Saturday, September 6, 2008

Using the web's connectivity potential

Are you creating documents with several contributers? Do you find that you have a problem with version control? Try Google docs - you have only one version and you can invite as many people as you like to contribute. This short video by Common craft shows you how.

The latest video to be doing the conference rounds is on by Professor Michael Wesch. It is a four-minute guide to web 2.0 (a term which is fast losing its currency, like cloud computing - these terms are becoming meaningless). However, it is a good visual of some of the potential of the web environment.

Have you visited slideshare.net? People post their slideshow presentations no audio but even so some very interesting (and also very strange! but that's the web) stuff. George Siemens has posted some thought provoking presentations, e.g. Rethinking teacher: networks and social connections.

1 comment:

  1. Yes Google Docs sound great. I tried them in 1997 only to find that they are blocked by the DET

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