Collaborative Site - dimdim

A brief look at dimdim and it seems to be a site that I may want to play with some more. It features a collaborative, real-time space where people and work on a project simultaneously. They could shar documents, use whiteboards, and record their sessions with anyone around the world. When they said, "anyone around the world," I thought of the family that I have in New York City, New Jersey, North Carolina, California, Nevada, Forida, Canada, and Italy. I know that many other sites do the same. It is just that becuause they mentioned it in their advertising, I thought of all the people that I may want to collaborate with on a personal level (organizing a family reunion).

The site also offers video and voice phone conferencing with unlimited use at the lowest price (so they claim). We can therefore, say that this collaborative site does not come without a price.

Please find the address to the site at the end of this post.
http://www.dimdim.com/

Collaborative Sites - SightSpeed

I found this collaborative site interesting because one among some or the ordinary features that many collaborative sites are offering like video or voice conferencing, SightSpeed offers an interesting way to send "video e-mails. They are persuasive in saying that not only can you use their site for business or educated related opportunities, but you can send a "video email to your family and friends. In addition to video conferencing and video e-mail, SightSpeed also offers video chat. Please find the link to this sight below this post.
http://www.sightspeed.com/

Collaborative Sites - Google for Educators

Part of our "teaching with technology" assignment this week was to check out some collaborative sites. Collaboration is one of the key ideas to the 21st century learner and skill. We must be collaborators and teach our students how to collaborate successfully. During this process, I investigated a site put out by Google; it is called, "Google for Educators." It is a place where educators and ask for suggestions from other educators, share lesson plan ideas and more. It is a type of blog in a sence. Please find a link to the Google for Educators site at the end of this post.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators

Flat Classroom Conference Qatar Opening - Video

The idea behind the "Flat Classroom" is very exciting. It is very much like what my classmates and I have engaged in through our "teaching with technology" graduate course. We have engaged in a correspondance with students from France, Japan, California (USA), and Saudi Arabia. The video was nice to see. I like the video-visual effects. However, the sound was not the best quality. The music was loud and clear, the words stood on the screen long enough for me to read them, but every time someone spoke, there was more of what I could not hear them say than what I could actually hear them say. This was very frustrating because I am an auditory learner, and I would have really liked to have heard what was said. Please find the link to this video at the end of this post. Perhaps you may be inspired by this "Flat Classroom" project. It is a fantastic concept tht demonstrates our direction towards global learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPjpmYFMBg&feature=player_embedded

Yuuguu - A Collaborative Site

Today my group members from Teaching with Technology and I all signed up to work on a site called Yuuguu as collaborators. Perhaps we will use it during one of our next collaborative meetings. The site’s address is http://www.yuuguu.com/features/features-for-collaboration. The site allows the users “to share screens, host online meetings and work in real time on the same documents over the web for free.” The name of the site and its meaning is interesting. The name of the site, “Yuuguu” is the Japanese word, meaning fusion. Our ideas will someday fuse together.

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