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Synchronous Web 2.0 Tools
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 * www.dimdim.com (opensource, create your chatroom quickly and share documents, screen, webpages etc..)
 * CoverIt Live: A live Blog that allows a live event to displayed in a Viewer Window on your site or blog. Someone in the event has a task of typing out what is happening, send poll questions to attendees etc.., sound can be streamed, powerpoint slides displayed, etc... See the Demos on the website.
 * Elluminate the [|WIAOC] conference in May was mainly on Elluminate and Second Life and everything went to plan. Idem as Dimdim but without the glitches we had at the EUROCALL conference.

Asynchronous Web 2.0 Tools
> We should have a twitter for the students on our website, here are some video tutorial on how to set up a twitter. > **Supported Formats:** **//Presentations//**: PowerPoint - ppt, pps, pot, pptx, potx, ppsx; OpenOffice - odp, pdf; Apple Keynote - key, zip or pdf. > **//Documents & Spreadsheets//**: Microsoft Office - doc, docx, rtf, xls; OpenOffice - odt, ods, pdf; iWork Pages. > For anything else, saving as pdf usually works. > Otherwise you might also want to sit back and watch/listen! > Googledocs > Wallwisher > Mindmapping > Wikis and blogs
 * Twitter a very useful to post and get interesting links and news of what is out there from people who share your interest, also very useful during an online event to get the latest news on what is on. Iaorana2 follows: EdTech Talk, TEFL Talk, ELT Digitalplay, Webheads International, Web20Classroom, Eurocall09, Edublogs, Nick Peachey, Gavin Dudeney (SL Edunation, e-consultants), Heike Philips (Avalon Project). Twitter is also integrated in a number of other web2.0 aps that let you add functionality to the respective application and many unis and businesses are giving information and news away through this medium..
 * Slideshare join and expose your ideas globally: upload Max size: **100 MB**. Our account VUWLLC pswd 234ngs - email:iaorana2@hotmail.com
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Cool Presentation Tools other than Powerpoint
Prezi: create cool presentations. A bit difficult at first to use but tutorials are available on youtube...

Other cool tools
Tiny URLs: If the adress you are copying and giving is too long to type manually/remember, create a tiny url. The tiny Url for this page is @http://tiny.cc/6DPTg AudioPal SitePal(to have a look at more closely)