Great Web 2.0 Applications for
Business Education Teachers
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D.
Professor
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E-mail: Steve.Yuen@usm.edu
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Web 2.0 allows users to:
• create
• contribute
• collaborate
• connect
• share
• participate in a learning community
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Popular Web 2.0 Applications
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Wikis
• Social networking
• Multimedia sharing
• Virtual world
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Blog
Publish text, image,
Audio & Video
Publish Immediate
Quickly Feedback
Archive
Content
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Blogger
• www.blogger.com
• Use blogger.com with your Gmail account
• Personalize your blog with themes and gadgets
• Host it for free on blogspot.com or your own
domain
• Choose from many templates for your blog and
also customize your own design
• Add photos and videos to your post
• Available in 41 languages
• Post your blog from your mobile phone
• Choose among a host of third-party applications
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www.blogger.com
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Wordpress
• www.wordpress.com
• Free blogging platform
• Hosted by Wordpress
• Provide variety of attractive themes, plug-ins, and
widgets
• Categorize and tag your posts
• Provide many features: Spell-check, Previews,
Autosave, Words, Photos, and Videos
• Can import from Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal,
and More
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blog.yuen.us
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Podcasting
Worldwide
Audience
Update Real-time
Automatically Feedback
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Podomatic
• www.podomatic.com
• Find, create, distribute, promote, and listen to
both audio and video podcasts
• Record a podcast or vodcast directly to the Web
• Handle RSS feeds and allow your listeners to
subscribe to your podcast in iTunes
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Wikis
Collaborative
Web
Everyone Can Track
Contribute Changes
Save Each
Version
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Wetpaint
• Free wiki websites
• Allow anyone to create an entirely new
website and invite others to help them build it.
• Combine the best aspects of wikis, blogs,
forums and social networks so anyone can
click and type on the web
• Can be a private or public site
• Wetpaint Education Wikis are Ad-free
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www.wetpaint.com
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Multimedia Sharing
Multimedia
Online Storage
Editing Tagging
Comments
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Flickr
• A free photo sharing site
• Upload, organize, and share your photos with
anyone or selected individuals
• Get photos into and out of the system in as many
ways: from the web, from mobile devices, and from
the users' home computers
• Can tag your photos, create albums, view
slideshows, and post pictures to external blogs
• Allow RSS feed
• Allow annotations
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www.flickr.com
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YouTube
• Online video streaming service that allows anyone to
view and share videos
• Videos are limited to 100MB each
• Each clip must have at least 3 tags
• Allow linking and embedding clips to your blogs or
Websites
• Students can create projects with video and share
them on the Web
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www.teachertube.com
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Social Networking Services
• A social network service focuses on building online
communities of people who share interests and
activities, or who are interested in exploring the
interests and activities of others as e-mail and instant
messaging services (Wikipedia).
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Ning
• An online service where you can create, customize, and
share your own Social Network like MySpace and
Facebook
• Has customizable themes and templates
• Offer a public or private option
• Your network can be customized by selecting a
combination of features (music, videos, blogs, photos,
forums, groups, RSS, etc.) from a list of options
• Members who join your network will automatically have a
customizable profile page and will be able to message
and friend each other
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www.ning.com
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Virtual World
• Second Life
– www.secondlife.com
• Shared experiences
• A feeling of presence
• Visual and social cues
• Closer to face-to-face conversation
• Real-time collaboration
• Immersion
• Engagement
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www.secondlife.com
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Others Great Web 2.0 Tools
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Google Apps – Education Edition
www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html
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Gmail
• Come with built-in Google search technology and
over 2.6 GB of storage.
• Also available on mobile devices.
• Integrate instant messaging right into the email
• Provide spam protection using Google technology.
• Messages can be sent and read in most languages.
Gmail interface is available in 40 languages.
