Blogs |
Collaboration |
Communities and Communication | Media Creation and Distribution
Research Tools | Social Bookmarking |
Virtual Worlds |
Wikis
Blogs (Educause 7 Things You Should Know)
Collaboration
Communities and Communication
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"Facebook [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves." -- From Wikipedia |
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"MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Ning [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own custom social network for a particular topic or need, catering to specific audiences." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Twitter [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default)." (How Twitter Is Used in Higher Education)
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Research Tools
Media Creation and Distribution
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Audacity is an open source audio editing program. Available on both PC and Mac, user can record, edit, delete, and convert audio for podcasting. |
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AU iTunes [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is Auburn's iTunes platform. Faculty and staff can upload podcasts (both audio and video) to a secure, authenticated platform or an open area where anyone may download the podcast using iTunes U, "a service created to manage, distribute, and control access to educational audio and video content for students within a college or university as well as the broader Internet." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Flickr [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository."
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MediaCoder is a universal media converter. It supports many formats such as MP3, MP4, MPEG, AVI, and more. |
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Scribd is a document sharing site. With iPaper, users can upload PDFs and embed them into webpages. |
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SUPER (Freeware) is a universal media converter. It supports many formats such as MP3, MP4, MPEG, AVI, and more. |
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"YouTube YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips using Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos." -- From Wikipedia |
Social Bookmarking (Educause 7 Things You Should Know)
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"CiteULike is based on the principle of social bookmarking and is aimed to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references amongst researchers. In the same way that it is possible to catalog web pages (with Furl and del.icio.us) or photographs (with Flickr), scientists can share information on academic papers with specific tools developed for that purpose." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists, researchers, and clinicians. Connotea recognises a number of scientific websites and will automatically collect metadata for the article or page being bookmarked, including author and publication names. It is also possible to add non-recognised webpages, by manually entering information." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Delicious uses a non-hierarchical keyword categorization system in which users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Furl (from File Uniform Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking website that allows members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member receives 5 gigabytes of storage space." -- From Wikipedia |
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"Library Thing is a prominent social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and book lists. The primary feature of LibraryThing is the automatic cataloging of books by importing data from booksellers and libraries through Z39.50 connections. Six Amazon.com stores supply a ready (if sometimes inaccurate) source of data." -- From Wikipedia |
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"StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests." -- From Wikipedia |
Virtual Worlds (Educause 7 Things You Should Know)
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"Second Life [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is an Internet-based virtual world allowing "Residents" to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities." -- From Wikipedia |
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"World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). With more than 11 million monthly subscribers, World of Warcraft is currently the world's largest MMORPG in those terms, and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG. " -- From Wikipedia
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Wikis (Educause 7 Things You Should Know)
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"Wikipedia [Educause 7 Things You Should Know] is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 10 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website." -- From Wikipedia |
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