Monday, March 31, 2008

Week 11 ONLINE APPLICATIONS AND TOOLS

I am running late with my Learning 2.0 program, that will teach me to take holidays in a place where I could not access a PC (yes such places do still exist).



Have been looking at Zamar and converted an existing file to PDF which again was relatively easy. I have to admit that looking at Slideshare I am amazed at the number and variety of web applications that exist to make life easier. From a work perspective the ones that appeal to me most are Doodle to arrange meetings (I think this is what Ellen & Mylee used to co-ordinate the time for our last meeting to assess Learning 2.0 ?) what a good way of getting people to RSVP to a meeting and to nominate the times most suitable for them, in a large organisation and across departments this would save a lot of phoning and emailing to co-ordinate meeting times.



I also like Jott which allows for someone to send a voice message via cell phone and then have it transcribed to text or email & sent to a nominated recipient. I think anyone who travels for work would find this a godsend and just for fun I like the idea of Picnik a web based photo editing site.





I started a document last week in Googledocs which I hope I can retrieve and finalise send on to slnsw2.0@gmail.com

3 comments:

slnsw_learning_2.0 said...

Sounds like you have been having a lot of fun trying out these tools. Some of them can really save time - like doodle.

Passing Clouds said...

Yes, just had a look at doodle-- instead of peoples' names, venue hire can use them for meeting rooms, other venues in the Library to organise booking, etc.

יעל גורלי said...

You can also try www.scheduleonce.com for scheduling meetings\lessons\exams. It's free and has great support across time zones and daylight saving time (which is giving everyone a headache these days)