Tools+and+Links

toc =TOOLS AND LINKS=

Synchronous
(live interaction)

Conference Platforms
 * [|LearningTimes] (Elluminate Live) at the [|Webheads Community Room]
 * [|Wiziq]
 * [|Dimdim]

Chat Platforms (voice, text, webcam)
 * [|Yahoo Messenger]
 * [|Skype]
 * [|Jabber]
 * [|Second Life] (3D) - [|Getting Started in Second Life] (Wikipedia)

Asynchronous
(interaction at your own time and pace)


 * Forum - [|Moodle] (free on your own site; fee for hosting - many features in addition to forums)
 * Blogs - [|Blogger], [|Wordpress,], [|Edublogs] (GooseGrade - crowd-sourced review/editing of blog content)
 * Wikis - [| Wikispaces][|,][|PBWiki,][|Wikieducator,]
 * Photograph and Slidesharing - [|Flickr], [|Slideshare], [|AuthorStream](upload .ppt online), [|Ourstory.com] (multimedia timeline), [|Fotothing]
 * Microblogging - [|Twitter], [|Jaiku],[|Identi.ca]
 * Video - [|EVOvideo archives], [|Ourmedia], [|Seesmic]
 * Multimedia - [|Ourstory.com], [|Chinswing], [|VoiceThread]
 * Social Networking Sites - [|Facebook], [|Ning], [|43 Things], [|43 Places]
 * Maps - [|CommunityWalk,] our [|Google Map locator]
 * Podcasts - [|PodOmatic], [|Odeo]
 * Audio recorder - [|Audacity],
 * Digital PhotoStory - [|Photostory]
 * Aggregators - Google Reader, Pageflakes, Netvibes, FeedReader
 * Social Bookmarking - [|Furl], [|Diigo], [|Delicious]

COMMUNITIES and NETWORKS

 * [|Webheads in Action]
 * [|Learning with Computers]
 * [|Learning Times]
 * [|Tapped In]
 * [|Merlot]
 * [|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]
 * [|EVOLVE]
 * Social Networks in Education

CPD
(Continuous Professional Development)
 * [|Electronic Village Online Sessions]
 * [|Learning with Computers]

**PROJECTS**

 * [|Dekita.org]
 * [|International Writing Exchange (IWE)]

CHALLENGES

 * Copyright - [|Creative Commons License ;][|Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video; >][|Fair Use and the Future of the Commons]
 * Privacy - [|Privacy and Social Networks]
 * Data location, access to data, portability: [|A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web]

**ARTICLES and PRESENTATIONS**
on digital identity:
 * [|Identity Blog]
 * [|My Digital Identity]
 * [|Identity 2.0>]

on the use of digital media/CALL
 * [|A Brief History of CALL Theory]

on Social Media and Web 2.0
 * [|Web 2.0...The Machine is US/ing US] (single best description of social media's impact; other Michael Wesch videos linked here)
 * [|Web 2.0] (site also has links to other UTech videos about Web 2.0)
 * [|How Social Media Came to Be (Part I)]
 * [|How Social Media Came to Be (Part II)]
 * Timeline

on Communities of Practice (CoP)
 * [|Become a Tech Teacher through a CoP]
 * [|The Curriculum within the community]

on Educational Blogs
 * [|Practically Speaking: a How-to approach on blogging]

JOURNALS

 * [|First Monday]
 * [|TESL- EJ.ORG]

LINKS TO ALL PRESENTATIONS
from the Colloquium on Global Communication may be found at the [|Webheads Community Room]. (//Scroll down the list of Session Recordings and click on October 24, 2008//. //You may need to download a small application to view the recording.//) Sessions are also linked from the individual Presenter's pages in this wiki. (//See the sidebar.//)