Web 2.0 and Mobile Apps Learning Technologies

Text based toolsText based tools enable users to exchange text-based comments in real time. Athletic Administrators and Coaches can use this tool to communicate information to parents, stakeholders, staff and community. Communication could something as simple as “today’s game is cancelled, today’s meeting is cancelled and today’s meeting has been moved to different venue. Twitter (http://twitter.com) is the most well-known of these tools providing the ability to post short public text comments, and Plurk (http://plurk.com) provides and alternative. While Twitter and Plurk are public web-based chat streams, Chatzy (http://chatzy.com) enable users to create private web-based chat streams that can be shared via URL.

Sharing ToolsFile sharing enable athletic directors and coaches to share their documents, images, audio files and videos via the web and mobile applications. Athletic directors and Coaches will have the opportunity to excess their files anywhere, anytime and make them available to their coaches and staff anywhere and anytime. Whereas other types of tools enable athletic administrators to view and often manipulate those files, file sharing sites typically only provide a directory or folder system where permissions can be set to determine who can access the files. This is useful to athletic administrators because it gives them the opportunity to send files to coaches, staff, etc. only. Popular examples include Dropbox (http://drop.com), MediaFire (http://mediafire.com). Google Drive (http://google.com/drive) is different from other sharing tools in that it integrates online office tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and Drawing) with file storage so that athletic administrators can view and edit files through their browser.

Social BookmarkingSocial bookmarking Web 2.0 and Mobile Apps enable athletic administrators and coaches the capacity to store, organize, annotate, and share links to website online. This is useful to athletic administrators that may be taking notes at a meeting, useful for coaches that are scouting other teams, and useful to coaches and athletic administrators that need to write down information to retrieve that information at a later time. Examples of social bookmarking sites and apps include Delicious (http://delicious.com) and OneNote (www.onenote.com). Educlipper (http://educlipper.net) is specifically designed to help share collections of resources for educational purposes and create learning and teaching networks for educators and students. This can be used by athletic administrators from different school to share collections of resources.

BlogsBlogs differ from wikis in that they organize website posts in chronological order. This helps athletic administrators and coaches track suitable information or communication evolving thinking over time. Wordpress (http://wordpress.org) includes multimedia libraries, numerous templates and a host of wigets that make it quick and easy for athletic administrators to communicate with a certain group. Edublogs (http://edublogs.org) is based upon the Wordpress platform and offers athletic administrators the capacity to create and administer and entire class of blogs through a secure portal. Blogger (http://blogger.com) is another blogging site now own by Google that is easy to use. And Tumblr (http://tumblr.com) has become a popluar blogging platform by virtue of its easy to use interface.

Social NetworkingSocial networking systems enable users to sharing photos and videos, post text thoughts and run polls created by athletic administrators. They can help administrators share content, provide feedback and resolved problems to one another. Facebook (http://facebook.com) is obviously the most well-known social networking site. Athletic administrators and coaches have the opportunity to use this site to keep its stakeholders aware in real-time. Edmodo (http://edmodo.com) is a popular alternative amongst educators because it only provides access to the class of registered students and includes features to support educative practices. Academia (http://academia.edu) support social networking and information sharing for academics.

Video ToolsYouTube (http://youtube.com) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com) are video sharing tools that enable athletic administrators and coaches to share video content via public repositories. Athletic Administrators and Coaches are given the opportunity to contribute or share video that are not limited to sharing and contributing resources that assists athletic administrator and coaches in professional development, etc. Teachertube (http://teachertube.com) specializes in the sharing of educational videos that range from instruction in math to instruction in presentation of educational materials. Video Toolbox (http://videotoolbox.com) allows video creation and editing, this enables athletic administrators and coaches the ability to create and edit videos through their browser. This enables athletic administrators to create video with a message; it be professional development for staff, or message of policy, etc. Livestream (http://livestream.com), allows users to publicly broadcast a live video stream from their video camera or webcam. This enables athletic administrators to broadcast games to their stakeholders that may otherwise not be able to attend the game. Also, some organizations used Livestream as a fundraiser, to raise funds by charging people to register for Livestream