration • Using Instant Messaging for VR • Trillan Pro— • Meebo

  8. Collaboration

  9. Collaboration

  10. Collaboration Trillian basic or Trillian Pro can be used monitor multiple IM accounts. Meebo can also be used and it is web-based.

  11. Teaching and Learning Group Projects

  12. Teaching/Learning Course Prep

  13. Teaching/Learning Outreach

  14. Teaching and Learning cont. • IM reference complements individual appointments and reference desk. • Online calendars visible by students and faculty.

  15. Teaching and Learning

  16. Don’t Forget the Fun… • Hobbies, recreation, other personal interests. • Plan for vacations. • Keep in touch with friends. • Great way to start experimenting.

  17. Trip Planning

  18. Just Because

  19. Tips for Finding and Evaluating • Monitor sites and blogs that frequently post information about new applications and tools • ResearchBuzz, ResourceShelf, Search Engine Watch, Slashdot, lots of others •  Ask other people what they are using •  Download.com

  20. Tips for Finding and Evaluating • Work preferences • Computer use • Privacy • Physical Environment • Preferences

  21. Tools We Love! • Writely.com • hard to get in right now • Google tools • includes email, calendar, homepage widgets, page creator, spreadsheet software • Gliffy.com • online flowchart software • Firefox/Thunderbird extensions • ColorZilla, FeedReaders, Web Developer Tools

  22. More Tools We Love! • Furl and de.li.cious • Chat clients • GTalk, Yahoo, Meebo, • In house tools • databases driving web sites

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