Description of Workshop: Collaborative workspaces are becoming a common feature of the 21st century student and professor alike. These spaces are small, secure environments designed to facilitate the exchange of information and workflow between a group of people. This session will showcase the free services from Google which implement this approach in both spreadsheets and collaborative word processing documents, as well as through the use of wikis.
Collaborative Workspaces: Google Docs, Wikis, and Spreadsheets
Mary Harriet Talbut 8:30-12:00
What does it mean to compute in the Cloud? What is the value of collaboration if one person does all the work because they can never get together with the group? Now there are workspaces to allow all to work ON THE SAME DOCUMENT, not different versions of the same file.
You need a Google Account, this can be set up using your Southeast email but if you already have a gmail account, I would use it to keep all Google together. You can sign up for an account here
iGoogle
Google Docs
Google Spreadsheets
Google Presentations
Google Wave link
Google Talk
Google Calendar
Blogger
Wikis
A Wiki is a web page that is editable by users.It's actually a Hawaiian word meaning "fast", used by the programmer who wrote the first wiki software perhaps to indicate that it was a fast way of keeping content current.
Wikis are used in a variety of contexts, most notably in the online resource Wikipedia. Lots of more limited wikis exist -- for instance, the documentation for the Perl script package BioPerl is now operated solely as a Wiki. Open-source code is available, so people can run wikis on their own servers. Lots of wikis are probably used internally in companies, etc. and are not publicly available.
Go to Wikipedia, look up your home town and edit the page.
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