The MCDM Digital Toolkit This is Powerpoint as

The MCDM Digital Toolkit

This is Powerpoint as notes … so you don’t have to take any.

1. Content Creation

Documents • Shrinkwrap – Word – free for UW students • Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade. • Office Professional Plus 2010 • Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac – Pages (Mac, i. OS) – Open Office (open source, Mac/PC)

Documents • Webware – Acrobat. com – Google. Docs – Microsoft Office. Live – Type. With. Me. com

Documents : Warnings • Formatting inconsistencies (especially typeface) • Mac folks -> remember file extensions • To be safe, also make a PDF – Mac: Print -> Save As PDF – Adobe. com online converter – Zamzar (more later) – Of course, Adobe Acrobat. Pro

E-mail • UWNet. ID: uwnetid. washington. edu/manage – UW Google Mail (UW Google. Apps) – UW Outlook Live (UW Windows Live) • Note: – Important messages from the University are sent to your UW email address (uwnetid@uw. edu). You must set up e-mail forwarding. – If you need help adding an account to an existing gmail account, bring it up in workshops.

Presentations • Shrinkwrap – Keynote – Open Office – Powerpoint • Webware – Google. Docs – Office. Live – Prezi and Prezi. Meeting

Presentations : Warnings • Embed images and fonts • Slideshare does not support “builds” or transitions but you can embed You. Tube clips • Version inconsistencies – Tip if your images aren’t showing on someone else’s machine (not platform dependent)

Screen Capture • Built-in Tools • Static Third-Party Tools – Aviary (FF extension, Chrome extension) – Skitch (Mac) – Screen Capture By Google (Chrome extension) • Screencast Third-Party Tools – Jing (Mac/PC – also static) – Screenr

Aviary v Skitch/Jing

Skitch

Jing

Screenr

Spreadsheets • Shrinkwrap – Excel – Numbers – Open Office • Webware – Google. Docs – Live. Office

Survey Tools • Multi-Question – Catalyst Web. Q – Google. Form – Survey. Monkey • One Question – Catalyst Quick. Poll – Word. Press Poll

Document Collaboration • • Live. Office Public Google Doc (G+ example) Wikis Type. With. me

Type. With. Me

2. Content Distribution

Document Sharing • Scribd – The world’s largest social reading and publishing company – Also supports presentations • Slideshare – The world's largest community for sharing presentations – Also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars

File Sharing • Catalyst Collect. It – Confusing because it uses the term “dropbox” • Drop. Box – Automagically syncs between laptop, mobile devices and the cloud – Getting An Account • Anyone with Drop. Box account • Anyone who wants a Drop. Box account

Promoting Content • Facebook • Google+ • Twitter

3. Utilities

Must-Haves • Free Fax Service: Fax. Zero. com • Free File Conversion: Zamzar. com

Streamed Conferencing • Without shared desktop – Facetime – Go. To. Meeting – Skype – u. Stream et al (from computer or phone) • With shared desktop – Adobe Connect. Now (need Adobe. ID) – Google+ Hangouts – Join. me – Webex. com (limited free service)

SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol • Required for connecting to UW web servers – Settings • Recommended – Filezilla (Mac/PC/Linux) – FTPOn. The. Go (i. OS) – And. FTP (Android)

Credits • Kathy E. Gill, @kegill, gplus. to/kegill, kegill@uw. edu – Presentation at Wired. Pen. com, Slideshare. net, Google. Doc • Presentation Licensing – CC License – Non-commercial, Attribution, Share-and-share alike • Photos Used Are CC licensed from Flickr 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Title Slide, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/26891884@N 03/2549364714/ Journal paper, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/calsidyrose/4129103991/ Keyboard, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/lapideo/198046070/ Sharing, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/jek-a-go-go/3948329368/ Utility tools, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/wmode/2105168082/ Balloons, http: //www. flickr. com/photos/ficken/1813744832/