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Web 2.0 Worshop by R. CarrTRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 ?
What is it?
Why do I care?
What is it to me?
Information Superhighway?
Information Superhighway
Popular collective name for the Internet
and other related large-scale computer networks.
Nam June Paik, a 20th century South Korean born American video artist,
claims to have coined the term in 1974.
The term was popularized by former
Vice President, Al Gore in the early 1990’s.
Super. . . what?
The Information superhighway started changing.
People started looking at the Internet as a new place to. . .
Colonize!
Populate!
Build Words
…the sky is the limit
To the moon, Alice!
But . . .what is it, really?
What has the super highway become?
ToolsGoods
ServicesInformation
EntertainmentSocial Networking
Sounds like a mallor a town
or your own little store.
Lets see that again. . .
Tools Radio Shack-ish, Drugstore
Goods Retail, specialty stores
Services Banking, dog license, appts
Information Media outlets, Libraries
Entertainment Music, video, books, clubs
Social Networking Clubs, associations, regular meetings
cool tools
Adobe Voice to Text
Here is the path on your pc…
Start Menu
Control Panel
Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices
Speech
Text to Speech
Test & choose your voice
Adobe Voice to Textcool tool
Adobe Voice to Text
Download any pdf file to your computer.
Open Adobe Reader, and open it from Adobe Reader.
Choose
View
Read out loud
Read this page onlyRead to end of document
Library Thingsocial software for us bookish types
http://www.librarything.com/
Offers a widget for your blog
Catalog your own collection, or a small library or bookstore.
Through Library of Congress and Amazon.com and more.
Why not? Its addicting, useful and you get to peek at what others are reading. (Tim Spalding)
The Flickr show
http://www.flickr.com/
Delicious(just type delicious in Google)
http://del.icio.us/
Don’t miss the Hot List
Rochelle Carr
Notes can be found here:
http://cali-librarian.livejournal.com/
Widgets and Gadgets
Yahoo
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/
Slide.comcool tool
http://www.slide.com/
Instant slides from picture files
Easy and fast
Picassa picasaweb.google.com/
seamlessly works with Blogger to upload
and create captions for your pictures.
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/
Upload your PowerPoint slides onto the Web.
Imbed into your Blog or anywhere
cool tool
LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/
Blog that offers a variety of features
Meebo.com
http://wwwm.meebo.com/
Offers widgets for your blog
cool tool
Morphing Mashing Web
We hear terms like mash-ups
and wonder…
Huh?
But when you find out that putting some things together
• Like
• Flickr and Yahoo and Powerpoint
• Google and Blogger and Picasa
• My blog and say…Meebo and LibraryThing and Flickr…
To the moon, Alice!
…the sky is the limit
Web 3 anyone?
Thank you.