Technology
Communications for the 21st Century Business Professional
Summer Academy
Presentation
By Eileen Dittmar
Handout URL
bmmtteacher.pbwiki.com
Description
Trends in
technology communications, software, and Web 2.0 technologies such as tags, RSS
feeds, and social networking to save time, maximize technology user skills, and
positively impact teaching and learning. Three themes are included: Software,
Web 2.0, and Open Source.
How to use this document
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participants.
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Be sure to update “preferences” (next screenshot shows how)
Be sure to get the tools, such as “Backflip It” in the Get Tools section of your Backflip home page.
Software
Get Started with MO2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/getstarted/FX101055081033.aspx
Microsoft Office training (free tutorials)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/FX100565001033.aspx
Excel 2003 to 2007 command reference guide
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx
PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 command reference guide
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101490761033.aspx
Word 2003 to 2007 command reference guide
http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/help/HA100744321033.aspx
free convertor for MO2003 users to open 2007 documents
Search You Tube for software tutorials
OpenOffice (free MO alternative)
http://openoffice.org-2008.com
OpenOffice Tutorials (free)
http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8a3Ku4MCHHg
Web 2.0
Podcasting
podcast ( term derived from ipod broadcast)
Podcasting Wiki
http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/podcasting
MyPodcast.com
Free podcast create and storage
http://www.mypodcast.com/create.html
LearnOutLoud.com
Over 2000 business and technology podcasts
Explaining Web 2.0: Web “read” Web2 = read/write; Web 2.0 interaction features are
Here are some great tutorials!
Web log (blog); see YouTube “blogs”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=user
multi-user virtual environment (MUVE),
wiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=relatedwiki,
social networking
YouTube “social networking”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=related
social bookmarking (i.e. Delicious) uses RSS feeds and tags
YouTube “explaining RSS”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
Social Bookmarking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU&feature=user
Explaining RSS
http://www.webreference.com/programming/rss_feeds/
Delicious
social
bookmarking with tags
Settings
Repeat for each browser you will use
IE: view, toolbars, links, lock links
Google Reader; free download
Reader Help
http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-help
Manage subscriptions
Subscribe to your reader vs your email
Reader/i-Google
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
Make i-google a tab on your home page
Gadgets for i-Google (in add stuff top right)
Subscribe to Feeds
When you see a site that has RSS feed and want it; click RSS (next series of screenshots show examples.
When Choose Your Reader:
Adding a URL
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/
More “kool tools”
mygads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S-WkhDygTA
Citeulike
Uses library and tags (value of tags is I do not need to remember what the articles are about)
Sear
Tag: Web2
Putin my library
Ning
www.ning.con
Audacity
free software to create podcasts
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Odeo.com
Business
podcasts
http://odeo.com/categories/17-Business
EditGrid
show tour; show setup free account; could be a class account where students collaborate to complete a project
Wikis (pbwiki)
Blogs
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
WordPress
Thinkfree
collaborative documentation
Google Docs
Docs.Google.com
Zoho
Skype
Free program offering messaging and conferencing
Curriculum/Resources
MERLOT instructional resources
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
PageFlakes
Social network or private network possibilities. To do lists; tasks; etc.
Protopage
Protopage is your own personal page, which you can access from any computer or mobile phone. Use it to read your own selection of news and blogs, for class projects, etc.
Copernic
Academic Index
http://www.academicindex.net/
Has business topics including business netiquette. Can search for books in World Cat (libraries)
Clusty.com
Open Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Distance_Learning/Online_Teaching_and_Learning/
