Collaboration Community

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Collaboration / Community

• Cutting thru Barriers of Time and Space
• Module 4
• INBS 510

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Collaboration Tool Gizmos

• IM
• Teleconferencing
• Sharing documents
• Highlighting or illustrating
• Taking control of desktops

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Making the connection

• Under H,323 standards
• Makes connections using ILS Internet Locator
  Service, email or IP address
• If you dont know email use public ILS
• You can create private ILS using MS BackOffice
  Suite if using Netmeeting
• Netscape conference has similar op

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Chat Systems

• Pal Excite
• ICQ
• AOL
• MSN
• Netmeeting

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Whiteboarding

• Being standardized under T.120 specifications
• Use painting tools to configure images, marks,
  figures and text
• Netmeeting
• Multi users have access
• WEBCT whiteboard

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Audio-Video conferencing

• Optional in Netmeeting
• Trade-offs
• Bandwidth crucial to success
• Works best at 800X600
• Less motion for better resolution
• Uneven rates of packet transmission jitter
• check out www.eroom.com what do they offer
  differently

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www.IManage.com

• Robust collaboration software for Networks and
  heavy documentation workload

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Imanage Content Server is Key
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Want to sponsor a conference?

• www.placeware.com
• www.mshow.com
• www.contigo.com
• www.netpodium.com
• FREE- www.webex.com
• All the above are turnkey operations based on
  conferencing needs, audience sizes, budgets and
  other criteria

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Other valuable info services available

• Front end
• Invitations- www.evite.com
• Reminders
• Connectivity tests
• Event rehearsals
• Back end
• Post conference reports
• Polling voting results
• Database generation for follow up

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The Open Source Movement A new paradigm

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• The Cathedral
• Closed group of programmers developing software
• The Bazaar
• Loose knit collective of programmers sharing
  ideas, thoughts and designs for software program
  development

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Projects Freedom

• www.opensource.org
• Guttenberg Online Library
• Linux
• Apache HTTP server
• Open Directory
• Open PGP
• PERL

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So is it good enough?

• Reliable/ scalability
• Price is right
• Tool available
• Becoming mainstream
• BUT
• Weak database
• Not as mature

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So whats the answer?

• For small to midsized
• USE Open Source- Apache, Linux and Perl
• For Large E- businesses
• Use a combination of Open Source and commercial
  applications

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Online Learning- Fad or Future

• Promising
• Cheaper
• Quicker
• Targeted
• 24/7 availability-- CONVENIENT
• IDC predicts e-learning for biz will top 7
  billion by 2002

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Buy-in is the issue

• Freeing up workers to learn
• Technical hurdles
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Traditional model
• The square peg in round hole phenomenon

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More ops

• learning technologist
• Broker between IT and HR
• Online university campus www.capellauniversity.edu
  
• Community
• Courses
• Faculty
• Products include
• Learning management
• Authoring tools- Macromedia Authorware
• Dreamweaver/ Coursebuilder
• Custom content
• Prepackaged content

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Resources- Online Instruction

• The following sites have information relevant to
  instructional design
• www.funderstanding.com
• hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/djordaan/Home.html
• www.gwu.edu/tip/theories.html

• Here are a few more sites containing information
  and links related to multimedia and Web-based
  training.
• agora.unige.ch/tecfa/edutech/welcome_frame.html
• demo.cstudies.ubc.ca
• www.educause.edu
• www.cee.umn.edu80/disted/AI/delinks.html
• www.aprendio.com/checklists.html

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ONLLINE LEARNING RESOURCES

• Here are some online periodicals containing
  useful information related to multimedia and
  Web-based training.
• Interactivity www.interactivitymag.com
• EMedia www.emediapro.net
• Digital Video www.dv.com
• Interactive Week www.zdnet.com/intweek
• New Media www.newmedia.com
• Wired www.wired.com
• Web Techniques www.webtechniques.com
• Internet Week www.internetwk.com
• Training Magazine www.trainingsupersite.com/tss_li
  nk/trainset.htm
• Training Supersite (links to many training
  resources) www.trainingsupersite.com

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Sources on Web based learning

• www.filename.com/wbt
• www.multimediatraining.com/brandon-hall
• www.itta.org
• www.cedma.org
• www.dyroweb.com/wbt/index.html
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