Geeks Bearing Gifts

• Introductions (.25 hours)
• Web 2.0: Using the Web as it was meant to be used
  • Introduction to Web 2.0 (1.50 hours)
  • AJAX: The Web as Platform (.75 hours)
    • Google
      Homepage*
    • Google Spreadsheets*
    • Google Docs*
    • Hands-on exercise with
      Google Docs and Google Homepage, including collaboration*
• Break (.25 hours)
  
  

• Staying Connected: rss
  feeds and aggregators (1.00 hour)
  
  • Syndicate this: RSS
  • Bringing in the Feeds: Aggregators
    
    • Bloglines & Google Reader *
      
    • Hands on with Bloglines*

• Bridging the Divide:
  Wireless (.25 hours)
  
  • Communicating with the Invisible: Wi-Fi
  • Nine Out of Ten Dentists Connect with: bluetooth
• Lunch
  
• Can
  You Hear Me Now?: new waves in audio and video (.75 hours)
  • Woo-Hoo: VoIP
    • Skype*
    • AOL/iChat*
    • Vonage/Verizon/etc.*
      
  • Downloading Zeitgeist: podcasts
    • Possibly hands on with
      podcasts, subscribing using iTunes if available since the directory is
      built in. otherwise using Bloglines and an RSS directory
  • Pandora
    *
• Six Degrees of Separation: social networking apps (1.25 hours)
  • We Met Online: introduction to social software
  • Uncontrolled Vocabularies: folksonomies
    
  • We’ll Remember it for You Wholesale: social bookmarking
    
    • Food for Thought: del.icio.us
      
    • Nature of the Beast: connotea
  • Tag Sale: other cites of interest
    
    • CiteUlike
      
    • BibSonomy
    • Furl
  • Tom is in Your Extended Network: social networking services
    
    • MySpace
    • Facebook
    • Ning
    • LinkedIn
  • Others
    • Flickr*
      
  • Hands-on with del.icio.us and Ning
• Break (.25 hours)
• Blackberry Thumb (.25 hours)
  • ROFLMAO: instant messaging (IM)
  • Thnks fr th Mmrs: short message Serivce (SMS)
• Web
  Gone Wild: Blogs & Wikis (1.25 hours)
  • Introduction to content management software
  • The Town Square: blogs
  • Hands on with WordPress or Blogger*
  • Stiki: wikis
  • Hands on with Wiki software*
• Conclusion and Evaluations (.25 hours)
  

*No pages in manual for this topic