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Collaborative Web-basedWord Processing &

Online Conferencing Environments

Real-time Online Collaboration for Improved Instructor Feedback

and Mentoring


Rationale

• Feedback is good• Co-writing is better• Co-presence is best


Systems

• Integrated– All necessary features included

• Ad hoc– Necessary features assembled


Buzzword + Connect• Buzzword– Now, Acrobat.com’s online word processor– Synchronous editing

• ConnectNow– Acrobat.com’s online version of Adobe Connect

• Free version max 3 participants

– Complete online conferencing system• Text, audio, & video chat• File sharing, screen sharing, & whiteboard• https://connectnow.acrobat.com/danielcraig


Twiddla• Whiteboard– Annotations: text, drawing, shapes–Mark• Blank pages, Documents, Web pages, Images,

etc…

• Text Chat• Audio Chat• http://www.twiddla.com/147499


Any WP + Skype• Skype (http://www.skype.com) – World’s most popular VoIP service.

• Most “Chat” clients provide similar computer to computer services: MSN Messenger, Gtalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Messenger, and so forth.

• Potential for screen sharing, file sharing, and other uses with available add-ons.

• Any online word processing-type applications– Word Processors: Google Docs, Buzzword– Wikis: Wet Paint, Wikispaces– Blogs: Blogger, WordPress


Google Wave• http://wave.google.com• Synchronous, interactive environment• Still in its infancy• Power is in the platform and applications• This example is synchronous

writing/editing and with an added videoconferencing application.


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