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VIRTUAL COMMUNICATIONS: What Is It? Who’s It For? What’s Its Future?

VIRTUAL COMMUNICATIONS: What Is It? Who’s It For? What’s Its Future?. Dr. Karen Lankisch. Andy Curran, M.Ed. Communications Evolved With The Internet. Cooperative Collaborative tools Group communication Multiple people communicate without necessarily knowing each other.

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VIRTUAL COMMUNICATIONS: What Is It? Who’s It For? What’s Its Future?

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  1. VIRTUAL COMMUNICATIONS: What Is It? Who’s It For? What’s Its Future? Dr. Karen Lankisch Andy Curran, M.Ed.

  2. Communications Evolved With The Internet • Cooperative • Collaborative tools • Group communication • Multiple people communicate without necessarily knowing each other

  3. How Technologies Will Change Communication In The Future • Mobile • Universal • Converged multimedia • Affordable

  4. Virtual CommunicationsWhat Is It? • Modern technological phenomenon • Broad spectrum of concepts, technologies, and practices central to our daily lives • Communicate with others instantaneously • Breaking down barriers • Transmission of information and or action to remote or distant locations

  5. Virtual CommunicationsWhat Is It? • Revolutionized the way we live and work • Facilitates the ability to know and understand how to access and share information electronically • Portal through which a world of limitless learning opportunities exist

  6. Virtual CommunicationsWho’s It For? • Everyone • Changed the way work gets done • Work has shifted from individual tasks to group projects • From working alone to working with others inside and outside an organization • Employee’s work non-traditional times, work from home, multitask

  7. Virtual CommunicationsWhat’s Its Future? • Traditional virtual communications tools • E-mail, networks, internet, telephones • Continue to increase in capacity and clarity • Cost decrease • Remainder of the world will connect • In book The World Is Flat, Thomas Freidman • “The next generation is growing up online, rather than adapting to mid-adult years” • “The future is in their hands, though the rest of us will be taken along for the ride”

  8. Integration of Virtual Communication • Cell Phones • Blogs • Social Networks • Microblogging • VoIP

  9. Cell Phone • ChaCha • Text • Phone • iPhone • Apps

  10. Blogs • Online journal • Sharing information • Video journal

  11. Social Networks • Private social networking site • Online communities – focused • Facebook • LinkedIn • Grouply • Ning

  12. Microblogging • Broadcast short messages to your friends or "followers" • Tweet • What are you doing? • Twitter • Tweetdeck

  13. VoIP • Voice Over Internet Protocol • Instant Messaging/Voice Call Tool • Immediacy • Students comfortable with tool • Skype

  14. RSS • Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary • Summary of web content • RSS reader • Google Reader

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