Before attending Full Sail I was not fully aware about Web 2.0. To my knowledge it was simply upgrading CSS styles to make things more designer friendly. I was completely off! I had no idea what the possibilities for collaboration were until my first class. Not only that, but now I have more tools to teach my kids… even in P.E.! At first it was mind-boggling what I could do and as the classes went on I was introduced to more Web 2. 0 tools.
I've recently introduced Google Docs in my workplace. I am the Assistant Athletic Director for a small private school and since my implementation of this our response time has more than doubled. Not only that, it has given us a one-stop-shop to put all our information and is accessible via web enabled mobile phones. It has not completely eliminated the use of e-mail but it has dramatically reduced the need of e-mail use. I share my Google Doc with the Athletic Director and the School Administrator and things streamline a lot better. Collaboration tools are definitely a source that saves time and money.
I am also the Boys Volleyball coach and got the idea of using YouTube to record some drills, plays, etc for my team to look at outside of practice. I was not aware at the time that I was engaged in using a Web 2.0 tool. Since then, I have come up with ideas on how to use collaboration tools to better help my team. This includes putting up more YouTube videos, using MySpace (since most if not all of my team uses MySpace), and, of course, using Google Docs to collaborate with my assistant coach. A new feature that is coming out soon is Google Voice, where I will be able to have one phone number that will ring my cell phone, work phone, home phone, etc. Using Google Voice I wont have to give out my personal phone numbers and only having to worry about giving out one phone number as well. The tools are getting better as time goes on!
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