Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, July 16, 2010,
In :
Sharing
Would you like to collaborate and share Office documents, PowerPoint presentations, and more with your learners and colleagues?
Well I'm using the new Office Web Apps with my Facebook friends via http://Docs.com.
I included the new Office Web Apps on SkyDrive in a recent blog, and was excited over the features it had but wished it could do more. One major problem, with the Office Web Apps is that few learners and/or colleagues use Windows Live SkyDrive
on a daily basis. This means that...
Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, January 4, 2010,
In :
Chat & Video
Synchtube is a new web-service for watching video clips and chatting about them at the same time.
Just...
find the url of an appropriate YouTube video,
copy that url into Synchtube, and
begin chatting with your colleagues/learners/etc., while the video is playing.
Users can comment on the video and share thoughts inspired by the video while watching. At the moment Synchtube is in beta and currently only four people can chat at once; hopefully that limit will be increased in the future....
Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, October 28, 2009,
In :
Chat
ShopTalk is an application that aims to make professional collaboration an easier task.
ShopTalk lets different members of a team chat with each other in a setting which is both private and secure.
One of the best aspects of the whole service is that it enables users to employ tabbed chat rooms.
i.e. a person who is in more than one department/curriculum
area/faculty etc., within the same organisation will be able to take
part in different chat rooms at the same time should that be neces...