DocVerse for document sharing

DocVerse is a document sharing tool that is an add-in for MS Office. Saving a document in any MS Office app will automatically update a secure web version of the document that can be shared by sending others a link. It is different from Google Docs because it allows you to edit the docs in their native app. It also creates a discussion area for each doc and keeps track of versions.

www.docverse.com
Jill

Screenr

A new tool that allows for capturing your screen and audio and publishing to Twitter, Youtube or embedding in webpage or blog.

Edoboard is a web conferencing system that includes whiteboard capabilities, video and audio sharing, file sharing and load and saving exercises.

Watchitoo and Voicethread

This looks somewhat similar – http://watchitoo.com – where you can have multi-user video or text chat about YouTube videos.  I haven’t played around with it much yet, but it looks kind of cool.  Could make the Presenter pre-lectures that instructors are doing interactive.  On the Public Shows tab there is a tutorial video. 

Jill

Good use of VoiceThread. (If there is no sound and no movement, You have to press the arrow to the right to advance)

http://voicethread.com/#q.b562892.i3010211

Norma

RE: [eLearning Team] Gadgets in Google Spreadsheet

Trying again, this time with the image as an attachment. 

Lanny

Since Jill is an Excel Genius, I wonder if it makes sense for us to look at some of these Gadgets for functionality that might be desired but isn’t in Excel.  The ones that make movies are pretty cool.  Also, just trying out this post to see if the image below gets sent through.

Lanny

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Posted By eLearning Team to eLearning Team at 7/15/2009 09:56:00 AM

Gadgets in Google Spreadsheet

Since Jill is an Excel Genius, I wonder if it makes sense for us to look at some of these Gadgets for functionality that might be desired but isn’t in Excel.  The ones that make movies are pretty cool.  Also, just trying out this post to see if the image below gets sent through.

Lanny

Revizr

Revizr allows document sharing in a single host, similar to google docs or wikis, but not quite the same. It provides a way to review that does not overwrite previous writing. It annotates the original document. It is online and it is not free. It will provide free access for a limited time to users. One neat feature is that it allows the user to embed the document review in the blog or html pages. I am embedding a document below with annotations.

Quietube

Have you seen Quietube? It’s a tool that lets you watch YouTube videos without all of the ads. You add a button to your browser that, when you click it, opens the YouTube video you are watching on a page with a blank background. You can also create a TinyURL for the Quietube version of the video.

Jill

More on Ning

I posted this as a comment to your Ning Settins post, but I am reposting it here so you get it via email…

Looks like a social network's main page can be made visible to the public, while keeping the rest of the content visible to members only. Then "featuring" can be used to control what gets added to the main page. To control membership, it can be limited to "Only Invited People" and/or require approval before joining.

Jill

YouTube Annotation tool

If instructors were to have students do assignments as videos delivered in YouTube, then it might be useful to give feedback on specific parts of the video.  The Annotations tool, currently in beta has the capability where the video owner can give annotation privileges to other users by sending a link.  That seems pretty nice.  Likewise teams of students could use the annotations tool on early versions of the video as they are trying to make improvements in what they have.  It is an interesting idea. 

On the other hand, I’m still not understand the duration that the annotation stays up on the screen and it seemed the one I made appears at a time slightly different from the time where I stopped the video.

Lanny

Ning settings

A few days ago I think we got a spam comment to one of our Ning sites.  I’ve not yet check the settings for that – who can post comments – and truthfully I haven’t spent enough time with Ning to be comfortable with these things.  Can the site be publicly readable but have only members post comments?  I don’t know.  If not, we can’t really recommend it for this sort of use because the spam can kill it.

Lanny