ONLINE TECHNOLOGY TOOL
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DESCRIPTION
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TOOLS TO TRY
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Blog: Regular
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A website where items are posted on a regular basis with the most recent posts at the top. Usually a blog is about a single topic or theme.
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Blogger
Wordpress
Movable Type
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Blog: Microblog or Twitter
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Different from a traditional blog in that its content is typically much smaller, in length. An entry consists of a short sentence fragment, image or video. Microblogging has emerged as an important way to access real-time news or updates on a topic of interest. (Wikipedia, 2010).
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Twitter
Buzz
Plurk
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A virtual space to store documents by one or more people. Facilitates editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals, either in real time or asynchronously.
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Google Documents
Zoho Writer
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A tool to help keep track of scholarly related information - both on & off the web - allows you to manage your references and share them with other like minded people. Comment on literature and find similar pieces of scholarly information with a few simple clicks
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Citeulike
Mendelay
Zotero
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Databases: Online Scholarly Databases
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A freely accessible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Pubmed
BMJ
Google Scholar
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Provide the opportunity for those who share a specific occupation, interest or concern to interact with like-minded others. Unlike online chats in which participants communicate synchronously (at the same time), most discussion forums are asynchronous.
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Google Groups
Yahoo Groups
phpbb.now
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A personalised home page lets you assemble all your favourite widgets, such as note pages, feeds, social networks, email, videos and blogs on one fully customisable page.
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iGoogle
myYahoo
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A series of audio or video digital-media files that is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download (RSS), through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers.
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iTunes
CNET Podcast Central
Podcast.com
YouTube
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Photosharing
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The publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately).
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flickr
Picasa
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Digital story telling
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Coming soon!
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Coming soon!
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A tool that gives the user constant updates on information requested (e.g. News). RSS requires a place to store updates, such as on a “Reader” or on a personalized homepage. The advantage of RSS is that the user does not have to remember to check for updates as they are generated automatically.
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Google Reader
MedReader
Bloglines
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A tool to bookmark (save) Web URLs in a virtual/online environment rather than on an individual computer. The user’s account can be public, semi-public or private.
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Delicious
Pinboard
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Online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others
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Facebook
LinkedIn
Bebo Ning (no longer free)
Elgg
Wiggio
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Surveys: Online
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An online survey system to deliver surveys, collect and analyze results all through one central system.
Excellent tool to collect opinions and information to enhance practice.
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Survey Monkey
Zoomerang
Google Docs (create a form)
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A virtual world where the user is represented by an “avatar” (a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet) and can interact with other avatars in a 3-D virtual environment.
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Second Life (SL)
Croquet Project
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Enable users to talk in real time using the Internet. Can be audio or audio and video. Can be recorded and replayed using supplemental computer programs
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Google talk
iChat
Skype
Adobe Connect Pro
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A wiki is an interactive Web page designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content
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PBWorks
Wikispaces
MediaWiki
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Comments (1)
Shar said
at 8:24 pm on Oct 27, 2010
http://wave.google.com/about.html
Just thought you'd be interested in the newest from Google. It's a mix of collaborative writing (multimedia included) with realtime chat.
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