For voice messaging, try YackPack

YackPack is yet another very interesting Web 2.0 applications. It is a very simple voice messaging application that is free, in basic version, and allows the emailing of voice messages or can be set up for a group of people to talk live to each other.

A feature of the group conversations is that you can see images of the group and as a person is contacted or speaks their icon grows, giving visual clues to the conversation.

Google maps can be embeded

A new feature form Google is the ability to embed a map in a blog or web site. It is very easy, and very useful.

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For instructions on how to do it, see Here.

The del.icio.us in Delicious

Here is a great little explanation of what social bookmarking is all about a-la delicious. Covers the main concepts very well, and on paper too!

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Matt's interesting story

Matt Wohling's blog starts with an interesting and entertaining story about his pathway from school to this course. Others may have similar stories that tell us something about the apparent priorities of government and society.

Starting your wiki page

A wiki is a very easy to use web authoring site. You each have your own page. If you have not used this wiki before it will be well worth your time to go to http://edflin.editme.com/2305

Your login is your FAN as user name and also this is your temporary password as well. As soon as you log in go to Permissions on the Right menu and put your own password in. See Help Basic for some information on how to get going.

In Multimedia Literacy, go to Student Pages and find your page and have a play with the editing tools.