• Free automatic forwarding and POP3 access
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Gmail
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Google Talk
• Instant messaging and group chat
• Free PC-to-PC voice calls (VOIP)
• Real-time file transfers
• Send and receive voicemails
• Integrated contact list
• Integrated into Gmail
• Mobile access
• Available of Windows version and Web version
• Multi-Languages Support
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Google Talk
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Google Talk
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Google Calendar
• Calendar Sharing
• Invitations
• Gmail Integration
• Search
• Send Reminders
• Mobile Access
• Event Publishing
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Google Calendar
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• Consist of Web-based word processing,
spreadsheet, and presentation
• Online document creation
• Real-time collaboration
• Revision history
• Search tools
• Mobile access
• Supported multiple languages
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
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Google Sites
• Create web pages right in your browser
• A WYSIWYG Web authoring program
• Pages are hosted on Google servers at
http://sites.google.com/sites/yoursitename/
• No HTML required
• Customizable look and feel
• Settings for accessing and sharing information
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Picnik
• www.picnik.com
• Upload a photo or import online photos from Flickr,
Picasa, Facebook, Webshots, and others
• Offer real-time online editing tools to crop, resize,
sharpen, adjust exposure, color, apply effects, and
then share them with your friends.
• Provide many special effects, from artsy to fun
• Has many fonts and top-quality type tool
• Get creative with a collection of effects, fonts, shapes,
and frames
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www.picnik.com
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Zamzar
• Free online file conversion
• Support 5 different file format conversions
– Document
– Image
– Music
– Video
– Other Formats
• 100MB maximum file size for the free account
• Receive converted files via email
• Larger file conversions and online storage for Basic
and Pro accounts
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www.zamzar.com
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Bubbl.us
• www.bubbl.us
• A simple and free Web application that lets you
brainstorm online
• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or Website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image
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bubbl.us
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Pageflakes
• www.pageflakes.com
• Organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected
modules called Flakes containing information such as
RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather
forecast, and Flickr photos.
• Enable you to easily personalize the Web.
• Allow you to add bookmarks, photos, videos, games, music,
even your email and calendar.
• There are Flakes for thousands of uses and interests,
including news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos,
music, and videos.
• Drag and drop your "Flakes" around the screen and add
pages.
• Set up a page for your class. Share calendars, to-do-lists,
and news.
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www.pageflakes.com
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del.icio.us
• del.icio.us
• A social bookmarking site
• Allow you to store bookmarks on the Web,
instead of inside your browser
• Share bookmarks with friends, family,
coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
• Use tags to organize your bookmarks
• Can import and export bookmarks
• Keep tabs on other users’ links, and mark
certain links as private
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del.icio.us
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VoiceThread
• Web-based digital-storytelling application
• Share your stories through audio, images, videos, or
text
• Allow visitors to make comments on their stories in:
– voice with a microphone
– voice with telephone
– Text
– audio file
– video with a webcam
• Can be shared with anyone or can be kept private for
selected individuals
• Offer a free Pro account for K-12 teachers
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www.voicethread.com
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SlideShare
• Let users upload their presentations and share them
online through a YouTube-like interface
• Accept PowerPoint (ppt & pps), PDF, & OpenOffice
(odp) files with a maximum file size of 30 MB for each
presentation file
• Presentations can be tagged, and comments left by
viewers
• Slide transcripts are automatically generated from text
elements of your individual slides
• Each slide has its own URL for reference
• Has a Slidecasting capability that allows authors to
synchronize slides with an audio file
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www.slideshare.net
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Dimdim
• www.dimdim.com
• Web conferencing tool
• Nothing to install to host, join, and record
• Free for up to 20 participants
• Easy Share desktop & Webpages
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Talk, listen, chat and broadcast via Webcam
• Present PowerPoint slides and PDFs
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Embed Meetings
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Scribd
• www.scribd.com
• A free, web-based, document sharing community
and self-publishing platform
• Let you publish, distribute, and share your own
documents with the world
• Support PDF, Postscript, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Rich text, plain text,
and other OpenDocument formats
• Allow you to print your document and view it full-
screen
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ScreenToaster
• www.screentoaster.com
• No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac
OS X, Linux.
• Capture videos of onscreen action in one click
• Share and stream videos online in Flash
• Embed them on blogs and webpages or send
them by email.
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