The document discusses cloud computing and the various tools available through the cloud, including information sharing through blogs and social bookmarking, communication through email and websites, productivity tools like Google Docs and Zoho, collaboration through Wikipedia and Facebook, photo and video editing/sharing apps, and more. It encourages the reader to experiment with tools like Gmail, Google Docs, photo books, and video editing to learn about how cloud resources can be used.

1. Living in a Digital World Cloud computing: Useful tools and resources

2. What is “the cloud”? Collection of software tools available on the Internet Replaces “old” model of installing software on a computer and being able to only use that software on that computer Instead, the software and files are securely accessed through the Internet…anytime and anywhere.

4. Means of communication

5. Productivity tools

6. Tools for collaboration

7. Social networking

8. Photo editing

9. Electronic scrapbooking and photo books

10. Video editing and sharing

12. Information Social bookmarking – sharing your Web favorites Delicious

13. Communication Communication Hosted e-mail Gmailjohndoe@gmail.com Hotmailjohndoe@hotmail.com Yahoojohndoe@yahoo.com

14. Communication Google sites Create your own Website

15. Productivity tools Google docs Wordprocessingdocuments Spreadsheets Presentations Drawings Forms FREE. Accessible with a gmail e-mail account. Facilitates collaboration and document sharing

16. Break activity Take a minute to go to www.gmail.com and access the e-mail account you created during our first session. Send me an e-mail message at gray@augie.edu. Then, while you’re logged into gmail, click the link to access Google docs. Share your document with me. My gmail e-mail address is sharongray99@gmail.com.

17. Productivity tools Zoho Writer Wordprocessing documents Facilitates collaboration and document sharing Calendar Planner Spreadsheet Presenter

18. Collaboration Wikipedia Internet encyclopaedias go head to headNature (12/2005)

19. Collaboration - WikiProjects Counter showing number of edits on WikiProjects http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/

20. Social Networking Facebook

21. Image editing Picknik free online photo editor similar to Photoshop facilitates creating photo books

22. Image editing Pixlr free online photo editor similar to Photoshop Pixlr tutorials at ictpublish.com

23. Photo books and electronic scrapbooks mixbook.com(video clip)

24. Break activity Talk about how you or your family might use electronic scrapbooking or photo books to share with each other. Weddings? Graduations? Holidays? If you have access to a computer, go to either Picnik.com or Mixbook.com and set up an account.

25. Video editing and sharing Animoto

26. Video editing and sharing YouTube

27. Video editing and sharing Vimeo Easily password protected

28. Other tools… Music iNudge.net Pandora.com Math Online graphing calculator And MANY more… Go2Web20.net

29. Conclusion The Internet provides a multitude of opportunities to learn, create, and share… Send me an e-mail message at either gray@augie.edu or sharongray99@gmail.com and tell me about how you might use resources in the cloud.

30. Sources Blogging www.wordpress.com www.blogger.com www.tumblr.com Social Bookmarking www.delicious.com E-mail www.gmail.com www.hotmail.com www.yahoo.com Website Hosting sites.google.com Productivity Tools docs.google.com www.zoho.com Collaboration www.wikipedia.org wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects www.facebook.com Photo editing www.picnik.com www.pixlr.com Electronic Scrapbooking and Photo Books www.mixbook.com Video Editing and Hosting www.animoto.com www.youtube.com www.vimeo.com Music www.inudge.net www.pandora.com