Make a simple Web-based Conference Room with Web 2.0 By Chaz Maloney FREEWARE

A good question… Is it possible to “mash up” a bunch of freebie Web 2.0 tools onto a single web page to create a virtual conference room? at least i think so

The answer… YES!

How I built a Conference Room ‘Mash-up’… the roughly six steps: First I had to decide what are the most important tools for the conference room? Go out and find the tools. There is a free embeddable tool for just about everything. Get a copy of the free tool and collect the html and javascript snippets required to embed the tool. Build a single web page container for the snippets. Put the web page on a host. Invite several people to the web page for a test run.

First I had to decide what are the most important tools for the conference room?

Go out and find the tools. There is a free embeddable tool for just about everything.

Get a copy of the free tool and collect the html and javascript snippets required to embed the tool.

Build a single web page container for the snippets.

Put the web page on a host.

Invite several people to the web page for a test run.

What are the most important web2.0 tools to include? I selected four for my first attempt (you might look for different tools): Slide presenter tool Voice over IP tool Chat tool File download

I selected four for my first attempt (you might look for different tools):

Slide presenter tool

Voice over IP tool

Chat tool

File download

Finding the tools… Slide presenter tool = slideshare.net Voice over IP tool = yackpack.com Chat tool = meebo.com File download = for now, just a hyperlink to a file on my website 

Slide presenter tool = slideshare.net

Voice over IP tool = yackpack.com

Chat tool = meebo.com

File download = for now, just a hyperlink to a file on my website 

Harvesting embeddable html and javascript snippets

Build a web page… Use your favorite wysiwyg editor to create a table with an appropriately sized cell for each tool. Go to code reveal and paste in the tool embedding snippets for each tool. Save the page Load the page to a web server!

Use your favorite wysiwyg editor to create a table with an appropriately sized cell for each tool.

Go to code reveal and paste in the tool embedding snippets for each tool.

Save the page

Load the page to a web server!

Now, invite a few people to see your nifty and sleek conference room. Join me in my fancy online conference room: http:// www.radford.edu/ccosmato/room /

Was that fun? Want to tell me about your own crazy Instructional Technology projects? [email_address] Haters: don’t bother “griefing” me if you don’t like the project, it was just for fun! -Cheers!