New Phones (Telephony or VoIP)

 

This is a resource for teachers. Please check the sites carefully for suitability in your classroom before using with students.

 

 

Introduction

 

"Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network." Wikipedia (accessed 11-13-06 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid))

 

 

Resources

 

• Skype
• TokBox - video chat and messaging
• dimdim - free Web conferencing

 

 

Moblogging

 

 

According to an article by Jamie Devereaux in Converge magazine online, "Mobile social networks allow members to share pictures, video, audio and text messages with anyone in their network using a cell phone."

 

Devereaux offers the following list of mobile social networks along with these descriptors:

 

• JuiceCaster -- lets users meet new people, connect with friends and share photos and videos directly from their mobile phones. Instantly post videos and pictures to Myspace, Facebook and other sites.
• Saki Mobile -- to manage your social network, find old friends, map favorite locations, create party invitations, express your opinions or chat with instant messaging.
• 3Guppies -- find, create and download music, pictures, videos to just about any cell phone.
• PeerBox Mobile -- a user-generated content, social networking and peer-to-peer file sharing service for mobile phones.
• Playyoo -- a mobile gaming social network; a social platform for user-generated mobile games.
• Kyte -- install the free kyte application to your mobile and get ready to broadcast. Users can send pictures and video to a personal kyte channel online.

 

 

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