Tools

=__Group Calendar__=

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__**Skype For Enhanced Communication**__

We can use Skype to communicate with our collaboration partners from around the globe. (If you need a headset to call from your PC please see Mr. Schwartz)

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 * //Click icon to use Skype for IM or toll free PC-to-PC calling//**

= = =__//Near// Future Collaboration Tool: Google Waves__=

Google Waves is currently be beta tested and is one of the most highly anticipated collaboration tools to be introduced. Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.  A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when. This tool is a combination of email, wiki, blog and social networking. It is what email always should have been.

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=__Visualization Tool for Data Presentation__= IBM's Collaborative User Experience's Visual Communications Lab has introduced a website called Many Eyes. It is a tool that allows the user to create a visualization of data that you enter.

=__Wolfram/Alpha Knowledge Engine__=

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

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=__Threaded Voice Collaboration__=

With Voicethread, students can speak into a computer and their voices are recorded. Others can listen and collaborate at home, and anyone in the world can contribute.