Conferencing on the Cheap With Web 2

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.

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

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 

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!

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!

http://www.radford.edu	58
http://beth.typepad.com	45
http://www.smartmobs.com	43
http://despuesdegoogle.com	38
http://tubbydev.typepad.com	25
http://www.tubbydev.com	14
http://www.live-session.fr	13
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com	13
http://wsuccess.typepad.com	12
http://www.slideshare.net	7
http://www.idolresources.com	4
http://eduspaces.net	2
file://	2
http://techbus.blogspot.com	1
http://elearninguk.blogspot.com	1
http://www.pageflakes.com	1
http://ricardovargas.boltbrasil.com.br	1
http://unconference.blogspot.com	1

Conferencing on the Cheap With Web 2

by ccosmato on Jun 14, 2007

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