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Adopting Open Textbooks

Course Collaboration Tools

Una Daly's picture
Mon, 2010-09-20 01:00

picture of small hand held carpentry tools.  Photo: Geishaboy500 CC-BY-2.0

The following collaboration tools are planned.  Their use will be covered in our first live webinar on Friday, September 17.

Course Forums:  A weekly topic will be posted in the course forums.  Although the forum topics will remain open during the course, participants are asked to contribute their thoughts and findings on that topic by end of the week to faciliate group discussion.

Live Webinars:  Bi-weekly live webinars will be used to discuss topics and allows participants to share their findings.   The first webinar will be on Friday, September 17 utilizing the CCCConfer/Elluminate Tool.  Login Information will be posted here and sent over email by.  The webinar will be archived for those who cannot attend live.

Click here to experiment with CCCConfer/Elluminate.   System Requirements to run CCCConfer/Elluminate available as attachment.

Comments

The nicest tool i've used yet

CA Anaman's picture
CA Anaman
Tue, 2010-10-12 14:07

The nicest tool i've used yet has been a celtex. but i realised today that now OpenOffice.org has a plugin for loading sql databases and printing reports from oracle data bases as well.(no doubt a 'feature' of oracle buying sun) :-|
celtex has some online collab tool of sorts.

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
http://www.celtx.com/index.html#/desktop/nav-writingtools