Other+Web2.0+Tools

=Other Web 2.0 Tools=

YouSendIt offers the most widely used solutions for sending, receiving and tracking digital content. YouSendIt technology is ideal for sending large files without the limitations of email attachments. Designed for individual use or for company-wide deployments, our web-based Software-as-a-Service offering simplifies file transfer for end-users while ensuring data security and compliance.

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Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. Each day, people use Ustream to broadcast talk shows, concerts, important speakers, sporting events, weddings, special presenters or speakers, and even graduations to anyone anywhere with a high speed internet conecton. Your very own free virtual TV Broadcast studio
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Here is a live rock concert coming soon http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shinedown-show

Here is a list of 10 uses for Ustream in k-12 education from The Educational Mac http://theeducationalmac.com/blog/

|| Skype is a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of your are on Skype, it's free!
 * 1) Sharing presentations with parents who might not be able to attend in person.
 * 2) Letting homebound students participate with class.
 * 3) Showing and recording student behavior so adminstrator is aware (both positive and negative).
 * 4) Allows parent’s who can’t normally come to the classroom to see what is going on in school.
 * 5) Live science demonstrations showing or receiving from others.
 * 6) Recording and archiving of teaching so students can review it later.
 * 7) Recording student presentations so parents, grandparent’s, etc. can view it later. (Password features help)
 * 8) Allowing guests, experts, etc. to come into the classroom from far away. (Platform neutral)
 * 9) Weekly school (broadcast) for parents.
 * 10) Nightly broadcast review of the day for students to watch at home. ||
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A wonderful Tektorial on using Skype from Education-World http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial107.pdf

Skype in the Classroom http://www.wtvi.com/TEKS/05_06_articles/skype-in-the-classroom.html

Skype in the Classroom - Links to other teachers and classrooms http://skypeinschools.pbworks.com/

Promoting Synchronous Interaction in an eLearning Environment http://thejournal.com/articles/17377

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100215/NEWS01/100219735 Published Monday February 15, 2010 = Skype puts face to school talks = By Melissa Anderson WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE

Imagine attending your son's parent-teacher conferences in Bellevue — while you're de ployed overseas. By using the Internet video conferencing program Skype, schools in Bellevue, Omaha and Papillion-La Vista are of fering that opportunity. Using Skype makes the in teraction between teachers and parents “a lot more personal than a phone call” because it is face-to-face contact, said Papil lion- La Vista South High School media specialist Anna Bley. Bellevue Public Schools used Skype to connect with a de ployed parent for conferences last fall but can also offer it to any parent who is unable to make it to the conferences. The deployed parent and teachers were all positive about the ex perience, said Cathy Williams, the Bellevue schools' commu nication director. Papillion-La Vista South High is offering the technology for parent-teacher conferences today, for the first time. It cur rently is the only school in its district offering the Skype conferencing. Omaha makes arrangements for parent-teacher conferences over Skype as needed. Ponca Elementary uses the technology to talk about assignments with a student hospitalized with leu kemia.“We have a fairly large number of students who have parents in the military,” said 11th-grade counselor Teresa Holton. “We're trying to offer a means for them to communicate with the chil dren's teachers.” It also lets the student's classmates keep in touch. Skype allows students to com municate nationally and interna tionally. Papillion-La Vista South teacher Ray Keller used Skype in his advanced-placement Ameri can government class Friday to connect with people in Afghani stan, and one of the school's for eign language classes connects to a person in Germany through Skype. “It gives a unique opportunity to take our students outside of the school,” Bley said. “It knocks down the wall of the school — takes the students around the world.” Williams said Bellevue schools use Skype as a way to welcome families. If a family in Germany is looking to move into the dis trict, the school faculty can vid eoconference with the family, or Bellevue students can Skype with the German student. “Skype has really opened up a whole new world,” Williams said. “We'll be doing more and more with the classroom. It's really connecting students globally. “The advancement in technol ogy just over the last couple of years has provided such an open ing.” **World-Herald staff writer Mi chaela Saunders contributed to this report.** ||  ||

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals: 1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.